BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 9 -- Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry issued the following news release: Attorney General Jeff Landry is alerting Louisiana parents and guardians of several child products that have recently been recalled. "I am committed to protecting Louisiana families," said General Landry. "I encourage all Louisiana parents and guardians to learn about these recalled child products so our State's children may be safer." General Landry listed the following recalled produc more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 7 -- The Louisiana Democratic Party issued the following news release: Final early voting numbers show record-breaking Democratic turnout during early voting for Louisiana's Presidential Preference Primary. Over 103,000 Louisiana Democrats voted early, compared to 53,019 in 2016 and 20,896 in 2012. Democrats didn't just smash previous party voting records, they also overwhelmingly outnumbered Republican turnout. Final early voting numbers show that 103,466 Democrat more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 8 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards and Cabot Corporation Senior Vice President Bart Kalkstein announced Cabot will make a $90 million capital investment to enhance the performance of its plant in Ville Platte, Louisiana. The facility manufactures carbon black, a key material that extends the life of tires and other rubber products. With the investment, Cabot will create 15 new direct jobs with an average annual more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 9 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards announced that he has signed the state's budget for the FY 20-21 operating year, preserving funding for critical health care, workforce and education services that are needed during the pandemic, especially as new COVID-19 cases rise again as school systems prepare to return to campus in the fall. Additionally, the Governor has ordered cabinet agencies to prepare for possible  more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 9 -- The Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center issued the following news release on July 8: A new smartphone app promises to make it easier for consumers to stick to their weight-management plans by automatically gauging calorie consumption. The PortionSize(TM) app analyzes pictures of users' meals and instantly lets them know how many calories they have eaten. Scientists at Pennington Biomedical Research Center will test the app agains more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, July 7 -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Louisiana Tech University's College of Business and School of Accountancy have been extended accreditation by Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International -- a hallmark of excellence in business education earned by less than 10 percent of the world's business schools. "AACSB accreditation is the highest standard of achievement for business schools worldwide," said Dr. Chris Martin, Dean of the Col more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 7 -- Loyola University issued the following news release: When 18-year-old student David Price was asked in a freshman business class at Loyola University New Orleans to develop a project that would represent social change, he invented The Safety Pouch. The fluorescent orange nylon pouch allows drivers to place their driver's license and registration safely outside the window during a traffic stop - and in recent weeks, orders have been piling up, as Price began sel more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 8 -- Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center issued the following news release on July 8: A new smartphone app promises to make it easier for consumers to stick to their weight-management plans by automatically gauging calorie consumption. The PortionSize(TM) app analyzes pictures of users' meals and instantly lets them know how many calories they have eaten. Scientists at Pennington Biomedical Research Center will test the app against th more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 7 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: As a part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH) has awarded the Libraries' T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History $10,000 in emergency relief to help fund a graduate assistantship for the 2020-2021 academic year. Because of LEH's Culture Care Fund award, the Center for Oral History will be able to continue to conduct nov more PR

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, July 7 -- Nicholls State University issued the following news release: Nicholls State University students explored topics including William Faulkner and Breakfast at Tiffany's in the latest issue of the Gulf Coast undergraduate humanities journal, Cheniere. In its fourth installment, Cheniere is produced by the Department of English, Modern Languages, and Cultural Studies. The issue features five articles from multiple fields of study, including art history, film and ear more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 9 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $138,613 to LSU Manship School of Mass Communication researchers Michael Henderson, director of LSU's Public Policy Research Lab, and Martin Johnson, Kevin P. Reilly Sr. Chair in Political Communication and dean of the Manship School, to further their research on social and economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in Louisiana. The NSF Rapid Resp more PR

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, July 9 -- Discovery Education, a division of Discovery Communications, issued the following news release: Tangipahou Parish School System's Roseland Montessori School in Roseland, Louisiana has been awarded a $10,000 STEM education grant as part of 2020 Possibility Grant Sweepstakes. Created by the Siemens Foundation-a leader in advancing STEM workforce training and education initiatives-and Discovery Education, the Possibility Grant Sweepstakes inspires the next genera more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 7 -- Tulane University issued the following news release: To understand the story of Hurricane Katrina, Andy Horowitz, an assistant professor of history and the Paul and Debra Gibson Professor in the School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University, took a trip back in time, all the way to 1915. It was in that year that a powerful and largely-forgotten hurricane hit New Orleans, leaving a foot of water in parts of the city for nearly a week. Horowitz, who studies the h more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 7 -- Tulane University issued the following news release: SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can remain infective in aerosol for up to 16 hours according to a Tulane study (https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/9/20-1806_article) published in Emerging Infectious Diseases. The researchers also found that the virus can survive in the air much longer than other similar coronaviruses, such as SARS or MERS. Scientists already know that large droplets, such as th more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 7 -- Tulane University issued the following news release: David Banush, the dean of libraries and academic information resources at Tulane University, has been elected to membership in the Grolier Club, the oldest and most prestigious bibliophilic society in America. Founded in 1884, the Grolier Club is the oldest bibliophilic society in the United States. Based in New York City, the club consists of nearly 800 American, British, European and Asian book collectors more PR