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Neil Lewis, Jr. won the Early Career Award from the Attitudes and Social Influence division of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. This award honors scholars for outstanding contributions to the study of attitudes, persuasion, and social influence in the first 6 years of their career post-PhD.

Neil Lewis, Jr., and collaborators at the Mindset Scholars Network just launched the new Data Archive for Interdisciplinary Research on Learning (DAIRL). This repository provides an infrastructure that enables researchers and educators to share and use a variety of datasets related to students' learning and learning environments.

Lee Humphreys published “Birthdays, Anniversaries and Temporalities: Or How the Past Is Represented as Relevant Through On-This-Date Media" in New Media and Society, which was featured in the Cornell Chronicle.

The Department of Communication released a new issue of its newsletter, COMMconnect. 

Neil Lewis Jr. is now an academic contributor at FiveThirtyEight, where he will periodically write about the use of social and behavioral science research in policy and practice. In his first article, he wrote about why coming up with effective interventions to address COVID-19 is so difficult.

Jeff Niederdeppe was quoted at USA Today about the CDC and the politicization of science.

J. Nathan Matias participated in the American Association for the Advancement of Science's (AAAS) Profile in Science Engagement with Faith Communities. As part of the Engaging Scientists project, AAAS spoke with a diverse range of practicing scientists and science communicators about engagement activities with religious communities.

Danielle Eiseman published an article in Environmental Education Research entitled "Designing an Extension Climate Stewards Volunteer Program: Incorporating Sense of Community, Social Practice, and Self-Efficacy Theories."

ESPN quoted Sahara Byrne in the article "Instagram Is the New Mixtape for High School Hoops," which was written by Comm alum Joon Lee.

Jon Schuldt and colleagues received a Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability research grant to conduct a national public survey to determine if a prolonged and severe pandemic or crisis can change public support for conservation.