BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 15 -- Louisiana Economic Development issued the following news release: A north Louisiana bioscience center and a New Orleans Jazz Museum expansion have been awarded a combined $2.7 million in American Rescue Plan grants announced Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration. EDA committed $1.8 million to support construction of a new Biomedical Research and Innovation Park on the University of Louisiana Monroe campus. State and more PR

CLARKSDALE, Mississippi, Sept. 13 (TNSper) -- The Delta Regional Authority issued the following news release on Sept. 12, 2022: Delta Regional Authority (DRA) today announced that Alternate Federal Co-Chairwoman Leslie Durham will be leaving DRA to take on a new opportunity as Executive Director of the Louisiana Infrastructure Technical Assistance Corporation (LITAC). Ms. Durham will begin her role with LITAC, a new organization jointly created by the Louisiana Municipal Association and the Lou more PR

GRAND ISLE, Louisiana, Sept. 13 -- Entergy issued the following news release on Sept. 12, 2022: Entergy Louisiana recently completed the longest underground project in company history, adding to the list of upgrades that have increased the resilience of the electric system to improve day-to-day reliability and help the company and our communities recover more quickly following major storms. Crews undergrounded approximately eight miles of distribution powerlines along Louisiana Highway 1 from  more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Sept. 15 -- Entergy issued the following news release: Entergy New Orleans is continuing infrastructure upgrades at its Derbigny substation to help deliver reliable energy to more than 9,000 customers in the Central Business District of New Orleans. While the company continues to identify and implement reliability projects across the Entergy New Orleans electric system, several specific upgrades have been made to the 300 MW Derbigny substation. Among these upgrades are  more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 9 (TNSper) -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards announced his appointments to the following Louisiana boards and commissions. Louisiana Behavior Analyst Board The Louisiana Behavior Analyst Board provides for the licensure, certification and registration of individuals practicing ABA in the state of Louisiana. Rebecca L. Mandal-Blasio of Mandeville has been appointed to the Louisiana Behavior Analyst Board. Ms.  more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 15 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news on Sept. 14, 2022: A north Louisiana bioscience center and a New Orleans Jazz Museum expansion have been awarded a combined $2.7 million in American Rescue Plan grants announced Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration. EDA committed $1.8 million to support construction of a new Biomedical Research and Innovation Park on the University of Louisiana Monroe ca more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 13 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following statement on Sept. 12, 2022: * * * Gov. John Bel Edwards issued a statement on Louisiana's success in retaining recent college graduates in state following completion of their degree. According to a recent Washington Post analysis, Louisiana ranks 17th in the country in retention of college graduates, ahead of 33 other states including Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Maryl more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 16 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news on Sept. 15, 2022: Gov. John Bel Edwards and the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) announce that the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has approved the Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Deployment Plan and will allocate approximately $73 million in federal funding to Louisiana over the next five years. This plan, which was submitted on Aug. 1, 2022, to the Na more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, Sept. 13 (TNSconf) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Louisiana Tech University's College of Education (COE) and College of Business (COB) will join forces to present "Cryptocurrency: The Meth of Money" as part of the COE's new lecture series, "Living with Technology." The lecture will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 28, at 3 p.m. in University Hall on Tech's campus. Sponsored by Jeanette and Justin Hinckley, the event is free and open to the public. The  more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 16 (TNSper) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: The LSU Foundation Board of Directors has named LSU alumni Tom Adamek of Baton Rouge, La.; Antonio J. Lucio of San Francisco, Calif.; Anil Punyapu of Los Angeles, Calif.; Robert K. "Bobby" Reeves of Houston, Texas; and Mark S. Sutton of Collierville, Tenn., to four-year terms as directors. "The addition of these outstanding LSU alumni will extend the breadth of industry expertise and geog more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 14 (TNSres) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: * * * National Institutes of Health awards LSU speech-language pathologists $2.8M for groundbreaking research * * * Within all dialects of English and within all cultures and languages, about two children in every classroom struggle to learn language as well as their siblings and peers and would be diagnosed with a Developmental Language Disorder, according to DLD and Me. Without clinic more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 15 (TNSjou) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release on Sept. 14, 2022: Companies' "work from home" policies may be driving economic inequality. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly 70% of full-time office workers left their offices behind to work from home. While, at first, this was a temporary response to ensure workers' safety and to comply with government mandates, many businesses realized the remote arrangement could result in  more PR

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, Sept. 10 -- Nicholls State University issued the following news release: Nicholls State University enrolled 5,899 students, according to the 14th-day class statistics. The university continues to excel in retaining its students with an over 7 percent increase in freshmen retention. Despite enduring Hurricane Ida just two weeks after the start of the fall 2021 semester, Nicholls retained 76.5 percent of its entering freshmen, the highest retention rate in university histor more PR

LONG ISLAND CITY, New York, Sept. 13 (TNSawa) -- Altice USA (formerly the Cablevision Systems) issued the following news release on Sept. 12, 2022: Optimum (formerly Suddenlink), a brand of Altice USA, announces that it has been awarded 13 GUMBO (Granting Unserved Municipalities Broadband Opportunities) grants to build out its 100% Optimum Fiber Internet Network to more than 9,000 homes and businesses in Louisiana. The network build will be funded by a $15 million subsidy from the state in add more PR

HAMMOND, Louisiana, Sept. 9 (TNSconf) -- Southeastern Louisiana University issued the following news release: Southeastern Louisiana University, in conjunction with the Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies and the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, will host a symposium titled "Louisiana in Continuity and Change: Challenges Past and Present Confronting the Bayou State." Scheduled Sept. 27 and 28 in the Student Union Theatre on Southeastern's campus, the program will feature Gov. more PR