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Cornell students' award-winning business plan will help Virginia farmers replace tobacco with a healthier product : grapes

Cornell graduate students Andrew Harwood and Michael Lukianoff hope to create a wine growers' cooperative and winery in Virginia that will help farmers in depressed rural communities there replace their tobacco crops with biodynamically grown grapes.

Cornell offers fiduciary income tax workshop in East Syracuse, Batavia and Binghamton in August

An inservice tax workshop to review fiduciary income tax reporting and management will be held in East Syracuse, Batavia and Binghamton in mid-August.

Cornell area studies to receive $3.5 million from Dept. of Education

Cornell's four national resource centers in Asian and Latin American studies received substantial three-year grants from the U.S. Department of Education totaling nearly $3.5 million.

Moving Theory Into Practice' is a user-friendly guide to digitizing cultural resources

Going digital is easier said than done. Especially for librarians, archivists and museum staff in charge of converting large, complex collections into digitized images that can be accessed online around the globe.

'Treasure map' of inner space shows orbits and sizes of 900 large asteroids, some of which could threaten Earth

A new study portrays the paths of asteroids in the inner solar system as a vast Los Angeles-style traffic system crisscrossed with superhighways along which are hurtling huge, rocky projectiles.

Bigger and upgraded houses, not cost of protecting the environment, are responsible for driving up new-home prices, Cornell study finds

Contrary to popular belief, buyers of new homes should know that the costs of supporting environmental protection don't boost the prices of new houses, a Cornell University housing expert concludes.

New Department of Horticulture at Cornell is grafted from progeny to produce original shoot

It's back to the future. Two departments of Cornell's New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences -- Floriculture and Ornamental Horticulture, and Fruit and Vegetable Science -- will merge July 1 to become the Department of Horticulture.

Phytochemicals in apples are found to provide anticancer and anti-oxidant benefits, Cornell researchers show

Time to adjust an old adage: It's the phytochemicals in the apple each day that keep the doctor away.

The Cornell Tradition receives a Daily Point of Light Award

The Cornell Tradition was named the "Daily Point of Light" for May 29, by action of the Corporation for National Service, the Points of Light Foundation and the Knights of Columbus, which sponsor the awards.

Cornell Board of Trustees Executive Committee meets in New York City June 22

The Cornell University Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City Thursday, June 22. The meeting will be held in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York, E. 44th St.

Malignant cell growth caused by hyperactive traffic manager called Cdc42, Cornell cancer researchers discover

Cancer researchers at Cornell University have learned how some proteins receive the marching orders that dispatch them to initiate signaling pathways and produce malignant cell transformation.

Three Cornell Park fellows open the doors to college for urban teens

A new program developed by three Cornell University students promises to help more of Ithaca's urban teens get into college. The 16 Leadership Service Projects developed by Park Fellows at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.