A&S Media Report - 7/31/2020

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186 external media stories tracked
1 press release tip sheet distributed
9 Cornell Chronicle stories
16 A&S Website stories
22 Tweets
6 Facebook posts

Social Sciences

Officials Push U.S.-China Relations Toward Point of No Return

New York Times and 69 other media outlets
Related People:
Related Department or Program: Government, China and Asia-Pacific Studies Program

"The consequences of not doing something drastic in support of Latin Americans can be serious" (Spanish)

Interferencia
Related People: Gustavo A. Flores-Macías
Related Department or Program: Government

How Can Palestine Disappear from Maps? This is Google's response (Indonesian)

CNBC Indonesia and 4 other media outlets
Related People:
Related Department or Program: Science and Technology Studies

The science behind streaks on and off the basketball court

PBS NewsHour
Related People: Thomas D. Gilovich
Related Department or Program: Psychology

100 days before the elections, the US economy is weak (Spanish)

El Financiero
Related People: Gustavo A. Flores-Macías
Related Department or Program: Government

New app tells South Floridians if they’ve been exposed to COVID-19. Will anyone use it?

Miami Herald and 30 other media outlets
Related People: Sarah Kreps
Related Department or Program: Government

McNair Scholars lobby DC virtually for more higher ed funding

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Areion Allmond ’21
Related Department or Program: Science and Technology Studies, Center for the Study of Inequality

Back-to-College Plans Devolve Into a Jumble of Fast-Changing Rules

Wall Street Journal and 2 other media outlets
Related People: Kim Weeden
Related Department or Program: Sociology

How Local Covid Deaths Are Affecting Vote Choice

New York Times
Related People: Douglas L. Kriner
Related Department or Program: Government

‘Fair & Lovely,’ skin whitening and the pitfalls of performative allyship

Washington Post
Related People: Graduate student Marvi Ahmed
Related Department or Program: Sociology

Why don't all cities with high rates of crime get the same Trump treatment?

CNN
Related People: Steve Israel
Related Department or Program: Government

Trailing badly in polls, Trump points to ‘hidden’ voters and the ‘silent majority’ as path to victory

Washington Post and 11 other media outlets
Related People: Peter K. Enns
Related Department or Program: Government

Panel: Pandemic has exposed long-standing health inequities

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Jamila Michener
Related Department or Program: Government

Humanities and Arts

What Modern Sustainability Could Learn From a 200-Year-Old American Tradition

Time Magazine
Related People: Aaron Sachs
Related Department or Program: History

Charlotte Talks: How Shopping And Politics End Up In The Same Cart

WFAE 90.7 FM
Related People: Lawrence B. Glickman
Related Department or Program: History, American Studies Program

PMA professor earns Emmy nod for ‘Words from a Bear’


A&S Communications
Related People: Jeffrey Palmer
Related Department or Program: Performing and Media Arts

There’s Nothing Radical About a Female Vice President

New York Times and 3 other media outlets
Related People: Kate A. Manne
Related Department or Program: Philosophy

Literary scholar Jonathan Culler elected to British Academy

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Jonathan D. Culler
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English, Comparative Literature

The Lobed Elephant in the Room

Star Trek and the Jews podcast
Related People: Jonathan Branfman
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English, Jewish Studies Program

Summer conversation sessions keep language skills sharp


A&S Communications
Related People: Banu Ozer-Griffin , Ruby Li ’23, Mashka Sutton ’22
Related Department or Program: Near Eastern Studies, Language Resource Center

Now's the Perfect Time to Rethink Thanksgiving

Inside Higher Ed
Related People: Caroline Levine
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English

Getting Dressed with the Hermaphrodites

The Collation
Related People: Kathleen Perry Long
Related Department or Program: Romance Studies

PMA student helps contribute to PBS American Portrait project


A&S Communications
Related People: David Jansen '22
Related Department or Program: Performing and Media Arts

Rural Humanities initiative to focus on Black lives

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Paul Fleming
Related Department or Program: Society for the Humanities, Romance Studies, German Studies, Africana Studies and Research Center

White Backlash Is the Inevitable Response to Black Progress in the United States

Teen Vogue
Related People: Lawrence B. Glickman
Related Department or Program: History, American Studies Program

Sciences and Math

Cornellians help NASA zoom in on red planet

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Steven W. Squyres , Rob Sullivan, Mike Mellon, graduate student Christian Tate, Paul Corlies, Ph.D. ’19
Related Department or Program: Astronomy

Fact check: You can’t tell a venomous snake by the way it swims

Reuters
Related People: Harry W. Greene
Related Department or Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Harry Greene and the rewilding of Rancho Cascabel

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Kelly Zamudio
Related Department or Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Mars 2020: Countdown to Launch (audio, begins 35:10)

VICE
Related People: Alexander Hayes
Related Department or Program: Carl Sagan Institute, Astronomy

The particle accelerator that’s serious about recycling

Nature and 1 other media outlet
Related People: Georg Hoffstaetter de Torquat
Related Department or Program: Physics

Meet Lizard Man, a reptile-loving biologist tackling some of the biggest questions in evolution

Science
Related People: Harry W. Greene
Related Department or Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Electrons obey social distancing in 'strange' metals

Materials Today
Related People: Eun-Ah Kim
Related Department or Program: Physics

Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts

Students manage remote internships found through Pathways program

A&S Communications
Related People: La’Treil Allen ’22, Kemi Adewalure ’22
Related Department or Program: Government, Asian Studies, American Studies Program

Rap music and anti-Semitism: how Wiley’s tweets draw on a long and ugly history

Telegraph and 1 other media outlet
Related People: Glenn Altschuler
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

Alum and twin cross U.S. on foot to support COVID-19 relief

Ezra
Related People: Zachary Prizant ’18, MPS ’19
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

Cornell to host Semantics and Linguistic Theory conference virtually


A&S Communications
Related People: W. Starr
Related Department or Program: Society for the Humanities, Philosophy, Linguistics, Cognitive Science Program

Other

Cornell Students Develop Website To Combat Loneliness During COVID-19

Fox 40
Related People: Jordan Goldzweig ’21, Sam Brickman ’21
Related Department or Program:
 
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