IRVING, Texas, Sept. 22 -- Nexstar Media Group, a television broadcasting company, issued the following news release on Sept. 21: WGN America's national newscast, "NewsNation," announced today that it will conduct the first comprehensive prime-time sit-down interview with President Donald J. Trump since the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The exclusive one-on-one interview will be conducted at the White House by NewsNation anchor Joe Donlon, and will air on tomorrow night' more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 25 (TNSRes) -- Rice University issued the following news release: Stripes are in fashion this season at a Rice University lab, where engineers use them to make images that plain cameras could never capture. Their compact Hyperspectral Stripe Projector (HSP) is a step toward a new method to collect the spatial and spectral information required for self-driving cars, machine vision, crop monitoring, surface wear and corrosion detection and other applications. "I can envisi more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 25 (TNSPer) -- The Austin Community College District issued the following news: The Austin Community College District (ACC) names Dr. Gary Moreno as the new director of El Centro, the college's Latino/Latin American Studies Center. Moreno will continue El Centro's mission to build connections between the college and the broader Central Texas Latino community. "El Centro has been a home for many students and employees at ACC. It's where we come together to share in conversa more PR

SAN ANGELO, Texas, Sept. 23 (TNSAwa) -- Angelo State University issued the following news release: Bill Rogers, a 34-year old Angelo State University graduate student from Liberia, has been selected to receive the 2020 Nelson Mandela Freedom Award from the Chicago-based We Dream in Color Foundation. Named for the late Nobel Peace Prize winner, the Nelson Mandela Award honors exemplary leaders who serve as a vital force for positive change in their communities. Rogers is being honored for his e more PR

WACO, Texas, Sept. 23 (TNSAwa) -- Baylor University issued the following news: Baylor University's Corey P. Carbonara, Ph.D., professor in the department of film and digital media, has been chosen to receive the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) 2020 Excellence in Education Medal. Established in 2016 and sponsored by William C. Miller and Ellen Sontag-Miller, the Excellence in Education Medal honors professionals teaching innovative courses on visual technologies, such more PR

WACO, Texas, Sept. 23 (TNSJou) -- Baylor University issued the following news: "Whodunnit" may be the big question in crime fiction, but "how they done it" determines whether they get away with it. In detective novels these days, the war of good against evil increasingly involves being technologically savvy, says crime fiction researcher Nicole Kenley, Ph.D., lecturer in English at Baylor University. Fingerprinting and forensics are still staples in detective novels, says Kenley, who fell in  more PR

CLEMSON, South Carolina, Sept. 22 -- The Clemson University's Cooperative Extension issued the following news release: A partnership with a cohort of Southeastern land-grant research universities is helping Clemson clear a major hurdle toward reviving its small grains breeding program: gathering the material to get started. Genetic material, that is, or germplasm. The Southeastern University Small Grains Cooperative Breeding Program (SunGrains) brings together small grains programs from membe more PR

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Sept. 23 (TNSAwa) -- Texas A&M University's College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences issued the following news release: Dr. Artem Rogovskyy, an assistant professor at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVMBS), is a recipient of the Bay Area Lyme Foundation's 2020 Emerging Leader Award for his interdisciplinary work in developing a rapid, highly sensitive, portable, cost-effective, and single sample-based Lyme disease (LD) di more PR

DALLAS, Texas, Sept. 22 -- Atmos Energy issued the following news release: Atmos Energy employees take enormous pride in their commitment to fuel safe and thriving communities, and during the company's annual Week of Giving campaign held Sept. 14 through Sept. 18, employees across the enterprise pledged more than $875,000 in donations that will benefit United Way, No Kid Hungry and The Salvation Army in the eight states served by Atmos Energy. Further amplifying the impact of this tremendous fi more PR

IRVING, Texas, Sept. 22 -- ExxonMobil, an international energy company, issued the following news release: ExxonMobil and Global Thermostat have expanded their joint development agreement following 12 months of technical evaluation to determine the feasibility and potential scalability of Global Thermostat's technology that captures carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from the air. * Joint development effort advances breakthrough technology and ways to bring it to scale * Technology removes carbon  more PR

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Sept. 26 -- Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody issued the following news release on Sept. 25: Attorney General Ashley Moody today announced a consolidated nationwide enforcement action alongside the Florida Office of Financial Regulation to disrupt a fraudulent precious metals scheme that has scammed seniors and vulnerable investors nationwide out of more than $180 million. Attorney General Moody, OFR, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and 28 other states a more PR

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 23 -- iHeartMedia issued the following news release on Sept. 22: iHeartMedia, the No. 1 commercial podcast publisher, today announced "You and Me Both with Hillary Clinton," an iHeartRadio Original Podcast hosted by Hillary Clinton, the first woman to win a major party's presidential nomination. The 24-episode show joins the expansive iHeartPodcast Network beginning September 29 and will be available on iHeartRadio and everywhere else podcasts are heard. Listen to the  more PR

BROWNWOOD, Texas, Sept. 22 (TNSPer) -- Howard Payne University issued the following news: Howard Payne University announced three new faculty appointments at the beginning of the fall semester. Dr. Dennis Gibson was promoted to the role of chair of the Department of Physical Sciences and associate professor of chemistry after serving as an adjunct faculty member at HPU. Dr. Martin Mintchev was named director of the engineering science program and professor of engineering while Chris Sutton was  more PR

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 23 -- iHeartMedia issued the following news release on Sept. 22: iHeartMedia announced today that the 2020 iHeartCountry Festival Presented by Capital One, originally scheduled for May 2 at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas, will now be a virtual streaming and on-air radio special on October 23. The seventh annual event featuring performances from Dierks Bentley, Lady A, Sam Hunt, Kane Brown, Kelsea Ballerini, Dustin Lynch, Jon Pardi, Riley Green, Special Perform more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 24 (TNSPer) -- The University of Texas issued the following news release on Sept. 23: The University of Texas System Board of Regents unanimously voted Wednesday to name Jay Hartzell, Ph.D., the next president of UT Austin, effective immediately. Hartzell was named sole finalist for president last month. Hartzell, a national leader in business education and real estate finance, has spent most of the past 25 years at UT Austin, first as a graduate student, then as a profess more PR

TOPEKA, Kansas, Sept. 26 -- The Kansas Department of Insurance issued the following news release on Sept. 25: The Office of the Kansas Securities Commissioner, a division of the Kansas Insurance Department, announced today that it is participating in a consolidated nationwide enforcement action to halt a fraudulent precious metals scheme that has solicited $185 million from at least 1,600 seniors and other investors. The Kansas Insurance Department, announced today that it has joined the Commo more PR

BEAUMONT, Texas, Sept. 24 (TNSPer) -- Lamar University issued the following news: The Lamar University Alumni Advisory Board has elected Fred Vernon '12, '13 of Port Arthur to serve as 2020-2021 president. Brad Brown '81 of Beaumont will serve as past president and Nga "Tea" (Nguyen) Do '08 of Beaumont will serve as president-elect. New members of the board are: Zachary Celeste '11; Brian Craig, dean of the College of Engineering; Joshua Davis '11, '15, '19; Sheri (Horn) DelMage '01, '03; Sand more PR

BEAUMONT, Texas, Sept. 21 (TNSGra) -- Lamar University issued the following news: Lamar University's Special Collections has been awarded a $3,000 TexTreasures grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The grant will fund the digitization and uploading of 750 images to the portal to Texas History and the Lamar University website. The photographs were all taken by mycologist David Lewis, who earned a bachelor's degree in 1972 and a master's degree in 1978 from Lamar University. L more PR

BEAUMONT, Texas, Sept. 24 -- Lamar University issued the following news: Natarajan, who teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in marketing, management, supply chain, entrepreneurship and healthcare management, has been a member of FBD since he was a doctoral student. Since that time, Natarajan was elected to serve leadership positions ultimately becoming the organization's president in 2020. He will retain a leadership role as immediate past president and past president until 2022. " more PR

BEAUMONT, Texas, Sept. 26 -- Lamar University issued the following news: The Office of Undergraduate Research recently hosted the Seventh Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Expo 2020. For the first time the event was held virtually over Zoom allowing 22 undergraduate students to present 21 projects from their spring 2020 semester research. Research represented varying fields of study from biology to kinesiology to speech and hearing sciences. Research topics addressed wide r more PR

DENTON, Texas, Sept. 24 (TNSEvA) -- The University of North Texas issued the following news release: In its 16th annual Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, the University of North Texas will gather some of the nation's top journalists, writers, authors and storytellers to share their best practices in accurately telling compelling stories that inform and educate the public. Hosted by UNT's Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism and Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism, the Oct.  more PR

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 25 -- The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio issued the following news release: The Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson, is one of 10 institutions selected nationwide for the American Society of Clinical Oncology's (ASCO) Quality Oncology Practice Initiative(R) and Quality Training Program Improvement Program. The three-year program is awarded to institutions that provide care to underserved communities. Adolfo Enrique  more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 21 (TNSRes) -- The University of Texas's MD Anderson Cancer Center issued the following news release on Sept. 20: In a Phase I clinical trial for patients with advanced solid cancers marked by KRAS G12C mutations, the KRASG12C inhibitor sotorasib (AMG 510) resulted in manageable toxicities and durable clinical benefits. Results from the trial were published today in the New England Journal of Medicine and data from the lung cancer cohort also were presented at the European more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 25 (TNSJou) -- The University of Texas's MD Anderson Cancer Center issued the following news release on Sept. 24: A new data analysis tool developed by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center incorporates a user-friendly, natural-language interface to allow biomedical researchers without specialized expertise in bioinformatics or programming languages to conduct intuitive analysis of large datasets. The open-access, artificial intelligence (AI)-dr more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 25 (TNSRes) -- The University of Texas's MD Anderson Cancer Center issued the following news release on Sept. 24: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., today announced a three-year strategic collaboration to accelerate the development of treatments for significant unmet medical needs in oncology, including patients with brain metastases and those with cancers refractory to available therapies. This collaboration will bring T more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Sept. 24 -- Entergy issued the following news release: Mitsubishi Power, a world leader in power generation and energy storage, and Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR), an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power production and retail distribution operations, signed a joint development agreement in which they will collaborate to bring decarbonization projects to Entergy's utility businesses in Arkansas, Louisiana, including the separate jurisdiction of N more PR

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, Sept. 23 -- Gov. Michael Parson, R-Missouri, issued the following news release on Sept. 22: Today, the State Emergency Management Agency announced more than $9 million in grant funding has been approved to build tornado safe rooms in six Missouri school districts. The federal grants for school districts in Dunklin, Henry, Ozark, Shannon, Texas, and Wright counties will pay for 90 percent of the cost of the safe rooms, which are designed to shelter a total of more than  more PR

ABILENE, Texas, Sept. 25 (TNSGra) -- Abilene Christian University issued the following news: An international team directed by Dr. Curt Niccum, associate director of the Center for the Study of Ancient Religious Texts (CSART) at Abilene Christian University, has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities for a project to produce print and digital editions of Old Testament books in Ge'ez, the ancient language of Ethiopia. The team is led by Niccum and Dr. Steve  more PR

CLAREMONT, California, Sept. 23 (TNSRes) -- Claremont McKenna College issued the following news release: Three different books by CMC professors showcase their expertise, while offering three distinct ways of looking at the upcoming presidential election in November. Jack Pitney serves up a provocative point-of-view; while Jon Shields and co-author Stephanie Muravchik share what they learned traveling to working-class communities in three states, and Ken Miller analyzes national politics by ex more PR

WACO, Texas, Sept. 25 (TNSJou) -- Baylor University issued the following news: A new way of analyzing the chemical composition of soil organic matter will help scientists predict how soils store carbon -- and how soil carbon may affect climate in the future, says a Baylor University researcher. A study by scientists from Iowa State University and Baylor University, published in the academic journal Nature Geoscience, used an archive of data on soils from a wide range of environments across Nor more PR

IRVING, Texas, Sept. 23 -- Nexstar Media Group, a television broadcasting company, issued the following news release on Sept. 22: Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXST), is hosting an exclusive multi-market live telecast of a debate between the Democratic and Republican party candidates for the United States Senate from North Carolina, incumbent Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and former North Carolina State Senator Cal Cunningham. "U.S. Sen more PR

IRVING, Texas, Sept. 23 -- Nexstar Media Group, a television broadcasting company, issued the following news release on Sept. 22: Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXST) announced today that it will report its 2020 third quarter financial results before the market opens on Thursday, November 5, 2020. The Company will host a conference call and webcast at 9:00 a.m. ET that morning to review the results. To access the conference call, interested parties may dial 323-794-2423, conference ID 1891 more PR

IRVING, Texas, Sept. 22 -- Nexstar Media Group, a television broadcasting company, issued the following news release on Sept. 21: WGN Radio, the Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc., station serving Chicago and the Midwest since 1924, announced today that Mary Sandberg Boyle has been promoted to Vice President and General Manager. Ms. Sandberg Boyle is a broadcasting executive with nearly 20 years of media experience, all of it in the Chicago market. Ms. Sandberg Boyle joined WGN Radio in 2015, where sh more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 26 -- Rice University issued the following news release: As President Donald Trump prepares to name his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court seat left vacant with the passing of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Rice University political scientist Paul Brace is available to discuss likely nominees as well as the implications for the 2020 general election, just over a month away. "Taking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell at his word, there will be a floor vote on a more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 22 (TNSRes) -- Rice University issued the following news release: A dose of artificial intelligence can speed the development of 3D-printed bioscaffolds that help injuries heal, according to researchers at Rice University. A team led by computer scientist Lydia Kavraki of Rice's Brown School of Engineering used a machine learning approach to predict the quality of scaffold materials, given the printing parameters. The work also found that controlling print speed is critic more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 22 (TNSRes) -- Rice University issued the following news release: Furloughs and layoffs are traumatic -- especially during a pandemic --but new research from Rice University offers ways employers can ease the emotional impact when they deliver the bad news to their workers. "Softening the blow: Incorporating employee perceptions of justice into best practices for layoffs during the COVID-19 pandemic" suggests behavior-based policies leaders can apply when implementing fur more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 23 (TNSRes) -- Rice University issued the following news release: A coalition of the state's top public policy research institutions will work together to create the Texas Blueprint for Urban Policy, an outline for the future focused on a comprehensive suite of new plans for economic development, housing, land use and transportation. The blueprint, to be completed ahead of the Texas Legislature's 2021 session, will be guided by a steering committee of esteemed leaders fro more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 22 (TNSRep) -- Rice University issued the following news release: A new report from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy shows that students in Harris County face major challenges to their overall well-being and academic success. "Why Are Children Underperforming in School?" published by a team from the institute's Center for Health and Biosciences (CHB) shows how Harris County children are affected by their environments -- and how federal and state evaluat more PR

NACOGDOCHES, Texas, Sept. 26 (TNSAwa) -- Stephen F. Austin State University issued the following news release: Dr. Candis Carraway, Stephen F. Austin State University assistant professor of agriculture, was named the 2020 Distinguished Young Educator by Non-land grant Agriculture and Renewable Resources Universities. This national award recognizes meritorious teaching at a NARRU institution and is awarded after a rigorous application and evaluation process. "I firmly believe Dr. Carraway is t more PR

STEPHENVILLE, Texas, Sept. 24 -- Tarleton State University issued the following news release: Tarleton State University alumnus Scott Bradley has been named President of the Board of Directors of Kappa Delta Rho fraternity. Bradley, a mortgage banker with Guild Mortgage in the DFW Metroplex, graduated from Tarleton in 1999 with a degree in agricultural business and a minor in economics. "Being a member of the KDR board has been one of the biggest focuses for volunteer work in my life," he sai more PR

STEPHENVILLE, Texas, Sept. 23 (TNSEco) -- Tarleton State University issued the following news release: Tarleton State University this weekend unveiled plans for an almost $12 million Aquatics Center on the Stephenville campus, following a green light last month from The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents. The project is part of the 2020-2024 A&M System Capital Plan. Construction begins this month, with completion set for August 2021. Tarleton Texans voted in 2015 to increase student more PR

FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 23 (TNSGra) -- Tarrant County College issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Education will provide Tarrant County College (TCC) with nearly $3 million over the next five years to support two TRIO Student Support Services (SSS) programs. Each year, grant-funded services will support low-income, first-generation TCC students and TCC students with disabilities at TCC South and TCC Trinity River. Programs will provide tutoring, financial aid advice, care more PR

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Sept. 22 (TNSRes) -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: By seeking to understand how tiny droplets behave when subjected to high pressure and temperatures, Texas A&M University researchers could contribute to the development of more efficient engines for propulsion and energy production applications. Their project, titled "Droplet Breakup and Vaporization Effects in High-Speed Liquid-Fueled Combustion," investigates how liquid dropl more PR

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Sept. 25 (TNSAwa) -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: Dr. Abhishek Jain, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, is taking the study of veins out of the body and onto a chip to develop better ways to address and treat various diseases, including COVID-19. Jain was recently recognized with the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award to fu more PR

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Sept. 24 (TNSJou) -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: In the September issue of the journal Nature, scientists from Texas A&M University, Hewlett Packard Labs and Stanford University have described a new nanodevice that acts almost identically to a brain cell. Furthermore, they have shown that these synthetic brain cells can be joined together to form intricate networks that can then solve problems in a brain-like manner. "This is more PR

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Sept. 24 (TNSGra) -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), a grant was awarded to the J. Mike Walker '66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University to induce collaboration among faculty members by encouraging testing and sharing of teaching methods to transform the department's cultural norms. "The effort of the mechanical engineering department is very timely and will  more PR

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Sept. 23 (TNSRes) -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: During COVID-19, artificial intelligence (AI) has been used to enhance diagnostic efforts, deliver medical supplies and even assess risk factors from blood tests. Now, artificial intelligence is being used to forecast future COVID-19 cases. Texas A&M University researchers, led by Dr. Ali Mostafavi, have developed a powerful deep-learning computational model that uses artificia more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 25 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release on Sept. 24: Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced that authorities arrested Gregg County Commissioner Shannon Brown, Marlena Jackson, Charlie Burns, and DeWayne Ward on charges in connection with an organized vote harvesting scheme during the 2018 Democratic primary election. To increase the pool of ballots needed to swing the race in Brown's favor, the group targeted young, able-bodied voters  more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 26 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release on Sept. 25: Attorney General Ken Paxton today joined Governor Greg Abbott in memorializing today, September 25, as Disabled American Veterans Day in honor of the national charity's centennial anniversary. The Disabled American Veterans (DAV) was founded 100 years ago by former Cincinnati Judge Robert S. Marx, a disabled United States Army captain who received the Distinguished Service Cross during th more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 26 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release on Sept. 25: Attorney General Ken Paxton and the Texas State Securities Board joined the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and 29 other states to prevent Metals.com, Chase Metal, Barrick Capital, and others from continuing to defraud elderly people across the United States by convincing them to convert their retirement savings into precious metals. Documents provided to purchasers contained blata more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 25 -- The Texas Democratic Party issued the following press document on Sept. 24: Today, a bombshell report in the Quorum Report shows among other egregious actions, Republican State Representative Lynn Stucky has been a current board member of the Kanakuk Institute since 2002. The Kanakuk Institute runs Kanakuk Kamps, whose campers were known as "Kanakuk Klassic Kampers" (KKK) as Stucky served the board. In 2010, former Kanakuk director Peter Newman was found guilty of "s more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 26 -- The Texas Democratic Party issued the following press document on Sept. 25: Today, a bombshell report in the Quorum Report shows among other egregious actions, Republican State Representative Lynn Stucky has been a current board member of the Kanakuk Institute since 2002. The Kanakuk Institute runs Kanakuk Kamps, whose campers were known as "Kanakuk Klassic Kampers" (KKK) as Stucky served the board. In 2010, former Kanakuk director Peter Newman was found guilty of "s more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 22 -- The Texas Democratic Party issued the following press document: Following Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg's tragic death on Friday, Texas voters know that everything is on the line in November. If Trump and his stooges John Cornyn and Ted Cruz ram through a Supreme Court Justice, our healthcare, reproductive rights, immigrant rights, voting rights, and gay rights are all in jeopardy. From the White House to the courthouse, we must elect Democrats who will  more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 24 -- The Texas Democratic Party issued the following press document: This week, in yet another disgusting statement not rooted in science or reality, Trump told the crowd attending his Ohio campaign rally, "Take your hat off to the young, because they have a hell of an immune system. But it affects virtually nobody. It's an amazing thing." The president's remarks follow the Center for Disease Control effort to remove and retract information about how the virus is most com more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 25 -- The Texas Democratic Party issued the following statement by Chair Gilberto Hinojosa: "We see right through Greg Abbott's pathetic attempt to hide his coronavirus failures. Governor Abbott and every Texas Republican are out of touch with the needs of everyday Texans and the real issues at stake. "Whether we are white, black, or brown, Texans want a state and a country that lives up to its promise where everybody can breathe and be safe. "Instead of talking about the more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 22 -- The Texas Democratic Party issued the following statement by Chair Gilberto Hinojosa: * * * Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa issued the following statement: "It never had to be this bad. As Trump admitted that he downplayed the effects of the virus, Trump and Abbott continue to fail our families and put politics and raising money over doing their job to stop the spread of this virus. "In Texas, the coronavirus is still out of control. More than 14,000 more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 26 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release on Sept. 25: Governor Greg Abbott today announced that Texas' major health insurers have agreed to continue reimbursing network health care providers for telehealth appointments at the same rate which they pay for office visits through the end of 2020. While the agreement applies only to state-regulated plans, both the Employee Retirement System and the Teacher Retirement System will continue telehealth pa more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 26 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release on Sept. 25: Governor Greg Abbott today announced that nine members of the Texas A&M Veterinary Emergency Team (VET) and six agents from the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will deploy to Butte County, California on Saturday to help care for animals displaced by the ongoing wildfires. The VET deployed to the same area last December to provide oversight on sheltering, inventory and data management, veter more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 26 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release on Sept. 25: Governor Greg Abbott today announced the allocation of over $171 million in funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act which will primarily be used for targeted rental assistance for Texans at risk of becoming homeless due to eviction. The funding will also allow the Supreme Court of Texas, the Office of Court Administration, and the Texas Department of Housing a more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 24 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release: Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Cirenia Terrazas and reappointed Michael Lunsford, D.P.M. and Joe E. Martin, D.P.M. to the Podiatric Medical Examiners Advisory Board for terms set to expire on February 1, 2025. Additionally, the Governor appointed Nancy Windham and Yvette Hernandez for a term set to expire February 1, 2021 and February 1, 2023, respectively. The advisory board provides advice and recomme more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 22 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release: Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Julia Hayes and reappointed David J. Mentesana to the Appraisal Management Companies Advisory Committee for terms set to expire on January 31, 2022. The committee advises the Texas Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board and makes recommendations on matters relating to the regulation of appraisal management companies. Julia Hayes of Beaumont is a shareholder at Law more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 22 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release: Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Julie Krawczyk to the Family and Protective Services Council for a term set to expire on February 1, 2025. The council is charged with studying and making recommendations to the commissioner regarding the management and operation of the Department of Family and Protective Services. Julie Krawczyk of Garland is Director of the Elder Financial Safety at The Senior Source. more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 23 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release: Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Susan Nichols, Ph.D. to the Continuing Advisory Committee for Special Education for a term set to expire on February 1, 2021. The committee provides policy guidance on special education and related services for children with disabilities in Texas. Susan Nichols, Ph.D. of Carrollton is currently serving as the Interim Executive Director at the University of North Texas K more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 25 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release: Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Zoey Wang to the Family Practice Residency Advisory Committee for a term set to expire on August 29, 2023. The committee reviews, for the Higher Education Coordinating Board, applications for approval and funding of family practice residency training programs and related support programs. Zoey Wang of Houston is a Crude Market Analyst for Phillips 66. She is a board mem more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 26 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release on Sept. 25: Governor Greg Abbott today congratulated the 28 Texas schools that have been recognized as National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2020. The recognition is based on a school's overall academic performance or progress in closing achievement gaps among student subgroups. "Congratulations to the hardworking students, teachers, administrators, and parents of the 28 Texas schools recognized as Blue Ribb more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 22 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release on Sept. 21: Governor Greg Abbott today issued a Disaster Declaration for 29 Texas counties in response to Tropical Storm Beta. This storm is expected to make landfall this evening but has already caused storm surge and damaging winds, and has the potential to cause widespread flooding, as it continues to approach the Texas Coast. Counties included in this Disaster Declaration include Aransas, Bee, Bexar,  more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 23 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following proclamation: WHEREAS, I, GREG ABBOTT, Governor of the State of Texas, issued a disaster proclamation on July 25, 2020, certifying that Hurricane Hanna posed a threat of imminent disaster, including property damage and loss of life, due to widespread flooding, storm surge, and hurricane force winds, in Aransas, Bee, Bexar, Brazoria, Brooks, Calhoun, Cameron, Dimmit, Duval, Fort Bend, Galveston, Goliad, Harris, Hidalgo, J more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 23 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following proclamation: WHEREAS, I, GREG ABBOTT, Governor of the State of Texas, issued a disaster proclamation on August 23, 2020, certifying that Hurricane Marco and then-Tropical Storm Laura posed a threat of imminent disaster, including widespread and severe property damage, injury, and loss of life due to widespread flooding, storm surge, and damaging winds, in Aransas, Bexar, Brazoria, Calhoun, Cameron, Chambers, Galveston,  more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 22 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following proclamation: WHEREAS, I, GREG ABBOTT, Governor of the State of Texas, do hereby certify that Tropical Storm Beta poses a threat of imminent disaster, including widespread and severe property damage, injury, and loss of life due to widespread flooding, storm surge, and damaging winds, in Aransas, Bee, Bexar, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hardin, Harris, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Jim Wells, Kenedy,  more PR

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Sept. 26 -- POLITICO issued the following news release on Sept. 25: The Texas Tribune Festival and POLITICO announced a partnership today to present a series of top-tier Festival sessions under the "POLITICO Live from The Texas Tribune Festival" banner at this year's remastered event. The partnership, now in its second year, brings some of the nation's most influential public figures together for a series of must-see panel conversations. Speakers slated to participate in PO more PR

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 24 -- Trinity University issued the following news: Trinity and San Antonio ISD announced the creation of the "Trinity Community Investment" partnership, which will make an education at Trinity accessible to top graduating seniors within SAISD by providing students the financial resources and academic support to navigate the higher education process. The partnership is ultimately designed to give these students the opportunity to excel academically, and contribute as l more PR

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 22 (TNSRes) -- Trinity University issued the following news: Grace Hanshaw '22 has spent the summer growing plants in a greenhouse, conducting field research, and collecting and analyzing samples of leaf segments. It sounds like a typical summer of biology research, except it all takes place at Hanshaw's home in The Woodlands, Texas, rather than in an official lab on Trinity's campus. Like many Trinity students, Hanshaw, a biology major and Spanish and religion minor, more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 24 (TNSJou) -- The University of Houston issued the following news release: University of Houston researchers have found that during early pregnancy, the mix of alcohol and nicotine significantly alters the gene regulatory pathways of the developing fetus, which can lead to major deficiencies in brain development. Metin Akay, founding chair and John S. Dunn Endowed Chair Professor of biomedical engineering is reporting the findings, the first study of its kind, in the Natu more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 24 (TNSRes) -- The University of Houston issued the following news release: The COVID-19 pandemic and the presidential election have led to a significant increase in cyberattacks via email, text message and social media aimed at stealing personal information and destroying vital data. To help stop these hackers before they strike, computer science researchers at the University of Houston have been awarded a three-year, $660,000 grant from the U.S. Army Research Office. Ra more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 23 (TNSRes) -- The University of Houston issued the following news release: A transformational gift from University of Houston alumnus William A. Brookshire to the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering establishes two endowed chairs and four professorships, provides graduate student fellowships and invests in department research initiatives. In recognition of his gift, the department will be named the William A. Brookshire D more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 23 -- The University of Texas Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs issued the following news: A coalition of the state's top public policy research institutions will work together to create the Texas Blueprint for Urban Policy, an outline for the future focused on a comprehensive suite of new plans for economic development, housing, land use and transportation. The blueprint, to be completed ahead of the Texas Legislature's 2021 session, will be guided by a steering  more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 24 (TNSRes) -- The University of Texas at Austin's Texas Advanced Computing Center issued the following news release: Rutgers University astronomers have produced the most advanced galaxy simulations of their kind, which could help reveal the origins of the Milky Way and dozens of small neighboring dwarf galaxies. Their research also could aid the decades-old search for dark matter, which fills an estimated 27 percent of the universe. And the computer simulations of "ultra more PR

RICHARDSON, Texas, Sept. 25 (TNSJou) -- The University of Texas Dallas campus issued the following news release: Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas have examined how manufacturers are -- or aren't -- pivoting successfully in response to major manufacturing disruptions as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a study published July 27 in IEEE Engineering Management Review, two faculty members from the Naveen Jindal School of Management found that manufacturing response to the more PR

RICHARDSON, Texas, Sept. 25 (TNSJou) -- The University of Texas Dallas campus issued the following news release: As the human brain ages, the neural circuits that allow its different parts to communicate with each other gradually wear down, even in healthy adults. Scientists at The University of Texas at Dallas are using imaging techniques to investigate this process to understand better how it relates to cognitive decline in healthy individuals across the lifespan. "We're trying to figure ou more PR

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 23 (TNSRes) -- The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio issued the following news release: 175 area residents with a diagnosis of prediabetes are encouraged to enroll in a clinical trial offered by UT Health San Antonio and University Health System. The study, conducted at the Texas Diabetes Institute (TDI), is comparing four medications to see which will best prevent conversion to Type 2 diabetes. "People with prediabetes are at very high risk of more PR

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 22 (TNSRes) -- The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio issued the following news release: Brief inventory can be used in primary care, specialty clinics and research. Intolerances to chemicals, foods and drugs impact 8%-33% of individuals, studies suggest, yet few people are screened for it at their doctors' offices. To address this and increase awareness of chemical intolerance, researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 22 (TNSJou) -- The University of Texas issued the following news release: Simply not getting enough validation on social media can increase depression and anxiety, especially in the most vulnerable populations for whom these platforms may contribute to a cycle of rejection. In a new paper published in Child Development, a large, multi-institution team led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin employed an experimental social media task over three studies to ex more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 25 (TNSGra) -- The University of Texas issued the following news release on Sept. 24: Imagine a new type of security system that, rather than storing data or an encryption key on a USB drive, encodes information into a small piece of plastic that can be unlocked only via a chemical reaction using a specific type of substance. And the devices that can read this information think like human brains and have the ability to communicate seamlessly with today's electronics. These more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 23 (TNSJou) -- The University of Texas issued the following news release on Sept. 22: Patients with BRCA1/2 mutations are at higher risk for breast, ovarian and prostate cancers that can be aggressive when they develop - and, in many cases, resistant to lifesaving drugs. Now scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and Ajou University in South Korea have identified a driver of the drug resistance that can make a life or death difference for patients with these cancer more PR

DENTON, Texas, Sept. 24 (TNSAwa) -- The University of North Texas issued the following news release: The University of North Texas has once again received the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from "INSIGHT Into Diversity" magazine. For three straight years, UNT has earned this national recognition, which is given to U.S. colleges and universities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion. "We are very pleased to receive the HEED Award again thi more PR

DENTON, Texas, Sept. 24 (TNSGra) -- The University of North Texas issued the following news release: A team of University of North Texas researchers working in the field of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) have earned $1 million in grant funding from the National Science Foundation this year for various CAV projects. The first grant is $500,000 intended to help create workforce development training for researchers in CAV. "We are training the research workforce," said Qing Yang, an ass more PR

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, Sept. 25 -- Uranium Energy, a uranium mining and exploration company, issued the following news release: Uranium Energy Corp. (NYSE American: UEC; "UEC" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has now closed its previously announced offering of 12,500,000 units of the Company (the "Units"), at a price of $1.20 per Unit, for gross proceeds of $15 million (the "Offering"). Each Unit consists of one common share of the Company (each, a "Share") and one-half of one c more PR

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, Sept. 22 -- Uranium Energy, a uranium mining and exploration company, issued the following news release: Uranium Energy Corp. (NYSE American: UEC; "UEC" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that, due to increased demand, its underwriters have now agreed to purchase 12,500,000 units of the Company (the "Units"), at a price of $1.20 per Unit, with each Unit consisting of one common share of the Company (each, a "Share") and one-half of one common share purchase warrant  more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 23 (TNSRep) -- The University of Texas Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs issued the following news: Affordable solar energy can create significant benefits to energy consumers, but Texas is behind the nation in bringing these benefits to all energy consumers. Community-based organizations can help lead the way, according to a new roadmap for community solar in Texas from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin and the Humphrey School o more PR

CANYON, Texas, Sept. 26 (TNSGra) -- West Texas A&M University issued the following news: West Texas A&M University has received more than $2 million in grants for programs meant to increase educational attainment and the rate of living wage employment among the region's underserved and rural populations. The University will serve as the anchor institution for a new AmeriCorps program, partnering with area high schools, community colleges, community organizations and business, workforce and eco more PR