NEW PALTZ, New York, Sept. 11 -(TNSEve) - The State University of New York's New Paltz Campus issued the following news release: The Institute for Disaster Mental Health (IDMH) at SUNY New Paltz will reflect on 20 years of emergency management training, preparation and direct action at "From 9/11 to COVID-19: Lessons from Two Decades of Disaster Response," a virtual conference on Sept. 29 & 30, 2021. Since its founding soon after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the IDMH has served as a critical more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release on Sept. 7, 2021: The National Park Service (NPS) in coordination with Illinois Department of Natural Resources officially opened the Pullman National Monument and State Historic Site today with a program and ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating Pullman's ties to Labor Day, including remarks by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland. As Chicago's first national park, Pullman  more PR

WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana, Sept. 9 (TNSEve) -- Purdue University issued the following news release: Garry Kasparov, former chess world champion and founder of the Renew Democracy Initiative, and climate scientist Steven E. Koonin will headline Purdue's Presidential Lecture Series events this fall. "Does Freedom Have a Future? A Conversation with Soviet-born Chess Grandmaster and Democracy Champion Garry Kasparov" Kasparov will join Purdue President Mitch Daniels at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday (Sept. 14)  more PR

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia, Sept. 10 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Logistics Agency issued the following news on Sept. 9, 2021: By Beth Reece United Airlines Flight 93 was soaring over Pennsylvania en route to Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11, 2001, when then-Defense Logistics Agency Director Navy Vice Adm. Keith Lippert ordered an announcement for all McNamara Headquarters Complex employees to shelter in the auditorium. Planes had already crashed into the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and  more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Sept. 9 (TNSOps) -- GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders issued the following news release on Sept. 8, 2021: GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) announced today that its 2021 Spirit of Justice Award will go to Kylar W. Broadus, Esq. GLAD will present the award to Broadus at the 22nd Annual Spirit of Justice Award Dinner on October 21, 2021. After a virtual Spirit of Justice in 2020, GLAD's annual dinner and award gala returns to Boston at a new venue, the Boston Park more PR

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, Sept. 9 (TNSOps) -- The University of Virginia's School of Law issued the following news: Twenty years ago on Saturday, hijackers affiliated with the extremist group al-Qaida seized control of four U.S. flights. Two of the suicide missions leveled the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, while a third blew a burning hole in the side of the Pentagon. Passengers successfully fought back in a fourth hijacked plane, resulting in the plane's downing in a Penn more PR