SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, July 21 -- The Caddo Parish Public Schools issued the following news: The Louisiana Department of Education announced the 2022 Louisiana Teacher and Principal of the Year at the 15th Annual Cecil J. Picard Educator Awards Gala, held virtually the evening of Friday, July 16. Marco French of Queensborough Elementary School in Caddo Parish was named the 2022 State Principal of the Year. "Congratulations to the 2022 Louisiana Principal of the Year! Marco French is a visionar more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 23 -- Entergy issued the following news release: Entergy Arkansas customers with advanced meters have a handy way to access detailed energy usage data and more in MyAdvisor, found within the Entergy app for smart phones or online at www.EntergyArkansas.com. "The MyAdvisor dashboard lets you take control of your energy usage, so there are no surprises," said Michael Considine, Entergy Arkansas vice president of customer service. "You now have the ability to get deta more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 24 -- The Louisiana Democratic Party issued the following news release on July 23, 2021: Republicans failed to override Governor John Bel Edwards' vetoes of SB 118 and SB 156, the expressed purpose of their highly publicized override session. Republicans in the State House and Senate, ignored the concerns of law enforcement, business leaders, and the vast majority of Louisianans, putting politics before public safety, economic recovery, and Louisiana values. Louisi more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 24 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards and the Louisiana Department of Health announced the second winners of the Shot At A Million COVID-19 campaign. Congratulations to Edwina Jones and Andrew Homan for going sleeves up and doing their part to protect themselves, their families and their communities during this pandemic. Edwina Jones and Andrew Homan were selected in the drawing conducted by the Louisiana Lottery more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 24 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards announced his appointments to several Louisiana boards and commissions. Louisiana Gaming Control Board The Louisiana Gaming Control Board regulates all gaming activities under its jurisdiction in a manner which instills public confidence and trust that gaming activities are conducted honestly and free from criminal and corruptive elements; to insure the integrity of individu more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 23 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to rise in Louisiana, and following the designation of Louisiana by the White House as a "state of concern" because of its rapid case growth and insufficient vaccination rate, today Gov. John Bel Edwards and the Louisiana Department of Health issued updated guidance recommending that all people, both vaccinated and unvaccinated, wear masks indoors whe more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 20 (TNSOps) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Sixteen LSU Law students have been selected by the Journal of Energy Law and Resources Board of Editors and Senior Associates to serve as Junior Associates for Volume X. The Journal of Energy Law and Resources is a student-edited academic journal based out of the Paul M. Hebert Law Center. A group of interested students founded JELR in November of 2011, and the first issue went into public more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 21 (TNSAwa) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU's Cox Academic Center for Student-Athletes has been named recipient of the 2021 NCLCA Outstanding Learning Center Award for Special Populations, the National College Learning Center Association announced. The purpose of the NCLCA President's Outstanding Learning Center Award for Specialized Populations is to give national recognition to the work done by learning centers that provide le more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, July 23 (TNSOps) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: On her way to a doctoral degree at Louisiana Tech University, Zahra Farazpay has taught fundamental physics to college students, helped guide an international masterclass in particle physics for local high school students, and researched the strong nuclear force with Dr. Lee Sawyer. This fall Farazpay will begin work on the European Council for Nuclear Research's A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS (CERN ATLAS) Exp more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, July 20 (TNSPer) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: The new director of the Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station (WAES) recently joined the University of Wyoming's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Eric Webster began his duties July 6. He previously was director of the Louisiana State University's (LSU) Iberia Research Station and assistant regional director of the LSU AgCenter's southwest region. Research at the station includes ca more PR

COSTA MESA, California, July 23 (TNSPer) -- Orange Coast College issued the following news release: The Orange Coast College Symphony will have a new conductor at the helm as the College prepares for a phased return to campus in Fall 2021. OCC has hired Dr. Mathew Ward to lead its prestigious community performing group, which has been part of the Costa Mesa campus for 60 years. Dr. Ward is a Southern California native who earned degrees in violin and conducting from the Longy School of Music  more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, July 24 (TNSGra) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Dr. Rakitha Beminiwattha, assistant professor of physics at Louisiana Tech University, and his team, which currently includes Yusuff Afeez Oluwatobi, doctoral engineering student, and Nirmal Bhusal, mechanical engineering senior, have begun developing a particle detection system as part of the Measurement of a Lepton-Lepton Electroweak Reaction Experiment (MOLLER) at the Thomas Jefferson National Acceler more PR

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, July 21 (TNSOps) -- Samford University issued the following news release: Samford University communication and media student Camille Womack was named Student of the Year by the Birmingham chapter of the American Advertising Federation (AAF) June 23. The award recognizes the great potential of local students of marketing, advertising, design communications, journalism, or another advertising-related field. It was Womack's second AAF honor in recent months. In May, she earned more PR

HAMMOND, Louisiana, July 22 (TNSAwa) -- Southeastern Louisiana University issued the following news release: The student staff of The Lion's Roar, Southeastern Louisiana University's student newspaper, brought home nine awards from the annual Louisiana Press Association Better Newspaper Competition. The Lion's Roar, edited by Gerard Borne, Jr., a senior communication major from Norco, garnered second place accolades in the "General Excellence" category. Student newspapers from Loyola Universit more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 22 -- Entergy issued the following news release: Entergy Corporation today announced the appointment of Steven Brady to vice president, general tax counsel, effective Aug. 1. He succeeds Joe Henderson, who has announced his retirement from the company. In this role, Brady will lead the company's tax function, including compliance, planning and strategy. Brady will report to Drew Marsh, executive vice president and chief financial officer. "Steven's deep technical  more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 22 (TNSRes) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development has awarded a $256,000 grant to BioAesthetics Corp., a Tulane University spin-out company, to develop a new graft for treating pelvic organ prolapse (POP). BioAesthetics, whose CEO and COO are both Tulane graduates, is collaborating with Tulane researcher Kristin Miller, an associate professor of biomedical engineerin more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 21 (TNSRes) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: Tulane University School of Medicine and Children's Hospital New Orleans are participating in a national clinical trial to test the effectiveness of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine in children ages six months to 11 years old. The KidCOVE Study plans to enroll children across the country to test how the vaccine may protect young children from getting sick if they come into contact with SARS-CoV-2, the vi more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 22 (TNSRes) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: The more contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 is rapidly spreading across the country and now represents more than 80 percent of sequenced cases in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The virus is two to four times more transmissible than earlier strains and appears to make people infectious much sooner than the original SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 more PR