A&S Media Report - 12/7/2018

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430 external media stories tracked
5 press release tip sheets distributed
2 studio appearances arranged
8 Cornell Chronicle stories
1 Internal Cornell Platform story
1 Cornell Daily Sun story
14 A&S Website stories
16 Tweets
3 Facebook posts
1 Instagram post

Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts

Forum highlights the connections between humans and apes

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Laurent Dubreuil
Related Department or Program: Romance Studies, Literatures in English, Comparative Literature, Cognitive Science Program

Alumni provide challenge funding for Posse program


A&S Communications
Related People: Ron McCray ’79, Dennis Black ’65, Barton Winokur '61, Susan Winokur '61
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English, Government

Museum of Black Civilisations aims to 'decolonise knowledge'

Al Jazeera and 6 other media outlets
Related People: Carole Boyce Davies
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English, Africana Studies and Research Center

Sciences and Math

Ecolectro receives $1.7M from DOE to accelerate hydrogen fuel development

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Héctor D. Abruña , Gabriel Rodríguez-Calero, M.S. ’12, Ph.D. ’14, Kristina Hugar, Ph.D. ’15
Related Department or Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Vikram Gadagkar receives award from Society for Neuroscience


A&S Communications
Related People: Jesse H. Goldberg , Vikram Gadagkar, MS ‘ 10, PhD ‘13
Related Department or Program: Neurobiology and Behavior

Planet hunter to give update on search for life in the universe

Finger Lakes Times
Related People: Lisa Kaltenegger
Related Department or Program: Astronomy , Carl Sagan Institute

Cornell Research Associate on InSight Team Describes Awe of Mars Landing

Cornell Daily Sun
Related People: Don Banfield
Related Department or Program: Astronomy

Mariana Wolfner: 2018 Genetics Society of America Medal

Genetics
Related People: Mariana Federica Wolfner
Related Department or Program: Molecular Biology and Genetics

NASA InSight Lander 'Hears' Martian WindsNASA's InSight Mars Lander 'Hears' Martian Wind, a Cosmic First

Space.com and 53 other media outlets
Related People: Don Banfield
Related Department or Program: Astronomy

Humanities and Arts

Boys to Men: A Conversation on Fraternity Culture and Toxic Masculinity with Bill Gaskins and Andrew Moisey

Exposure
Related People: Andrew Moisey
Related Department or Program: History of Art and Visual Studies

‘Queer Eye’s’ Jonathan Van Ness reminds Cornell students to love themselves

The News House
Related People: Samantha Noelle Sheppard
Related Department or Program: Performing and Media Arts

Alumni gift funds new music professorship, supports wind ensemble


A&S Communications
Related People: Richard T. Silver ’50, MD ’53, Rachel Diao ’19, James Parker ’21
Related Department or Program: Music

Central American Migrants to the United States

Texas Observer
Related People: Maria Cristina Garcia
Related Department or Program: Latina/o Studies Program, History, American Studies Program

Watermarking the Aeneid

In Media Res
Related People: Mike Fontaine
Related Department or Program: Classics

Six on faculty receive Einaudi Center grants for international work

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Raymond B. Craib , graduate students Joshua Savala, Kyle Harvey
Related Department or Program: Near Eastern Studies, History, Archaeology Program

What Our Science Fiction Says About Us

BBC and 3 other media outlets
Related People: Anindita Banerjee
Related Department or Program: Comparative Literature

New study upends timeline of Iroquoian history

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Sturt Manning , Carol Griggs ’77, Ph.D. ’06, graduate student Samantha Sanft
Related Department or Program: Classics, Archaeology Program

Spartacus indeed freed slaves, but there's more to his complicated story than that says historian with a new book

History News Network
Related People: Barry Stuart Strauss
Related Department or Program: History, Classics

Auburn Public Theater founders to be featured on TV program

Olean Times Herald
Related People: Cheryl Finley
Related Department or Program: History of Art and Visual Studies

Europeans’ First Contact With Iroquois Happened up to 100 Years Later Than Expected

Discover Magazine and 22 other media outlets
Related People: Sturt Manning
Related Department or Program: Classics, Archaeology Program

Things to Do, Dec. 7-14, 2018

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Lisa Kaltenegger , Joe Salzano
Related Department or Program: Performing and Media Arts, Music, Astronomy , Cornell Cinema, Carl Sagan Institute

Study upends timeline for Iroquoian history

ScienceDaily and 3 other media outlets
Related People: Sturt Manning , Carol Griggs ’77, Ph.D. ’06, graduate student Samantha Sanft
Related Department or Program: Classics, Archaeology Program

Sciences and Math, Humanities and Arts

Podcast examines the science of love


A&S Communications
Related People: Caroline Levine
Related Department or Program: Neurobiology and Behavior, Literatures in English

Social Sciences

Linguistics grad student partners with Mayan speaker for preservation research


A & S Communications
Related People: Sarah Murray , graduate student Carol-Rose Little
Related Department or Program: Linguistics

Two students share tea essay contest prize

Einaudi Center
Related People: Siddarth Sankaran '21, graduate student Annie Sheng
Related Department or Program: Economics, Anthropology

Class explores the global phenomenon of 'fake news'


A&S Communications
Related People: Alexandra E. Cirone , Claire Liu ‘19
Related Department or Program: Government

A&S students can network with alums over winter break


A&S Communications
Related People: Natasha Liebel ‘92, Rachel Becker ‘92
Related Department or Program: Career Development

Episode 3 — Tom Gilovich (audio)

Present Value
Related People: Thomas D. Gilovich
Related Department or Program: Psychology

Commentary: We don't appreciate how lethal air pollution is because we don't have the data

Channel NewsAsia and 1 other media outlet
Related People: Kaushik Basu
Related Department or Program: Economics

Latin America—Party Systems and Inequality

Cornell Research
Related People: Graduate student Vincent Mauro
Related Department or Program: Government

Intel Announces Neuromorphic Computing Research Collaborators

Intel Newsroom
Related People: Thomas A. Cleland
Related Department or Program: Psychology

2018 Affinito-Stewart research grants awarded; 2019 proposals sought

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Amy R. Krosch
Related Department or Program: Psychology, Economics

Almost half of U.S. adults have seen a family member jailed, study shows

Washington Post and 315 other media outlets
Related People: Peter K. Enns
Related Department or Program: Government

Other

A&S Career Development staff offer students ‘Road Trips to the Real World’


A&S Communications
Related People: Autumn Moser
Related Department or Program: Career Development

Social Sciences, Sciences and Math, Humanities and Arts

Documentarian: Take down paywalls with open access to scholarship

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Paul Ginsparg
Related Department or Program: Society for the Humanities, Physics, Literatures in English, Linguistics, German Studies, Comparative Literature

New initiative to lead industry innovation, social impact through AI

Cornell Chronicle
Related People:
Related Department or Program: Interdisciplinary
 
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