NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Sept. 30 (TNSfund) -- The University of New Orleans issued the following news release: As part of the $50 million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to the H2theFuture coalition in South Louisiana, the New Energy Center of the U.S. will be established at The Beach at UNO. A $10 million federal award from the Build Back Better Regional Challenge will be matched by $5 million in state funds. Known as NEXUS, the new center will serve as the physical and more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Sept. 27 (TNSpar) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: The ongoing war in Ukraine hasn't stopped a Ukrainian university from collaborating with Tulane University scientists and engineers, even after its research labs were reduced to rubble in the conflict. Tulane recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute (KhPI) in Kharkiv to collaborate with faculty from Tulane School of Science and Engineering in the fields of s more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 30 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards and a delegation of state officials and business leaders met Thursday with executives of the Lloyd's insurance marketplace to explore possible solutions for the insurance market challenges facing Louisiana companies and homeowners. Discussions focused on Louisiana's relationship with the insurance industry and how the state can keep major insurers engaged in the practice of p more PR

HAMMOND, Louisiana, Sept. 30 (TNSgov) -- Southeastern Louisiana University issued the following news release: During his visit to Southeastern Louisiana University as a participant in the symposium "Louisiana in Continuity and Change: Challenges Past and Present Confronting the Bayou State," Governor John Bel Edwards toured the newly created student exhibit in the Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies. The exhibit is designed to highlight themes of the symposium, which focused on historical pr more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Oct. 1 (TNSconf) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Jack Goldsmith of Harvard Law School will deliver a lecture titled "Death of the Treaty Power" on Monday, Oct. 10, at 11:30 a.m. The lecture, named for the late Cecil "Van" Crabb, who taught Political Science at LSU for many years, will take place in Hill Memorial Library and will include a zoom option for remote viewing. This event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the more PR

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, Sept. 30 (TNSres) -- Texas A&M University Corpus Christi campus issued the following news: Scientists from the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies (HRI) at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC) are among research staff responding to a recently documented disease outbreak at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS). The response effort is being led by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) staff. Additional research more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Sept. 28 (TNSper) -- Entergy issued the following news release on Sept. 27, 2022: Entergy today announced that Jason Reynolds has been named vice president of federal infrastructure policy and Leroy Nix has been named vice president of strategic policy and stakeholder engagement. They will report to John Hudson, senior vice president, federal policy, regulatory and government affairs, effective Oct. 3. "These two additions to the team will enhance and expand our externa more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 28 -- Louisiana Economic Development issued the following news release: Eleven small businesses from across the state have been selected to participate in the second annual Diversity in Entrepreneurship Initiative, an LED program targeting accelerated business growth for minority- and women-owned companies. The LED Diversity in Entrepreneurship Initiative launched Sept. 20-22 via a partnership of Louisiana Economic Development and the Michigan-based Edward Lowe Fou more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, Sept. 30 (TNSfund) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: The Contractor's Licensing Board and the Contractors Education Trust Fund (CETF) have donated $300,000 to the Louisiana Tech University College of Engineering and Science. The State Licensing Board for Contractors for Construction Engineering Technology Programs donated $280,511.46 in voluntary funds to Louisiana Tech's Construction Engineering Technology program. The CETF made a $19,488.54 donation.  more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, Sept. 30 (TNSpar) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Recently, Louisiana Tech University's Office of Research and Partnerships hosted a Transdisciplinary Health Applications Workshop (THAW) to encourage collaboration across related research areas within the University. Executive Associate Vice President of Research and Partnerships, Dr. Sumeet Dua, designed the workshop as a forum for the Louisiana Tech faculty from more than 10 academic programs across  more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Sept. 29 (TNSfund) -- Loyola University issued the following news release: Thanks to generous donations from the William Randolph Hearst Foundations, the Selley Foundation, the Edward G. Schlieder Educational Foundation, and the Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation, the Loyola University New Orleans College of Nursing and Health will proudly open a state-of-the-art Nursing Simulation Laboratory in partnership with Ochsner Health on Saturday. The new $1.9 million Loyola more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 27 (TNSfund) (TNSres) -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news: A cooperative research project between the LSU AgCenter and the University of Malaya in Malaysia to develop "climate-smart" rice has received a $50,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service. The award, part of the USDA FAS Scientific Cooperative Research Program, will assist scientists working to screen traditional rice varieties that c more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 28 (TNSjou) -- The Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center issued the following news release: Early time-restricted eating can be an effective way to lose weight and may be easier to follow and maintain than traditional calorie restriction. A new study from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 30 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: As classes began for the fall semester on Monday, Aug. 15, LSU Law welcomed 211 first-year students to the Paul M. Hebert Law Center. The 1L class of students has a higher median average LSAT and undergraduate GPA when compared to last year's first-year class, and the overall population of students from groups traditionally underrepresented in the legal profession rose to 25% this year, up from 19% more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 28 (TNSper) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Three LSU Manship School of Mass Communication faculty members have joined the school's administrative team as new associate deans in fall 2022: * Joshua Darr, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Initiatives * Nathan Kalmoe, Ph.D., Interim Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Administration * Meghan Sanders, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies D more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 29 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Once again, LSU has brought in its most accomplished freshman class in university history, with an all-time high median GPA at 3.78, and an ACT composite of 25.5. The freshman class is made up of 67.5 percent of students from Louisiana and 32.5 percent of them from out of state. About one-third of the freshman class are first-generation college students. "We welcome an accomplished group of stude more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 27 (TNSres) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release on Sept. 26, 2022: * * * LSU researchers have built a cancer drug discovery engine powered by AI that soon could match any type of cancer, based on a small cell sample from a patient, with the drug most likely to cure that cancer. Surgical oncologist Dr. John Stewart, director of the LSU Health New Orleans/LCMC Health Cancer Center, says: "LSU's work to leverage AI for precision medicine w more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 30 (TNSres) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: * * * Scientists estimate that methane, as a greenhouse gas, may be responsible for approximately 20 to 25 percent of all global warming since the Industrial Revolution. Even more troublingly, as man-made sources have been reduced, the amount of the gas in the atmosphere has continued to grow, fed by natural sources. Now, LSU researchers are joining a multi-institutional team to investig more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 23 (TNSfund) (TNSres) -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news: The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) recently awarded a grant of more than $295,000 for a multi-year, collaborative project of rice entomologists at three universities to study insect management in furrow-irrigated rice. The study, led by the LSU AgCenter and pest expert Blake Wilson, along with colleagues at the University of Arkansas and Mississippi State more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 29 (TNSres) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: * * * LSU scientists will be using innovative techniques to document biodiversity in the Gulf of Mexico as part of the NOAA's Marine Biodiversity Observation Network * * * LSU oceanographer Cassandra Glaspie offers a stark fact when talking about sea level rise and the Louisiana coastline: the combination of rising water and sinking land means that the state's coast is about 50 to 100 y more PR

SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, Oct. 1 (TNSper) -- Southwestern Electric Power, an American Electric Power company, issued the following news release on Sept. 30, 2022: Southwestern Electric Power Co., an American Electric Power (Nasdaq: AEP) company, today announced Brett Mattison will succeed Malcolm Smoak as president and chief operating officer (COO) of Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO), effective Jan. 1, 2023. Smoak will retire at that time after 38 years of service with AEP. "Malcolm h more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Sept. 30 -- NetChoice issued the following news: NetChoice and the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) filed an unopposed motion to stay the mandate pending a petition of certiorari from the U.S. Supreme Court in our case, NetChoice & CCIA v. Paxton. Texas has agreed not to oppose our motion asking the Fifth Circuit to pause HB 20 from taking effect as the Supreme Court is likely to grant certiorari in our cases. Thus, the status quo should be mainta more PR

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, Sept. 27 (TNSfund) -- Nicholls State University issued the following news release: The Morgan City Oilfield Fishing Rodeo has donated $13,500 to Nicholls State University Department of Petroleum Engineering Technology and Safety Management. MCOFR will also provide $2,000 to support Nicholls' Veterans Affairs and its PETSM Vets. The fishing rodeo has donated more than $82,000 to the PETSM program at Nicholls since 2013. The donations have been used to renovate and expand c more PR

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, Sept. 30 -- Oklahoma Attorney General John O'Connor issued the following news release on Sept. 29, 2022 and Sept. 28, 2022, letter: Oklahoma Attorney General John O'Connor has joined Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry in calling on President Joe Biden to rescind his Executive Order 14019 (EO), which authorizes the executive branch to utilize all federal executive agencies' power, resources, and reach to carry out voter registration and voter mobilization activities. more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 27 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Attorney General Paxton has joined a Louisiana-led coalition in strongly opposing the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2022 and sending a letter to Senator Chuck Schumer and Senator Mitch McConnell expressing the reasons for such opposition. The Act would allow the Biden Administration, largely through the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), to run roughshod over states' rights by ad more PR

SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, Sept. 27 -- Southwestern Electric Power, an American Electric Power company, issued the following news release on Sept. 26, 2022: Southwestern Electric Power Co., an American Electric Power (Nasdaq: AEP) company, announced today that the company plans to send more than 300 personnel to Florida in preparation for Hurricane Ian. The company has 106 employees and more than 200 contractors heading to Orlando to assist utility companies in restoration efforts after the hurric more PR

SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, Sept. 30 -- Southwestern Electric Power, an American Electric Power company, issued the following news release on Sept. 29, 2022: Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO), a subsidiary of American Electric Power (Nasdaq: AEP), today issued two Request for Proposals (RFPs) for renewable energy resources to supply the needs of its customers. The RFPs solicit bids for the purchase of wind resources of up to 1,900 megawatts (MW) and solar resources up to 500 MW. Wind resourc more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Sept. 28 (TNSfund) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: For the past 12 months, Tulane University scientists and engineers have been working almost non-stop to prove that sand made from recycled glass can help prevent coastal land loss. They've shown that the material can grow native marsh grasses and willow trees, is non-toxic to marine life and can resist erosion better than silt. Now, they're getting $5 million from the National Science Foundation  more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Sept. 29 (TNSres) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: Cases of Lyme disease are rising across the globe, yet there is still no vaccine on the market to protect people against the tick-borne infection. Researchers at Tulane University recently received $1.3 million from the National Institutes of Health to find out if the same technology behind a successful Lyme disease vaccine for dogs can be formulated with immune-boosting nanoparticles to offer saf more PR

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana, Sept. 28 (TNSper) -- The University of Louisiana's Lafayette Campus issued the following news story: Kiwana McClung has been named the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's chief diversity officer. In that role, she will oversee UL Lafayette's Office for Campus Diversity. McClung will also lead the University's focus on fostering diversity, equity and inclusion among students, faculty and staff. Another emphasis will be ensuring that underrepresented groups have equal ac more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 29 (TNSper) -- Western Governors University-Texas issued the following news release: Online, nonprofit university Western Governors University (WGU) has announced Susan Simkowski as Strategic Partnerships Manager serving Louisiana. Simkowski has strong ties to the online educational environment as a distance learning director and online instructor. Simkowski comes to WGU with more than 30 years' experience in higher education, including developing and implementing course  more PR