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Katie Brown
Katie Brown '85 never dreamed as a Cornell undergraduate that she would someday appear as a speaker in one of her old classrooms. But despite a driving rain, Brown packed Kaufmann Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall Nov. 19 to share choice bits of career wisdom with current students. Fresh from the success of her PBS television show, multiple book deals, a weekly New York Times column and regular appearances on Oprah and Good Morning America, she traced her journey from corporate hopeful to her unlikely success as the "Doyenne of Domesticity for Generation X."
Voting Study: Race, class and gender shape religion's effect on American voters
How Americans vote is linked to their religious identities, but it is not an independent influence that transcends race, socioeconomic class and gender.

robot CU search-and-rescue robots to compete internationally
In early November, Cornell was named one of 10 semifinalists in the first Multi-Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge.

Brittany Jaso Using high-tech headbands, Psych 101 students sleep for science
More than 300 students in Psychology 101 are taking part in the largest-ever objective study of the sleep patterns of individual college students.

dual rings Scientists find that small optical force can budge nanoscale objects
Engineering researchers have used a very tiny beam of light with as little as 1 milliwatt of power to move a silicon structure up to 12 nanometers.
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