A&S Media Report - 5/29/2026

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122 external media stories tracked
5 Cornell Chronicle stories
1 Internal Cornell platform
1 Cornell Daily Sun story
1 Cornellians story
7 A&S website stories
14 X posts
3 Facebook posts
1 Instagram post
3 LinkedIn posts

Sciences and Math

From Theory to Experiment. CLASSE Contributions Recognized in 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based ScienceS and Education
Related People: Lawrence Gibbons
Related Department or Program: Physics

This $2.8 billion American collider will allow AI to control 500,000 collisions per second

TDN
Related People: Georg Hoffstaetter de Torquat
Related Department or Program: Physics

What could alien life look like? These Earthlings offer clues.

National Geographic and 3 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Lisa Kaltenegger
Related Department or Program: Astronomy, Carl Sagan Institute

Improved embryo freezing technique could preserve endangered species

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Robert Thorne
Related Department or Program: Physics

Improved embryo freezing technique could preserve endangered species

Phys.org and 7 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Robert Thorne
Related Department or Program: Physics

Humanities and Arts

Cornell Holocaust scholar echoes Pope Leo’s concerns about AI and human dignity

A&S Communications
Related People: Jan Burzlaff
Related Department or Program: Jewish Studies Program

The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders

Literary Hub
Related People: Claudia Verhoeven
Related Department or Program: History

BBC Today (aduio, begins, 2:51:10)

BBC Radio and 7 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Kate A. Manne
Related Department or Program: Philosophy

Boosting AI literacy across your institution

Times Higher Education
Related People: Jan Burzlaff
Related Department or Program: Jewish Studies Program

Buffalo Bones

London Review of Books
Related People: J. Robert Lennon
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English

The winding history of the first documented Haitian Creole song is traced in this new album

Ithaca Voice
Related People: Jean-Bernard Cerin
Related Department or Program: Music

TV Star Jane Lynch, MFA ’84, Urges Seniors to ‘Lighten Up and Dig Deep’

Cornellians
Related People: Jane Lynch, MFA ’84
Related Department or Program: Performing and Media Arts

Social Sciences

How AI Talks People Out of Conspiracy Theories—and What We Can Learn From That

Wall Street Journal
Related People: David Rand
Related Department or Program: Psychology

OpenAI avoids costly loss to Elon Musk but neither side unscathed

TVNZ and 3 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Sarah Kreps
Related Department or Program: Government

Colombia’s super‑rich pack their bags amid the rise of the left: ‘The country is wonderful if you have one foot out the door’

El Pais and 1 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Cristobal Young
Related Department or Program: Sociology

Prison education program wins $1.5M to create national research hub

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Joseph Margulies
Related Department or Program: Government

G.D.P. Is a Flawed Measure of Prosperity. Alternatives Are on the Way.

New York Times and 17 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Kaushik Basu
Related Department or Program: Economics

US students on why they booed their pro-AI graduation speakers: ‘They’re not reading the room’

The Guardian and 7 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Sarah Kreps
Related Department or Program: Government

Fans of corporate jargon ‘make worse business decisions’

The Times and 17 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Shane Littrell
Related Department or Program: Psychology

President Trump’s Theater of Grandiosity and Cruelty: An Interview with Mabel Berezin

ASA
Related People: Mabel Berezin
Related Department or Program: Sociology

Cornell Economist Kaushik Basu explains the United Nations' replacement for GDP (video, begins :98)

CNN
Related People: Kaushik Basu
Related Department or Program: Economics

Humanities and Arts, Social Sciences

Guess who is fanning the flames of Islamophobia

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

Sciences and Math, Other

Five alumni set to join Cornell Board of Trustees in July

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Tara Holm , multiple alumni
Related Department or Program: Mathematics

Humanities and Arts, Sciences and Math, Social Sciences

A&S seniors celebrate their extraordinary journeys

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Multiple undergraduates
Related Department or Program: All departments and programs
 
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