NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 13 (TNSAwa) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: Artificial intelligence experts from Tulane University and the University of Maryland have received a Google Scholar Research Award to develop better ways of promoting diversity and fairness in a variety of pipeline and selection problems, including hiring, graduate school admission and customer acquisition. Nicholas Mattei, an assistant professor of computer science at Tulane, and John Dickerson, more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 14 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: The Louisiana Department of Health is placing a temporary pause on all administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine while federal health agencies investigate whether six reported cases of blood clotting in other states were caused by the vaccine. Providers in the state of Louisiana will continue to use the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, and all Louisianans are encouraged to take advantage of the  more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, April 14 (TNSPar) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Over the last three years, the Northeast Louisiana Healthcare Alliance has provided support to healthcare facilities within 11 parishes in the region so they are able to grow and find stability. Their work funding programs such as Louisiana Tech University's Nursing program has helped alleviate an acute shortage of healthcare professionals by funding programs across the state so they are able to provide more PR

HAMMOND, Louisiana, April 16 (TNSOps) -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news: The LSU AgCenter Hammond Research Station has rolled out a package of online content, including a new website and a spring video tour of its gardens, in lieu of the annual Margie Yates Jenkins Spring Lecture Series and Open House. The website address is https://app.lsuagcenter.com/hammondtrials. It features an extensive database of bedding plants, trees, shrubs and other plants grown in more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 14 (TNSOps) -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news: Short-grain rice developed by the LSU AgCenter has been planted for a New Orleans company to make sake, a traditional Japanese beverage that is becoming more popular in the U.S. The Pirogue variety was planted on 31 acres at the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station on April 6 by Rick Zaunbrecher, the station's foundation seed manager. After harvest in August, the rice will be sold more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 16 (TNSAwa) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU junior Mia LeJeune, a native of Lafayette, Louisiana, is one of 62 college students nationwide to join the 2021 cohort of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation's prestigious annual fellowship. LeJeune was selected from a pool of 845 candidates nominated by 328 colleges and universities - a record number of applicants. She received support through the Ogden Honors College's Office  more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 14 (TNSRep) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Researchers in the Public Policy Research Lab (PPRL) at LSU Manship School of Mass Communication's Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs have released the fifth and final report of the 2021 Louisiana Survey. Findings show means-tested and universal versions of childcare and early childhood education programs are popular. The Louisiana Survey polled 781 adult residents from across the s more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 13 (TNSRes) -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news: For decades, LSU AgCenter researchers have sought to alter female horses' reproductive cycles to help them become pregnant earlier and give birth at the beginning of the year to meet the needs of the competitive racing and show horse industry. While Erin Oberhaus, an equine physiologist with the AgCenter, had successfully caused mares to ovulate and become pregnant months ahead of M more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, April 16 (TNSPro) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: One of the biggest questions during the COVID pandemic has been how educational institutions should continue to provide classes within the requirements for health and safety. Colleges such as Louisiana Tech University have faced the challenge of operating while also following CDC guidelines, an especially difficult task for a school dominated by majors that require hands-on experience such as engineerin more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 16 (TNSGra) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: Where else but in New Orleans--and at Tulane--can a Mardi Gras Indian Queen, a labor-union organizer, a Quaker activist and an immigrants-rights advocate team up with chemistry, anthropology and art history professors to teach graduate-level humanities students over jazz, poetry and red beans and rice? For more than three years, that's what the Tulane Mellon Graduate Program in Community-Engaged S more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 15 (TNSGra) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: The Tulane University Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) has received a nearly $1 million grant to fund research infrastructure that will encourage more collaborations across Tulane and the region in material sciences. The five-year $996,981 grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents will also fund a new undergraduate research program in the School of Science and Engineering  more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 16 (TNSAwa) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: A Tulane University professor now shares something in common with legendary journalists such as Bill Moyers, Molly Ivins, Leonard Pitts Jr., Studs Terkel and Nina Totenberg. Like them, and other major authors and communicators, Vicki Mayer, a professor of communication in the Tulane University School of Liberal Arts, has been awarded the Professional Freedom & Responsibility Award from the Associat more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 16 (TNSRes) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: Tulane University will invest $5.7 million to significantly expand the Tulane University Translational Science Institute (TUTSI) into a university-wide center focused on finding better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent disease and translate scientific discoveries into medical practices that improve patient care and public health. The institute will include new graduate degree programs to develop more PR

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana, April 15 (TNSOps) -- The University of Louisiana's Lafayette Campus issued the following news story: Victoria Harrelson will spend the summer at a familiar hangout, the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Harrelson, a junior from Lafayette majoring in elementary education, will work as a counselor at the rocket center's Space Camp from mid-May to mid-August. The educational camp is where in summers past she fell in love with space exploration, landed a s more PR

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana, April 16 (TNSRep) -- The University of Louisiana's Lafayette Campus issued the following news story: A public policy brief produced by the Kathleen Babineaux Blanco Public Policy Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette compares transportation infrastructure spending in the state to national trends. The Blanco Public Policy Center's "Funding Infrastructure in Louisiana" also analyzes the long-term economic impact of increased investment in the state's highways,  more PR