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Search by location or keyword for a listing of alumni events and group pages to find Cornell anywhere! [1]

Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) is considered the very best college of its kind in the nation, if not the world. [2]

Cornell ILR is your career-long learning partner. [3]

Enter a term to search our compendium of facts about Cornell. [4]

Ellie Gione pursued independent research at Chicago’s Newberry Library during a Cornell course and summer fellowship. [5]

The university is broadly organized into seven undergraduate colleges and seven graduate divisions at its main Ithaca campus, with each college and division defining its own admission standards and academic programs in near autonomy. [6]

Tulips in bloom on our Ithaca campus. [7]

The student body consists of over 13,000 undergraduate and 6,000 graduate students from all 50 states and 122 countries. [...] Two years later, Cornell admitted its first women students, making it the first coeducational school among what came to be known as the Ivy League. [6]

Cornell offers One Extraordinary Opportunity After Another: In the Classroom, On Campus, and Around the World. [5]

Make a gift and learn how your gift makes an impact. [1]

Alums and honorees of the Groat and Alpern Awards talk about the school’s annual gala honoring individuals for professional achievement and service. [3]

Cornell students are going to South Dakota, Florida and Georgia to spend their Spring Break in service to others. [5]

Great Horned Owl by Carlos Escamilla; Rusty Blackbird by Stuart Oikawa; Common Redpoll by Raymond Lee; Eastern Bluebird by Celia Durand. [8]

The crisis resulted in the resignation of President James A. Perkins and the restructuring of university governance. [6]

Sources:
[1] Cornell University - Alumni - Overview
[2] Cornell University > College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
[3] School of Industrial and Labor Relations
[4] Cornell University - Search Cornell
[5] Cornell College
[6] Cornell University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[7] Cornell University
[8] Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Possessing the kind of elegant screen beauty that often draws comparisons to a Breakfast at Tiffany’s -era Audrey Hepburn, actress Elizabeth Banks’ onscreen career has been steadily rising since the up-and-coming actress won the Young Hollywood Award for “Exciting New Face” back in 2003. [1]

Actress Elizabeth Banks was born Elizabeth Mitchell in Pittsfield, a small city in the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts near the New York border, on February 10, 1974. [2]

Possessing the kind of elegant screen beauty that often draws comparisons to a Breakfast at Tiffany’s -era Audrey Hepburn, actress Elizabeth Banks ‘ onscreen career has been steadily rising since the up-and-coming actress won the Young Hollywood Award for “Exciting New Face” back in 2003. [...] With roles in such notable Hollywood hits as the Spider-Man films and Seabiscuit, Banks has not only had the pleasure of sharing the screen with hot-property actor Tobey Maguire multiple times, but has also been nominated — alongside Maguire, Jeff Bridges, William H. Macy, and Gary Stevens — for an “Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture” award by the Screen Actors Guild for her performance in the latter. [...] In 1998, Banks made her feature debut in the controversial addiction drama Surrender Dorothy, with subsequent small-screen roles in Third Watch and Sex and the City only serving to contribute to her rapidly growing profile in film and television. [3]

Banks had her film debut in the low-budget independent film Surrender Dorothy. [...] Banks at the 2007 Spider-Man 3 premiere. [4]

Her first signal success came in her delightful, brief performance in Spider-Man (2002), for which she is best known despite subsequent leading roles, as “Betty Brant”, the secretary of the cantankerous newspaper tycoon. [...] She then moved to New York and worked in the theater as well as obtaining her first roles on-screen, small parts in movies and guest-star roles on television series. [5]

“It was very important to me that every line reading I gave could be interpreted two ways,” says Banks of her role, “So that when you go back through the movie you can see that”. [4]

The Pittsfield, MA, native got her first taste of fame when nominated Harvest Queen in her hometown’s annual fall celebration, and in the years that followed, Banks would receive her bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and go on to pursue her graduate degree at the American Conservatory Theater. [1]

Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell (born February 10, 1974), known professionally as Elizabeth Banks, is an American actress. [...] She debuted in the independent film Surrender Dorothy, as Elizabeth Casey, and quickly gained widespread exposure through the comedy film The 40-Year-Old Virgin. [...] Banks changed her name to avoid confusion with actress Elizabeth Mitchell. [4]

Undaunted, Banks forged on with roles in the cult comedy Wet Hot American Summer and the romantic drama Ordinary Sinner in 2001, with a supporting performance as Betty Brant in the 2002 box-office smash Spider-Man providing her most substantial onscreen performance to date. [1]

Sources:
[1] Elizabeth Banks: Information from Answers.com
[2] Elizabeth Banks - IMDb
[3] Elizabeth Banks Movies
[4] Elizabeth Banks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[5] Elizabeth Banks (II) - Biography

Fill in your ZIP code or city and find out weather for your neck of the woods. [1]

Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph decreasing to 5 to 10 mph late. [2]

Rain early…then remaining cloudy with thundershowers developing overnight. [3]

Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. [2]

ContributorNetwork - As one of the United States’ closest allies in the Far East, Japan hosts a number of United States military bases. [4]

Share your existing YouTube weather videos ??? or upload a new one ??? using your YouTube signon. [1]

We have improved the coverage of weather locations. [4]

Whether it’s a storm or a rainbow, we’d love to see it. [1]

So, when a massive earthquake and resulting tsunami struck the Japanese island of Honshu, it was no surprise that the U.S. responded. [...] Over 40,000 military dependents call Japan home. [4]

It was only when we looked up that we saw that it was the waterspout touching the water. [5]

Accurate down to one-square mile area. [6]

We were on vacation to Jamaica in 2007 and noticed something on the horizon that looked like some strange boat. [5]

There are times when Computer or Internet Services may have moderate to severe time lag problems. [7]

Scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms towards morning. [2]

Sources:
[1] Orlando Weather: Local Orlando weather forecast and news …
[2] Orlando, Florida (32801) Conditions & Forecast : Weather …
[3] Orlando JustWeather.com | Orlando Weather | Home
[4] Orlando - Florida Weather Forecasts | Maps | News - Yahoo! …
[5] Today’s Weather in Orlando - weather.co.uk
[6] 10 Day Weather Forecast for Orlando, FL - weather.com
[7] Marcus’ Window View Weather Station

Brandon Belt has made the Giants’ Opening Day roster and will start at first base. [1]

San Francisco Giants rookie Brandon Belt, a top prospect in the organization, was informed today that he will begin the season as the team’s starting first baseman. [2]

There has been a lot of talk lately around here about Giants first base prospect Brandon Belt. [3]

SAN FRANCISCO — Steve Decker, who manages the Giants’ Triple-A Fresno affiliate, had one offseason wish for Brandon Belt. [4]

Brandon Kyle Belt (born April 20, 1988 in Nacogdoches, Texas) is an American professional baseball first basemen and outfielder for the San Francisco Giants. [5]

Ranked 26th on MLB.com’s Top 50 Prospects, Belt will arrive at his first Major League Spring Training camp with a decent shot at claiming a spot in the Opening Day lineup. [4]

Went 7-for-12 with three runs, nine RBI and three doubles in two-game series sweep of Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (3/4-5). [6]

* Find complete statistics, and much more, for any player who appears in a game. [...] * View the statistic leaders for every league, both individual and team. [7]

Batted.250 in Big 12 action with 14 runs, 24, hits, four doubles, three home runs and 18 RBI in 27 games. [6]

Pricing Baseball Cards Baseball Card Grading at Wholesale prices. [8]

Belt makes Giants’ 25-man roster: The Giants announced Wednesday that prospect Brandon Belt has made the opening-day roster. [9]

He was moved to first with Texas out of need more than anything. [...] Scouts say his swing doesn’t fully translate his strength into power, and indeed he never dominated college pitching, though his performance was pretty solid overall. [3]

Born Brandon Kyle Belt on April 20, 1988 in Nacogdoches, Texas… parents are Darrell and Janice Belt… has one younger brother, Cameron…majoring in education. [6]

Sources:
[1] Brandon Belt - San Francisco Giants - 2011 Player Profile …
[2] Brandon Belt Rumors, Gossip & News | Yardbarker.com
[3] Brandon Belt - Minor League Ball
[4] Giants’ Brandon Belt ranked No. 26 in MLB.com’s Top 50 …
[5] Brandon Belt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[6] Player Bio: Brandon Belt - TexasSports.com - Official website …
[7] BaseballAmerica.com: Stats: Brandon Belt
[8] Brandon Belt - The Baseball Cube
[9] Brandon Belt Fantasy Baseball at CBSSports.com

Pam Grier at L6 convention, in 2009. [1]

Actress Pam Grier grew up on U.S. Air Force bases in Europe and near Denver, Colorado. [2]

The reigning queen of the 1970s blaxploitation genre, Pam Grier was born May 26, 1949, in Winston-Salem, NC. [3]

She became famous in the early 1970s, after starring in a string of moderately successful women in prison and blaxploitation film s such as 1974’s Foxy Brown. [1]

… with Corman’s aid, she made her film debut in the 1970 Russ Meyer cult classic Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, followed by an appearance in Jack Hill ’s 1971 cheapie The Big Doll House. [3]

Beautiful and leggy, Grier played a tough and foxy chick in a string of action movies in the 1970s — dubbed “blaxpoitation” films — most notably Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974). [2]

She is one of a few African-American actresses to receive a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. [4]

After small but regular roles in TV’s Miami Vice and Crime Story in the late 1980s, Grier’s film career heated up again. [2]

Interestingly, Womack’s composition and 1972 recording of the song “Across 110th Street” was the theme song of the film Jackie Brown (1997), which marked a major comeback for Grier in the starring and title role. [5]

Her career was revitalized in 1997 after her appearance in Quentin Tarantino ’s film Jackie Brown. [1]

After relocating to Los Angeles, Grier struggled to mount an acting career, and worked as a switchboard operator at the studios of Roger Corman ’s American International Pictures. [...] Playing a nurse seeking vengeance against the drug dealers responsible for her sister’s descent into heroin addiction, Grier immediately rose to the forefront of the so-called “blaxploitation” genre, a group of action-adventure films aimed squarely at African-American audiences. [3]

She didn’t land either role, until Jackie Brown (1997) came along. [5]

“I never thought of television, of fans, movie stars, signing autographs. [2]

Pam was one of four children born to Air Force mechanic Clarence Grier and Gwendolyn Samuels, a nurse. [6]

Sources:
[1] Pam Grier
[2] Pam Grier: Biography from Answers.com
[3] Pam Grier Movies
[4] Pam Grier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[5] Pam Grier - Biography
[6] Pam Grier - IMDb