Scientists have examined the fossilized remains of a small, extinct monkey that were recovered from an underwater cave in the Dominican Republic.

NEW YORK, March 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman to be elected to Congress, is finally getting her due with the web launch of the Shirley Chisholm Project of Brooklyn Women's Activism: 1945 to the Present.

TORONTO, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr.

Seymour Benzer, a groundbreaking biologist whose work linking behavior and genes laid the foundation for modern neuroscience, has died. He was 86.

One of America's top business leaders, Marge Magner, Chairman and CEO of Citigroup's Global Consumer Group, is assuming leadership of the Brooklyn College Foundation.