BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 22 -- Entergy issued the following news release on Sept. 21, 2022: Entergy Louisiana today received approval from the Louisiana Public Service Commission to grow its portfolio of renewable power by adding 475 megawatts of new-build solar generating capacity, which will nearly triple the company's total renewable generating capacity in the state. The commission also approved the company's Geaux Green option, a new green tariff - the first in the state - which will  more PR

GRAMBLING, Louisiana, Sept. 23 (TNSpar) -- Grambling State University issued the following news: During the National HBCU Week Conference convened by the U.S. Department of Education and the White House and currently being held in Washington D.C., Grambling State University (GSU) announced a collaboration with IBM to help establish a virtual GSU Cybersecurity Leadership Center. Grambling State is one of 20 schools working with IBM to create Cybersecurity Leadership Centers. With 500,000 unfil more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 22 -- Louisiana Economic Development issued the following news release: The Water Campus in Baton Rouge was recognized as the top Resiliency, Recovery and Mitigation economic development initiative and the best economic development project in the country overall at the 2022 International Economic Development Council Awards ceremony Tuesday in Oklahoma City. The Gold and Best in Show honors for the Water Campus were among five awards for Louisiana, the most the sta more PR

ST. MARTINVILLE, Louisiana, Sept. 23 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news on Sept. 22, 2022: Gov. John Bel Edwards joined Cajun Broadband and state, regional, and local leaders to celebrate the start of construction on a $1.5 million effort to bring high speed internet to over 500 locations in St. Martin Parish. The project is the first of the broadband initiatives funded by the GUMBO grant program to begin construction. Gov. Edwards also announced an $8 million inv more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 20 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following statement on Sept. 19, 2022: * * * Gov. John Bel Edwards issued a statement on Louisiana's third consecutive month of record-breaking low unemployment rates, the latest at 3.5 percent, and the total number of jobs created since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gov. Edwards said: "We did it again. For the third month in a row, Louisiana has set a record for the lowest unemployment rate in state hi more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, Sept. 23 (TNSfund) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: The National Science Foundation has awarded $6 million to Louisiana Tech University and partner universities to create printable sensors that detect heavy metals and pesticides. The research proposal to the NSF Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Research Infrastructure Improvement is titled, "Facilitating Ubiquitous Technology Utilizing Resilient Eco-friendly Sensors (FUTUR more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 22 (TNSpar) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Five years ago, the LSU College of Engineering and BASF officially opened the BASF Sustainable Living Laboratory in Patrick F. Taylor Hall. Since then, research conducted in the lab has ranged from developing a portable water filtration system using visible light from the sun to creating new functional polymers and nanoscale composites for healthcare, energy, environmental, and other indus more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 23 (TNSjou) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: * * * Rodents on the Farallon Islands, the largest seabird breeding colony in the contiguous U.S., have had a large impact on the native ecosystem, says new research at LSU. * * * On an island 30 miles off the coast of San Francisco, a hoard of invasive house mice are packing an ecological wallop far larger than what their small statures would suggest. These are the conclusions of a stu more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Sept. 17 -- NetChoice issued the following news on Sept. 16, 2022: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a split decision in the case of NetChoice & CCIA v. Paxton, ruling in favor of Texas's appeal. This invalidates the preliminary injunction and remands the case for further consideration, and it is the opposite of the unanimous decision of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals when reviewing Florida's compelled content law. Balancing free expression and online saf more PR

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, Sept. 20 (TNSres) -- Nicholls State University issued the following news release: Nicholls biology graduate student Taylor Andrzejak presented her research work titled "Microbial Ecology and Antibiotic Resistance of Public Boat Launches in Southeast Louisiana" at the 18th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, held from Aug 14-19, 2022. ISME18 is the 18th edition of its non-profit symposium organized by the International Society  more PR

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, Sept. 20 (TNSres) -- Nicholls State University issued the following news release: Yusra Soorya, a chemistry major with a biology minor, received a $4,000 grant from the Louisiana Space and Sea Grant Opportunities (LaSSO) for Undergraduate Research Program in the summer of 2021. This supported her nine-month research project which led to a bombshell discovery that CO2 acidified seawater speeds up crabshell hardening through increased mineralization. This important finding  more PR

PIERRE, South Dakota, Sept. 23 -- Gov. Kristi Noem, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release on Sept. 22, 2022: Governor Kristi Noem and Attorney General Mark Vargo praised a Louisiana federal judge's permanent injunction that blocked President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate for the Head Start program. The injunction was issued earlier this week. "President Biden attempted to use the COVID pandemic as an excuse to expand federal power to an unconstitutional level. Thankfully, the court d more PR

HAMMOND, Louisiana, Sept. 23 (TNSconf) -- Southeastern Louisiana University issued the following news release: Southeastern Louisiana University's Department of Computer Science is hosting the second of the fall Industry Connect Distinguished Lectures Oct. 20, at 4 p.m. Scheduled in the Envoc Innovation Lab, located in room 2026 in the Computer Science and Technology Building, the free lecture is titled "Life is Weird and this should have been a TikTok." Justin Obney of Paystar and Elevator3 wi more PR

HAMMOND, Louisiana, Sept. 21 (TNSfund) -- Southeastern Louisiana University issued the following news release: Southeastern Louisiana University's College of Education has received a five-year $5 million federal grant to strengthen the recruitment and preparation of new teachers, including increasing the number of teachers from underrepresented populations. The project is titled Building Rigorous Induction and Development for Growing all Educators or BRIDGE. "By partnering with school district more PR

FRANKFORT, Kentucky, Sept. 22 -- Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron issued the following statement on Sept. 21, 2022: * * * The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana struck down the Biden Administration's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for staff and volunteers in federal Head Start programs in 24 states. This ruling supports the legal challenge brought by Attorney General Cameron and 23 other states in December of 2021, which argued that the mandate was unlawful and unconst more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Sept. 21 (TNSjou) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: Does becoming a parent make people more likely to become conservative? Yes, according to a new Tulane University study, which detected the association across different countries and cultures and found that it became even stronger the more children people had. "Becoming a parent may have psychological effects that you don't expect," said senior study author Damian Murray, associate professor of ps more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Sept. 20 (TNSjou) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: A recent study co-authored by Tulane University researchers shows a new COVID-19 vaccine offers longer-lasting protection against Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2. The study, led by principal investigator Bali Pulendran, PhD, of Stanford University and published in Science Translational Medicine, evaluated the vaccine's performance over time in nonhuman primates. The trial, performed at the Tulane N more PR

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Sept. 21 (TNSfund) -- The University of Arkansas's School of Medical Sciences issued the following news release: The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is co-leading a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded effort to develop advanced, inexpensive devices to detect toxins in water and people. UAMS' $908,952 portion of the four-year, $6 million project involves testing a novel way to detect toxins in humans, and is led by Shuk-Mei Ho, Ph.D., vice chancell more PR

PINE BLUFF, Arkansas, Sept. 23 (TNSpar) -- The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff issued the following news: Dr. Sederick Charles Rice, a UAPB associate professor of biology, has partnered with a consortium of universities to improve water surveillance. In partnership with Louisiana Tech University and other partner universities, a $6 million-dollar National Science Foundation (NSF) Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Infrastructure Improvement grant fuels the proje more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 23 (TNSper) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU College of Human Sciences & Education (CHSE) announced that Scott E.Wilks, PhD, LMSW, was named LSU Life Course & Aging Center (LCAC) Director. Wilks is Professor and PhD program director in the LSU School of Social Work. The LCAC is an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional research unit headquartered at LSU. Since 2001, the center participates in research and partnerships that pr more PR

BOWLING GREEN, Kentucky, Sept. 23 (TNSawa) -- Western Kentucky University issued the following news: The Western Kentucky University Department of Housing & Residence Life won the first place ACUHO-I Marketing Award in the overall campaign category during the 2022 Association of College and University Housing Officers International (ACUHO-I)Business Operations conference, which took place in New Orleans, Louisiana, September 19-22. The award is presented to a housing department that creates a  more PR