BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 5 (TNSPer) -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards announced that State Fire Marshal H. "Butch" Browning has accepted the position of executive director of the National Association of State Fire Marshals, which becomes effective May 15, 2022. Browning has served for 14 years, giving him the distinction of being the longest serving state fire marshal in Louisiana history. "Butch has been a valued member of my cabinet,  more PR

LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana, May 3 (TNSPer) -- McNeese State University issued the following news: Dr. Timothy Pardue has been named new director of bands at McNeese State University, according to Dr. Lonny Benoit, head of the W.A. and Dorothy Hanna Department of Performing Arts. "Congratulations to our former director Dr. Jay Sconyers, who has accepted a position with the U.S. Air Force Bands. We appreciate his service to McNeese and Southwest Louisiana," says Benoit. Sconyers joined McNeese in 2 more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, May 6 (TNSAwa) -- Entergy issued the following news release: The Entergy Arkansas Entergy Solutions Point of Purchase Solutions (POPS) Program recently received the 2022 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy. This is the fourth year in a row that the program has been awarded for its exemplary work and ongoing commitment to energy efficiency in Arkansas. The Entergy Sol more PR

LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana, May 3 (TNSAwa) -- McNeese State University issued the following news: Jennifer Bushnell, the medical laboratory science program director at McNeese State University, received four awards at the Louisiana Society for Clinical Laboratory Science's (LSCLS) annual conference in New Orleans. The LSCLS is the state chapter of the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science and furthers the national organization's mission to make a positive impact in health care through  more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, May 3 (TNSJou) -- The Baylor College of Medicine issued the following news: A team of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Louisiana State University and collaborating institutions has discovered that abnormal activity in a particular brain circuit underlies anorexia in an animal model of the condition. Genetically and pharmacologically restoring the normal activity of the brain circuit improved the condition, opening the possibility of developing a treatment strategy for  more PR

SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, May 5 (TNSPro) -- Centenary College of Louisiana issued the following news release: Centenary College and Shreveport-Bossier City's Willis-Knighton Health System are launching a new summer program pairing Centenary pre-med students with Willis-Knighton doctors for five weeks of job-shadowing and mentoring opportunities. The Summer Medical Scholars program will be formally inaugurated at a signing ceremony in Hamilton Hall on the Centenary campus on Tuesday, May 10, at 10: more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 6 (TNSPro) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Acts of homegrown and domestic violent extremism have been on the rise over the last decade. In order to prepare state, local, tribal and territorial responders to defend their communities from these threats, LSU's National Center for Biomedical Research and Training/Academy of Counter-Terrorist Education, or LSU NCBRT/ACE, is launching a new course that is specifically centered on detecting  more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, May 4 -- Entergy issued the following news release: Entergy Texas, Inc. recently completed a substation that is part of a $43.5 million investment in the Huntsville distribution network, improving the reliability and resiliency of the local grid. Located off Veterans Memorial Parkway, the new Veteran Substation supports the current and future load growth from residential, commercial and industrial customers in the area. "We're proactively investing in our infrastructure more PR

GRAMBLING, Louisiana, May 3 (TNSconf) -- Grambling State University issued the following news: Not even halfway through the year, 2022 has been big for the Call Me MiSTER program at Grambling State University (GSU). Earlier this year the GSU Call Me MiSTER program was awarded $2 million as part of $15 million in federal funding for the state's Fifth Congressional District share of the annual federal budget. Grambling State University is now set to host the 2022 Call Me MiSTER conference on Ju more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 3 (TNSRes) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Researchers who recently developed "Octo-Tiger," a breakthrough astrophysics code that simulates the evolution of star systems, have been granted access to the supercomputer Fugaku in Tokyo. Announced by The Research Organization for Information Science and Technology, researchers from Louisiana State University and the University of Stuttgart have been awarded resources to test the Octo-Tig more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, May 7 (TNSfund) -- Loyola University issued the following news release: Loyola University Institute for Ministry has received a $1.5 million grant to support development of a new project, "F.I.E.L.D.: Faithful Innovation through Encountering, Listening, and Discerning: Practicing Synodality in Ministry with Young Adults." Through this project, the Loyola Institute for Ministry will serve as an innovation hub to train and support parish ministry teams in research and pra more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 3 (TNSRes) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU student Kelli Moran is one of 14 in the nation to receive a National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant that supports graduate student study in the Netherlands. Moran is a doctoral candidate in the College of the Coast & Environment. This $399,718 grant awarded to The Water Institute and the University of New Orleans supports three groups of students over the next three years for two-week ed more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 5 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU College of the Coast & Environment Professor Nancy Rabalais was inducted as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., on April 29. She is among the 120 elected members - and the only one from Louisiana - recognized for her distinguished achievements in original research in 2021. She is also among the 59 women who have been elected, the most women elected in a single year.  more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, May 6 (TNSAwa) -- McGlinchey Stafford, a law firm, issued the following news release: McGlinchey is pleased to announce that law firm partner James R. (Jim) Sturdivant has received the Birmingham Business Journal's Best of the Bar award. This award recognizes the most notable attorneys serving the Birmingham area. As part of McGlinchey's Government and Internal Investigations team, Jim aggressively represents clients in high-stakes white collar litigation. He helps them more PR

LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana, May 3 -- McNeese State University issued the following news: After an excellent showing at the VEX U Qualifying Tournament held in Houston, Texas, the McNeese State University robotics team is preparing to compete with its robot, "The Mystery Machine," in the VEX U Robotics World Championship May 3-5 in Dallas, Texas. Every year, VEX U competitions present a new challenge to elementary, high school and college-level students in the form of a game. Participating teams m more PR

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, May 6 -- Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt issued the following news release: Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry filed suit against President Biden and other top-ranking government officials for allegedly working with social media giants such as Meta, Twitter, and Youtube to censor and suppress free speech, including truthful information, related to COVID-19, election integrity, and other topics, under the guise of co more PR

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, May 5 (TNSfund) -- Nicholls State University issued the following news release: The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation has awarded Nicholls State University a $100,000 disaster response grant to help the university recover from the impacts of Hurricane Ida. The grant dollars will be used to establish need-based scholarships to help students who left the university because of the storm, offsetting the cost of returning to Nicholls. "Even though others ou more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, May 6 (TNSJou) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: A team from the Tulane University School of Science and Engineering has developed a new family of two-dimensional materials that researchers say has promising applications, including in advanced electronics and high-capacity batteries. Led by Michael Naguib, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, the study has been published in the journal Advanced Materials. "T more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, May 3 (TNSJou) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: High blood pressure is a leading cause of heart disease and early death, but many across the globe live in areas with limited access to high-quality healthcare. The problem is especially serious in rural China where little more than 5% of hypertension patients have their blood pressure under control. A new Tulane University study in The Lancet finds that these hard-to-reach patients could be helped s more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, May 5 -- Louisiana Economic Development issued the following news release on May 4, 2022: In a move designed to further prepare Louisiana's workforce for high-paying high-tech jobs, Louisiana Economic Development announced today it will engage Unity (NYSE:U), the world's leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D content, to assist higher education institutions in training and certifying students in real-time 3D (RT3D) skills. Together with LED, Unity will  more PR