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Neil Lewis, Jr.'s newest paper, "Preparing Disadvantaged Students for Success in College: Lessons Learned From the Preparation Initiative," was just published in Perspectives on Psychological Science. The paper describes the effects of the preparation initiative academic intervention program that Neil worked with and served as Interim Director of prior to joining our faculty. Among other things, the program increased graduation rates for low-income, first-generation, and racial-ethnic minority students who participated in it by 13%.

Jon Schuldt and Y. Connie Yuan published an op-ed in The Washington Post, titled "Despite what Trump says, most Americans want climate action — even if China doesn’t do its part." The piece reports on their recent nationally representative survey of the U.S. public, which finds that a strong majority of Americans–and even a slim majority of our Republican respondents–say the U.S. should act on climate change even if China doesn’t do its fair share. In fact, very few in our sample, and only 19% of Republicans, said the U.S. should act “only if China does its fair share."

Neil Lewis, Jr. was named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science. The rising star designation is presented to outstanding psychological scientists in the earliest stages of their post-PhD research careers. This designation recognizes researchers whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions.

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.

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.

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

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!

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

 

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.