BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 25 (TNSPer) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release on March 24, 2022: President Joe Biden announced today that he intends to appoint E. J. Ourso College of Business Dean Jared Llorens, along with two others, to a member role within the Federal Salary Council. The Federal Salary Council is an advisory body of the executive branch that provides recommendations on pay differentials for federal employees. The Council submits recommendations to more PR

COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 22 -- American Electric Power Corp. issued the following news release: American Electric Power's (Nasdaq: AEP) 998-megawatt (MW) Traverse Wind Energy Center, the largest single wind farm built at one time in North America and one of the largest wind facilities worldwide, is now providing clean energy to customers in Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma. Traverse is expected to generate 3.8 million megawatt-hours annually for AEP's Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO) and  more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 23 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news on March 22, 2022: Gov. John Bel Edwards joined U.S. Housing and Urban Development Sec. Marcia Fudge today to announce that Louisiana will receive an additional allocation of $450 million for recovery from Hurricanes Laura and Delta and $1.27 billion for Hurricane Ida as part of the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2021. When added to HUD's first allocation of $600 million last y more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 24 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards will be joined by local leaders, legislators, homeowners, and business owners tomorrow to discuss the challenges facing people still fighting with their insurance companies following the 2020 and 2021 hurricanes and how key legislation can reform how insurers treat Louisianans after natural disasters. "I've said it before and I'll say it again - after a natural disaster, it' more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, March 23 (TNSAwa) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: In early March, Cathi Cox-Boniol, Director of the Region 8 LaSTEM Center and Louisiana Tech graduate, was honored with several awards during the annual International Technology and Engineering Educators Association (ITEEA) conference. Cox-Boniol was recognized as the Outstanding Affiliate Representative for Region 2, which includes Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, March 20 (TNSBook) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news on March 19, 2022: Dr. Robert Gehl, F. Jay Taylor Endowed Research Chair of Communication, recently published his latest book, Social Engineering: How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a New Form of Manipulative Communication. The book examines manipulative communication from early 20th Century propaganda to today's online con artistry through the lens of social engineering. "This boo more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 22 -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news: The LSU AgCenter will conduct three MarketReady training workshops for Louisiana food producers in May. The workshops will take place May 3 in New Orleans, May 10 in Lafayette and May 12 in Monroe. All three events will run from 1 to 3 p.m. "The focus of the completely redesigned training is to assist local food producers in establishing a business strategy and effectively marketing their p more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 25 (TNSJou) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: The sale or purchase of a home is the largest financial transaction for most households and can have a significant impact on household wealth. However, as LSU Department of Finance Assistant Professor Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara and his colleague show in a recent paper published in Management Science, when it comes to selling their homes, sellers exhibit behavioral biases and do not behave in a  more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 24 (TNSJou) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: For years now, there has been considerable public health concern about the quality of the American diet and the rise in the prevalence of obesity. In response, the U.S. adopted a nationwide law in 2018 requiring that chain restaurants display calorie counts on their menus and menu boards. To estimate the impact of calorie labeling, LSU Department of Economics Assistant Professor Barton Wil more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 22 (TNSRes) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release on March 21, 2022: Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies play an increasing role in our society today, including in high-stakes decision-making systems like lending decisions, employment screenings, and criminal justice sentencing. However, one growing challenge with AI and ML systems is avoiding the unfairness they might introduce that can lead to discriminat more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 22 (TNSJou) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Humans re-shape the environments where they live, with cities being among the most profoundly transformed environments on Earth. New research now shows that these urban environments are altering the way life evolves. A ground-breaking study led by evolutionary biologists at LSU and University of Toronto Mississauga or UTM examines whether parallel evolution is occurring in cities all over more PR

FAIRFAX, Virginia, March 26 (TNSPro) -- George Mason University issued the following campus news on March 24, 2022: By Mariam Aburdeineh Adam Crepelle had just started law school at the time of the 2010 BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. As a citizen of the United Houma Nation, a historic Native American tribe, Crepelle felt that the consequences of the spill hit home hard. "The Houma were getting spilled on quite heavily by BP, and everyone in Louisiana was getting BP money, except the Houm more PR

SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, March 22 -- Southwestern Electric Power, an American Electric Power company, issued the following news release: The 998-megawatt Traverse Wind Energy Center, the largest single wind farm built at one time in North America, is now providing clean energy to Southwestern Electric Power Co. customers in Louisiana and Arkansas. Traverse is the third and final wind project in the North Central Energy Facilities (NCEF) in Oklahoma that will provide 1,484 MW of clean energy - en more PR

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana, March 22 (TNSPar) -- The University of Louisiana's Lafayette Campus issued the following news story on March 21, 2022: Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas will establish a hub for development, production, and use of hydrogen as fuel and manufacturing feedstock as part of ongoing efforts to diversify the region's energy portfolio. The recently announced partnership will enable the three states - where large amounts of hydrogen are produced - to collectively compete for federa more PR

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana, March 25 (TNSJou) -- The University of Louisiana's Lafayette Campus issued the following news story: Two University of Louisiana at Lafayette researchers are among an international team of scientists whose study of the impacts of hurricanes has provided insight into ways coastal ecosystems might respond to future storms. The researchers' findings were recently published in "Science Advances," an academic journal published by the American Association for the Advancement o more PR

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana, March 24 (TNSPar) -- The University of Louisiana's Lafayette Campus issued the following news story: The Kathleen Babineaux Blanco Public Policy Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette will collaborate with several universities on an oral history project to document the legacies of influential women in state politics. The Louisiana Women in Politics Oral History Project will provide a historical record of the work and lives of public figures, and their leadersh more PR