Marla Coppolino, a staff member of the Cornell Center for Technology Enterprise and Commercialization, also is a snail wrangler, biological illustrator, Nigerian dwarf goat breeder, snail educator and entrepreneur, and a researcher.
Peng Chen, the Peter J.W. Debye Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, is the recipient of the 2014 Coblentz Award, presented annually to an outstanding molecular spectroscopist under the age of 40 by the Coblentz Society.
French and Francophone studies scholars will address challenges and opportunities for the field in a "Francophone Futures" workshop Nov. 16. The fast-growing field is key to the teaching of French and to assessing postcolonial history and studies in literature, arts and culture.
Thousands and thousands of documents: the Library of Congress has received 1,705 boxes of the Seth MacFarlane Collection of the Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Archive for all of posterity to sift.
Professor Sidney Tarrow's new book, “The Language of Contention: Revolutions in Words, 1688-2012,” looks at role of language in social and political movements.