SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, March 20 -- Centenary College of Louisiana issued the following news release: Centenary will celebrate commencement for both the Class of 2020 and Class of 2021 on Saturday, May 8, 2021, at the College's Gold Dome. The Class of 2021 will be recognized at a morning ceremony and the College will welcome back members of the Class of 2020 for an afternoon commencement. Commencement in May 2020 was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. "As we conclude this extraordinary year more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, March 17 (TNSJou) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: One in six men being treated for advanced prostate cancer experiences a reduced sense of smell and taste, a symptom that could cause increased anxiety among patients because it is also a side effect of COVID-19, according to Tulane researchers. A study published in the journal Supportive Care in Cancer says a reduced sense of smell and taste among some prostate cancer patients is largely associate more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, March 17 -- Entergy issued the following news release: Jackson customers are now being served by a more technologically-advanced transmission system. Entergy Mississippi recently completed a $31-million project that provides a strong, new source into the city and allows the company to support economic growth and continue to provide reliable service at reasonable prices. "The new Mill Street substation and supporting infrastructure upgrades provide an additional source o more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 20 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards announced his appointments to several Louisiana boards and commissions. Louisiana Emergency Response Commission (LERC) The Louisiana Emergency Response Commission (LERC) coordinates and supervises implementation of the federal hazardous materials Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act within Louisiana. The LERC develops, coordinates, and leads the state emergen more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 16 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news on March 15, 2021: Today, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced his appointments to the Board of Examiners for New Orleans and Baton Rouge Steamship Pilots for the Mississippi River. Board of Examiners for New Orleans and Baton Rouge Steamship Pilots for the Mississippi River The Board of Examiners for the New Orleans Baton Rouge Steamship Pilots Association is an advocate for commissioned pilots tra more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 20 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards, Port of Iberia Executive Director Craig Romero and Turner Industries President Stephen Toups announced the company's selection of a 95-acre Port of Iberia site for future fabrication of modules and related services in the energy sector and other industries. Baton Rouge-based Turner Industries, one of the nation's largest industrial construction firms, completed an extensive more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 19 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: The Louisiana Department of Health and 20 initial partners kicked off Bring Back Louisiana #SleevesUp, a bold grassroots campaign that will bring COVID-19 vaccines to communities of concern through community events and targeted outreach. The campaign will begin with 9 pilots - one in each public health region of the state - with community vaccination events taking place the second and third weeken more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 18 -- The Louisiana Democratic Party issued the following news release: The American Rescue Act, President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill, works to bring the pandemic to an end by funding a national program to manufacture and distribute vaccines. The bill also provides $300 enhanced unemployment benefits for displaced workers and $1,400 stimulus checks to working people, which benefits 91% of Louisiana adults and 93% of Louisiana children. Additionally more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 20 (TNSJou) -- The Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center issued the following news release: Colorectal cancer survivors who maintained a stable body weight but lost muscle and developed fatty deposits in their muscles faced a 40 percent higher risk of premature death than patients who avoided both health issues. "The conventional wisdom has been that colorectal cancer patients should avoid losing or gaining weight during treatment," sa more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 19 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: The LSU E. J. Ourso College of Business has launched the first-of-its-kind online Graduate Certificate in Emerging Information Technologies for Business, or GC Emerging IT, and is now offering its Master of Public Administration, or MPA, program fully online from the LSU flagship campus. Both degrees are online-by-design, taught by the same faculty as the on-campus program, and supported through LS more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 20 (TNSRes) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: The LSU School of Veterinary Medicine (LSU SVM) has received an $11 million grant to establish a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE). The COBRE funds will create the Center for Pre-Clinical Cancer Research (Cancer COBRE), which will be based at the LSU SVM. This grant will last for five years and can be renewed for five or more years. The total amount awarded is $11,027,290. T more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 16 (TNSJou) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU researchers recently published findings that blight leads to an increased abundance of disease-carrying mosquitoes. The researchers investigated the presence of several mosquito species in two adjacent but socio-economically contrasting neighborhoods in Baton Rouge: the historic Garden District, a high income neighborhood, and the Old South neighborhood, a low-income area. They found s more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, March 13 (TNSRes) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Dr. Robert W. Gehl, F. Jay Taylor Endowed Research Chair of Communication at Louisiana Tech, and colleague Sean Lawson, Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Utah, recently presented research based on their forthcoming book, Social Engineering: How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a New Form of Manipulative Communication, to a Department of Defense-sponsored speaker more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 13 (TNSRes) -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news: Louisiana forestry's $1.5 billion in losses from hurricanes was double the amount of revenue the industry generates annually, according to an LSU AgCenter forestry expert. Speaking recently (March 10) at the 2021 Virtual Forestry Forum, Michael Blazier, LSU AgCenter forestry specialist, said the damages would be more if lost revenue, infrastructure damage and lost production during  more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, March 20 -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Airmen and civilians assigned to Air Force Global Strike Command are eligible to take courses in nuclear command, control and communication. To the untrained eye and mind, a first glance into the nuclear enterprise can be somewhat disorienting. Often referred to as a system of systems, there are many moving pieces that bring together NC3. The NC3 courses taught at the Cyber Innovation Center in Bossier City pr more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 19 (TNSJou) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release on March 18, 2021: As climate change reduces the frequency and intensity of killing freezes, tropical plants and animals that once could survive in only a few subtropical parts of the U.S. are expanding their ranges northward, according to a new study led by the U.S. Geological Survey. This change is likely to result in some temperate zone plant and animal communities found today across the more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 16 (TNSJou) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Researchers from Louisiana State University have introduced a smart quantum technology for the spatial mode correction of single photons. In a paper featured on the cover of the March 2021 issue of Advanced Quantum Technologies, the authors exploit the self-learning and self-evolving features of artificial neural networks to correct the distorted spatial profile of single photons. The aut more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, March 16 -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Only 19% of the College of Engineering and Sciences at Louisiana Tech University are women. Louisiana Tech students are paving the way for future students and coworkers by engaging with each other and building a community of successful women. "Engineering has been a male field since it started, so one thing is not only getting women together but educating others to be advocates for women in these fields," said more PR

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, March 17 (TNSPer) -- Nicholls State University issued the following news release: Gov. John Bel Edwards has appointed a Nicholls State University biology professor to a new task force that was created to address critical issues in the Atchafalaya Basin. Dr. Chris Bonvillain, associate professor of biological sciences, will join the 21-member Task Force on Atchafalaya River Basin Restoration and Enhancement. Gov. Edwards created the advisory board in December with the hop more PR

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, March 20 (TNSRes) -- Nicholls State University issued the following news release: Nicholls State University Marketing Professor Laura Valenti is earning recognition for her research into marketing communications between franchisors and franchisees. That research landed Valenti the 2021 Association for Business Communication - Southwestern U.S. Conference Distinguished Paper Award. Her research, titled "A Qualitative Analysis of Top Performing Franchise Brands' Email Comm more PR

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, March 19 (TNSRes) -- Nicholls State University issued the following news release: A Nicholls State University professor's research gives us insight into what makes the Lionfish a problematic invasive species. Dr. Katherine Galloway, biological sciences instructor, was the lead author for "Predator-Prey Interactions Examined Using Lionfish Spine Puncture Performance." "This invasive species directly impacts the coastlines near Nicholls State University," Galloway said. "I more PR

TYSONS, Virginia, March 18 -- TEGNA, a broadcast, digital media and marketing services company, issued the following news release: TEGNA Inc's. (NYSE: TGNA) VAULT Studios, creators of the #1 True Crime podcast hit BARDSTOWN, are back with a new, gripping unsolved mystery in season two of the series, titled BEYOND BARDSTOWN: LACOMBE. In the new season, the VAULT team partners with WWL-TV, TEGNA's CBS affiliate in New Orleans, and heads to the small community of Lacombe, Louisiana to ask: who kil more PR

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, March 20 -- Gov. Mark Gordon, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: Governor Mark Gordon has joined a bi-partisan group of Governors in writing a letter of support to Congress on the SCALE Act. Co-sponsored by Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the bill will support the buildout of the infrastructure necessary to transport CO2 from where it is captured to where it can be utilized in manufacturing or safely and securely sequestered underground. The letter is co-signed by Govern more PR