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" Can Northern New York farmers grow cold-hardy grapes and make commercial quality wine? Results of Northern New York cold-hardy wine grape variety trial research funded by the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program and Cornell Cooperative Extension Northeastern NY Commercial Fruit Program say yes.

Cornell University will display its original copy of the Gettysburg Address -- one of five known copies in Lincoln's own handwriting -- from 1-5 p.m. Saturday.

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According to a recent Cornell University study, the average private university president remains in office for about 10 years.

A recent study confirms that the antioxidants and other plant-based nutrients in chocolate and cocoa products are highly associated with the amount of non-fat cocoa-derived ingredients in the product.

On this day 150 years ago, the John Murray Publishing Co. at 50 Albemarle St., London - well-known for distributing some of the England's greatest fiction with authors such as Byron, Austin and Goethe - published what is perhaps its most famous work of non-fiction. In fact, it could be argued that what emerged from its presses on that day was the ...

The bad news? It probably won't matter because most Americans will eat too much anyway.

From Jacob Crawford / Sen. Stavisky's office: Higher Education Committee Chairwoman Sen.

My response to Eugene Volokh is that sex between a 17-year-old boy and an adult is a great benefit to the 17-year-old boy, because it boosts his self esteem and confidence with women, and assures that he wona TMt become the most despised and ridiculed of all men: the virgin.

Researchers in the Cornell University College of Agriculture and life Sciences have received nearly $850,000 in state and federal grants this fall to fight diseases and pests afflicting New York specialty crops, according to the university.

DealerTrack, Inc., a subsidiary of DealerTrack Holdings, Inc. , a leading provider of on-demand software and data solutions for the U.S. automotive retail industry, today announced that Bridget Townsend has been named senior director and general manager of the DealerTrack Inventory Optimization suite of solutions, with responsibility for product ...

The new map, a special type of gene map known as a haplotype map, charts genetic diversity and recombination across the genome of 27 inbred lines of maize.

Ben Justus poses with his new friends at the Palm Tree orphanage in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where his 'mission' is to provide hope to its teens by preparing them to work in the hospitality industry.

Gang violence, graffiti art and a hip-hop backbeat underscore a contemporary feel to Cornell University's staging of the well-known tragedy about star-crossed lovers, 'Romeo and Juliet.' Its two-weekend run begins tonight and continues the weekend of Dec.

In a stark and surprising finding, about half the children in the United States will be on food stamps at some point during their childhood, a new study of 29 years of data shows.

In six hours of meetings, at two dinners and during a stilted 30-minute news conference in which President Hu Jintao did not allow questions, President Barack Obama was confronted, on his first visit, with a fast-rising China more willing to say no to the United States.

November 17, 2009-- Cornell University's Center for Advanced Computing , in partnership with Purdue University, has received a National Science Foundation award to deploy The MathWorks MATLAB on the TeraGrid as an experimental computing resource.

More than 2,000 hoteliers from across the United States and Canada gathered in Phoenix in late October for Best Western International's North American Convention to recap 2009 and preview 2010.

He has been called the "Father of the Symphony" and the "Father of the String Quartet." He was a close friend of Mozart and a teacher of Beethoven, and at the time of his death in 1809 he was one of the most celebrated composers in all of Europe.

The Ithaca Journal starts a two-day report today about emerging solar energy efforts in our region.