NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Oct. 10 (TNSper) -- Loyola University issued the following news release: The College of Music and Media at Loyola University New Orleans proudly announces Jonathan McHugh as its new Hilton-Baldridge Chair. Jonathan McHugh is a renowned independent film and television producer, director and music supervisor who has held high-ranking creative and marketing positions at some of the nation's top entertainment companies. As Hilton Baldridge Chair at Loyola, he will enjoy an more PR

LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana, Oct. 14 -- Entergy issued the following news release: To help deliver customer solutions and protect the environment, Entergy Louisiana has expanded its shore power capabilities so that Crowley vessels operating out of the Port of Lake Charles have a more sustainable and low-emission option while docked. Shore power is an idle-reduction technology that enables vessels to connect to electricity rather than run on fossil fuels when not in service, resulting in lower emis more PR

IRVING, Texas, Oct. 13 -- ExxonMobil, an energy provider and chemical manufacturer, issued the following news release: CF Industries, a leading global manufacturer of hydrogen and nitrogen products, has entered into the largest-of-its-kind commercial agreement with ExxonMobil to capture and permanently store up to 2 million metric tons of CO2 emissions annually from its manufacturing complex in Louisiana. Start-up for the project is scheduled for early 2025 and supports Louisiana's objective of more PR

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, Oct. 12 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news on Oct. 11, 2022: Deere & Company, the global corporation that manufactures the iconic John Deere brand of agricultural, construction and forestry equipment, is investing $29.8 million to expand operations at its Thibodaux facility. The company will create 70 new direct jobs with an average annual salary of $47,472, and will retain 311 existing jobs in Louisiana, including 284 jobs at the Lafourche Pa more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Oct. 13 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news on Oct. 12, 2022: Gov. John Bel Edwards and the executives of major global energy corporations CF Industries, ExxonMobil and EnLink Midstream announced an "unprecedented" decarbonization collaboration aimed at dramatically reducing industrial CO2 emissions in Louisiana. The announcement - described as a potential business prototype for industrial-scale carbon capture and sequestration projects - was more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Oct. 11 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news release on Oct. 10, 2022: Gov. John Bel Edwards and Louisiana Department of Health Secretary Dr. Courtney N. Phillips issued a statement on National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the continued life-saving impacts of Medicaid expansion. "Every October, we rededicate ourselves to raising awareness about the impact of breast cancer in our state and the life-saving importance of early detection,"  more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Oct. 11 (TNSpar) -- Tulane University issued the following news release on Oct. 10, 2022: LCMC Health and Tulane University today announced intentions to partner to expand access to comprehensive and specialty care across Southeast Louisiana, enhance the region's capabilities as a destination for medical innovation and training, and provide community investments and benefits. Upon approval of the proposed partnership, Tulane Medical Center, Lakeview Regional Medical Ce more PR

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, Oct. 12 -- Louisiana Economic Development issued the following news release on Oct. 11, 2022: Deere & Company, the global corporation that manufactures the iconic John Deere brand of agricultural, construction and forestry equipment, is investing $29.8 million to expand operations at its Thibodaux facility. The company will create 70 new direct jobs with an average annual salary of $47,472, and will retain 311 existing jobs in Louisiana, including 284 jobs at the Lafourche more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, Oct. 14 (TNSres) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Recently, a publication written by Dr. Julie Rutledge, Professor of Human Development and Family Science and Director of the ENRICH Center, was featured in the September issue of Implementation in Action, the Center for Implementation's monthly bulletin. Rutledge, along with co-authors from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, discussed how partner groups can sustain research programs in a p more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, Oct. 12 (TNSfund) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: The Louisiana Tech University College of Engineering and Science (COES) has established the SUCCESS Scholars Program to provide scholarships and co-curricular activities for outstanding engineering students beginning in the upcoming academic year. Thanks to a nearly $1.5M grant (S-STEM SUCCESS: Supporting Undergraduates through Curricular and Co-Curricula Engagement and Student Scholarships) funded by  more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, Oct. 15 (TNSres) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Louisiana Tech University's Trenchless Technology Center (TTC) faculty and students won multiple awards for their 2022 research from the International Society for Trenchless Technology (ISTT). The ISTT honored a faculty research team and a doctoral student for academic and student research at the 38th International No-Dig Conference in Helsinki, Finland, in early October. Dr. John Matthews (TTC Director more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Oct. 12 (TNSper) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Adam C. McCloskey has been named director of the Louisiana Small Business Development Center at LSU. At LSU, McCloskey leads an office that provides no-cost consulting to small business and aspiring entrepreneurs in the nine-parish capital region. The SBDC offers expert advice on issues from cash-flow management, securing loans, business planning and everything in between. The LSU Center a more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Oct. 15 (TNSfund) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: The US Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency has granted $22 million to LSU's National Center for Biomedical Research and Academy for Counter-Terrorism Education, or LSU NCBRT/ACE. This funding allows LSU NCBRT/ACE to deliver emergency preparedness education and training to emergency responders at the state, local, tribal and territorial level at no direct  more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Oct. 15 (TNSconf) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU's Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs is thrilled to announce the School of Communication and Design at Loyola University New Orleans as the newest Racism Dismantling the System series partner. Loyola's School of Communication and Design will make its debut in the next event in the series, "Looking in a Mirror: How Black Horror Film Pathology Supports Racist Tropes," on Oct. 25 at more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Oct. 12 (TNSres)-- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: * * * One of Louisiana's most prominent researchers, Dr. Steven Heymsfield at LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center, or PBRC, was tapped by Amazon to improve the body composition component of their Halo app, launched in 2020, using smartphone photography and artificial intelligence, or AI. The collaboration brings affordability and ease to the fight against obesity and diabetes, at ho more PR

SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, Oct. 15 (TNSper) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release on Oct. 14, 2022: Following a more than 45-year career, LSU Shreveport Chancellor Larry Clark has announced that he will retire at the end of the academic year. Clark made the announcement during the LSU Shreveport Planning council meeting on campus today. "Being the Chancellor at LSU Shreveport has been a very special privilege," Clark said. "It has been a joy to closely work in team with u more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Oct. 13 (TNSjou) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Archaeologists working in Belize have found ancient Maya salt workers worked from home. The discovery was made during the excavation of Ta'ab Nuk Na, the largest known Maya salt works in the country, which is submerged in a coastal lagoon. There, the researchers uncovered a residential structure showing a household lived, as well as worked, at the site. The discovery was made at Paynes Cree more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, Oct. 15 -- Mayer Brown, a law firm, issued the following news: Members of Mayer Brown's global Energy team in Houston represented EnLink Midstream, LLC in the signing of a carbon dioxide (CO2) transportation service agreement (TSA) with ExxonMobil Corporation. Under the terms of the TSA, EnLink will utilize portions of its existing pipeline network, as well as build new facilities to deliver CO2 from the Mississippi River corridor in southeastern Louisiana to ExxonMobil's 12 more PR

LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana, Oct. 11 (TNSconf) -- McNeese State University issued the following news: The McNeese State University's Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing will host the poet and creative nonfiction writer Julia Koets for a free reading and book signing at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 21 in the Stokes Auditorium in the Hardtner Hall. Julia Koets is the author of "PINE," "Hold Like Owls" and "The Rib Joint: A Memoir in Essays"- a LAMBDA Literary Award finalist. Koet's essay "The  more PR

LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana, Oct. 13 (TNSper) -- McNeese State University issued the following news: The Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) recently appointed Taylor DeWoody to a 2-year term as a Subject Matter Expert. DeWoody is the lead behavior analyst for the McNeese Autism Program. DeWoody earned both a bachelor's and master's in psychology, with a concentration in Applied Behavior Analysis, from McNeese State University. She is a Licensed Behavior Analyst and a nationally Board-Cert more PR

LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana, Oct. 13 (TNSpar) -- McNeese State University issued the following news: Sasol's Lake Charles Chemical Complex and McNeese State University collaborate to provide opportunities for McNeese engineering students, that sometimes prove beneficial to Sasol. Sasol welcomed six McNeese State University students for internships in the technical services area this past summer. "Our internships at Sasol provide real-world experience within our complex," explained Crystal Briscoe more PR

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, Oct. 11 -- Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt issued the following news release: Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry have filed a second amended complaint that adds 47 defendants (total of 67) to their lawsuit against the federal government for allegedly colluding with social media giants to censor freedom of speech. The list of new defendants include top officials at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Federal B more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Oct. 13 -- NetChoice issued the following news: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals approved NetChoice and the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA)'s unopposed motion to stay Texas HB 20 pending a ruling on a future petition of certiorari from the U.S. Supreme Court in our case, NetChoice & CCIA v. Paxton. Now granted, HB 20 will stay enjoined as the case proceeds through the courts. "Because Texas HB 20 would bury the internet in vile content, we're  more PR

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, Oct. 15 (TNSfund) -- Nicholls State University issued the following news release: Nicholls State University will be awarded a $1.8 million grant to create a new degree program in the engineering field. As part of the South Louisiana H2theFuture Energy Transformation Coalition, Nicholls will offer students the Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Technology and provide career-ready training for students to join the emerging clean energy workforce in Louisiana. The U.S more PR

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, Oct. 11 (TNSres) -- Nicholls State University issued the following news release: Nicholls Assistant Professor of Biology Dr. Solomon David was a keynote speaker at the 152nd National Meeting of the American Fisheries Society on Aug. 21-25, 2022, in Spokane, Washington. The Annual Meeting brought together over 1,700 professionals from countries across the world under the theme "What Do Fish Mean to Us?" His talk titled "Modern Conservation Insights from Ancient Fishes" foc more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Oct. 13 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following statement: * * * Gov. John Bel Edwards issued a statement on Executive Counsel Matthew Block's exceptional service to the state of Louisiana. "This is truly bittersweet for me and our team. Matthew has been a crucial member of my senior staff since I first became Governor. "He has had a hand in every accomplishment and every bit of the tremendous progress we have made in moving Louisiana forward sinc more PR

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana, Oct. 11 (TNSawa) -- The University of Louisiana's Lafayette Campus issued the following news story: The Louisiana Educate Program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette has been recognized by the Louisiana Association of College and University Student Personnel Administrators. So, too, has Delilah Warren, a senior from New Orleans majoring in performing arts. The Louisiana Educate Program earned the Program or Practice of the Year Award during the association's confe more PR

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Oct. 14 (TNSper) -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: After a national search, Robin L. McCarley will join the Virginia Tech community as the Fralin Life Sciences Institute's executive director, effective Dec. 1. McCarley, currently the Barbara Womack Alumni Association Endowed Professor of Chemistry at Louisiana State University, will shape the vision of the Fralin Life Sciences Institute (FLSI) by leveraging existing institute and university strengths to enhance  more PR