A&S Media Report - 12/12/2025

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1,494 external media stories tracked
3 press releases/tip sheets distributed
8 Cornell Chronicle stories
2 Internal Cornell platforms
2 Cornell Daily Sun stories
3 Cornellians stories
11 A&S website stories
13 X posts
4 Facebook posts
2 LinkedIn posts

Social Sciences

Chatbots Can Meaningfully Shift Political Opinions, Studies Find

New York Times and 127 other media outlet(s)
Related People: David Rand, Gordon Pennycook
Related Department or Program: Psychology

No, New York City’s wealthiest are not fleeing the city after Mamdani’s win

The Guardian and 9 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Cristobal Young
Related Department or Program: Sociology

Domestic politics driving Thailand-Cambodia border tensions says Cornell Southeast Asia expert

A&S Communications
Related People: Thomas Pepinsky
Related Department or Program: Government

Workshop, talk focused on applying lessons learned from COVID

A&S Communications
Related People: Thomas Pepinsky, Peter John Loewen
Related Department or Program: Government

Cornell-China trip celebrates 20 years of CAPS program

A&S Communications
Related People: Peter John Loewen, Xu Xin
Related Department or Program: Government, China and Asia-Pacific Studies Program

Australia’s teen social media enforcement takes a big step tomorrow, here’s what to know (audio, begins 1:32)

KPCC
Related People: Sarah Kreps
Related Department or Program: Government

Thai Leader’s Hard Line on Cambodia Clash Risks Irking Trump

Bloomberg and 42 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Thomas Pepinsky
Related Department or Program: Government

Why news organizations are suing AI companies, and what they hope to win

NPR and 599 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Sarah Kreps
Related Department or Program: Government

Commentary: When did the Supreme Court stop caring about public opinion?

Miami Herald and 29 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Peter K. Enns
Related Department or Program: Government

Latin American assets rally on Fed cut, Brazil's centbank maintains pause

Reuters
Related People: Kenneth Roberts
Related Department or Program: Government

Ahead of Trump Call, Fighting Between Thailand and Cambodia Intensifies

New York Times and 42 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Thomas Pepinsky
Related Department or Program: Government

Humanities and Arts, Social Sciences

Ancient ‘dirty dishes’ may have led archaeologists astray for decades

Popular Science and 5 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Sturt Manning , Rebecca Gerdes, Ph.D. ’24
Related Department or Program: Classics, Archaeology Program

‘Guilt by association’ doesn’t justify a war on immigrants

The Hill and 3 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Glenn Altschuler
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

Women-Led Startup Wins $500K for Real-Food Calcium Supplement Innovation

Fox 40
Related People: Adrienne Bitar
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

Your December 2025 Reads

Cornellians
Related People: Multiple alumni
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English, History, American Studies Program

Nick Salvatore, ‘one of our foremost historians,’ dies at 82

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Nick Salvatore, Glenn Altschuler
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

Sciences and Math

Scientists sent a menstrual cup to space. This is how it went

Space.com and 1 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Ligia Coelho
Related Department or Program: Astronomy, Carl Sagan Institute

Cornell University student named Navy/Marine Corps Student of the Year

My Twin Tiers
Related People: Kylie Williamson ’26
Related Department or Program: Physics

Your Dog May Be Looking More Like Your Cat—And Science Explains Why

Indian Defense Review and 2 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Abby Grace Drake
Related Department or Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Electrons stay put in layers of mismatched 'quantum Legos'

Phys.org and 2 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Tomás Arias , Drake Niedzielski , graduate student
Related Department or Program: Physics

Math Major Wins Silver in an Unlikely Sport: Chessboxing

Cornellians
Related People: Will MacLeod ’26
Related Department or Program: Mathematics

Cake-pan telescope searches the sky for fast radio bursts

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Shami Chatterjee, James M. Cordes, Sashabaw Niedbalski , graduate student
Related Department or Program: Astronomy, Carl Sagan Institute

Boosting Sleep Ripples Helps Preserve Memories Normally Forgotten

Neuroscience News and 2 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Azahara Oliva , Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz , Heath Robinson, Ralitsa Todorova
Related Department or Program: Neurobiology and Behavior

Brain stimulation during sleep boosts weak memories in mice

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Azahara Oliva , Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz , Heath Robinson, Ralitsa Todorova
Related Department or Program: Neurobiology and Behavior

Humanities and Arts

Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities

Financial Times and 4 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Raymond B. Craib
Related Department or Program: History

Campana wins MLA’s Scaglione Prize for book on Japanese poetry

A&S Communications
Related People: Andrew Campana
Related Department or Program: Asian Studies

Doctoral Alumna Selected for CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award

Graduate School
Related People: Dusti Cheyenne Bridges, Ph.D. ’25
Related Department or Program: Archaeology Program, Anthropology

At Age 90, a Singer, Collector, and Scholar of Folk Music Goes Digital

Cornellians
Related People: Ellen Stekert ’57
Related Department or Program: Philosophy

Undergrads launch magazine featuring in-depth stories

A&S Communications
Related People: Henry Fernandez ’27
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English

Ask a puzzlemaker (audio, starts 2:28)

WAMU and 556 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Anna Shechtman
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English

German author researching climate change wins Moth Nature Writing Prize 2025

Irish Times
Related People: Ishion Hutchinson
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English

Humanities and Arts, Sciences and Math

From Milstein Scholar to Design Tech Pioneer

Cornell Tech
Related People: Julia Beitel '24
Related Department or Program: Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Humanities and Arts, Sciences and Math, Social Sciences

Celebrating the journey with our December A&S grads

A&S Communications
Related People: Multiple students
Related Department or Program: Cognitive Science Program, Economics, Government, Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity, Psychology
 
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