NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, June 15 (TNSfund) -- Loyola University issued the following news release: With gratitude, Loyola University New Orleans announces a generous new gift that will establish the new Canizaro Center for Catholic Studies at Loyola. The $5 million in support comes from real estate developer and founder of First Bank and Trust, Joseph C. Canizaro, who is dedicated to growing and supporting the Catholic community in the City of New Orleans and beyond. "With great joy, we look fo more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, June 15 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards announced that he has signed the following bills into law from the 2022 Legislative Session. ACT 282--SB 3 Provides for distribution of monies collected from enforcement actions of coastal use permits. ACT 284--SB 87 Provides relative to the capital outlay process. ACT 285--SB 103 Provides relative to legal malpractice. ACT 286--SB 258 Provides relative to voting and the more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, June 16 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards announced that he has signed the following bills into law from the 2022 Legislative Session. ACT 359--HB 17 Provides for a benefit increase for the Louisiana School Employees' Retirement System. ACT 360--HB 21 Provides for a funding deposit account for Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System and authorizes the board of trustees of the system to modify required employer more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, June 17 (TNSres) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Even though temperatures will soar into the 90s this summer, Louisianans may want to think twice before jumping into a few local rivers to cool off. LSU Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professors Aaron Bivins and Samuel Snow have a $497,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to measure the amount of fecal contamination in two Louisiana rivers, find out where t more PR

SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, June 14 (TNSres) -- Centenary College of Louisiana issued the following news release: This spring, three Centenary students collaborated with a faculty member in the College's biology department to transform existing anatomical models and diversify the biology lab experience. The students, Yosi Bouslog, Jazmine Carroll, and April Jones, presented an overview of their project and its implications at Centenary's annual research conference in April. Anatomical models are an more PR

SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, June 17 -- Centenary College of Louisiana issued the following news release: Centenary students Lillian Breaux, Hannah Jordan, and Anna Jane Storms were named as finalists in an international flash fiction contest sponsored by the College's sister university in France, Universite Catholique de Lille. Storms won third place in the contest for her French-language story, "Attendre en hiver chaud (Waiting in the Warm Winter)." The flash fiction contest was open to any studen more PR

GRAMBLING, Louisiana, June 14 (TNSres) -- Grambling State University issued the following news on June 13, 2022: Grambling State University President Richard J. Gallot, Jr. is determined to continue improving the future growth and financial health of the institution and is encouraged by the progress indicated in the recent release of audit findings by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor (LLA). "The results of an audit engagement provide a unique opportunity to celebrate financial successes as we more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, June 17 (TNSres) -- The Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center issued the following news release: Pennington Biomedical Research Center faculty members Steven B. Heymsfield, M.D., and Justin C. Brown, Ph.D., are members of a team led by the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Weill Cornell Medicine and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory that have secured $25 million to take on the challenge of cachexia, the debilitating wasting condition respon more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, June 15 -- Louisiana Economic Development issued the following news release: The recruitment process has started for LED's SEBD Roundtables, the innovative peer-to-peer learning program that brings small and emerging business leaders together for a yearlong experience of collaborative learning, problem solving and professional development. SEBD Roundtables is based on the PeerSpectives(TM) Roundtable System developed by the Edward Lowe Foundation and considered a nation more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, June 16 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards officially selected the Atchafalaya Coastal Basin as the preferred site in Louisiana to be added to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) System. He also tasked the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) to serve as the state's lead agency, working with continued support from Louisiana State Univers more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, June 13 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following statement on June 12, 2022: * * * Gov. John Bel Edwards issued a statement on the ruling by the U.S. Fifth Circuit vacating the administrative stay it issued late last week after the Middle District Court ruled the maps of Louisiana's congressional districts drawn by Republicans in the Legislature violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. "This is a big step in the right direction for the people of  more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, June 14 (TNSres) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: College of Education Dean Dr. Don Schillinger and Dr. Lindsey Keith-Vincent, Associate Dean for Research, Outreach, and Innovation, partnered with Coursera representatives Lisa Kolm and Nathan Lippe for a presentation at the 2022 National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) conference. The presentation focused on workforce readiness and utilizing external partnerships to encourage career compet more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, June 16 (TNSpro) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: The transition from management to the enterprise-level executive is more than just a promotion. It requires development across all aspects of leadership, ranging from communication and networking to relatability and organizational engagement. Experienced professionals who seek to advance to senior or executive-level leadership are encouraged to register for LSU Executive Education's Executi more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, June 16 (TNSres) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release on June 15, 2022: The LSU Libraries is one of 10 institutions awarded the American Library Association's 2022 Carnegie Whitney Grant for the proposal, "Blood and Thunder: The Idealized American West and Its Place Today." Established in 1876, ALA is the oldest and largest library association in the world with more than 60,000 members. This grant, established by Andrew Carnegie in 1902 and en more PR

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, June 15 -- Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt issued the following news release: Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry filed a motion for preliminary injunction in their lawsuit against President Biden and other top-ranking government officials for allegedly colluding with social media giants such as Meta, Twitter, and YouTube to censor and suppress free speech. "Freedom of speech is the very bedrock of this great nation more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, June 14 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Last Friday, Texas Attorney General Paxton--in partnership with Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry--brought home yet another victory against the Biden Administration in federal court. In early 2021--and then again in late 2021--Biden's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a rule purporting to give immigration law enforcement officials discretion over detaining certain classes of criminal more PR