DENVER, Colorado, Feb. 15 (TNSgov) -- Western Governors University-Utah issued the following news release on Feb. 13, 2023: Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed a proclamation Feb. 6 recognizing the state's partnership with Western Governors University (WGU), whose mission to create pathways to opportunity and improve access to higher education for working learners in Colorado. The WGU Colorado partnership supports learning opportunities for the more than 700,000 Coloradans who have college c more PR

LEHI, Utah, Feb. 16 (TNSres) -- NetDocuments, a provider of cloud-based content services and productivity platform, issued the following news release on Feb. 15, 2023: NetDocuments, the #1 trusted cloud platform where legal professionals do their best work, today published 23 Legal Technology Insights for 2023 ("Report"), its annual trends report and commentary on legal tech, which -- in collaboration with leaders from law firms, corporate legal departments, legal technology companies, and inte more PR

ROY, Utah, Feb. 17 -- Northrop Grumman issued the following news release: Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) successfully completed a series of wind tunnel tests of the LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Using scaled models of the vehicle, stressed under environments from sub to hypersonic speeds, the robust test campaign validated digital modeling and simulations and proved design maturity of the missile. "This wind tunnel campaign is an opportunity to put our d more PR

LOGAN, Utah, Feb. 16 (TNSpar) -- Utah State University issued the following news: Utah State University and the ASPIRE Engineering Research Center will partner with Swiss-based Stadler to develop and test a battery-powered passenger train known as FLIRT. This train will be the first of its kind in North America. The goal of the project is to develop and build a battery-powered two-car-trainset. The Battery FLIRT, a single-decker, lightweight train, is the solution for routes without end-to-end more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 18 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Attorney General Paxton joined a Utah-led coalition urging congressional leaders to use their authority under the Congressional Review Act ("CRA") to revoke an Environmental, Social, and Governance ("ESG") rule put forward by President Biden's Department of Labor ("DOL"). Paxton also filed a lawsuit in January to vacate the rule and prevent it from harming Americans' retirement accounts. Unless resci more PR

LEHI, Utah, Feb. 18 -- Carlyle Group issued the following news release on Feb. 17, 2023: PCF Insurance Services ("PCF"), a top 20 U.S. insurance brokerage firm, today announced that it has secured a $500 million preferred equity investment in a transaction co-led by Carlyle's Global Credit platform and private equity firm HGGC, an existing minority investor. PCF Insurance, led by Founder, Chairman and CEO Peter C. Foy and Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer Felix Morgan, also re more PR

LOGAN, Utah, Feb. 17 (TNSjou) -- Utah State University issued the following news: * * * Srisharan Shreedharan and colleagues publish research on New Zealand's Hikurangi plate boundary in "Science." * * * Renaissance polymath Leonard da Vinci demonstrated that frictional forces slow down the motion of surfaces in contact. Friction, he determined, is proportional to normal force. When two objects are pressed together twice as hard, friction doubles. "We see this principle with tectonic plate  more PR

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 15 (TNSres) -- The University of Utah Health issued the following news release: Tiny, "hairline" fractures in hands and feet - more common than you might think - are very hard to see on medical scans. Often, patients must simply treat their injury tenderly and come back in a few weeks for another round of imaging if the pain persists. The difficulty in making a diagnosis is starting to change thanks to a much more comprehensive x-ray scan. University of Utah Health is more PR

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 18 (TNSper) -- The University of Utah Health issued the following news release: A fourth-generation University of Utah graduate and industry pioneer in the development of microtools used in brain surgery will be the new executive director of the Center for Medical Innovation (CMI) at U of U Health. Beginning on April 1, Mark H. Paul, currently president of the neurovascular division at Stryker Neurovascular based in Fremont, California, will take the helm at the CMI. more PR

LOGAN, Utah, Feb. 17 (TNSrpt) -- Utah State University issued the following news: Utah has a rich heritage of women involved in voting, advocacy and politics. However, for decades, Utah has lagged behind most other states in terms of women running for and serving in elected political roles. To track the progress of Utah women serving in politics, the Utah State University Utah Women & Leadership Project (UWLP) began reporting on the status of women in politics in 2014, with updates in 2017, 20 more PR

LOGAN, Utah, Feb. 17 (TNSres) -- Utah State University issued the following news: Aryn Kamerer, assistant professor in Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education at USU and director of the Hearing Health Laboratory, has received a grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to develop new hearing tests that can diagnose single-exposure hearing loss. It is well known that repeated exposure to loud sounds such as heavy machinery or loud concerts will slowly ca more PR

LOGAN, Utah, Feb. 17 (TNSres) -- Utah State University issued the following news: Brian Warnick, interim head of the Department of Technology, Design and Technical Education in USU's College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, was recently honored by being named a fellow of the Food Systems Leadership Institute. The FSLI is a two-year leadership program that focuses on how to use agriculture and natural resource programs to solve many of the world's pressing problems. Participants examine the more PR

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 16 -- The Utah Governor's Office of Economic Development issued the following news: The Utah Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity awarded Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) a post-performance tax reduction for its new semiconductor factory in Lehi, Utah. The corporate incentive is part of the state's Economic Development Tax Increment Financing (EDTIF) program. "Companies like Texas Instruments continue to invest in Utah because of our world-class business clim more PR

LOGAN, Utah, Feb. 17 (TNSjou) -- Utah State University issued the following news: Real life, unlike most stories we tell, tends to get messy. Take the Kenai River Fishery, where a complex web of people and environment is being pushed to its limits. At the center is an icon of Alaska's culture and economy teetering on the edge of extinction: the king salmon. The Kenai River, located just south of Anchorage on the Kenai Peninsula, is the most popular sport fishing destination in the state. It is more PR

KATHMANDU, Nepal, Feb. 15 (TNSjou) -- Utah State University issued the following news: In the forested foothills and plateaus below the world's highest mountains, the spring of 2021 delivered a harsh and hot vision of the future under continued climate warming -- a fire season that was 10 times worse than the average of the previous 20 years. One of the most densely forested countries in South Asia, Nepal has always been afflicted by wildfires, but researchers from Nepal, Taiwan, Germany and t more PR