BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 1 (TNSOps) -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news: By Olivia McClure A piece of equipment recently donated to the LSU AgCenter will help advance crop research efforts, including projects on row rice, which has steadily gained interest among northeast Louisiana farmers in recent years. Afton Groovers, a Tallulah business owned by Chase Noland and Kenneth Smith, donated a four-row groover to the AgCenter Northeast Research Station near  more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 29 (TNSMon) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: A $1 million gift from Board of Tulane member Lisa Jackson, Apple Inc.'s vice president of environment, policy and social initiatives, and her husband, Kenneth, will double participation in the Newcomb-Tulane College Summer Experience (NTCSE). The program helps newly admitted students from under served backgrounds get a head start on succeeding at Tulane before fall orientation. Jackson credits a  more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 1 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards announced his appointments to several Louisiana boards and commissions. Traumatic Head and Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund Advisory Board The Traumatic Head and Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund Advisory Board provides services in a flexible, individualized manner to Louisiana citizens with traumatic head or traumatic spinal cord injuries. The board administers a program which enab more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 26 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following statement: * * * Gov. John Bel Edwards issued the following statement on the election of Troy Carter as congressman for Louisiana's second congressional district. "Congratulations to Congressman-elect Troy Carter on his victory this evening in the runoff election for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district. "Troy has proven himself as a strong leader in his hometown of New Orleans and in the Louisia more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 29 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Last week, Gov. John Bel Edwards joined a bipartisan coalition of state leaders from across the country in an open letter thanking businesses for speaking out in support of voting rights and encouraging more to do the same. "The right to vote is at the very foundation of who we are as a country," Gov. Edwards said. "It is important for leaders in both public office and private industry to spea more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 30 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news on April 29, 2021: Gov. John Bel Edwards today outlined his plan for spending $1.6 billion in federal funding coming to Louisiana through President Joseph R. Biden's American Rescue Plan to keep Louisiana on the road to post-pandemic recovery by investing in infrastructure, keeping the state's Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund solvent, addressing Louisiana's aging water systems, assisting the touri more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 28 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Following months of sustained improvement in COVID hospitalizations and an increase in the supply and availability of vaccines, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced that some mitigation measures will be eased and, starting Wednesday, April 28, the statewide mask mandate will be lifted. Mask policies in Louisiana will be set by local leaders and business owners. Under the Governor's new public health o more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 1 -- The Louisiana Democratic Party issued the following news release: Rep. Ray Garofalo (R) is the author of HB 564, one of the worst pieces of legislation in recent memory. Yesterday, he presented the bill to the House Education Committee, which Garofalo chairs. HB 564 is a divisive, anti-free speech piece of legislation that aims to ban "certain concepts related to race and sex" from college and public school classrooms. When Rep. Stephanie Hilferty (R) questione more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 26 (TNSBook) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU Professor of Journalism John Maxwell Hamilton's latest book, "Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda," is a 2021 Goldsmith Book Prize winner in the academic category. Presented by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, this annual honor is awarded to the trade and academic book published in the Unit more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 1 (TNSAwa) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release on April 30, 2021: A record high of 11 LSU students have been selected for the highly competitive National Science Foundation, or NSF, Graduate Research Fellowship this year. This prestigious fellowship supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees. NSF received more than 13,000 applications for 2,000 fellowshi more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, April 28 (TNSGra) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Four faculty members from three colleges at Louisiana Tech have secured grant funding focused recruiting and mentoring students from minority groups in order to increase their participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Dr. Laura Bostick, Dr. Marsha Cole, Dr. Jamie Newman, and Dr. Lindsey Vincent were awarded a subgrant through the Louisiana Board of Regents, the g more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 29 (TNSPro) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: The Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs at LSU's Manship School of Mass Communication is recruiting its inaugural cohort class for "The Community Collaborative: By the Community, For the Community." The Center is seeking individuals interested in creating change in their communities to participate. The Reilly Center will work with selected participants to identify collective solution more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 29 (TNSRes) -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news: By Vernon Miller Calling them the densest he's ever seen, LSU AgCenter entomologist Blake Wilson was startled to find invasive apple snail egg masses in St. James Parish, but said preventative measures, and a little help from Mother Nature, can mitigate the spread and potential damage to the crawfish industry. Wilson, who specializes in agriculture pest management research, had pre more PR

HAMMOND, Louisiana, May 1 (TNSRes) -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news: By Kenneth Gautreaux While tea is consumed globally, its production is focused mainly in Asia. A scientist with the LSU AgCenter has a research plot at the Hammond Research Station and is examining if certain varieties can be commercially grown in Louisiana. Yan Chen, a horticulturist, is managing a plot of several tea varieties at the station. She is looking at the adaptability of the pl more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, April 26 (TNSRes) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: When Computational Analysis and Modeling (CAM) student Wenjing Xu moved from Shanghai to Ruston to study at Louisiana Tech University, he was surprised to arrive in a small town that looked nothing like the America he'd seen in the movies. Now, as he prepares for graduation, he can't imagine leaving the University and town that has become home to him and his family. Despite first worrying when he saw R more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 28 (TNSPer) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU College of the Coast & Environment Professor Nancy Rabalais is among the 120 newly elected National Academy of Sciences members recognized for her distinguished achievements in original research. She is also among the 59 women who have been elected, the most women elected in a single year to the National Academy of Sciences. Rabalais is an LSU Department of Oceanography & Coastal Scie more PR

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, April 29 (TNSPer) -- Nicholls State University issued the following news release: The Nicholls State University Alumni Federation is pleased to announce the 2021-22 Alumni Federation Board of Directors and their officers. Due to a recent Bylaw update, the Executive Board has been voted on by the current Alumni Federation Board of Directors. Sheri Haydel Eschete (BS '84) has been elected as president, David Heltz (BS '84) as president-elect, Brooke Huddleston (BA '95, MEd  more PR

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, April 30 (TNSPer) -- Nicholls State University issued the following news release: Nicholls State University is pleased to announce veteran educator Jean Donegan (BA '73) as the dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Donegan has over 25 years of experience at Nicholls as an art professor and department head. She has served as the interim liberal arts dean since the College of Arts and Sciences first split in Fall 2019. "It has been my good fortune to call Nicholls home for  more PR

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, April 29 (TNSGra) -- Nicholls State University issued the following news release: Nicholls State University will advance and enhance teacher training thanks to a grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents. Dr. Leah Peterson, assistant professor of teacher education, received $30,000 to use for quality assurance and diversity initiatives in the Department of Teacher Education. The grant money will hire consultants to guide training with each initiative. Dr. Peterson's prop more PR

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, April 27 (TNSEve) -- Nicholls State University issued the following news release: Thibodaux financial advisor Thomas Meyer will be the keynote speaker at the 108th Nicholls State University Commencement Ceremony held in May. Commencement will consist of two ceremonies on Friday, May 14, and Saturday, May 15 at John L. Guidry Stadium. The Friday ceremo ny will begin at 7:30 p.m. and include graduates from: * College of Education and Behavioral Science * College of Nursin more PR

HAMMOND, Louisiana, April 27 (TNSOps) -- Southeastern Louisiana University issued the following news release: A Southeastern Channel student-produced football broadcast has once again won national honors. * The channel broadcast of the 2019 Southeastern vs. Incarnate Word football game live streamed on ESPN+ was named a national finalist for the College Sports Media Awards. The production was honored in the "Collegiate Student" division for "Outstanding Live Game Production." It is the fourth  more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, May 1 (TNSJou) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: A team of Louisiana researchers, including a group from the Tulane University School of Science and Engineering, has developed a smart quantum technology that could have real-world applications to quantum networks and future quantum communications systems used in the military. Ryan Glasser, an associate professor of physics at Tulane, and his team in the Department of Physics, collaborated on the stu more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 28 (TNSRes) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: Obesity is associated with an increased risk for a broad spectrum of tumors, including colon cancer. And once cancer develops, statistics show that overweight or obese individuals are at higher risk of cancer recurrence and have a decreased chance of survival. The underlying mechanisms for this are unclear. One of the emerging possibilities with regard to colon cancer is that excess lipids -- a cl more PR