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Researchers from Cornell, USC, Harvard and the University of Washington plan to deploy bottom-pressure recorders (BPR's) and seismic instrument arrays for real-time monitoring of tsunami development and study sea-floor deformation that occurs during earthquakes that turn into tsunamis.

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Research and trends in volunteering will be the subject of the National Forum on Life Cycles and Volunteering: The Impact of Work, Family, and Mid-Life Issues, held April 30 and May 1, 1998 at Cornell University.

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A new study by a Cornell University labor economist found that women have made "substantial progress" in gender equality over the past 25 years, increasing their presence in the labor market and narrowing the wage gap with men, but provides dramatic evidence that the economic status of less-educated women is deteriorating.

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"Alcohol and Drugs on American College Campuses: Issues of Violence and Harassment," a report published by the Core Institute at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC), is being mailed this week to college presidents nationwide. The report is based on surveys from 89,874 students at 171 institutions and describes issues of collegiate violence, harassment and campus climate.

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1998 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism awarded to Ben Brantley, The New York Times; Elinor Fuchs, author of The Death of Character (Indiana University Press); and Todd London, artistic director of New Dramatists and columnist for American Theater magazine.

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Cornell University's Food Industry Management Distance Education Program now offers all assignments and exams electronically via e-mail. It offers 40 course offerings in supermarket, food distribution and convenient store issues.

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For beef producers looking for new ways to economically and efficiently feed their cattle, Cornell University animal researchers have shown the effectiveness of an unusual diet: Let them eat bread -- and other commercial bakery leftovers and scraps.

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The first half of this year was the warmest Jan. 1 to June 30 period for the Northeast since records were first kept in 1895, according to climatologist Keith Eggleston at the Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC) at Cornell University.

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Cornell Theory Center announced today that the Power Systems Engineering Research Center , a consortium of universities led by Cornell University, has received $10 million for research on minimizing failures in complex networked systems, such as electrical, communications and distribution systems.

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Staring and squirming by infants might not be as random or meaningless as they seem, says a Cornell University developmental psychologist. Rather, the link between the two could prevent infants from getting visually stuck, and allow them to "visually forage" the environment.