JUNEAU, Alaska, July 2 -- Gov. Mike Dunleavy, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy announced the appointment of Dario Borghesan to the Alaska Supreme Court and Thomas Jamgochian to the Palmer District Court. Dario Borghesan moved to Fairbanks to clerk for Justice Daniel E. Winfree of the Alaska Supreme Court after graduating from Michigan Law School in 2008. Mr. Borghesan has since worked for the Alaska Department of Law in the roles of special assistant t more PR

SAN LUIS OBISPO, California, July 2 -- California Polytechnic State University issued the following news release: Cal Poly has named Paulette Granberry Russell -- current president of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE) and director of Michigan State University's Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives since 1998 -- as its new vice president for diversity and inclusion. Granberry Russell will begin her new role at Cal Poly on Aug. 31 and will  more PR

MOUNT PLEASANT, Michigan, June 30 -- Central Michigan University issued the following news: Central Michigan University and the Union of Teaching Faculty, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, have reached a tentative agreement on a two-year extension of their collective bargaining agreement. The UTF represents 275 fixed-term faculty. Upon ratification, the new contract will be in effect July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2022. Details will be released once the tentative agreement has been r more PR

HOUGHTON, Michigan, July 2 -- Michigan Technological University issued the following news: Michigan Tech and the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research have stepped in to ensure buoys are deployed in Lake Superior despite delays due to COVID-19. An unexpected consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the delayed deployment of Great Lakes weather and wave buoys, which provide critical weather and wave conditions information to commercial shipping, recreational boaters, anglers, swim more PR

YPSILANTI, Michigan, July 3 -- Eastern Michigan University issued the following news: Eastern Michigan University has started the distribution of nearly $6.9 million in federal student-relief CARES Act funds, providing assistance to students in need who were enrolled during the past winter semester when the COVID-19 crisis began. The University also detailed its plans for further distribution of CARES Act funds to students taking classes in the upcoming fall and winter semesters of the new acad more PR

HOLLAND, Michigan, July 2 -- Hope College issued the following news release: During its May meeting, the Hope College Alumni Association Board of Directors appointed four new members and elected two new officers. The board's new members are: Toni Gordon, a 2009 graduate from Perrysburg, Ohio; Mary Kempker, a 1960 graduate from Zeeland; Dr. Kiersten Krause, a 1997 graduate from Holland; and Grace Purdue, a junior from Grand Rapids. Newly elected as president is Jonathan Liepe, a 1991 graduate  more PR

LANSING, Michigan, July 1 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined a coalition of 15 state attorneys general in urging President Trump to withdraw a controversial executive order that instructs federal agencies to avoid full compliance with environmental laws when approving infrastructure projects. "Our nation's environmental laws are meant to protect our citizens and natural resources from irreparable harm, and t more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 30 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in June Medical Services LLC v. Russo, which struck down a Louisiana state law that imposed an undue burden for women who sought abortion services. Nessel was part of a 23-member attorneys general coalition that filed an amicus brief in December 2019 in opposition to the state's law, wh more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 30 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel in partnership with the Michigan State Police today announced the release of the 2019 OK2SAY Annual Report, noting the student safety program received more than 5,700 tips with the two most reported incidents being suicide threats and bullying. OK2SAY is an effective prevention-based reporting mechanism tool, logging 25,413 tips from students across Mich more PR

LANSING, Michigan, July 2 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: After a lengthy hearing Tuesday on Attorney General Dana Nessel's motion for a preliminary injunction related to the recently discovered damage to Line 5 at the Straits of Mackinac, Ingham County Circuit Court ordered continued restrictions on the operation of Line 5 and required Enbridge Energy to promptly and fully disclose all relevant information and data to the State. Judge James S. Jamo more PR

LANSING, Michigan, July 2 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: As Michigan continues to move through the COVID-19 pandemic, Attorney General Dana Nessel remains steadfast in her commitment to protect consumers from businesses and retailers charging excessively high prices for products and warning people of scammers that could potentially steal their personal information. Since COVID-19 concerns became known in Michigan in early March, Nessel's office has more PR

LANSING, Michigan, July 3 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel recently joined a bipartisan coalition with 41 other attorneys general urging the U.S. Senate to pass S. 2563, the Improving Laundering Laws and Increasing Comprehensive Information Tracking of Criminal Activity in Shell Holdings (ILLICIT CASH) Act. The letter was sent Tuesday to Sens. Mike Crapo and Sherrod Brown, chairman and ranking member, respectivel more PR

LANSING, Michigan, July 1 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release: Governor Gretchen Whitmer proposed additional police reform policies to help strengthen police-community relations and ensure that all Michiganders are treated with dignity and respect under the law. The four-pronged plan, which was developed in partnership with community leaders and law enforcement organizations, will make significant reforms in policy, personnel, participation and community enga more PR

LANSING, Michigan, July 1 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release: Governor Gretchen Whitmer released the MI Safe Schools Return to School Roadmap, a comprehensive document to help districts create local plans for in-person learning in the fall. The Roadmap outlines a number of safety protocols for schools to implement in each phase of the governor's MI Safe Start Plan. The governor also signed Executive Order 2020-142, which provides a structure to support all s more PR

LANSING, Michigan, July 1 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release: Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed Executive Order 2020-139 to rename the state-owned Lewis Cass Building in downtown Lansing to the "Elliott-Larsen Building," honoring the legislators who sponsored Michigan's landmark civil rights act. The legislation was introduced by Republican State Rep. Melvin Larsen and Democratic State Rep. Daisy Elliott in 1976 and was signed into law by Governor William Mil more PR

LANSING, Michigan, July 1 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release: Governor Gretchen Whitmer sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue requesting a disaster designation for Michigan counties impacted by severe weather. The governor is also requesting the USDA make available any other possible assistance under the Federal Crop Insurance Program or other USDA programs to help Michigan's hard-working farmers recover. "Our hardwor more PR

LANSING, Michigan, July 2 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release: Governor Whitmer signed Senate Bills 876-878, which codify her previous Executive Orders , further extending the renewal dates for driver's licenses, CDLs, state ID cards and vehicle registrations. Among the extensions outlined in the legislation, those with driver's licenses or vehicle registrations expiring between Feb. 1 and June 30 would have until Sept. 30, 2020 to have them renewed. "I am  more PR

LANSING, Michigan, July 2 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release: Governor Whitmer signed Senate Bill 690, which appropriates nearly $880 million in federal funding to support various COVID-19 response actions across the state. The supplemental budget includes a number of provisions that allow assist Michigan in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, help small business weather the difficult economic conditions created by COVID-19, and ensure that workers who p more PR

LANSING, Michigan, July 2 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release: Governor Whitmer signed House Bills 4449, 5195, 5313, 5315, 5341-5355, and 5400, as well as Senate Bill 963 into law. House Bill 4449 expands access to chiropractic services by sunsetting the exclusion of chiropractic services from eligibility for no-fault insurance reimbursement. The bill was sponsored by Representative Beth Griffin, R-South Haven. House Bills 5195 and 5313 will increase avai more PR

LANSING, Michigan, July 2 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release: Governor Whitmer signed Executive Order 2020-143 closing indoor service at bars throughout most of lower Michigan to protect the progress Michigan has made against COVID-19. Regions 6 and 8, which include the Upper Peninsula and much of northern Michigan, are excluded from the order, and bars statewide can continue to serve outdoors. The governor also signed a package of bills allowing cocktails-t more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 30 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following joint statement with Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey and House Speaker Lee Chatfield after reaching a bipartisan budget agreement, which includes modest reductions in current year funding but also provides CARES Act funding for Michigan schools and educators, universities and community colleges and local governments to address the significant COVID 19 costs they're facing: "COVID-19 has had an unprecedente more PR

LANSING, Michigan, July 3 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release: Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced the formal launch of the Office of Future Mobility and Electrification (OFME) today, naming Trevor Pawl as the state's Chief Mobility Officer and reaffirming Michigan's position as the global leader in producing and developing the next-generation of transportation technologies. The new office will work across state government, academia and private industry to en more PR

LANSING, Michigan, July 3 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following news release: Congressional candidates State Rep. Jon Hoadley and Hillary Scholten held a virtual press conference highlighting Republicans refusal to extend supplemental unemployment benefits and how Donald Trump's failed COVID-19 response has hurt Michigan workers. They also discussed their plans to support Michigan's working families while in Congress. Supplemental unemployment benefits passed in the COVID-19 re more PR

LANSING, Michigan, July 1 -- The Michigan Public Service Commission issued the following news release on June 30: The Michigan Public Service Commission denied the relief Enbridge Energy LP sought in its request for a declaratory ruling and also rejected the company's request for ex parte approval of plans to relocate the Line 5 pipeline to a tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac. The Commission established a full hearing process for the proposal. Enbridge in April filed an application (Case more PR

LANSING, Michigan, July 2 -- The Michigan Public Service Commission issued the following news release: Tens of thousands of vulnerable Michigan households have benefitted from steps taken by the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC), working with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's administration, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, energy providers and other agencies to ease financial burdens from the coronavirus pandemic. To address concerns about customers facing utility service s more PR

LANSING, Michigan, July 2 -- The Michigan Republican Party issued the following news: Even as another Democrat ran away from Gov. Whitmer's controversial plan that places COVID-19 patients inside nursing homes, Sen. Gary Peters continues to stubbornly stand with Whitmer by refusing to oppose the policy. State Representative Angela Witwer, a Democrat from the Lansing area, said in a June 26, 2020 videoconference that she opposes Whitmer's nursing home policy. Witwer, who said she did rounds in more PR

LANSING, Michigan, July 3 -- The Michigan Republican Party issued the following news: On Monday, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced her fix for the remainder of the current fiscal year budget - relying on hiring freezes and layoffs of state employees to remedy the current budget deficit. Back in May, the governor made the same hiring freezes and imposed a process of furloughing state workers one day per week. Despite these moves to save money - Whitmer brought on a former Presidential Campaig more PR

LANSING, Michigan, July 3 -- The Michigan Republican Party issued the following news: Gary Peters again indicated support for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's dangerous policy of placing COVID-19 patients inside nursing homes when he signed a Democratic congressional reportcritical of governmental nursing home efforts that made no mention of the most controversial issue facing his own Michigan constituents. At least four Michigan Democratic officials have officially abandoned Whitmer's dangerous nursin more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 30 -- The Michigan Republican Party issued the following news: Gary Peters maintained his record of siding with Sen. Chuck Schumer's partisan political agenda 95% of the time by casting a vote to stop debate and oppose the police reform package that was on the floor of the US Senate last week. Despite Sen. Peters' claim to be open to bipartisan action on police reform, Sen. Peters sided with Sen. Minority Leader Schumer and 45 Democrats to oppose the police reform packa more PR

LANSING, Michigan, June 30 -- The Michigan Republican Party issued the following news: In an interview with WWJ Radio, Governor Gretchen Whitmer admitted she mishandled the state's COVID-19 shutdowns. During the pandemic, Whitmer has allowed some businesses such as strip clubs to remain open while others, including gyms, have had to close. The Michigan unemployment rate currently remains among the worst in the nation, with thousands of residents still unable to access assistance from the state' more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, July 2 -- Michigan State University issued the following news release: MSU's Prevention, Outreach and Education Department was honored with the 2020 Impact Award for their outstanding achievements in sexual assault prevention at the Campus Prevention Network Summit, that was held virtually recently and hosted by EVERFI. Kelly Schweda, the director of POE, was called-out for her leadership in developing, implementing and sustaining prevention training including online se more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, June 30 -- Michigan State University's College of Social Science issued the following news release: How do you feel about your neighborhood now that you've been confined during a pandemic? A Michigan State University researcher conducted a study to quantify what makes people happy with their neighborhoods and discovered that it has almost nothing to do with the neighborhood itself. "It's all in our heads," said Zachary Neal (pictured left), associate professor of psycho more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, July 3 -- Michigan State University's College of Social Science issued the following news release: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Michigan State University (MSU) a grant of $550,000 to support the first phase of the On These Grounds project (https://onthesegrounds.org/), a digital initiative to describe the history of enslavement found in archival materials at colleges and universities. A collaboration of teams from Michigan State University, Georgetown Uni more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, July 4 -- Michigan State University's College of Natural Science issued the following news: Electron movement - what scientists call electron transfer - powers many of life's functions. For example, a good deal of the energy we derive from the foods we eat is captured by a process that removes electrons from food molecules, like sugar or fat, and transfers them to the oxygen we breathe. Scientists are trying to harvest electricity from biology to power our technologies  more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, June 29 -- Michigan State University's College of Natural Science issued the following news: A novel machine learning model developed by researchers at Michigan State University suggests that mutations to the SARS-CoV-2 genome have made the virus more infectious. As infections continue to surge across the United States, the concern is that any slight mutation could have drastic consequences. The model, developed by lead researcher Guowei Wei, professor in the Department more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, July 1 -- Michigan State University issued the following news release: A novel machine learning model developed by researchers at Michigan State University suggests that mutations to the SARS-CoV-2 genome have made the virus more infectious. As infections continue to surge across the United States, the concern is that any slight mutation could have drastic consequences. The model, developed by lead researcher Guowei Wei, professor in the Department of Biochemistry and  more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, June 30 -- Michigan State University issued the following news release: Elena Ruiz's anti-violence research has attracted the interest and support of advocacy organizations and philanthropic groups world-wide, including the Me Too Movement Organization for which she was named principal researcher for gender-based violence in January 2020. An assistant professor in MSU's Department of Philosophy, Ruiz identifies strategic interventions for sexual violence and social str more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, July 3 -- Michigan State University's College of Natural Science issued the following news: Michigan State University population geneticist Gideon Bradburd has received a five-year, $1.84 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) Maximizing Investigators' Research Early Stage Investigator Award. The grant, which began July 1, supports Bradburd, an assistant professor in the Department of Integrative Biology in the MSU College of Natural Science, and his lab in their s more PR

MARQUETTE, Michigan, July 1 -- Northern Michigan University issued the following news release on June 30: Northern Michigan University is using a strategic combination of investments, university and federal aid, and cost-saving efforts to address tuition rates, coronavirus safety concerns and uncertain fiscal year 2021 state funding. The strategy could amount to a zero net increase for many students for the fall semester. It also keeps NMU's tuition and fees second most affordable in the state  more PR

MARQUETTE, Michigan, July 1 -- Northern Michigan University issued the following news release: Crissa Karavas, who earned her NMU degree in hospitality and tourism management with a minor in entrepreneurship in May, recently received the Martha Griffiths Award from the American Association of University Women Marquette Branch. The award is presented annually to a "high-achieving graduating female senior at NMU with high involvement in her discipline." Karavas worked more than 40 hours per week more PR

NOTRE DAME, Indiana, July 2 -- The University of Notre Dame's Law School issued the following news: Professor Veronica Root Martinez, director of Notre Dame Law School's Program on Ethics, Compliance & Inclusion, announced the winners of the 2020 Smith-Doheny Legal Ethics Writing Competition, with 3L Allison Lantero taking home the top Notre Dame prize and Michigan State University School of Law 3L David Konarske Jr. taking home the top prize overall. "We received two dozen amazing pieces of s more PR

COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 30 -- Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost issued the following news release: Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost filed an amicus brief with Michigan's 30th Circuit Court urging the court to consider the economic impact of a complete shutdown of Enbridge Energy's Line 5 pipeline. Indiana and Louisiana joined Ohio's brief. Yost argues that due to the redundancy in the design of the East and West lines, a complete shutdown of both lines unnecessarily negatively effects Ohio refinerie more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 30 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: The University of Michigan's Board of Regents approved a budget during a special session June 29 that includes a 1.9% tuition increase and $12.8 million in additional need-based financial aid for undergraduates on the Ann Arbor campus. The Ann Arbor general fund budget, including its 5.6% increase in undergraduate financial aid, will cover the entire cost of the tuition increase for in-state students  more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 30 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: Corporations seek and secure favorable legal decisions by retaining attorneys who have worked for or studied with federal judges, a new study reveals. The study, published this month in the journal Administrative Science Quarterly, was written by Maxim Sytch of the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and Yong H. Kim of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. They studied compa more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, July 2 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: Here's positive news during these times of turmoil, strife and political divide: in some ways, conservatives and liberals are not that different. Well, at least when it comes to how they react to negative versus positive information. In fact, people in the United States and worldwide tend to react the same to positive and negative news content regardless of their political ideology, a newly published  more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, July 1 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: As everyday activities in Detroit begin to resume, four out of 10 working Detroiters remain temporarily or permanently laid off, and many residents say they feel the state is reopening too soon. According to the third rapid response COVID-19 survey from U-M's Detroit Metro Area Communities Study, the unemployment rate in Detroit still sits around 45%--similar to last month's estimates of 45%. The surve more PR

LOS ANGELES, California, July 2 -- The University of Southern California (USC) issued the following news release: USC leaders have named Kedra Ishop, a nationally recognized expert in higher education, as the university's new vice president for enrollment management. Ishop joins USC from the University of Michigan, where she oversaw undergraduate admissions, financial aid, new student programs and other student services as vice provost for enrollment management. "Kedra Ishop is a national lea more PR

KALAMAZOO, Michigan, July 2 -- Western Michigan University issued the following news: Dr. Steven Butt and Dr. Christine Byrd-Jacobs have moved from roles as interim deans to permanent positions in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Graduate College, respectively. Prior to becoming interim dean in September 2019, Butt served as chair of both the Department of Engineering Design, Manufacturing and Management Systems and the Department of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Engine more PR