Cornell history professor Rachel Weil has published “A Plague of Informers: Conspiracy and Political Trust in William III's England,” which focuses on the early years of the British monarch.
Tata Consultancy Services, a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, announced Dec. 4 a $50 million investment in Cornell Tech. The investment includes a significant gift for the first phase of capital development on the Roosevelt Island campus.
Jonathan Culler defined the lyric and argued for poetics taking priority in literary studies in his July 24 lecture for the School of Criticism and Theory.
Events on campus this week include photography exhibit, debate on Obama, Rubberdance Group, several book signings at the Cornell Store, literary luncheon, history walk, and lectures on whales and rice. (Oct. 14, 2010)
Former post-doctoral researcher Royall Tyler Moore bequeathed nearly $500,000 to Cornell, which will be administered by the School of Integrated Plant Science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Professors Glenn Altschuler and Isaac Kramnick's book details Cornell's emergence as a modern research university and the ongoing balance between its ideals of freedom and responsibility.
A new book by David Bateman, associate professor of government, offers the first cross-national account of the simultaneous expansion and restriction of voting rights in 19th-century France, United States and the United Kingdom.