Tzvetan Todorov, an internationally renowned writer and director of research at the Centre National de Recherches in Paris, will visit Cornell on March 24-28 as a Clark Fellow.
Cornell alumnus Robert G. Laughlin, whose research at Procter & Gamble Co. has contributed to a number of well-known household products, has donated $2.5 million to endow a new named professorship in the university's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
The seventh annual Light in Winter Festival of Arts and Sciences, Jan. 21-24, featured almost two dozen events and many Cornellians, including Jody Enck, who discussed human-wolf bonds.
A study by Cornell sociologist Matthew Brashears finds that happiness comes from having firmly held beliefs and being around people who affirm those beliefs.
In the introduction to his new book, In the Past Lane, Michael Kammen, the Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture at Cornell, tells the story of a chair.
Vladimir Nabokov wanted his family to destroy his unfinished final work, 'The Original of Laura.' Finally published in its original form after 30 years, scholars are praising its 'magnificent style.'
A central plank of David Levitsky's teaching philosophy, honed over 40 years of instructing Cornell students, is to make his lessons unpredictable, and his style has earned him a USDA teaching award.