NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 14 (TNSPer) -- Entergy issued the following news release: Entergy today announced that John O. Hudson III has been named senior vice president, federal policy, regulatory and government affairs. He will report to Marcus Brown, executive vice president and general counsel, and will join the company effective April 22. "John brings proven executive level utility leadership and a wide range of critically important experiences to this role," said Brown. "We are excite more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 5 (TNSPer) -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news: Jong Hyun Ham, an LSU AgCenter plant pathologist, has been named to the F. Avalon Daggett Professorship in Rice Research. The professorship recognizes outstanding research accomplishments in rice production. It supports recipients' programs by providing salary supplements as well as funding for instruction, research equipment, materials and faculty improvement. "Dr. Jong Ham has mad more PR

AIKEN, South Carolina, April 15 (TNSPer) -- The University of South Carolina's Aiken Campus issued the following news release: The University of South Carolina Aiken (USC Aiken) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Nancy Albers as the next dean of the School of Business Administration (SOBA). Dr. Albers comes to Aiken from Louisiana State University (LSU) Shreveport, where she has served as a professor of marketing and dean of the College of Business. She has a wealth of experience, as more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 15 (TNSRep) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Researchers in the Public Policy Research Lab (PPRL) at LSU's Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs in the Manship School of Mass Communication found most Louisianans believe land loss will cause harm to residents of the state's coastal areas and Louisiana's coastal land loss poses a threat to future generations. Additionally, most state residents believe hurricanes are more frequent an more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, April 16 (TNSAwa) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Dr. David Mills, a professor in Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, has received an award for his publication on 3D Printing Custom Bioactive and Absorbable Surgical Screws, Pins, and Bone Plates for Localized Drug Delivery. The publication was ranked number one in the Journal of Functional Biomaterials 2021 Highly Cited Paper awards. Along with co-authors Dr. Karthik Tappa, Dr. Udayabhanu more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, April 16 (TNSAwa) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Robbie Evans, a 2013 graduate of Louisiana Tech through the University's alternative certification program, has spent the past 10 years of his professional life pouring into the students of his "other" alma mater, Sterlington Middle School. Because of his "outstanding contributions to the teaching and learning of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and computer science," Evans has received t more PR

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, April 16 (TNSAwa) -- Nicholls State University issued the following news release: Nicholls State University Assistant Professor of Art Marjan Khatibi won an ANMTN for an animation she created as a master's student at the University of California in Santa Cruz. Khatibi received the Best Student Film Award from the ANMTN! The International Animation Film Festival earlier this year for her film titled, "A Girl Who Asked Why." "It feels great that my story - a story of wom more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 11 -- Tulane University issued the following news release: Four individuals who have made major contributions in fields ranging from sports and entertainment to national defense and artificial intelligence will receive honorary degrees at Tulane University's 2022 Commencement. Henry "Hank" Aaron, one of baseball's greatest players; Gen. David H. Berger, a Tulane graduate and commandant of the United States Marine Corps; Ken Jeong, a medical doctor who became one o more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 13 (TNSRep) -- Entergy issued the following news release: Entergy released its 2021 Integrated Report, an assessment of the company's environmental, social, governance and financial performance for the year. The report, titled "The future is on," provides all our stakeholders with a more complete picture of the value we place on our commitments, progress on our goals, and the opportunities we see in 2022 and beyond. "Powering the lives of our customers and communi more PR

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, April 15 -- Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody issued the following news release: During the nation's worst border crisis in decades, the Biden administration is planning to rescind the Title 42 Order, which would spur mass immigration at the U.S. southwest border and overwhelm federal authorities. Attorney General Ashley Moody is taking action to keep the Title 42 Order in place. Attorney General Moody is joined by 20 other attorneys general in filing an amended compla more PR

BOISE, Idaho, April 13 -- Gov. Brad Little, R-Idaho, issued the following news release on April 12, 2022: Governor Brad Little and Attorney General Lawrence Wasden announced today they are working together to add Idaho to the list of states joining a lawsuit filed by Arizona, Louisiana, and Missouri challenging the Biden Administration's termination of the Title 42 Orders, Trump-era border policies that helped minimize the flow of illegal immigration across the United States-Mexico border. "As more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 12 -- Louisiana Economic Development issued the following news release: Gov. John Bel Edwards and Cleco Corporate Holdings LLC President and CEO Bill Fontenot announced the company will invest $900 million to significantly reduce carbon emissions at the largest of its nine electric generation units in Louisiana, Madison-3 at Brame Energy Center in Lena, La. Cleco Power, a regulated electric public utility that serves 291,000 customers in 24 Louisiana parishes, wil more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 12 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards and Cleco Corporate Holdings LLC President and CEO Bill Fontenot announced the company will invest $900 million to significantly reduce carbon emissions at the largest of its nine electric generation units in Louisiana, Madison-3 at Brame Energy Center in Lena, Louisiana. Cleco Power, a regulated electric public utility that serves 291,000 customers in 24 Louisiana parishes, more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, April 13 -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Louisiana Tech University's American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) student organization won second place at the 2022 Gulf Coast Student Symposium after finishing in first place in 12 competitions. The team also placed second in a competition and third in two others. The team, which will host the 35th Annual ASCE Concrete Canoe Society-wide Final Competition on Louisiana Tech's campus and at Hoogland Lake th more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 8 (TNSRes) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU Boyd Professor of History Suzanne Marchand has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for intellectual and cultural history. She is a faculty member in the LSU Department of History. Marchand is among a diverse group of 180 exceptional individuals the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved as Guggenheim Fellows yesterday. Chosen from a rigo more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 13 (TNSRes) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Researchers in the Public Policy Research Lab (PPRL) at LSU's Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs in the Manship School of Mass Communication found state residents are most worried about the economy, infrastructure and education. Confidence in the state government to solve these problems dropped to its lowest point since 2004. The 2022 Louisiana Survey includes two distinct efforts t more PR

LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana, April 12 (TNSRes) -- McNeese State University issued the following news: Carlee Reeves, a graduate student in McNeese State University's Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) program, is preparing to present her research on effective treatments for harmful autism spectrum disorder behaviors at the annual Texas Association for Behavior Analysis Conference in Dallas, Texas. From Dry Creek, Reeves' journey to the ABA program was very different than that of many of her classma more PR

LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana, April 12 (TNSPar) -- McNeese State University issued the following news: McNeese and SOWELA Technical Community College have signed articulation agreements for four programs, making it easier for students to transfer credits from SOWELA to McNeese. SOWELA students who complete 60 hours and graduate with an Associate of Applied Science degree in criminal justice, an Associate of General Studies degree in English literature, an Associate of General Studies degree in histo more PR

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, April 12 (TNSPro) -- Nicholls State University issued the following news release: The Louisiana Board of Regents has approved Nicholls State University to begin offering a new master of science in clinical nutrition and dietetics leadership degree in Fall 2022. "Having this program places Nicholls at the forefront of the future education requirements for registered dietitians," said Dr. Sherry Foret, program coordinator of the graduate program and assistant professor of  more PR

HAMMOND, Louisiana, April 15 (TNSconf) -- Southeastern Louisiana University issued the following news release: The Department of Computer Science at Southeastern Louisiana University will close out the spring series of the Industry Connect Distinguished Lecturer Series with a lecture titled "From Southeastern to Amazon." Guest lecturer is Software Development Engineer in the Device, Digital and Alexa Support organization at Amazon Tyler Becker. * The presentation is scheduled Thursday, April 2 more PR

NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 15 -- Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery III issued the following news: Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III, along with a coalition of 20 state attorneys general, is joining a federal lawsuit against the Biden Administration for ending Title 42, a public health policy that allows border officials to turn away migrants because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The coalition joins Missouri, Arizona, and Louisiana on the amended complaint filed in the Western District C more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 14 (TNSRes) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: The Tulane Innovation Institute will launch operations from its downtown headquarters later this year, thanks to several generous lead gifts from forward-thinking philanthropists. Like the nascent technologies and startups it seeks to invigorate, the multi-million-dollar, long-term project to transform the university's entrepreneurial capabilities is attracting interest from expert investors who re more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 12 (TNSRes) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: The complete archival collection of famed bestselling New Orleans author Anne Rice is now open by appointment to the general public and campus community for research through the Tulane University Special Collections (TUSC), a division of Tulane University Libraries. The collection was created and managed by three authors - Rice, her husband Stan Rice and her sister Alice Borchardt - and documents  more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 16 (TNSJou) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: While tuition at public universities across the nation has risen dramatically in recent years, increases in financial aid have kept pace to keep college more affordable for students from lower-income families, according to a new Tulane University study. Researchers Emily Cook, an assistant professor of economics at Tulane University School of Liberal Arts, and Sarah Turner, an economics professor  more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 13 (TNSRes) -- The University of New Orleans issued the following news release: University of New Orleans planning and urban studies professor Marla Nelson's research is part of the U.S. Treasury's Office of Gulf Coast Restoration inaugural webinar series highlighting promising practices and research that provide for the long-term health of the ecosystems and economy of the Gulf Coast. Nelson's research, "From Adapting in Place to Adaptive Migration: Designing and more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 11 (TNSRes) -- The University of Texas's MD Anderson Cancer Center issued the following news release on April 10, 2022: * * * New data from MD Anderson-led studies on ATR inhibitor and next-generation PARP1 inhibitor presented at AACR Annual Meeting * * * Results from early-stage clinical trials show two drugs that target the DNA damage response (DDR) pathway in cancers -- ATR inhibitor elimusertib and PARP inhibitor AZD5305 -- are safe and clinically beneficial more PR

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, April 15 -- Gov. Mark Gordon, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: Governor Mark Gordon has announced that Wyoming is among the states joining a lawsuit filed by Arizona, Louisiana, and Missouri challenging the Biden Administration's revocation of Title 42 border control measures. These Trump-era border policies helped reduce the flow of illegal immigration at the United States-Mexico border. Last fall Governor Gordon visited the southern border and joined 25 other  more PR