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Newsweek calls Cornell the Hottest Ivy

25 Hottest Schools -College Guide: It's that time of year again, when high-school seniors and their parents gear up for the admissions game. In excerpts from our annual newsstand issue, here's what you need to know about the newest trends.

Cornell's 'Any person ... any study' named best college motto

Cornell University's 'Any person ... any study' named nation's best college motto by magazine

American Campuses Get Greener Than Ever

How to teach new respect for the environment? The 3 R's: reduce your carbon footprint, reuse and recycle.

Google will digitize Cornell Library volumes for its book search

Half-million volumes in Cornell Library collection to be digitized and available through Google Book Search

Creative Writing Program named among top 10 in nation

Cornell's Creative Writing Program ranked among the nation's best

India's Ratan Tata '59 featured in Business Week

The Last Rajah: India's Ratan Tata aims to transform his once-stodgy conglomerate into a global powerhouse. But can it thrive after he steps down?

Johnson School faculty Stuart Hart in Business Week

Cornell Professor Builds on His Base Stuart Hart, founder of "base of the pyramid" economics, talks about terrorism, poverty, and the next big corporations

Economics Professor Robert H. Frank's new book reviewed in the New York Times

'Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class'

Island location makes Shoals an ideal case study in sustainability -- from wind power to composting

Pharma 'Midas' hits again

David Pritchard '75, CEO of KaloBios Pharmaceuticals in Palo Alto, is betting on the buzz for human anitbody therapeutics.

Despite the Dumb Jokes, Stereotypes May Reflect Some Smart Choices

Despite the Dumb Jokes, Stereotypes May Reflect Some Smart Choices NYT article featuring CU Professor Robert Frank

Steven J. Sinofsky '87 of Microsoft featured in NYT

Steven J. Sinofsky '87 of Microsoft featured in NYT, article says "As a technical assistant to Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman, in 1994, Mr. Sinofsky was one of the Microsoft employees who alerted Mr. Gates to the Internet challenge, after seeing students using the Web at his alma mater, Cornell University."

New York Times Article on Google featuring Amit Singhal Phd '97

Cornell's first Green Report gives sustainability and environmental footprint status for Ithaca campus

Provost Biddy Martin 'Why Cornell Can't Meet All Financial Need With Grants'

Cornell Prof Invents 'Green' Skateboard

Thanks to a Cornell-based company called e2e Materials, skateboards of the future won't just be able to hover, they'll also be fully biodegradable.

When to Violate the Top Two Commandments of Antigovernment Crusaders

Venture Capitalists (Dave Jones '80) Want to Put Some Algae in Your Tank

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Skorton signs agreement linking Cornell to 80 other schools in clean-energy policy aimed at reducing greenhouse gases

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Qualcomm Found Irwin and Joan Jacobs endow $30 million in scholarships

Cornell alumni Irwin '54, BEE '56, and Joan '54 Jacobs have established a $30 million scholarship and fellowship endowment for Cornell's College of Engineering. It is the largest gift pledged to date specifically for scholarships in Cornell's recently announced $4 billion campaign.

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Cornell University Library announces partnership with Microsoft that will allow global access to its world-class resources

Cornell University Library will soon be able to offer more of its exceptional resources to scholars worldwide, thanks to a long-term partnership with Microsoft to digitize a significant number of its books and to put the volumes online using Live Book Search service.

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Gary Tsifrin MA '02, Founder & Chief Operating Officer DriversEd.com has had a lot of press lately.

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Ganem wins national award for cancer drug synthesis

Bruce Ganem, Cornell's Franz and Elisabeth Roessler Professor of Chemistry and J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship, is the winner of the American Chemical Society's (ACS) 2007 Award for Creative Invention. The award recognizes "the successful application of research in chemistry and/or chemical engineering that contributes to the material prosperity and happiness of people."

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Architect Koolhaas unveils Milstein Hall design: A 'miracle box' to unify AAP campus

Milstein Hall, the newest building of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP), will be many things for many people: a space that is social, flexible, improvisational and adaptable. Not to mention big, beautiful and modern.

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Cornell's free online 'eClips Career Corner' provides job-hunting advice from industry experts

Job hunters can "eClips" the competition and make a great impression at that job interview with help from a free searchable database that's like having a virtual army of consultants at their command. Called Cornell's eClips Career Corner, the program offers thousands of short video clips, with many that offer advice on interviewing, choosing a career, writing a resume, pursuing graduate education, networking and searching for the right job after college.

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Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and Skorton to share stage at Weill Cornell Medical College, Sept. 26

Musharraf will speak about experiences chronicled in his new book, "In the Line of Fire," released by Simon & Schuster this week, and about contemporary issues and challenges facing Pakistan and the world. He will be introduced by Cornell President David J. Skorton, who will moderate a question-and-answer session following the talk.

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With Homeland Security grant, Cornell seeks to sort facts from opinions

What are newspapers around the world saying about the latest speech by President George W. Bush? More importantly, how much of what they are saying is factual and how much opinion? And down the line, are some of the opinions being presented as if they were facts?

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Skorton speaks of 'the dance that is and must be Cornell' during novel inaugural ceremony

"That most improbable and most magnificent of compounds: Cornell University" has inaugurated David J. Skorton as its 12th president. The quote belongs to Skorton -- and now, officially, to the university's highest office. During an unprecedented and revelatory inaugural ceremony -- replete with poetry, music and song -- on Cornell's Arts Quad today, it was clear that certain Cornell traditions will be honored and respected, but there is a brand-new beat playing far above Cayuga's waters. The good doctor, is in.

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Transcripts of Inauguration

Provost Carolyn (Biddy) Martin, Professor David Feldshuh, and President David J. Skorton

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Future of US-China Relations symposium and related activities

Peking Univeristy delegation visits Cornell for symposium on U.S.-China Relations and to discuss Cornell's new China Asia-Pacific Studies major

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Cornell leads universities overall in nanotechnology rankings by leading industry magazine

In a series of rankings of university nanotechnology programs by Small Times, a trade magazine devoted to nanotechnology, Cornell ranked in the top 10 in eight out of nine categories, and in the top five in six categories, leading all universities overall.

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Doug Leone '79 of Sequoia Capital invests in Cornell

In Duffield Hall laboratories, researchers delve into the science of the smallest particles. In the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE ), they seek explanations for how structures on a far larger scale���roads, bridges, airplanes���work, how they fail, and how they can be improved. When venture capitalist Doug Leone ���79 made his most recent gift to the university, he decided to support both efforts, dedicating $500,000 in response to a Duffield Hall challenge grant that enhances the building���s endowment and apportioning the same amount to CEE ���s Thurston Hall upgrade, part of the Civil Infrastructure Laboratory Complex.

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'Apprentice' finalist Cornell grad Lee Bienstock hopes to get job of lifetime with Donald Trump

Brooklyn-born Cornell graduate Lee Bienstock, B.S. '05, a business analyst with Merrill Lynch, is in the final stretch on Donald Trump's "The Apprentice," on NBC. NBC Photo Cornell grad Lee Bienstock, a finalist on "Donald Trump's 'The Apprentice,'" in a recent episode of the business-themed reality show. The winner is being decided by viewers' online votes and will be announced June 5. He's hoping that Cornellians and other fans will boost his chances of winning the so-called "dream job of a lifetime" with The Trump Organization by voting for him through June 4 via text message or online form.

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Coverage of Cornell's 138th Commencement Weekend, May 27-28, 2006

Includes links to President Rawlings' commencement speech and Martin Luther King III's convocation speech.

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New Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology announced

In putting together Cornell's New Life Sciences Initiative, the university has just announced its cornerstone piece for the restructuring of the life sciences on campus -- the Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology.

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CU chooses Johns Hopkins development expert Charles D. Phlegar as VP for alumni affairs and development

Charles D. Phlegar, Johns Hopkins University's interim vice president for development and alumni relations, has been named vice president for alumni affairs and development at Cornell, subject to the approval this week of the Executive Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees.

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Meet some of the members of Cornell's Class of 2006

Profiles on the newest CU alumni!

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Cornell's Fresh Take on Career Counseling

Whether you're undergrad or alum, Cornell's director of career development helps plan your job search, using developmental-based counseling

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Punched cards to the Internet: CIT veteran Rudan recounts history of computing at Cornell

Rudan, who joined Cornell Information Technologies in 1960 and served in various directorial capacities from 1964 until his retirement in 1996, also remembers everything since. When he retired, he found himself in possession of some 60 boxes of documents and memorabilia. Going through them inspired him to do further research, interviewing other CIT and academic computing veterans. David Lambert, vice president for information technologies until 1997, encouraged him and provided resources, and Polley McClure, who followed Lambert, continued that support. The result, after several years of work, is "The History of Computing at Cornell," published by Internet First University Press. As with all Internet First publications, the full text is available online in Cornell's DSpace repository at http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/62. Those who prefer a real, solid book to read on the bus can buy a copy through Internet First's print-on-demand service. As a bonus, the print versio

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Cornell recruits Doonesbury

When devoted Doonesbury fan Claudia Wheatley, a consultant-writer with Cornell's Office of Publications and Marketing Services, saw the Cornell name in the strip, she got an idea. With the blessings of Tommy Bruce, vice president for communications at Cornell, Wheatley "pulled together some admissions materials and sent them to Trudeau under the pseudonym 'Francis Gait-Kieper, Admissions Officer,' with publications and marketing as the return address," she said.

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Cornell earthquake lab conducts largest test ever of how shifting earth might impact buried pipes

On April 6 Cornell University researchers simulated an earthquake's effects on gas and water pipes by exerting a 120,000-pound force on a 16-inch diameter, 35-foot-long high-density polyethylene pipe buried in 102 tons of sand in Thurston Hall.

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The Imperative for Change in the India of Today

In an era of cutthroat business practices and extreme competitiveness, it can seem as if there is no room in industry for social responsibility. Such is not the opinion of Ratan N. Tata '62, chairman of Tata Sons, Limited and the 2006 Robert S. Hatfield Fellow in Economic Education. Tata spoke in Kennedy's Call Auditorium yesterday about the social responsibility of industry in a lecture entitled, "The Imperative for Change in the India of Today."

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Growing lawsuits against media in China are actually an encouraging sign, says Clarke lecturer

As the Chinese media become more independent, public and Communist Party officials and even companies are filing successful defamation suits in the courts as a way to muffle opinion, said Benjamin Liebman, a law professor at Columbia University, speaking March 14 in the A.D. White House at Cornell University.

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19th Annual Johnson School lecture is available online

featuring Sharon Allen, Chairman of the Board of Directors at Deloitte & Touche at

http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/news/media/videos/durland2006.html

Jeff Hawkins '79 developed the PalmPilot but now he's more interested in a computer that works like the human brain

Jeff Hawkins '79 created the PalmPilot and Treo smart phone. His new company, Numenta, is developing a type of computer memory system modeled after the human neocortex, what he calls the "the big wrinkly thing" at the top of the brain. He's also the co-author of the book On Intelligence, which details his vision of how the brain processes information.

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David J. Skorton Talks to The Sun

Last week, The Sun had the opportunity to chat with President-elect David J. Skorton, who is currently finishing his tenure as president of the University of Iowa. He discussed his appointment, his time at Iowa and student activism - and agreed to join The Sun's staff.

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Larry Walker calls for a 'Manhattan Project' for energy in biofuels

In his State of the Union speech last month, U.S. President George W. Bush expressed his commitment to funding research and development of alternative fuel sources. Cornell University is one of five Sun Grant Centers of Excellence -- regional hubs already at the forefront of researching the use of plant biomass in energy and chemical production -- and is in an excellent position to advance its leadership role in these areas. Larry Walker, professor of biological and environmental engineering, is director of the Northeast Sun Grant Institute of Excellence, based at Cornell, which serves 14 states and the District of Columbia, from Maine to Maryland to Michigan. He recently answered some questions about this increasingly hot topic.

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Computer security problems are outside the box -- in law and public policy, Cornell expert says

"Changing the way ordinary people think about things is necessary for solving the cybersecurity problem and certainly would make today's systems far more trustworthy," said Fred Schneider, Cornell professor of computer science.

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Cornell, Weill Cornell and Lockheed Martin partner to create plan to manage mass casualties in disasters

Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC) are partnering with Lockheed Martin to develop a computerized system to help hospitals nationwide plan for and deal with mass casualties from disasters such as hurricanes, a flu pandemic and bioterrorism. The system will aid in readiness planning, simulate a disaster situation for testing purposes and act as a decision support system in a real disaster.

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Cornell goes to the movies: 'Roving Mars' is an IMAX spectacular

Thanks to a combination of coincidence, luck and a few handy connections, the red planet is a star in the story of the durable twin Mars rovers, which hits the extra-big screens in IMAX theaters in New York, Washington, D.C., and two dozen other cities across North America on Friday, Jan. 27.

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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $25 million to support the construction of the signature building of a planned information campus.

William H. Gates Hall will be new home for computer science

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Red Herring interview with Bill Trenchard '98

LiveOps CEO says his ���virtual��� call centers using home-based agents in the U.S. rival the costs of offshore call centers.

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PeopleSoft co-founder (David Duffield '62, MBA '64) plans software return

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Dr. David J. Skorton, president of the University of Iowa, was appointed Cornell University���s 12th president by the Cornell Board of Trustees at a special on-campus meeting Saturday, Jan. 21.

A cardiologist, national leader in research ethics and musician, Skorton, 56, will assume the presidency on July 1, 2006. He will hold faculty appointments in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Weill-Cornell Medical College (WCMC) in New York City, and in Biomedical Engineering, at the College of Engineering on the Ithaca campus. Hunter R. Rawlings will

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Firm of renowned architect Rem Koolhaas chosen to design Milstein Hall

The College of Architecture, Art and Planning will be getting a new building that will be a contemporary architectural gem.

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Cornell ILR School's Sam Bacharach authors one of the top business books of the year

NEW YORK -- A book by Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations Professor Samuel C. Bacharach has been named one of the 15 best business books of 2005 by Fast Company magazine. The book is "Get Them on Your Side: Win Support, Convert Skeptics, Get Results" (Platinum Press, 2005). An expert on organizational behavior, Bacharach is the McKelvey-Grant Professor of Labor Management at the ILR School.

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Cornell disaster expert O'Rourke named to panel on effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans

Thomas O'Rourke, the Thomas R. Briggs Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University, has been named to a panel convened by the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering to study the effects of Hurricane Katrina and the adequacy of hurricane protection infrastructure in New Orleans.

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Stick to wild salmon unless heart disease is a risk factor, risk/benefit analysis of farmed and wild fish shows

On the one hand, farmed salmon has more heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids than wild salmon. On the other hand, it also tends to have much higher levels of chemical contaminants that are known to cause cancer, memory impairment and neurobehavioral changes in children. What's a consumer to do? In general, a new study shows that the net benefits of eating wild Pacific salmon outweigh those of eating farmed Atlantic salmon, when the risks of chemical contaminants are considered, although there are important regional differences.

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Researcher's outreach helps consumers have their fish and eat it, too

To help consumers make informed choices about fish -- which is protein rich and heart healthy but may harbor chemical contaminants -- Cornell Professor Barbara Knuth serves as a scientific adviser to Seafood Safe, a new voluntary fish-labeling program for companies, retailers and restaurants.

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Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year 2006 - Call for nominations

Cornell University has honored a Cornell alumnus or alumna as the Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year each year since 1984. This is one of the highest honors Cornell bestows. The presentation of the Year 2006 award will take place during a lunch in his/her honor on campus in the Fall of 2006. Email dlm8@cornell.edu for more information.

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From 'Harry Potter' to 'The Incredibles,' blockbuster movies turn to Cornell Lab of Ornithology for blockbuster sounds

When sound editors needed the twitterings, hoots and songs of a chiffchaff, burrowing owl, European robin, song thrush, common nightingale and rooks at a rookery for "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," they called on Cornell's Macaulay Library at the Lab of Ornithology -- home to the world's largest collection of natural sounds. The library contains some 165,000 audio recordings, together with a growing archive of wildlife video.

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President Rawlings heads to China to sign partnership agreement and deliver keynote address at economic summit in Beijing

Cornell University President Hunter R. Rawlings will be heading to China Nov. 14 for a four-day trip to Beijing. He plans to sign an official partnership agreement with Peking University (formalizing Cornell's newest academic major, China and Asia-Pacific studies, or CAPS), deliver a keynote address at the 2005 Beijing Forum and participate in an engineering workshop with Tsinghua University.

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Cornell alumni make 'CSI' television's most-watched show

What does it take to make a television show No. 1? About 28 million viewers and two Cornell graduates: Carol Mendelsohn and Naren Shankar.

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Drugs could make a life-or-death difference if avian flu strikes

Weill Cornell infectious-disease expert Dr. Anne Moscona suggests that the right antiviral drugs and response plan will be crucial if an outbreak appears.

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���What���s next on the Horizon for the Telecommunication Industry?��� a presentation by Len Kennedy ���74, JD ���77, General Counsel of Sprint Nextel

Len Kennedy ���74, JD ���77, General Counsel of Sprint Nextel recently gave this presentation to a CEN audience in Washington, DC.

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The art of architecture; Art Gensler '57

"...The founder of the nation's largest design firm doesn't dress fancy and doesn't have a favorite building. Art Gensler of Gensler architects is atypical in other ways, too. He studied architecture at Cornell University, but doesn't consider himself an artist. He specialized in building interiors during the '60s when exterior design was the rage, and interior work was still essentially furniture arrangement..."

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How Apple Does it; A Time Magazine Cover Story

Featuring Jonathan J. Rubinstein BS Eng. '78 MEng. '79, Senior Vice President, iPod Division, Apple Computer Inc.

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Magician to the Rich

On a recent night at the Waldorf Towers Hotel in Manhattan Steve Cohen ('93) was casting a spell over the room. Primped up in a tux and horn-rim glasses, Cohen, 34, sidled up to a few people and asked if they'd lend him some one-dollar bills. After teasing the guys and flirting with the girls, he crumpled up the bills in his fists and, when he opened his hands, out came a few hundreds. He calls the trick "Instant ROI."

Cohen made $1 million last year turning tricks like this at the homes and corporate events of America's richest people. He's been flown in private jets all around the country, from Aspen to Cape Cod, playing at the homes of Forbes 400 members Martha Stewart (where he made three spools of thread pop out of a loaf of bread), New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Reebok founder Paul Fireman (where he miraculously pulled some freshly torn-up $20 bills--intact--from the toe of a sneaker). His fee: $10,000 to $25,000.

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Jeff Morgan's global approach to preservation could bring tourism, stability to postwar Iraq

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Preservationist Jeff Morgan '84 has a vision for Iraq. The country may be war-torn, but with such ancient cities as Ur, Babylon and Nineveh within its borders, he says, postwar Iraq could launch a tourism trade to rival Peru's Inca fortress of Machu Picchu -- protecting the country's archaeological treasures and providing economic stability for its people in the process.

CSV will feature Jeff on February 8th
Saving our Global Heritage; Entrepreneurship in International Conservation featuring Jeff Morgan '84, Executive Director, Global Heritage Fund. Details are at CEN

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Cornell's Solar Decathlon house

Cornell's Solar Decathlon house -- a full-scale home that uses only the sun's energy -- has arrived in Washington, D.C., in time for the Department of Energy's solar house contest on the National Mall, Oct. 7 to 14.

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Cornell vehicle will try to drive 175 miles of rough terrain without human control for a prize of $2 million

ITHACA, N.Y. -- A challenge: Build a car that can drive itself. The DARPA Challenge: Build a car that can drive itself across 175 miles of desert with unpaved roads, ditches, berms, sandy ground, standing water, rocks and boulders, narrow underpasses, construction equipment, concrete safety rails, power line towers, barbed wire fences, cattle guards and maybe even tank traps. Cornell DARPA Challenge team "Titan," Cornell's entry in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, seen during testing in the desert southwest. The modified military all-terriain vehicle is driven by an on-board artificial intelligence that "sees" through an array of hood-mounted sensors. Impossible? Probably. In last year's competition, the most successful car only went 7.5 miles before breaking down. But a team of Cornell engineering students is in California trying, as contestants in the 2005 DARPA Challenge. They suspect they won't succeed, but they don't think anyone else will either.

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Department of Computer Science to celebrate 40 years with alumni symposium

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Back in 1965, when computers still occupied entire rooms and programming was done on punched cards, Professors Richard Conway and Robert Walker proposed the creation of a Department of Computer Science. More importantly, they managed to scare up a $1 million grant from the Sloan Foundation to start up the new enterprise, which became a department shared by the Colleges of Engineering and Arts and Sciences. Juris Hartmanis was the first chair. Today, with a faculty of over 50 -- still including Hartmanis -- offering more than 100 courses to CS majors and students from all over the university, the department is consistently ranked among the top five in the nation by the National Research Council. It has awarded 360 Ph.D.s, 1,400 master's and 2,400 bachelor's degrees. Students have gone forth to become professors -- in a couple of cases deans -- and corporate researchers.

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Seven Technologies That Change Everything

'http://www.glendor.com/'>Glenbrook Networks is featured; Julia Komissarchik MS CS '96 VP of Products at Glenbrook Networks

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CU computer scientist (Jon Kleinberg '93) wins $500K MacArthur fellowship

A Cornell University computer science professor has been awarded a five-year, $500,000 fellowship with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the organization has announced. Professor Jon Kleinberg ('93), 33, was recognized for research in computer science that has tackled a wide variety of practical problems.

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Death of Lew Platt '63

Lew Platt '63 was an integral part of the CSV community. A cheery, charismatic, and tireless supporter of Cornell, many will remember his role as a CSV Advisor. He gave the keynote address at "Cornell and the Business of Life Sciences" in April of '02, and served on the panel of "50 Silicon Valley History Lessons" in January of '04. Boeing has issued the following release; Boeing statement on the passing of Boeing Lead Director Lew Platt

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Synthesizer Innovator Robert A. Moog Phd Physics '65 Dies

As a Ph.D. student in engineering physics at Cornell University, Moog developed his first voltage-controlled synthesizer modules with composer Herb Deutsch. By the end of the year, R.A. Moog Co. marketed the first commercial modular synthesizer.

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Alumni Search Start-up featured in the San Jose Mercury News

Julia Komissarchik MS CS '96 VP of Products at Glenbrook Networks has developed a new way to extract previously inaccessible information. Try it out at Glendor Jobs Showcase

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Robert I. Toll '63, chairman and chief executive officer of Toll Brothers Inc., has been named Cornell's 2005 Entrepreneur of the Year

and will be honored on campus Wednesday, Nov. 2

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Cornell researcher uncovers details of how cancer spreads

When cancer spreads, people often die. That's why a lot of cancer research and drugs focus on the metabolic pathways that allow cancer to metastasize -- to spread from one part of the body to another. Cornell University researchers have now furthered understanding of how these pathways work. Their insights might aid future research on drug therapies that disrupt the sequence of events that lead to metastasis.

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Cornell president joins Indian prime minister to open new chapter in science education

Cornell University President Hunter R. Rawlings III signed a three-year agreement with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on July 20 in Washington, D.C., that will bring visiting faculty and disseminate their lectures via EduSat. "This is a tremendous opportunity for Cornell University faculty to gain wide exposure in India's higher education system, and for Cornell to enhance its ties with India at the highest level," Rawlings said.

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Job opening? Work-at-home moms fill bill

Bill Trenchard '97 CEO of LiveOps is quoted in the article

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Sustainable technology is theme of July conference

Leaders from NASA and from Boeing, Alcoa, SC Johnson and other high-profile companies are among those taking part in a unique conference at Cornell University with the theme "Sustainable Technology Development and New Market Creation." Also attending are prominent international business school faculty and members of the public and nonprofit sectors interested in business growth through sustainable development.

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Research on the brain was always in the back of his head

Feature article on Palm inventor Jeff Hakwins '79

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Cornell has first "green-certified" buildings in Central New York

The Alice H. Cook House and Becker North, two new residence halls on the university's West Campus, have been granted green-building certification under the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED ) program.

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CU Start-up profiled in Business Week

Brad Treat MBA '02 CEO of Sightspeed is featured in Business Week.

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Cornell poised to become global leader in sustainable development as environmental programs gain wide support on campus

Cornell University is forging ahead with its environmental programs in sustainable development. Indeed, projects from recycling to energy saving are recognized as critical issues by the university's leadership and the campus is on the brink of emerging as a global leader in sustainability.

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AgraQuest Receives $ 14.35 Million Financing

Proceeds for Business Expansion and Launch of New Biopesticide Products (CEO is Pam Marrone '78)

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New institute will apply artificial intelligence to decision making

Suppose the computer from the starship Enterprise or the HAL 9000 from "2001, A Space Odyssey" had been scanning intelligence data four years ago. Perhaps it would have made the connection humans missed between terrorists and flight schools. Or suppose such a computer were designing airline flight schedules: You might get home for Christmas a little faster. These are just some of the possibilities of "artificial intelligence," or AI, which is not really about making computers that talk back but rather about using computers for the things they are good at: dealing with massive amounts of data or problems with a vast number of choices.

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Priceline's Jay Walker '77 tells NYC alums 'age of mind' is here

The man who founded the popular travel Web site Priceline.com, Jay S. Walker, ILR '77, told a standing-room-only New York City audience on April 27 that the "age of the muscle is ending" and is "being replaced by the age of the mind."

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Steve Johnson moves to D.C. to lobby for Cornell in capital

Johnson has been working at the university since 1972 and advocating for Cornell to state or federal legislators since 1984. Now Johnson is switching his base of operations to Washington, D.C., and he and his wife Lorraine are shifting their primary residence from Ithaca to the nation's capital. Instead of traveling to Washington once or twice a month, Johnson will now commute to Ithaca every couple of weeks.

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Scientists at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., have created small robots that can build copies of themselves

Self-replicating robots are no longer the stuff of science fiction.

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Michael Masnick ILR '97, MBA '98 CEO, and Grier Graham '98 MBA, VP Sales and Marketing Techdirt Corporate Intelligence are featured in the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Presidential scholars showcase research at April 15 poster session

This year, about 65 students are graduating from the CPRS program, which targets academically gifted students who want to pursue undergraduate research. Each scholar works with a faculty mentor to develop an individualized research plan, which can be in any discipline, and receives financial support for research and loans of up to $24,000 over four years. This year's graduating members of the CPRS program discussed their research at a poster session as one of the Cornell Days events April 15. The session was both a chance to showcase their undergraduate research efforts and to persuade prospective students who may tread similar paths in the future.

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Eva Sage-Gavin '80 named One of Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Human Resources

Human Resource Executive magazine has named Gap Inc. EVP of Human Resources Eva Sage-Gavin as one of the top 25 most powerful women in human resources. Honorees were chosen from public- and private-sector organizations representing a wide array of services and industries, including IT, banking, retail, finance and manufacturing. In making its selections, the magazine's editorial board reviewed submissions from the nominees' staff, colleagues and peers, as well as input from HR anaylsts, academicians and experts."

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Summit pulls together what Cornell should pursue in quest to be more sustainable

How can the Cornell campus do more when it comes to energy efficiency, recycling, reducing pollution, preserving green areas and other efforts that promote sustainability? Themes that emerged from the first-ever Campus Sustainability Summit April 14 in Anabel Taylor Hall included: brief incoming students on the ways they can help to be more energy efficient and reduce the waste stream; hire staff to promote and coordinate sustainability efforts on campus; encourage making any new building on campus meet "green" standards; collaborate with the larger community to make a greater effort to support local vendors; and develop a set of indicators to monitor the success of sustainability efforts.

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PeopleSoft founder looks out for his own

Former PeopleSoft employees displaced by the Oracle merger will soon be eligible for financial assistance through The Safety Net Fund, which is expected to formally launch as early as Friday.

The fund, endowed by PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield '63, MBA '64, who's widely known throughout Silicon Valley for his parental oversight of the people who made up his workforce, will begin taking applications in the next two weeks.

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Cornell economist co-authors textbook detailing the economics of aging

As the demographic tsunami known as the baby-boom generation approaches age 65, long-delayed and painful changes in Social Security and Medicare policies must be made to ensure the long-term financial stability of these vital social programs. But which changes and who will pay are unresolved and politically charged questions. A new textbook, "The Economics of an Aging Society" (Blackwell Publishing, 2004), co-authored by Richard V. Burkhauser, the Sarah Gibson Blanding Professor of Policy Analysis in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University, goes beyond the political rhetoric of change by providing a detailed presentation of the demographic forces that make changes inevitable and a method for evaluating how the changes will impact the employment and economic well-being of current and future older populations.

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Extreme Makeover

Cornell deserves the proverbial pat on the back for its giant 16.2 percent increase in applications for the class of 2009. 24,114 high school seniors have spoken, and their message is clear: Cornell is doing something right. Each college across...

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MBA Portfolio Surprises Pros

The Johnson School of Management is raising eyebrows in investment circles nationwide after its student-managed Cayuga MBA fund posted nearly 20 percent growth for the second consecutive year, vastly outperforming comparable professionally managed...

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Sustainable business may save the world, says Stuart Hart in new book

Stuart Hart is aiming high with his game plan for corporations seeking to grow and thrive. The plan also may help reduce world poverty, reverse environmental degradation and even counteract terrorism along the way. Hart, the S.C. Johnson Professor of Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, makes a convincing case for how to do well while doing good in his new book, Capitalism at the Crossroads: The Unlimited Business Opportunities in Solving the World's Most Difficult Problems, published this month by Wharton School Publishing.

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Students take solar approach to sustainable technology

Some of the 65 undergraduate and graduate engineering students in Cornell's Solar Decathlon team put their designs on display Jan. 28 at the Women's Community Building in downtown Ithaca for Ithaca's first Sustainable Technology Showcase.

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There is a 100 percent chance of sand all along the beaches of

If you are looking for a White Christmas in the northeastern United States -- or trying to avoid one -- the top spots are the usual suspects: Pinkham Notch, N.H., (with nearly 100 percent chance of snow), Caribou, Maine, and, in New York state, Boonville and Old Forge, according to Keith Eggleston, senior climatologist with Cornell University's Northeast Regional Climate Center A lower probability of snow -- although still at a high 71 percent -- is forecast for Syracuse, N.Y., and Portland, Maine.

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"Science" magazine has chosen the discoveries of NASA's Mars

The principal scientific investigator for the mission's twin-rover science program is Steve Squyres, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, assisted by a large team of researchers, 28 of them at Cornell, including 15 students. The mission is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The journal, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, says that its annual top honor is awarded for the mission's discovery of evidence for the prolonged presence of potentially life-supporting, salty, acidic water on the planet's surface.

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Free, in-depth previews of key Supreme Court cases now offered by Cornell Law School Web site

One of the most-accessed legal Web sites in the world just got better. The Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell University Law School is now offering free details on high-profile cases before they are argued and ruled on by the Supreme Court, including one on medical marijuana (Ashcroft v. Raich ), another on restrictions on interstate alcohol sales (Granholm v. Heald ) and a third on the constitutionality of executing young people who were under 18 when they committed a capital crime (Roper v. Simmons ).

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Michael Masnick ILR '97, MBA '98 CEO, Techdirt Corporate Intelligence Makes the WSJ

Michael Masnick ILR '97, MBA '98 CEO, Techdirt Corporate Intelligence and Grier Graham '98 MBA, VP Sales and Marketing make the WSJ

For more than a year, car-maker Volkswagen AG has used a service by Techdirt, Foster City, Calif., to find out which new technologies are generating the most buzz online, with the aim of integrating some of them in new automobiles.

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CU listed as No. 6 'most connected'

The Princeton Review solicited data from 357 top colleges and universities around the country, asking them 20 questions, including such things as the ratio of computers to students, whether a campuswide network is in place, whether the school has a wireless network, whether students can register for classes online and whether the school streams video or audio of courses online, whether the school had a computer ethics policy and if it offered classes in such topics as computer security, robotics or video gaming.

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New university logo establishes CU's graphic identity, link to history

The new logo design, approved by Lehman, involves a refinement of Cornell's traditional university emblem, developed in 1910 and refined in 1930. The work on this design track was developed by Ivan Chermayeff, a major figure in the world of contemporary graphic design, and refined by Cornell's logo design team. The new logo contains two parts: the insignia, which is a modern and efficient version of the emblem, and the "Cornell University" logotype

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Wizard of the Wireless Future: Jeff Hawkins '79

Palm pioneer Jeff Hawkins '79 explains why one mobile device will soon do it all, how robots will evolve, and more...

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President Lehman discusses the 'Call' and the generous response

Almost a year ago, during his inauguration ceremonies, Cornell President Jeffrey Lehman issued a Call to Engagement. During the past year, the Cornell community -- on campus and beyond -- has responded to his call "generously," he has said, and with a great volume of comments and correspondences. Now the president is inviting Cornellians to read the report he prepared on the process. It can be found on the Web

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CU computer experts hope to make large systems both reliable and secure

More and more, our society depends on systems of many computers linked together. From banking and medical information systems to the nationwide power grid to the seeming simplicity of a Google search, thousands or even hundreds of thousands of computers, often in widely separated locations, may be involved. Now, with a $1.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a team of Cornell computer scientists with extensive credentials in the field hope to find ways to make such systems both reliable and secure. The funding is part of NSF's $32.2 million "Cyber Trust" initiative.

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World Hunger Discussed on Campus

Three distinguished experts in food, agriculture and nutrition discussed world hunger and nutrition topics in the first of three seminars designed to commemorate the centennial birthday of the College of Agriculture and Life Science. Full Article

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Andy Kessler's '80 ENGR Newest Book Reviewed by Forbes

"Running Money reads like a Harlan Coben page-turner and shares his wise-guy humor. You can read Kessler's book in one transcontinental flight. But keep it close by. You'll want to return to it often to absorb the lessons of how industrial revolutions play out--whether 19th century or 21st--and who really makes the money."

Andy is a frequent CSV presenter. He will be featured with CSV on February 1st, 2005. Find out more at www.andykessler.com

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Lehman discusses research and academic collaborations in India

Capping his first trip to India this past weekend, Cornell President Jeffrey Lehman discussed opportunities to expand academic and research ties with India as a milestone in achieving his vision for Cornell as the leading transnational university

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Institute, at CU, looks at the tangled digital Web

Does a university have the right to restrict what students put on their Web pages? Should it? Can it change the way students think about downloading music? Should it? Is spam just a nuisance, or is it free speech? What is Congress going to throw at us next?

These are just a few of the questions university administrators have to answer in the digital age -- which is why 51 college and university information officers, lawyers, techies and policymakers gathered at Cornell July 6-9 for the ninth annual Institute for Computer Policy and Law, a short course offered by the Cornell School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions and co-sponsored by EDUCAUSE, a national organization devoted to encouraging the use of information technology and other new technologies in education.

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Steven Belkin of Trans National Group is CU Entrepreneur of the Year

Cornell alumnus Steven B. Belkin, chairman and founder of Trans National Group (TNG), a Boston-based privately held corporation, and the principal owner of the professional sports teams the Atlanta Hawks and the Atlanta Thrashers, will be honored on campus, Oct. 14-15, as Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year 2004.

The award, managed by Cornell's Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise (EPE) Program, is given annually to a Cornell graduate who best exemplifies entrepreneurial achievement, community service and high ethical standards.

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CU Johnson School's Camp $tart-Up program prepares high school girls for business careers

Last week 28 young women, ages 12 to 18, came to campus to take part in this summer's Cornell Camp $tart-Up. They got to take classes in Sage Hall geared to high school-age girls on such business-related subjects as finance and accounting, operations and quality control, and sales and service; live in a residential house, Akwe:kon; and in their spare time, hang out where Cornell students on North Campus do, at the Robert Purcell Community Center

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Funding to CU CATs targets tech transfer, life & material sciences

Ten-year funding commitments from the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR) to programs at Cornell, as announced June 30 by Gov. George E. Pataki, will help the university's basic-research and technology-transfer efforts in the life and material sciences to emphasize regional economic development, as well as business and job creation.

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An Idea That's Finally Catching On; Article on RFID inventor Charles Walton '43

Not everyone liked the RFID idea at first. Inventor Charles Walton showed the technology to the board of directors of General Motors, which rejected it as too "Buck Rogers." He went a year without a salary as he shopped his invention around. Then he got lucky, licensing RFID to lock maker Schlage to make electronic locks that can open by waving a key card in front of a reader.

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Carl Bass '78 named COO of Autodesk

Autodesk Inc. named Carl Bass chief operating officer, overseeing the company's sales, marketing and product development. The San Rafael, Calif., maker of design software said Mr. Bass, 47 years old, was formerly senior executive vice president of the design-solutions group. He joined Autodesk in 1993, through the acquisition of Ithaca Software, the firm he co-founded.

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Longing for real-time chat?

Brad Treat MBA '02 and Aron Rosenberg '02 ENGR are profiled in the San Jose Mercury News with their company SightSpeed which was funded by Roger Strauch '78 ENGR and Dan Miller's '78 ENGR RODA Group and The Johnson School's Big Red Venture Fund

Anyone with a Cornell email address will have free unlimited access for life atLink for alumni

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Clinton Speaks at Packed Convocation Ceremony

"Approximately 21,000 people -- current students, graduating seniors, their families and local residents -- filled Schoellkopf Field this morning to capacity to hear the first Convocation speech given by a U.S. president...."

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Nanotech IPO Analysis

Josh Wolfe '99 is quoted in the NYT Article. (may require free subscription to view link)

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Andy Kessler '80 posts to WSJ regarding Frank Quattrone

Andy is a frequent writer for the WSJ.

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Will Early Lung Cancer Detection Lead to Tobacco Cessation?

New Research to Address Pressing Question: Will Early Lung Cancer Detection Lead to Tobacco Cessation?

Weill Cornell Medical College to Receive $3.6 Million for CT Screening Research

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Jill Tarter '65 is one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people

Jill Tarter '65 is one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people in the April 26 issue. As director of research at the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute, she "makes it her business to pay attention to what's going on in the other 100 billion galaxies that fill the observable sky," TIME reports. Her biography is at

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Cornell students take top two prizes in Intel Student Research Contest

Cornell seniors in the College of Engineering took the top two prizes in the 2003-04 Intel Student Research Contest. Eugene Lee, majoring in computer science, received the first place award of $5,000, and Sara Parker, majoring in materials science, received the second prize of $3,000. The prizes were presented at an Intel facility in Portland, Ore., March 12.

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Ithaca, N.Y., is No. 1 'emerging' city

By Bob Minzesheimer, USA TODAY Charlottesville, Va., is the best place to live in the USA, according to Cities Ranked & Rated. Another college town, Ithaca, N.Y. ��� home to Cornell University ��� is the best "emerging" area.

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Jill Cornell Tarter '65 recieves 13.5M from MS Co-founder Paul Allen for new array

Two teams of Bay Area astronomers disclosed Thursday they were building the world's largest array of radio telescopes to seek signals from other civilizations in the galaxy and to search for signs of the birth pangs of the universe. Armed with a $13.5 million grant from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the astronomers expect their array of 32 new dish-shaped antennas to be operating by October at UC Berkeley's radio astronomy laboratory at Hat Creek in Shasta County.

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