SAN ANGELO, Texas, Aug. 4 (TNSGra) -- Angelo State University issued the following news: By Tom Nurre Dr. William A. Taylor, an associate professor of global security studies at Angelo State University, has been awarded a 2021 Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation Research Grant in support of his forthcoming fifth book, "The Advent of the All-Volunteer Force: Protecting Free Society." The grant will fund Taylor's archival research at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library on the campus of t more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 7 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following news release on Aug. 6, 2021: Yesterday, U.S. Energy Secretary and former Michigan Governor returned to Southeast Michigan to highlight President Joe Biden's new executive order setting a new goal to make half of all vehicles sold in 2030 zero-emission and how the President's bipartisan infrastructure package will boost job growth in Michigan. Joined by Representatives Haley Stevens and Elissa Slotkin at roundtable more PR

YPSILANTI, Michigan, Aug. 5 (TNSPro) -- Eastern Michigan University issued the following news: Students enrolled in the Early College Alliance (ECA) program at Eastern Michigan University have a significantly higher four-year college graduation rate than other students in Michigan, Washtenaw County and across the state. Black students enrolled in the ECA graduate college at a rate nearly 700 percent higher than Black high school graduates in the state of Michigan, according to data from the Na more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 4 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong and a coalition of 22 attorneys general, today sent a letter to Congress urging immediate action to safeguard democracy. In the letter, the attorneys general ask Congress to pass legislation protecting against both voter suppression and election subversion. The coalition - led by Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel,  more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Aug. 5 (TNSPro) -- The University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy issued the following news: Two Ford School BA '21 graduates will be going to Europe this year, serving as English Teaching Assistants (ETA), thanks to the Fulbright Scholarship Program. Molly Kalb will be working in primary or secondary schools in Cyprus, while Magdalena Mihaylova will be at the Universidad de la Laguna, the oldest university in Spain's Canary Islands. "Part of what drew me to ap more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Aug. 6 (TNSRes) -- The University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy issued the following news: The push for consumers to go electric for their energy needs has significant environmental benefits as the world deals with the disruptive, deadly effects of climate change. Yet the economic burden of a big switch could fall more on lower income, minority communities. Research co-authored by Catherine Hausman, an associate professor at the University of Michigan's Ford S more PR

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, Aug. 5 (TNSPro) -- issued the following news: GRCC Workforce Training programs provide in-demand skills leading to rewarding careers. Each Wednesday we'll meet students who are heading down an educational pathway and changing their lives by earning occupational certificates. Steven Jetton had been working as a patient registration specialist for Spectrum Health for two years. During this time, he got to know many medical assistants and learned what that job entails. Tha more PR

HOLLAND, Michigan, Aug. 4 (TNSAwa) -- Hope College issued the following news: Dr. Brooke Odle, assistant professor of engineering at Hope College, has received an "Up and Comer" Award from the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB). The award is intended to foster mentoring and networking of early-career faculty and post-doctoral trainees with ASB Fellows of similar research interests. The one-year award includes travel funds to meet with a mentor who is an ASB Fellow and develop a plan to mov more PR

YPSILANTI, Michigan, Aug. 7 (TNSPer) -- Eastern Michigan University issued the following news: Melissa Thrasher has been named director of media relations at Eastern Michigan University, pending approval by the Board of Regents. The appointment is effective August 30, 2021. "Melissa is an outstanding communications strategist with more than 20 years of experience creating awareness and multicultural campaigns for organizations across the Metro Detroit region, while developing strong connection more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 6 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: In People v Deonton Rogers, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that Michigan's ethnic intimidation statute protects individuals who are targeted because of their gender, including intimidation against transgender individuals. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel previously filed amicus briefs in the Michigan Court of Appeals and Michigan Supreme Court supporting this outcome. "The transgend more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 6 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following statement: * * * Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel released the following statement on the passing of AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka: "I am so saddened to learn of the passing of AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka. "From his beginnings as a Pennsylvania coal miner to his rise as one of the most influential labor leaders of the 21st century, President Trumka's life exemplified the American Dream, and he sp more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 4 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel today joined a bipartisan coalition of 25 attorneys general in a letter to the National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (NC-SARA) urging it to institute stronger consumer protection policies for the more than 3 million students enrolled in distance education courses offered by its 2,276 participating institutions. NC-SARA provides l more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 5 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined a multistate coalition in a comment letter urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to swiftly repeal or significantly revise a Trump-era rule curtailing state authority under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act. The changes to the rules made in 2020 have created uncertainty and confusion, complicating and delaying urgently needed action. more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 3 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, along with 21 other attorneys general, today sent a letter to Congress urging immediate action to safeguard democracy. In the letter, the attorneys general ask Congress to pass legislation protecting against both voter suppression and election subversion. The coalition - led by Attorney General Nessel, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, Nevada Attorne more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 5 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson are responding to Wednesday's order from United States Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neureiter in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, which granted sanctions against attorneys who took part in a previously-dismissed and frivolous lawsuit related to the 2020 presidential e more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 5 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2021: Yesterday it was reported that Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon opted to withdraw her attempt to recall Governor Whitmer. Dated on July 21st, the paperwork to dissolve "Michiganders to Recall Gretchen Whitmer" was filed the day after the Governor's campaign disclosed raising $8.5 million from April to July and having $10 million cash on hand, concrete testaments to Whitmer more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 7 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following news release: When faced with a choice that would either elevate his profile or provide concrete leadership and results that count, James Craig opted for the former many times in his career according to reporting this week from Detroit Metro Times. Chronicling several key moments for the recent retiree, the piece details Craig's political calculus which dictated his every decision as he never passed up an opportuni more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 3 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following news release: Despite Republicans being a year away from determining who will be their party's nominee, it's already extremely clear what issues will define the race from now until then. Reflecting the rightward direction the Michigan Republican base has gone in since last November's election, all nine candidates in this crowded primary will be expected to pass radical ideological purity tests to clearly identify wh more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 7 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following statement on Aug. 6, 2021: * * * After the U.S. Department of Labor announced that nonfarm payrolls increased by a whopping 943,000 jobs in July, Michigan Democratic Party Chair Lavora Barnes released the following statement. "In the six months since President Biden took office, unemployment has fallen sharply to 5.4 percent and more than four million jobs have been created -- yet another indicator that Democrats  more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 6 -- The office of the superintendent of the Michigan Department of Education issued the following memo: DATE: August 5, 2021 TO: Local and Intermediate School District Superintendents Public School Academy Directors FROM: Delsa D. Chapman, Ed.D., Deputy Superintendent Division of Educator, Student, and School Supports SUBJECT: 2021 Special Populations Conference Registration Announcement Registration for the Michigan Department of Education's 2021 special populat more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 7 -- The office of the superintendent of the Michigan Department of Education issued the following memo: TO: Local and Intermediate School District Superintendents Public School Academy Directors FROM: Delsa D. Chapman, Ed.D., Deputy Superintendent Division of Educator, Student, and School Supports SUBJECT: Annual Certification Reminder and Requirements The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) is reminding administrators and human resources staff in local educati more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 7 -- The office of the superintendent of the Michigan Department of Education issued the following memo: TO: Local and Intermediate School District Superintendents Public School Academy Directors FROM: Delsa D. Chapman, Ed.D., Deputy Superintendent Division of Educator, Student, and School Supports SUBJECT: Reminder: Annual Educator Effectiveness Ratings Data Appeals Under MCL 380.1531j, specific educator effectiveness ratings are required to progress from the stan more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 7 -- The office of the superintendent of the Michigan Department of Education issued the following memo: TO: Local and Intermediate School District Superintendents Public School Academy Directors FROM: Delsa D. Chapman, Ed.D., Deputy Superintendent Division of Educator, Student, and School Supports SUBJECT: Early Career Teacher Mentoring Partnership To better understand the critical features of, and necessary duration and intensity for, highly effective mentoring p more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 6 -- The office of the superintendent of the Michigan Department of Education issued the following memo: DATE: August 5, 2021 TO: Local and Intermediate School District Superintendents Public School Academy Directors FROM: Delsa D. Chapman, Ed.D., Deputy Superintendent Division of Educator, Student, and School Supports SUBJECT: Nominations Open for 2021-22 Education Support Staff Professional of the Year Award Every school community has numerous dedicated professi more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 4 -- The office of the superintendent of the Michigan Department of Education issued the following memo: TO: Local and Intermediate School District Superintendents Public School Academy Directors FROM: Michael F. Rice, Ph.D., State Superintendent SUBJECT: U.S. Department of Education Releases Its "Return to School Roadmap" MEMO #COVID-19-205 This morning, the United States Department of Education (USED) released its "Return to School Roadmap" for local school distri more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 4 -- The Michigan Economic Development Corp. issued the following news release: Clare will be home to a series of rotating art installations as part of the creation of an Art Sculpture Walk in Clare's Downtown Arts and Culture District. This effort will be made possible through a new crowdfunding campaign, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and Clare County Arts Council announced today. The campaign is being offered through the Michigan-based crowdfunding plat more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 3 -- The Michigan Economic Development Corp. issued the following news release: A new destination called Little Bear Park will soon make its home in St. Ignace complete with two ball fields, bathrooms, a concession stand, a recreation trail around its pond and a fishing dock. This effort will be made possible through a new crowdfunding campaign, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and city of St. Ignace Downtown Development Authority announced today. The campai more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 3 -- The Michigan Economic Development Corp. issued the following news release: A group of dedicated community members in Grand Blanc is coming together to create a pavilion and public gardens space in honor of the Grand Blanc Perry Center's Centennial celebration. This effort will be made possible through a new crowdfunding campaign, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and Grand Blanc Community Schools announced today. The campaign is being offered through the more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 4 -- The Michigan Economic Development Corp. issued the following news release: Governor Gretchen Whitmer joined officials from Whirlpool Corporation along with federal, state and local officials to celebrate the groundbreaking of the new multi-family housing development in downtown Benton Harbor. Through a partnership with Harbor Shores Community Redevelopment LLC, Whirlpool Corporation plans to invest more than $20 million to construct the multi-family development in t more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 3 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release: Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced the following appointments to the Michigan Athletic Trainer Board, Community Action and Economic Opportunity, Board of Health and Safety Compliance and Appeals, Michigan Strategic Fund Board of Directors, Michigan Wildlife Council, and the Early Childhood Investment Corporation Executive Committee. Michigan Athletic Trainer Board Kimberly M. Collier, of Riverv more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 6 (TNSPer) -- Michigan State University issued the following news: Michigan State University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D., announced Bill Beekman, vice president and director of intercollegiate athletics, will be taking on a new role as vice president for strategic initiatives. This is a newly created position to help coordinate MSU's strategic plan implementation efforts, and Beekman will make the transition this fall. "Bill stepped in to help our athleti more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 5 (TNSRes) -- Michigan State University issued the following news: His work is a little bit retro, a little bit modern and all things classical. As the new Director of the MSU Excavations at Isthmia in Greece, Associate Professor Jon Frey has dug deep into content to create a new website for the decades-old archaeology project. In fall 2020, Frey, a classical archaeologist in MSU's Department of Art, Art History and Design, began to oversee the part of the excavati more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, July 31 (TNSOps) -- Michigan State University issued the following commentary: * * * By Leonard Fleck Professor, The Center for Bioethics and Social Justice in the College of Human Medicine At this writing three members of the FDA Advisory Committee have chosen to resign in protest over the FDA's decision to approve aducanumab for the treatment of mild cognitive impairment. This decision is commendable. However, it is very unlikely that their decision will alter the u more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 6 (TNSRes) -- Michigan State University issued the following news: A vast majority of Michigan residents support protections for streams and wetlands, regardless of their political affiliations, according to a new study from Michigan State University researchers. Results from the "Healthy People - Healthy Planet," or HP2, Poll, found that 78% of residents living in the Great Lakes region "support" or "strongly support" protections for streams and wetlands under the more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 5 (TNSGra) -- Michigan State University issued the following news on Aug. 4, 2021: Michigan State University will be home to a new Industrial Assessment Center, or IAC, where faculty, staff and students will work with Michigan companies to save money, improve energy efficiency and shrink carbon footprints. The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded MSU $2.25 million over the next five years for this effort, which will support Michigan's small and medium-sized manufa more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 3 (TNSMon) -- Michigan State University issued the following news: Despite economic uncertainty during the COVID-19 pandemic, Michigan State University received $232.2 million in gifts and pledges between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021. Of the 70,512 donors, approximately 15% were new donors to the university. "I want to offer my thanks and appreciation to every donor in the Spartan community for their generosity and partnership," said President Samuel L. Stanley J more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 7 (TNSAwa) -- Michigan State University issued the following news: Two MSU faculty members receive national recognition for their work supporting and advocating for marginalized youth. Two MSU faculty members have been named 2021 recipients of awards and research/creative activities grants for work supporting and advocating for marginalized youth by the Engagement Scholarship Consortium. Caitlin Cavanagh, of MSU's School of Criminal Justice, has received the 2021  more PR

MONROE, Michigan, Aug. 4 (TNSAcc) -- Monroe County Community College issued the following news release: Monroe County Community College wishes to announce that it will host a site visit for continuing accreditation of its Associate of Applied Science - Nursing program by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN). You are invited to meet with the site visit team and share your comments about the program in person at a meeting scheduled at: 12:30 PM, Wednesday, September 8, 2 more PR

MARQUETTE, Michigan, Aug. 5 (TNSGra) -- Northern Michigan University issued the following news: Northern Michigan University students enrolled for the fall semester are eligible for grants funded by federal stimulus dollars ranging from $250 to $1,000. They simply need to read brief information online and select how they want the funding to be processed. "NMU is recognizing that the pandemic has financially affected all students, not just our students who are Federal Pell Grant recipients," sa more PR

MARQUETTE, Michigan, Aug. 7 (TNSOps) -- Northern Michigan University issued the following news: Northern Michigan University Biology Professor Neil Cumberlidge was among researchers who participated in a Sierra Leone expedition that led to the rediscovery of two land-dwelling, rainbow-hued crabs "lost to science" for many years. The work was supported by a grant from Re:wild, a conservation organization supported by actor Leonardo DiCaprio, which funded the trip in search of one of the "25 Most more PR

MARQUETTE, Michigan, Aug. 3 (TNSAwa) -- Northern Michigan University issued the following news: Former Northern Michigan University student Sarah Robles, who trained at what is now the NMU Olympic Training Site on campus, became the first U.S. woman to win two Olympic weightlifting medals when she claimed bronze Monday night in Tokyo. She previously earned the same color medal at the Rio Games in 2016. "It's a really big deal," said Robles in a Team USA story. "I've struggled a lot throughout  more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 4 (TNSMon) -- Michigan State University issued the following news on Aug. 3, 2021: A $10.8 million gift from Switzerland-based packaging innovator Amcor to the Michigan State University School of Packaging will establish an endowed faculty position focused on sustainability and support renovations to the School of Packaging building. The contribution is the largest corporate gift in the history of MSU's School of Packaging. "We are grateful to Amcor for its suppor more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Aug. 4 (TNSRep) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: The COVID-19 pandemic may have increased older adults' risk of falling and injuring themselves, due to changes in physical activity, conditioning and mobility, a new national poll suggests. More than a third of people between the ages of 50 and 80 report their physical activity declined in the pandemic's first 10 months, and more than a quarter say they're in worse physical condition now than  more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 7 (TNSPer) -- Michigan State University issued the following news: Suzanne Lang has been appointed associate provost and associate vice president for academic human resources, with retirement at the end of a two-year term of service in this role. During the second year of her term, a national search will be initiated, with Dr. Lang serving until a new associate provost is seated. Over the past year as interim associate provost and associate vice president for acade more PR

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Aug. 3 (TNSOps) -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: By Stephanie Jones Texas A&M University's team The 12th Unmanned took first place in the overall dynamic event during the fourth and final competition milestone of the 2021 AutoDrive Challenge held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 5-14. The AutoDrive Challenge began in 2018 after General Motors (GM) and the Society of Automotive Engineers International announced the inaugural compet more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Aug. 3 (TNSMon) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts is expanding the University of Michigan's global footprint in art history studies with the announcement of a new $6.25 million gift from one of its own community members. The major gift comes from Ilene Forsyth, LSA professor emerita and alumna, and will fund a distinguished professorship and visiting graduate student fellowship. "We are beyond more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Aug. 3 (TNSRes) -- The University of Michigan issued the following Q&A with PhD student Yixin Zou: Survivors of intimate partner violence who experience tech abuse often reach out to computer security companies for help. But the customer support personnel at these companies are not sufficiently prepared to handle such cases, research from the University of Michigan School of Information finds. Through a multipronged approach, U-M doctoral students Yixin Zou and Allison McD more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Aug. 4 (TNSRes) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: While some students may think it's a good idea to pull an all-nighter before an exam, conventional wisdom may be correct: A good night's sleep may actually be more helpful, according to University of Michigan research. U-M scientists Sara Aton and James Delorme found when mice are sleep-deprived, there is an increase in activity in inhibitory neurons in the hippocampus, an area of the brain es more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Aug. 3 (TNSJou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release on Aug. 2, 2021: The rise of oxygen levels early in Earth's history paved the way for the spectacular diversity of animal life. But for decades, scientists have struggled to explain the factors that controlled this gradual and stepwise process, which unfolded over nearly 2 billion years. Now an international research team is proposing that increasing day length on the early Earth--the spinning  more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Aug. 5 (TNSJou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2021: New research in the journal Nature used direct satellite observations of floods to reveal that the proportion of the world's population exposed to floods has grown by 24% since the turn of the century--10 times higher than scientists previously thought--due to both increased flooding and population migration. This marks an increase of population inside flood-prone regions of up more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Aug. 6 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: The push for consumers to go electric for their energy needs has significant environmental benefits as the world deals with the disruptive, deadly effects of climate change. Yet the economic burden of a big switch could fall more on lower income, minority communities. Research co-authored by Catherine Hausman, an associate professor at the University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy, finds a  more PR

KALAMAZOO, Michigan, Aug. 4 (TNSEco) -- Western Michigan University issued the following news: Western Michigan University is welcoming back students with additional strategies to improve indoor air quality in all of the buildings on campus, as indoor air quality is a front-and-center issue amid the pandemic. Last school year, Facilities Management began doubling the amount of outside air used within the building, as well as ventilating the building two hours before any scheduled use until two more PR