PARAMUS, New Jersey, April 7 (TNSAwa) -- Bergen Community College issued the following news release: The International Center for Supplemental Instruction at the University of Missouri-Kansas City has recognized Bergen Community College student and supplemental instruction leader Livia Fontana with the group's annual "International Outstanding New SI Leader Award." Fontana represents the only community college student to earn one of the organization's six major awards honoring supplemental inst more PR

DALLAS, Texas, April 8 -- Akin Gump, a law firm, issued the following news release: Akin Gump advised Dorchester Minerals, L.P. in the acquisition of mineral and royalty interests totaling approximately 3,600 net royalty acres located in 13 counties across Colorado, Louisiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Wyoming in exchange for common limited partnership units of Dorchester Minerals, L.P. Dorchester Minerals, L.P. is a Dallas-based owner of producing and non-producing oil a more PR

MONTGOMERY, Alabama, April 9 -- Alabama State University issued the following news: By Hazel Scott The Louisiana Association of Broadcasters named ASU alumnus Scottie Hunter its Louisiana Young Professional of the Year during its annual Prestige Awards in Baton Rouge. Hunter, an Emmy-nominated anchor/Lead Investigative Reporter at TV station WAFB Channel 9 in Baton Rouge, won the title in the television category. "I think winning this prestigious award is incredible. Being honored in that wa more PR

SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, April 7 -- Centenary College of Louisiana issued the following news release: Mack McCarter, founder and coordinator of Community Renewal International, will deliver the commencement address to Centenary College's Class of 2022. McCarter will also receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the College during the commencement exercises in the Gold Dome on Saturday, May 7. McCarter founded Community Renewal International (CRI) in Shreveport in 1994, with a mission to more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 6 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news on April 5, 2022: Gov. John Bel Edwards joined the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) today in announcing his proposal to allocate $150 million in surplus funding toward coastal restoration and protection projects. "At this moment, we are reaping the rewards of over a decade and a half of planning and implementation efforts," s more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 7 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: This week, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards welcomed the leadership of the United States Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council and the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to Louisiana, where they toured key infrastructure projects, met with environmental justice and energy transition leaders, and engaged with the Governor, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and several Cabine more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 8 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards was joined by DOTD Secretary Shawn D. Wilson, Ph.D., and representatives from Louisiana Clean Fuels at the outdoor electric vehicle expo held at DOTD Headquarters to discuss electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IJJA), passed by Congress in late 2021, will allocate $75 million over five years to electric vehicle charging infrastruct more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 5 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Musician Jon Batiste provided the 64th annual Grammy Awards with plenty of Louisiana flavor Sunday night, winning five awards including the prestigious Album of the Year. Batiste, who grew up in Kenner, entered the night with 11 nominations, the most of any artist for this year's awards. "Jon Batiste has been a tremendous ambassador for Louisiana, as an entertainer and as someone who truly cares a more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, April 6 (TNSPol) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: The United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana released A.E. Phillips Laboratory School from judicial supervision March 21; the school is being dismissed from a long-standing desegregation lawsuit. The suit was originally brought against Lincoln Parish schools in 1966 to disestablish the former segregated education system within Lincoln Parish. A.E. Phillips was added as a party  more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 6 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU recently hosted about 70 business, economic development and government senior officials from Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. to promote long-term, multinational commercial, trade and investment partnerships in the region. The visit was organized by the Americas Competitiveness Exchange, or ACE, and Louisiana Economic Development. ACE is the premier econom more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, April 5 -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Dr. Brad Glisson, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana Tech University, is recruiting a team to work on a U.S. Department of Defense project that will culminate in an annual red-teaming competition for high school students. The red team competition will be designed to gamify network attacks, helping participants acquire a better understanding of how attacks take place puts them in a strong positi more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 8 (TNSJou) -- The Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center issued the following news release: A recently discovered chemical compound helped elderly mice with obesity lose weight, add muscle and strength, reduce age-related inflammation and increase physical activity, a new study shows. The study, published in the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, provides the first evidence that BAM15, a mitochondrial uncoupler, prevents sarcop more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 7 (TNSRes) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: With the development of steel and concrete piles over the years, the use of timber piles in civil infrastructure has steadily declined. While timber piles are a renewable and a low-cost foundation system, they have low stiffness and strength, limiting their applications to lightly-loaded structures. Enter superwood. LSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor  more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 2 (TNSJou) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Linguistic Indicator and Word Count (LIWC) analysis has strong potential for applicability to evolving topics in judgment and decision-making literature in accounting research, according to LSU Department of Accounting Assistant Professor Sanaz Aghazadeh. Described in her recent paper titled, "Using LIWC to Analyze Participants' Psychological Processing," published by Auditing: A Journal of more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 8 (TNSJou) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: The Mississippi River Delta is home to the world's largest contiguous swath of Phragmites australis, or more commonly known as the common reed. But the plant that can grow to nearly 20 ft. and has been a critical component in stabilizing the state's coastal erosion is not actually native to Louisiana--well, not entirely. There are multiple P. australis genotypes. P. australis subspecies (s more PR

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, April 5 -- Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt issued the following news release: Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry are suing the Biden Administration for rescinding the public health policy, Title 42, during the worst border crisis in decades. The revocation will result in an unprecedented crisis at the United States southern border that will have a devastating impact not just  more PR

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, April 9 (TNSRes) -- Nicholls State University issued the following news release: A Nicholls State University Chemistry Major presented her research on the relationship between success in general chemistry and mathematics ability at the American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting and Exposition. Claire Galloway, a sophomore chemistry major from Thibodaux, said the goal of her research is to promote retention and minimize attrition rates among students in general chemi more PR

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, April 2 (TNSRes) -- Nicholls State University issued the following news release: A Nicholls State University professor is spending his week in Paris discussing how technology is transforming the business landscape as part of the Pole Universitaire Leonard de Vinci International Week. Dr. Andy Simoncelli, associate professor of mass communication and director of distance education, is teaching two 3-hour sessions to two different groups of students from various countries. more PR

HAMMOND, Louisiana, April 6 (TNSPro) -- Southeastern Louisiana University issued the following news release: Southeastern Louisiana University's School of Nursing is now offering a bachelor of science in nursing-doctor of nursing practice nurse executive leadership track. Approved in December 2021, the first cohort of students will be accepted to begin in summer 2022. "This program uniquely provides nurse executive leaders with an advanced nursing doctoral degree to complement their expertise  more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 2 (TNSJou) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: COVID-19 patients commonly report having headaches, confusion and other neurological symptoms, but doctors don't fully understand how the disease targets the brain during infection. Now, researchers at Tulane University have shown in detail how COVID-19 affects the central nervous system, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. The findings are the first comprehensive assessme more PR

LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana, April 4 (TNSRes) -- McNeese State University issued the following news: McNeese State University civil engineering majors Connor Broussard and Pavel Kraus are bringing back an engineering tradition - they're currently constructing a concrete canoe to enter in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ACSE) Deep South Concrete Canoe competition. McNeese last sent a team to compete in 2018. Both are currently officers in McNeese's ACSE chapter. Broussard, from Moss Bluff, more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, March 29 (TNSRes) -- The University of Michigan's Rogel Cancer Center issued the following news release: More than 40 Rogel Cancer Center-led research efforts will be presented during the AACR Annual Meeting 2022, which runs April 8-13 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, and online. You can help amplify the reach and impact of your colleagues' work by tweeting using #AACR22 and tagging @UMRogelCancer. Presenter information is sometimes inc more PR