SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, Feb. 2 (TNSpp) -- Centenary College of Louisiana issued the following news release: Centenary College's annual open forum on gender and sexuality, hosted by a multi-disciplinary faculty panel, will take place on Thursday, February 16, at 6:00 p.m. The forum will be held in the Whited Room in Bynum Commons and is free and open to the public. Masks are requested for all attendees. The panel includes Centenary professors Dr. Amy Hammond, Dr. Michelle Wolkomir, and Dr. Amand more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Feb. 2 -- Entergy issued the following news release: Feed the Second Line and Entergy New Orleans have partnered to help build stronger, more resilient neighborhoods following major weather events. Through an $80,000 grant from Entergy New Orleans, Feed the Second Line's "Get Lit Stay Lit" program has added to their city-wide resilience network by installing a solar and battery backup system to Fritai in the Treme neighborhood. "The partnership between Feed the Second  more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Feb. 2 -- Entergy issued the following news release on Feb. 1, 2023: Recent recognition of Entergy's leadership in environmental, social and governance performance demonstrates the company's commitment to creating sustainable value for all its stakeholders. Entergy was recently named for the 21st consecutive year to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, a global standard for benchmarking corporate sustainability performance. The company maintains its industry leadership as more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 1 (TNSres) -- Louisiana Economic Development issued the following news release: Louisiana leveraged its unique business advantages, sector diversity and support for innovation and climate action in 2022 to generate $20.7 billion in capital investment and more than 18,000 direct, indirect and retained jobs. It marks the second consecutive year of more than $20 billion in economic investment, third consecutive year of more than $10 billion of investment and the fifth  more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Feb. 3 (TNSres) -- Loyola University issued the following news release: A Loyola University New Orleans College of Law professor has just been named a Fulbright specialist, a distinct honor that will allow her to continue to teach at the law school while being available as a specialist to Fulbright institutions. Davida Finger, a Clinic Professor and Director of the Stuart H. Smith Center for Social Justice, in December started a three-year term as a Fulbright specialist more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Jan. 30 (TNSjou) -- The Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center issued the following news release: * * * BrightFocus-supported clinical trial results show that education and engagement around healthy aging may offer benefits that surpass exercise alone * * * Among its many benefits to our overall health and well-being, exercise strengthens the brain and helps defend against cognitive decline. However, the results of a recent clinical trial r more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 3 (TNSres) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: * * * LSU faculty experts are available for media interviews about Mardi Gras history and traditions. * * * A number of LSU faculty experts are available for media interviews about topics surrounding Mardi Gras history and traditions. To schedule interviews, contact Alison Satake 510-816-8161 / asatake@lsu.edu or Abbi Rocha Laymoun 817-938-6102 / abbirocha@lsu.edu LSU researchers availab more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 1 (TNSres) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Oil drilling has had its fair share of controversy as of late, leaving engineers trying to determine how to keep fossil fuels in play while considering environmentally-friendly solutions. LSU Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering Professor Dandina Rao has a plan that will not only create less carbon dioxide during oil production but will also make use of the millions of orphan  more PR

LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana, Feb. 1 (TNSper) -- McNeese State University issued the following news: McNeese State University is honoring Black History Month by spotlighting students, faculty and alumni. Lakyn Thomas, a junior from Oberlin, is the editor of the student newsletter Poke Press and a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. (AKA.) Nellie May Quanders, a founder of AKA who incorporated it and shared it across the nation, is an inspiration to Lakyn. An activist in the early part of more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Jan. 24 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following statement: * * * Louisiana's December 2022 unemployment rate was the lowest ever for the month of December, coming in at 3.5%. Since December 2021, Louisiana's unemployment rate has dropped 0.9 percentage points from 4.4%, and Louisiana has added 46,200 jobs. Since the worst of the pandemic, Louisiana's unemployment rate has dropped 9.6 percentage points from 13.1% and Louisiana has added 233,100 jobs.  more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Feb. 3 -- Morgan Lewis, a law firm, issued the following news release: * * * A Morgan Lewis team helped Ricky Warner walk out of Louisiana's infamous Angola State Penitentiary a free man after spending 35 years in prison due to a wrongful first-degree murder conviction in 1987. * * * Here's the backstory: After a victim was shot and killed in 1985 during a dice game on the streets of New Orleans, a key witness told police that he did not see the shooting and could more PR

GRAMBLING, Louisiana, Feb. 4 (TNSfund) -- Grambling State University issued the following news: Multiplatinum recording artist, actor, and entrepreneur, Earl "E-40" Stevens expanded his philanthropic reach with a $100,000 donation to Grambling State University. The funds will benefit the Music department, the World Famed Tiger Marching Band, and the upkeep of the newly installed recording studio, which has been named in his honor with signage unveiled during a ceremony held Friday at the Conra more PR

HAMMOND, Louisiana, Feb. 1 (TNSconf) -- Southeastern Louisiana University issued the following news release: Southeastern Louisiana University's Department of Computer Science and ACM's Women in Computing are hosting the first of the spring Industry Connect Distinguished Lectures Feb. 16, at 4 p.m. Delivered as a webinar via google meet, the free lecture will be available for live viewing in the Envoc Innovation Lab, located in room 2026 in the Computer Science and Technology Building. Guest sp more PR

HAMMOND, Louisiana, Feb. 1 (TNSper) -- Southeastern Louisiana University issued the following news release on Jan. 31, 2023: Southeastern Louisiana University Management Instructor Aristides Baraya has been appointed to the Latino Commission by the Louisiana Speaker of the House, the Hon. Clay Schexnayder. The main objective of the commission is to identify obstacles to the effective delivery of Louisiana state government services to Latin Americans, to propose methods to remove those obstacle more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Jan. 31 (TNSper) -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news: Amid a sweet potato season hit hard by volatile weather patterns, the LSU AgCenter added a new researcher to focus on the management of diseases in Louisiana's most lucrative food crop. Imana Power was appointed in September as an assistant professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology. She is gearing her work toward developing disease resistance, producing "clea more PR

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, Jan. 27 (TNSfund) -- Nicholls State University issued the following news release: Nicholls received $131,000 from T. Baker Smith, LLC to support its Geomatics program. With this donation, the College of Sciences and Technology hopes to hire a full-time assistant or associate professor for spring 2023 and two adjunct professors for fall 2023. "T. Baker Smith has been a great supporter of the geomatics program and students since the program started with their scholarship a more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Feb. 2 (TNSfund) -- The University of New Orleans issued the following news release: University of New Orleans history professor Mary Niall Mitchell, who is director of the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at UNO, has been awarded a nearly $55,000 grant to help create an exhibit at the Whitney Plantation Museum that will include a specialized tour and curriculum material. Whitney Plantation Museum is a historic site and memorial located in Wallace, Louisiana in St.  more PR