A&S Media Report - 10/15/2021

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153 external media stories tracked
2 press release tip sheets distributed
10 Cornell Chronicle stories
1 Internal Cornell Platform story
1 Cornell Daily Sun story
8 A&S Website stories
23 Tweets
5 Facebook posts
4 Instagram posts

Social Sciences

The death of SE Asia’s democracy icons

Asia Times
Related People: Thomas Pepinsky
Related Department or Program: Government

'Punjab is on brink of disaster due to bad government policies

Times of India and 3 other media outlets
Related People: Kaushik Basu
Related Department or Program: Economics

Is World Bank’s Doing Business report really dead?

Japan Times and 3 other media outlets
Related People: Kaushik Basu
Related Department or Program: Economics

Prison education program leader Rob Scott joins Global Development

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Rob Scott
Related Department or Program: Government

Read an excerpt from “Noise”, Daniel Kahneman's new book on behavioral finance (Portuguese)

Vocesa
Related People: Michael Macy
Related Department or Program: Sociology

Humanities and Arts

Emperors and the ladies in their palace (Dutch)

NRC and 1 other media outlet
Related People: Barry Stuart Strauss
Related Department or Program: History, Classics

Concerto highlights individual voice and the sound of community

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Xak Bjerken
Related Department or Program: Music

103 African Writers Respond to Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nobel Prize Win

Brittle Paper
Related People: Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English

Book explores Nigerian women’s political activism

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Judith A. Byfield
Related Department or Program: History

Gabby Petito died of strangulation. Far too many other women have, too

The Guardian and 11 other media outlets
Related People: Kate A. Manne
Related Department or Program: Philosophy

Judith Stoikov ’63 endows museum curator position

Cornell Chronicle
Related People:
Related Department or Program: History of Art and Visual Studies

New timeline clarifies Indigenous history in Mohawk Valley

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Sturt Manning
Related Department or Program: Classics, Archaeology Program

Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts

Majority of Americans express dissatisfaction with democracy, and gerrymanderers race to the bottom

The Hill
Related People: Glenn Altschuler
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

New moral psychology minor takes on challenging questions

A&S Communications
Related People: Shaun Nichols , Julie Simmons-Lynch
Related Department or Program: Psychology, Philosophy, Cognitive Science Program

Be Yourself! (with a little help): Creating the First Yiddish LGBTQ Youth Guide

In Geveb
Related People: Jonathan Branfman
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English, Jewish Studies Program

Kahane's extremist ideas continue to resonate in the US and Israel

Jerusalem Post
Related People: Glenn Altschuler
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

Attacks upon cultural heritage are 'attacks upon a people'

A&S Communications
Related People: Lori Khatchadourian
Related Department or Program: Near Eastern Studies, Archaeology Program, Anthropology

Researchers Seek Artifacts Of Underground Railroad At Ithaca Church

WSKG
Related People: Gerard Aching
Related Department or Program: Romance Studies, Archaeology Program, Africana Studies and Research Center

Sciences and Math

eLab introduces newest cohort of student startups

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Jacquelyn Linevsky , graduate student, Ryan Tremblay ‘22, Alanna Zhou ‘22, Alec Dinwiddie ‘22, Nnaemeka Nwankpa ‘22
Related Department or Program: Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity, Astronomy

‘Hellish’ exoplanet where it rains liquid iron may be hotter than previously thought

Metro UK and 35 other media outlets
Related People: Ray Jayawardhana , Ryan MacDonald, Jake Turner
Related Department or Program: Carl Sagan Institute, Astronomy

New Genomics Study Unlocks Secrets of the Past To Help Shape Future of Healthcare for Millions

SciTechDaily and 15 other media outlets
Related People: Andrew G. Clark
Related Department or Program: Molecular Biology and Genetics

The Telescope That Will Change Astronomy

Air and Space Magazine
Related People: Nikole Lewis
Related Department or Program: Carl Sagan Institute, Astronomy

Astronomers Found a Planet That Survived Its Star’s Death

New York Times and 52 other media outlets
Related People: Lisa Kaltenegger
Related Department or Program: Carl Sagan Institute, Astronomy

Detected: 1,652 radio bursts from 3 billion light-years away

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Shami Chatterjee , Laura Spitler, M.S. ’10, Ph.D. ’13, Di Li Ph.D. ‘02
Related Department or Program: Astronomy

Schmidt: Exploring Earth’s oceans to reach Europa

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Michael Mellon
Related Department or Program: Carl Sagan Institute, Astronomy

Exploring Earth's oceans to reach Europa

Phys.org and 2 other media outlets
Related People: Jonathan Lunine
Related Department or Program: Carl Sagan Institute, Astronomy

Astronomers Detect 1,652 Fast Radio Bursts from Source in Distant Dwarf Galaxy

Sci-News and 2 other media outlets
Related People: Shami Chatterjee
Related Department or Program: Astronomy

Strange radio waves hint at the existence of a new stellar object

Inverse and 1 other media outlet
Related People: James M. Cordes
Related Department or Program: Astronomy

Hans Bethe Lecture to illuminate black hole paradox

A&S Communications
Related People: Thomas Hartman
Related Department or Program: Physics

Other

Scholarship gift helps pay it forward

Alumni Affairs & Development
Related People: Will Yoon ’01
Related Department or Program:
 
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