A.O. Scott, chief film critic for The New York Times, will give the Daniel W. Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture Nov. 7 on campus and introduce "Sweet Smell of Success" Nov. 6.
“India: The Story of Growth, Democracy and ‘Soft Power’” will be the topic when Dnyaneshwar M. Mulay, consul general of India in New York and that country’s representative to the United Nations, speaks 3:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8, at Cornell.
Events on campus this week include physicist Robert Lang on origami; a recital with violinist Midori; a reading by poet Dana Gioia and a play at the Schwartz Center about pain and friendship.
More than 150 people, including many students, helped make hygiene kits to ship to girls around the world by the organization Day for Girls. Eight students organized the event.
Colleagues and linguistic scholars have contributed to a book honoring Alan Nussbaum, Cornell professor of classics and linguistics, on his 65th birthday.
Cornell received three grants, one for $3.5 million, to collect data on the biology of the Great Lakes, information that continues long-term datasets and provides current measures for researchers, fishery managers and policy makers.
The new Cornell University Ruminant Center features an $8 million, 105,000-square-foot home in Harford, N.Y., in a bucolic setting 15 miles from campus.
