A&S Media Report - 1/9/2026

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141 external media stories tracked
2 press release/tip sheet distributed
2 Cornell Chronicle stories
1 Internal Cornell platform
1 Cornell Daily Sun story
1 Cornellians story
5 A&S website stories
7 X posts
3 Facebook posts
1 Instagram story
2 LinkedIn posts

Humanities and Arts, Social Sciences

Book on emancipation questions simplified views of post-slavery life

Florida Courier
Related People: Glenn Altschuler
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

America is putting human rights last

The Hill and 4 other media outlets
Related People: Glenn Altschuler
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

Sciences and Math

A Giant Telescope Searched 3I/ATLAS For Signs of Aliens. Here's Why.

Science Alert and 4 other media outlets
Related People: Paul Ginsparg
Related Department or Program: Physics

The key to the cure for aging may lie in extracellular vesicles

New Atlas and 3 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Richard A. Cerione
Related Department or Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Ray Jayawardhana Appointed Caltech's Tenth President

CalTech and 5 other media outlet(s)
Related People:
Related Department or Program: Astronomy, Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity , Humanities Scholars Program

Black hole shreds distant 'super sun,' unleashing a spectacular event known as the Whippet

Phys.org and 11 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Anna Y.Q. Ho
Related Department or Program: Astronomy

The biggest technological milestone of recent decades threatens the advancement of science (Spanish)

El Confidencial and 3 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Paul Ginsparg
Related Department or Program: Physics

Making the invisible visible: Space particles become observable through handheld invention

Phys.org and 2 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Natasha Holmes
Related Department or Program: Physics

One year on, Trump’s second term has upended US science

Chemistry World
Related People: Nozomi Ando, Brian Crane, Roald Hoffmann
Related Department or Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

What a week of freedom can do for a lab mouse

Defector
Related People: Matthew Zipple
Related Department or Program: Neurobiology and Behavior

Student Spotlight: Hannah DeFelice

Graduate School
Related People: Hannah DeFelice, graduate student
Related Department or Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Cornell astronomer honored for achievement in observational research

A&S Communications
Related People: Anna Y.Q. Ho
Related Department or Program: Astronomy, CCAPS

Humanities and Arts

Understand what China has done in the last 60 years to dominate rare earth elements. (Portuguese)

InfoMoney and 9 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Nicholas Mulder
Related Department or Program: History

Combating Verbal Abuse, Threats, Doxing, and Manipulation against Women (Indonesian)

Kumparan and 4 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Kate A. Manne
Related Department or Program: Philosophy

The Oak and the Larch by Sophie Pinkham review – are Russia’s forests the key to its identity?

The Guardian and 9 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Sophie Pinkham
Related Department or Program: Comparative Literature

Europe has little leverage to push back if Trump moves to take Greenland

A&S Communications
Related People: David Silbey
Related Department or Program: History

Women in exile shaped South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Rachel Sandwell
Related Department or Program: History

Why Trump wants to take Greenland – and how his ‘remarkably stupid’ plan could unfold

The Independent and 11 other media outlet(s)
Related People: David Silbey
Related Department or Program: History

Social Sciences

Why so many people find eating insects disgusting

BBC News and 16 other media outlet(s)
Related People: David A. Pizarro
Related Department or Program: Psychology

The experience economy is booming, especially in a world of AI

World Economic Forum and 5 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Thomas D. Gilovich
Related Department or Program: Psychology

Kaushik Basu: Universalism needs champions amid a dangerous surge of ultra-nationalism

LiveMint and 5 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Kaushik Basu
Related Department or Program: Economics

Mamdani pushes forward with higher taxes for the rich

Yahoo!News and 2 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Cristobal Young
Related Department or Program: Sociology

It’s not the oil. It’s Florida

Al Jazeera
Related People: Esam Boraey, graduate student
Related Department or Program: Government
 
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