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    <title><![CDATA[Big Red's Green Bay Packer heads to Wisconsin May 9]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[JC Tretter '13 will play big-time football come this fall. He was drafted to play for the NFL's Green Bay Packers and reports to training in May.]]></description>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 02 May 2013 12:05:56 EDT]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Office professionals program celebrates past, present]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[More than 700 staff enjoyed lunch, reflections and student performances at the 25th anniversary of the Jennie T. Farley Office Professionals Celebration.]]></description>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 02 May 2013 12:05:27 EDT]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Lecturer says labor law divide is sign of broader conflict]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/05/lecturer-says-labor-law-divide-sign-broader-conflict]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Former National Labor Relations Board chair Wilma Liebman talked about the troubled state of U.S. labor law in her Milton Konvitz Memorial Lecture April 29.]]></description>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 01 May 2013 12:05:05 EDT]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Global Law Brigade offers help on Panama trip]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Over spring break, 26 Cornell students offered legal education to disenfranchised Panamanians through the student group Global Law Brigade.]]></description>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:04:46 EDT]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[N.Y. Giant Kevin Boothe advises JC Tretter on draft]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/04/ny-giant-kevin-boothe-advises-jc-tretter-draft]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[New York Giants left guard Kevin Boothe '05 gives advice to Big Red offensive lineman JC Tretter '13, who awaits the outcome of the NFL draft this weekend.]]></description>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:04:55 EDT]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Two juniors each win $30K Truman scholarships]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[For their academic excellence and the likelihood of 'making a difference,' Simon Boehme '14 and Samuel Ritholtz '14 have won the award, given to juniors planning a career in public service.]]></description>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:04:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Labor union leader targets Walmart worker abuse]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[In his keynote address at the ILR School's Union Days, United Food and Commercial Workers Union leader Pat O'Neill outlined his union's efforts to improve working conditions for Walmart workers.]]></description>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:04:48 EDT]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Students tackle social issues at Clinton conference]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/04/students-tackle-social-issues-clinton-conference]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Cornell students at the Clinton Global Initiative University learned how to translate their social justice ideas into meaningful, sustainable action.]]></description>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:04:09 EDT]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Things to Do, April 12-19]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Events on campus this week include sustainability expert/graduate student Annie Leonard with 'The Story of Stuff;' the annual Pao Bhangra show; films about bees and AIDS; the 22nd Cornell Jazz Festival and a climate readiness conference.]]></description>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:04:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Expert panel: Education needs major reform]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A panel of eight Cornell-affiliated education advocates stressed the importance of reform during a lively discussion on the future of education at the Cornell Club in Manhattan April 3.]]></description>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:04:07 EDT]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Social sciences project charts immigration shifts]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The Institute for the Social Sciences' theme project Immigration: Settlement, Integration and Membership was the topic of an April 3 capstone lecture.]]></description>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:04:15 EDT]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Alumna applauded for efforts against human trafficking]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/04/alumna-applauded-efforts-against-human-trafficking]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Jean Baderschneider, Ph.D. '78, then an ExxonMobil executive, found a new career while waiting to board a flight from Angola to London.]]></description>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:04:24 EDT]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Faculty stir up solutions at climate change forum]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[About 100 faculty members and graduate students from fields ranging from the physical and natural sciences to economics and the humanities gathered March 28 at the Interdisciplinary Climate Change Forum.]]></description>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:04:46 EDT]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Economist Daron Acemoglu to talk on theory of prosperity]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/03/economist-daron-acemoglu-talk-theory-prosperity]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Daron Acemoglu, co-author of the 2012 economic development book 'Why Nations Fail: Origins of Power, Poverty and Prosperity,' will deliver the George Staller Lecture March 28.]]></description>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:03:35 EDT]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Tech is great for corporate profits, dismal for job market]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/03/tech-great-corporate-profits-dismal-job-market]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Steven Berkenfeld '81, managing director of investment banking at Barclays, spoke on campus March 13 on how use of new technologies is hurting the job market.]]></description>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:03:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Women workers face tradeoffs, researchers find]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/03/women-workers-face-tradeoffs-researchers-find]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[ILR School shows that fewer U.S. women are entering the work force, and when European women take advantage of state services, they put their career advancement at risk.]]></description>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:03:35 EDT]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ron Ehrenberg honored by labor association]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/03/ron-ehrenberg-honored-labor-association]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[ILR School Professor Ronald G. Ehrenberg has been named a Labor and Employment Relations Association Fellow.]]></description>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:03:35 EDT]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Berkenfeld to lecture on technology's impact on work]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Steven Berkenfeld '81 will speak about technology's impact on the workplace March 13 at the ILR School.]]></description>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 08 Mar 2013 08:03:01 EST]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Sequester could have a $28 million impact on Cornell]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The $85 billion in automatic, across-the-board federal spending cuts that went into effect March 1 - the sequester - may eventually cost Cornell $28 million universitywide.]]></description>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:03:26 EST]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Report finds it pays to hire disabled workers]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[An ILR School report finds that expanding the workplace talent pool through hiring employees with disabilities makes good business sense.]]></description>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:03:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA['Six Pretty Good Books' will become a Cornell MOOC]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Four professors have received funding from Google to launch a Cornell MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). Six Pretty Good Books, one of the University Courses, will soon be offered online, for free.]]></description>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:02:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Appleton named vice provost; Seeber to step down]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Judy Appleton will assume many of the land-grant responsibilities of Senior Vice Provost Ron Seeber, who is stepping down after eight years of service.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Mellon Foundation grant advances CHERI research]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $640,000 research grant to the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Debate team shares skills with incarcerated youths]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Cornell Forensics Society members regularly meet with incarcerated youths in two Ithaca-area prisons to share debate and critical-thinking skills and help them talk through issues.]]></description>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:02:16 EST]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Cornell Asian Alumni Association honors Lisa Yang '75]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[More than 230 administrators, alumni and friends celebrated Lisa Yang, ILR ’74, at the Cornell Asian Alumni Association’s 22nd annual banquet Feb. 2 at Manhattan’s Golden Unicorn Restaurant.]]></description>
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