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Tuesday, June 11, 2013  As recently as two years ago, you may have missed the General Ellis Cemetery, one of the oldest in Onondaga County. But when Onondaga Community College decided to move into the old county hospital across the street and turn it into an academic building, new eyes fell upon the forgotten cemetery.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013  On their first day searching for storms in the nation's heartland, a group of 16 Junior and Senior meteorology students from SUNY Oswego hit a storm chaser's jackpot.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013  A federal jury has awarded $600,000 in back pay to a former college professor in central New York after ruling university officials retaliated against him for complaining about discrimination.

Thursday, May 23, 2013  The conditions were right for a tornado in southern Oswego County on Wednesday, according to a meteorologist who has seen supercells form firsthand in the nation's heartland.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013  Columbia University says it's reviewing a science class in which a professor stripped to his underwear and showed 9/11 video footage during a lecture on quantum mechanics.

Tuesday, February 05, 2013  With 11 Democrats voting for the City University of New York professor, three Republican senators on the committee voted to forward her nomination without recommendation.

Monday, January 14, 2013  The Columbia University professor who wrote "A Beautiful Mind" has filed suit against the school over almost $1 million that she says she's owed

Tuesday, December 18, 2012  A central New York college says it's naming a new science building after a former professor whose $5 million gift to the school will be used to create an endowment, also in his name.

Thursday, November 22, 2012  A report estimates that the Jets generated $5.5 million in economic activity for Cortland County.

Thursday, August 16, 2012  You may have noticed some trees are already starting to lose their leaves. Dr. Donald Leopold, Professor of Forest and Wetland Ecology at SUNY-ESF, says the lack of rain this summer is starting to pose a threat to certain trees.

Thursday, June 14, 2012  New York Senate leader Dean Skelos says the Legislature is close to a deal on a law to require college coaches, professors and others to report sex abuse.

Monday, April 16, 2012  A Syracuse University scientist says global warming skeptics are misrepresenting his research on ancient crystal sediments in Antarctica.

Monday, February 20, 2012  A Cornell University crop and soil science professor says a warming climate could present a profitable opportunity for farmers in northern New York: soybeans.

Wednesday, May 04, 2011  Brashears is part of a team of professors around the country working on a three year grant from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

Thursday, February 24, 2011  A conservative professor in Detroit who says he has consulted for the Vatican's high court says New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo shouldn't get Holy Communion because he lives with his girlfriend, Food Network star Sandra Lee.