A&S Media Report 9/25/2026

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390 external media stories tracked
3 press releases/tip sheets distributed
9 Cornell Chronicle stories
4 Cornell Daily Sun stories
2 Cornellians stories
14 A&S website stories
7 X posts
3 Facebook posts
1 Instagram post and 13 event stories
3 LinkedIn posts

Social Sciences

Research suggests some voters using AI to help with midterms information

USA Today and 113 other media outlet(s)
Related People: David Rand, Gordon Pennycook
Related Department or Program: Psychology

Why Trump’s map wars matter

MS Now
Related People: Christine Leuenberger
Related Department or Program: Science and Technology Studies

A Model for Berlin? Why Mamdani’s War on the Rich Is Destroying New York (German)

Berliner Zeitung and 2 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Cristobal Young
Related Department or Program: Sociology

Mentally & emotionally sturdy people usually stop explaining 8 things by the time they turn 50

Bolde
Related People: Thomas D. Gilovich
Related Department or Program: Psychology

Heist using 'invisible ink' to hide robbers’ IDs was so stupid it led to new condition

Daily Express and 26 other media outlet(s)
Related People: David Dunning
Related Department or Program: Psychology

Light pollution’s ‘transformation of night’ requires prompt action

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Sara B. Pritchard
Related Department or Program: Science and Technology Studies

AI political ads warp reality ahead of US midterms

France 24 and 66 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Sarah Kreps
Related Department or Program: Government

AI chatbots can meaningfully change voters’ attitudes

A&S Communications
Related People: David Rand
Related Department or Program: Psychology

Barbara Finlay, psychology professor emerita, dies at age 75

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Barbara Finlay, Shimon Edelman, David J. Field, Alexander G. Ophir
Related Department or Program:

Xi Meets Trump After 10 Days Out of Public Eye Amid Health Speculation

Newsweek and 80 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Allen R. Carlson
Related Department or Program: Government, China and Asia-Pacific Studies Program

Survey: 64% of US adults are sitting on a business idea they never launched

KIRO-TV and 54 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Thomas D. Gilovich
Related Department or Program: Psychology

Are American Killer Robots Supposed to Make Us Feel Better?

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

How to Stop the AI-pocalypse

Project Syndicate
Related People: Kaushik Basu
Related Department or Program: Economics

After a devastating disaster, Nepal faces the challenge of giving it a name

A&S Communications
Related People: Kathryn March
Related Department or Program: Anthropology

Sciences and Math

AI agents started to snitch: Here's how machines report each other (Serbian)

B92 and 4 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Lionel Levine
Related Department or Program: Mathematics

Three Young Scientists Win 2026 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Postdoctoral Excellence

Bioengineer.org and 1 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Matthew Zipple
Related Department or Program: Neurobiology and Behavior

Physics students learn the ropes

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

Mathematics Isn’t Just a Game to Let A.I. Solve. History Shows Why.

New York Times
Related People: Steven Strogatz, Alex Townsend
Related Department or Program: Mathematics

Microrobotic cilia that sense and reshape their surroundings

Nature Electronics and 24 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Itai Cohen , Jinsong Zhang, Wei Wang, Ph.D. ’24
Related Department or Program: Physics

Microscopic robots inspired by fireflies, cilia, sync to reshape surroundings

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Itai Cohen , Jinsong Zhang, Wei Wang, Ph.D. ’24
Related Department or Program: Physics

Community remembers Enfield plane crash victims

Ithaca Voice
Related People: David Kornreich
Related Department or Program: Astronomy, Physics

Humanities and Arts, Social Sciences

Will Trump’s new divide-and-conquer plan work against universities?

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

Author explores the life of Harlem ballet trailblazer Arthur Mitchell

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

It’s a Tough Time to Be a Writer—But I’m Following My Dream

Cornellians
Related People: Finley Williams ’25
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

Society for the Humanities celebrates 60 years as incubator for innovative research

A&S Communications
Related People: Susan Buck-Morss, Jonathan D. Culler, Brett de Bary, Durba Ghosh, Timothy Murray
Related Department or Program: Asian Studies, Comparative Literature, Government, History, Literatures in English

Humanities and Arts

Nepotism at Berkshire

Financial Times and 1 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Nicholas Mulder
Related Department or Program: History

Houthi gains threaten global oil supplies: ‘Ready for $10-a-gallon gas?’

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

These Tech Utopians Want to Build a City for the Post-A.I. World

New York Times and 24 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Raymond B. Craib
Related Department or Program:

Black Critical Thought Symposium to be held Oct. 2

A&S Communications
Related People: Parisa Vaziri
Related Department or Program: Africana Studies and Research Center, Comparative Literature, Government, History of Art and Visual Studies, Literatures in English, Performing and Media Arts, Society for the Humanities

What We're Reading

New Yorker
Related People: George Hutchinson
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English, John S. Knight Institute

Event offers debates in the Greek public square

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Jill Frank, Verity Platt, Talia Prussin Davide Napoli, Klarman fellow
Related Department or Program: Classics, History

Fifty years after the death of Mao Zedong, the persistent shadow of the "Great Helmsman" over China

Le Monde
Related People: Peidong Sun
Related Department or Program: History, China and Asia-Pacific Studies Program

How to speak freely examined in eCornell event Oct. 6

A&S Communications
Related People: Mike Fontaine
Related Department or Program: Classics

What to know about Trump-Xi summit (video)

Fox KTVU
Related People: Peidong Sun
Related Department or Program: History, China and Asia-Pacific Studies Program

The Hispanic Book Fair will pay tribute to Ernesto Quiñonez, author of 'Bodega Dreams' (Spanish)

Infobae
Related People: Ernesto Quiñonez
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English

Military Historian Barry Strauss Receives U.S. Naval War College Hattendorf Prize

A&S Communications
Related People: Barry Stuart Strauss
Related Department or Program: Classics, History

When women become enforcers of patriarchy

Prothom Alo and 15 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Kate A. Manne
Related Department or Program: Philosophy

Look, Up in the Sky! It’s Two Alums Inspecting Buildings and Bridges!

Cornellians
Related People: Evan Kopelson ’94
Related Department or Program: Classics, Archaeology Program
 
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