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...losing to Princeton 4-1 in the finals of last season’s ECAC Championship tournament and 5-1 earlier this year, the Crimson ended its regular season on a high note with a 3-2 victory over the Tigers on Senior Night. The win clinched the fifth seed and home ice for the first round of the ECAC tournament, with play slated to begin next weekend. “Last year in the playoffs, they took something from us that we wanted real bad and then earlier this year they gave us a pretty good beating...
...Svalbard Global Seed Vault turned one on Feb. 26, an anniversary it celebrated by receiving 90,000 new samples, or four tons, of seeds. Those are in addition to the more than 400,000 unique seed samples (more than 200 million individual seeds) that have been transferred to Svalbard since the $9 million facility opened last year. (See pictures of the seed vault...
...Svalbard is a repository for samples from national seed banks across the globe - almost every country in the world has one. Their purpose, of course, is to backup native plant varieties. If climate conditions change or a disease threatens crops currently in use, plant breeders can dip into seed banks to try to grow new crops. The seed diversity preserved in these banks can mean the difference between feast and famine. But the banks that contain our most diverse and important collections of seeds tend to be located in developing countries, where budgets are tight and conditions are less than...
...ECAC rankings, winning 11 straight conference games with only two losses against Boston College and New Hampshire in the last six weeks. The Crimson ended its season by capturing both the Ivy League title and the ECAC title, and comes into the tournament this weekend with a first-place seed...
...first game easily, 9-1, and struggled to keep Hill off in the second, 9-7, before dropping one to him, 9-1. But Singh bounced back and sealed the match with a 9-3 fourth set.Reeves traded games with Chris Binnie before the Bantam’s ninth seed put the game away (9-3, 3-9, 9-3, 9-5). The Crimson did not fare any better after Reeves’ loss, failing to provide much competition for Trinity.Eliot Buchanan challenged the Bantam’s Parth Sharma in the second set in a heated 10-8 contest...