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'CornellCast' offers Big Red audio and video on the Web

Cornell's Office of Web Communications has created a central clearinghouse for Cornell multimedia, with video and audio presentations of major campus news and events.

Two Cornell classes collaborate to create engaging play spaces for adolescents

Teams of students in two College of Human Ecology courses worked together to design functional and appealing activity areas for Boys and Girls Clubs of America.

ILR's Employment and Disability Institute receives $5.5 million U.S. award to study life improvement for disabled

The U.S. Department of Education grant will enable the Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center-Northeast ADA Center to research how to improve employment and community living for the disabled.

'Daily Show' writer Jason Reich '98 admits his tastes run 'to the more absurd'

Emmy Award-winning writer Jason Reich '98 visited Alice Cook House Dec. 1 to talk about his experience working at 'The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.'

'Stripes' and superconductivity -- Two faces of the same coin?

Researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Cornell have made a surprising discovery about high-temperature cuprate superconductors, finding that a non-superconducting cuprate has the same electron energy structure.

Co-op jobs let engineering students take the real world for a test drive before graduation

Cornell's Engineering Cooperative Education Program gives students an opportunity to work a semester and a summer for pay with an engineering employer to get a taste of the real world.

Pew Charitable Trusts awards Cornell $2 million for student and campuswide research

Pew Charitable Trusts has awarded Cornell $2 million over four years to support a research scholarship program for undergraduates and universitywide interdisciplinary research and educational initiatives.

Why teens do stupid things: They think more than adults do about risks and benefits, but then opt for the benefits

Research Notebook: Teens take a lot of risks, but not because they think they're invulnerable or haven't thought about the consequences. They just decide the benefits says Cornell's Valerie Reyna in a new study.

Rustproofing and better design ready sundial for return to the Engineering Quad

The Joseph N. Pew Sundial, designed by Cornell President Emeritus Dale Corson and Professor Emeritus Richard Phelan, has spent the last few months in the basement of Clark Hall undergoing repairs.

Susceptible mouse leads CU geneticists to link between a gene mutation in DNA's copying process and breast cancer

By discovering a mutant mouse that is highly susceptible to mammary tumors, Cornell researchers have found a novel potential link between genetic defects in DNA replication (copying) and breast cancer.

Three inspiring teachers win Weiss Presidential Fellowships

Glenn Altschuler, Theodore Lowi and Edward McLaughlin have been chosen as the 2006 Weiss Presidential Fellows for their effective, inspiring and distinguished teaching of undergraduate students.

Women in science credit flexibility as key to career success

Balancing family with a career in science requires a large degree of flexibility, claimed women scientists at the Women In Science at Cornell annual dinner, Nov. 27.