BALTIMORE, Maryland, Feb. 28 (TNSfund) -- The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs issued the following news: USAID has awarded the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs an additional $15.4 million to continue its COVID-19-related social and behavior change work in 14 countries across Africa and Asia. The new funds bring the center's total of COVID-19 funds from USAID to $78 million for work in 26 countries since the pandemic began three years ago. The work, steered by the more PR

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, Feb. 28 (TNSres) -- The Maryland State Comptroller issued the following news release on Feb. 27, 2023: Maryland Comptroller Brooke Lierman today released a robust Transition Report, concluding the efforts of the Comptroller's Transition Team that began shortly after she was elected last November. Comptroller Lierman tasked the team with creating a blueprint of recommended changes for the Office of the Comptroller. "The Transition Team's Report represents a new starting poi more PR

NEW YORK, Feb. 28 (TNSbook) -- The City University of New York's Graduate Center issued the following news: A new book by Graduate Center alum Ryan Donovan, fueled by his own experiences of auditioning, argues for making the theater industry inclusive beyond the "hyper fit" Broadway ideal. Ryan Donovan (Ph.D. '19, Theatre and Performance) has been captivated by the casting of theatrical productions since his first-grade class in Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, put on a stick-puppet version of Pete more PR

RICHMOND, Virginia, Feb. 28 -- Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R-Virginia, issued the following news release on Feb. 27, 2023: Governor Glenn Youngkin today announced that Amentum Services, Inc., a leading provider of engineering and advanced solutions and services to the U.S. government, allies, and commercial companies, will invest $495,000 to relocate its headquarters from Germantown, Maryland to Fairfax County. In 2022, the company acquired PAE Incorporated, another leading government services contrac more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Feb. 28 (TNSres) -- Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health issued the following news release on Feb. 27, 2023: * * * Researchers with disabilities are speaking out. NIH is starting to listen. * * * Throughout her academic career, epidemiologist Bonnielin Swenor has managed--with endless persistence--to navigate a research enterprise that was not built to accommodate a researcher like herself with a visual disability. In the process, she has become  more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Feb. 28 (TNSfund) -- Johns Hopkins Medicine issued the following news release: Thanks to generous donations from listeners and others, raised $1,432,212.34 for Johns Hopkins Children's Center. The final total from the event was announced on the radio on Monday, Feb. 27. During the event, DJs from the station broadcast live from the Children's Center for a total of 26 hours during two days last week, returning in person for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pand more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Maryland, Feb. 28 (TNSres) -- The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science issued the following news release on Feb. 27, 2023: * * * New award from the U.S. Dept. of Energy will help researchers develop green technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions from power plants * * * Researchers from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology have been awarded a three-year, $2 million grant from t more PR