PCCW Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large

Natalie Angier (2006-2012) is currently a science columnist for The New York Times. Her semi-monthly column is titled “Basics.” She holds the sole title of President's Council of Cornell Women A.D. White Professor-at-Large. At the age of twenty-two she was hired as a founding staff reporter for Discover, the science magazine launched in 1980 by Time Incorporated. Subsequently, over the next decade she served as the senior science writer for Time magazine, editor of the women’s business magazine Savvy, and taught at New York University’s graduate program in science and environmental reporting. In 1990, Ms. Angier began writing for The New York Times and covered a wide range of scientific topics, which led her to win a Pulitzer Prize in beat reporting the following year. Among these topics were the biology of scorpions, disputes over the Human Genome Project the importance of parasites in evolution and the ubiquitous-ness of philandering in the animal kingdom.

She has authored numerous books including Natural Obsessions, an inside view of the high-throttle world of cancer research—named notable book of the year by The New York Times and American Association of the Advancement of Science; The Beauty of the Beastly, a hymn to the multitudinous, mostly invertebrate creatures—another notable book of The New York Times, and translated into nine languages; ­­and Women: An Intimate Geography that celebrates the female body and biology—a National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestseller, which has sold some 200,000 copies in the U.S. and translated into twenty languages. Also, this publication was incorporated into Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues and named one of the best books of the year by The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, Talk magazine, People magazine, National Public Radio, the Bloomsbury Literary Review, The Village Voice, the New York Public Library, Publisher’s Weekly, the Library Journal and Amazon.com.

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