JOB SEARCH: University of Chicago students looking for their first job have two new Web-based resources to aid in their hunt. A new partnership between the school’s Career and Placement Services (CAPS) and a private corporation, JOBTRAK, has revamped the job listing, recruitment and interview process. JOBTRAK’s Web site attracts employers who specifically want to target students or alumni from specific disciplines or institutions. A separate service, InterviewTRAK, is an online tool for major corporations who recruit through on campus interviews. The interactive site allows students to submit cover letters and resumes for the coveted on-campus recruiting derby. The average number of monthly job listings at CAPS has doubled from 1,000 per month in 1997 to 2,000 per month in 1998. A significant portion of the new listings are from non-profit, governmental and educational employers.

TECHNICAL ACCESS: A team of students and faculty at the University of Arizona have won a three-year grant to encourage students with disabilities to pursue engineering, science and math majors. The group, tentatively known as Program ACCESS (Accessing Career Choices in Engineering and ScienceS), won the $450,000 National Science Foundation grant after a wheelchair-bound civil engineering student noticed a dearth of disabled students in his major.

URBAN RENEWAL: Fifty-seven homes around the The University of Pennsylvania’s inner-city campus have been sold this year to faculty and staff thanks to the University’s Enhanced Mortgage Program. The program offers interest-free nonmortgage loans to those affiliated with Penn who purchase property in a designated area of University City.

ONLINE TELESCOPE: Case Western Reserve University is beta testing the nation’s first online interactive telescope. The 0.9 meter telescope, which can be accessed from a Web site and trained on any part of the observable sky, is located at the university’s Nassau Astronomical Station 30 miles east of Cleveland. Once the telescope has gathered the requested information it will send a message to the user containing a link to a Web-accessible file of the sky image. The Web site is http://astrwww.astr.cwru.edu/Nassau/dummyinterface.html. ¶