ALBANY, New York, Feb. 20 -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-New York, issued the following news release: * * * - Nine New York City Businesses, Community Colleges, and Community-Based Organizations Receive Funding for Workforce Development - Awards Will Fund In-Demand Skills Training for 825 New Yorkers * * * Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that nine New York City-based businesses, community colleges and community-based organizations have been awarded $2.3 million as part of the state's historic $  more

BUFFALO, New York, Feb. 21 -- The State University of New York Buffalo campus issued the following news release: Scissors. Purple glue sticks. Paper designs to cut out and fold. Chris Lowry teaches advanced geology college courses at the University at Buffalo. But some of the tools he brings to class evoke the joy of grade school. Lowry is creator of the Foldable Aquifer Project -- a series of 3D paper models of aquifers, which (in real life) consist of layers of permeable rock, sand and grav  more

MENOMONIE, Wis., Feb. 21 -- The University of Wisconsin's Stout Campus issued the following news: * * * - Le'Trice Donaldson to speak Feb. 23 and Feb. 27 * * * As he crawled through the Arizona desert, both legs wounded from gunshots, Corp. Isaiah Mays knew his fellow soldiers were counting on him. He kept thinking, "If I fail, my people fail." Mays, an African American soldier in the 24th Infantry, earned the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroism during the Wham Paymaster Robbery of  more