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Brooke Duffy won a 2018-2019 Affinito-Stewart research grant for her project "Invisible Labor in the Social Media Economy: Gender and Social Inequalities in an Emergent Workforce.” The program, administered by the President’s Council of Cornell Women, was established in 1990 to help the university increase the number of women in tenured faculty positions. Read more

Jon Schuldt’s recent work (funded by an Atkinson Center/Environmental Defense Fund partnership grant), on the extent to which people of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups systematically underestimate the environmental concerns of minority and low-income Americans, is featured on the cover of the most recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science. This work has already received a significant amount of favorable attention in the form of two different commentaries on the findings. Read more

Poppy McLeod received a 2018 Stephen H. Weiss Fellowship, an award recognizing excellence in teaching. Read more

Jon Schuldt's research (with Peter Enns) was covered in Political Wire. Jon and Peter conducted a survey about trust, political parties, and 3 key issues: election security, tax reform, and the federal deficit. Their results are surprising! Read more

Brooke Duffy was quoted in 3 articles recently: in a Verge article about women, twitter, and sports; an Irish Times article about the demise of women's magazines in the wake of social media; and in a Verge article about women's empowerment and egg-freezing.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/19/17852628/sports-social-media-women-twitter-nfl-nba-mlb

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/how-instagram-is-killing-irish-women-s-magazines-1.3611486

https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/11/17823810/kindbody-startup-fertility-clinic-egg-freezing-millennials-location?curator=LongformREDEF

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Jon Schuldt co-published an op-ed in The Hill arguing Trump supporters overwhelmingly say that environmental quality is getting better, while non-supporters overwhelmingly say that environmental quality is getting worse. The piece discusses new polling results from his multi-wave national survey of likely voters, in the lead-up to the midterm elections. Read more

Over the past year, Neil Lewis, Jr. co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology on the topic of health behavior and behavior change. Read more about the special issue in the opening editorial. Read more

Brooke Duffy and graduate student Oliver (Ngai Keung) Chan just published an article in New Media and Society, “You Never Really Know Who’s Looking”: Imagined Surveillance across Social Media Platforms." Read more