BALTIMORE, Maryland, Nov. 4 -- The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs issued the following news: By Stephanie Desmon The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs is a partner in a new $105.7 million, five-year resilience and food security project in the Democratic Republic of Congo, designed to combat deep-rooted poverty and malnutrition in the country. Tudienzele, which means "let's work together for ourselves" or "let's solve our own problems" in Tshiluba, one of DRC's n more PR

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, Nov. 4 -- Foley and Lardner, a law firm, issued the following news: Foley & Lardner LLP partner Luisella Perri has been appointed board president of the Women in Public Finance Maryland Chapter. Perri focuses her practice on federal tax laws and regulations related to tax-exempt financings. She has extensive experience in public finance matters involving Section 103 of the Internal Revenue Code and routinely represents clients in audits before the IRS concerning a wide va more PR

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Nov. 4 -- Florida State University issued the following news: By Peyton Greene Florida State University and the Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship hosted 16 military veterans last week as part of its 2023 Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans - Accelerate (EBV-Accelerate) program. The EBV-Accelerate program is designed to take advantage of the skills, resources and infrastructure of higher education to offer cutting-edge, experiential training in entrepren more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Nov. 4 (TNSres) -- Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health issued the following news release: * * * In integrated communities, Black adults spent $79 less than whites on health expenditures per year; in non-integrated communities, Black adults spent $2,145 less on health care per year than whites * * * Differences in health care expenditures between Black and white adults vary substantially with the local level of racial and economic integration, and more PR

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, Nov. 3 -- The Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation issued the following news release: Governor Wes Moore today announced that the Maryland Department of Labor has secured $4 million through the U.S. Department of Labor's Quality Jobs, Equity, Strategy, and Training Disaster Recovery National Dislocated Worker Grants program. The funding will be used to connect nearly 350 Marylanders to careers in fast-growing industries and strengthen Maryland's talent pip more PR

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, Nov. 3 -- Gov. Wes Moore, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Governor Wes Moore today toured the AstraZeneca site in Gaithersburg and joined BioHub Maryland to announce a new skills training agreement with the Dublin, Ireland-based National Institute of Bioprocessing Research and Training, a global leader in biopharmaceutical manufacturing training and research. The partnership makes BioHub Maryland the exclusive training partner in the National Capital Region,  more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Nov. 4 -- Baltimore Gas and Electric, a subsidiary of Exelon, issued the following news release on Nov. 3, 2023: BGE today awarded $2.58 million to 129 small businesses located in central Maryland during the seventh round of BGE's Energizing Small Business Grants program, which continues to help businesses recover from the economic downturn so they can survive and thrive. BGE made the announcement in Annapolis at ArtFarm Studios, a small business that previously won a gran more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Nov. 4 -- Morgan State University issued the following news release: Morgan State University and the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) formally cemented a collaborative agreement to offer students a seamless and efficient path toward earning a bachelor's degree through the new Degrees to Succeed (D2S) program. Together, two of Maryland's largest institutions--Morgan, the state's largest Historically Black College and University (HBCU), and CCBC, the largest 2-yea more PR

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Nov. 4 (TNSres) -- Princeton University issued the following news: Researchers at Princeton and four historically Black colleges and universities have begun working jointly on 10 new projects funded by the Princeton Alliance for Collaborative Research and Innovation (PACRI). The projects proposed by Princeton faculty members and colleagues at Howard University, Jackson State University, Prairie View A&M University and the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore represent a  more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Nov. 4 -- The University of Maryland School of Medicine issued the following news on Nov. 3, 2023: University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) Dean Mark T. Gladwin, MD, along with University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) President and CEO, Bert W. O'Malley, MD, announced today that Kim M. Morton, JD, MA, who has led advancement operations for major academic and healthcare institutions during her career, will become Associate Dean for Development at University of M more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Nov. 4 -- The University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication issued the following news: The convention theme, "Freedom," allows us to challenge assumptions of what freedom means and offer solutions for individuals, groups, organizations, and societies to attain freedom. Ten faculty and students will present research at the National Communication Association's 2023 Annual Convention, to be held November 15-19 in National Harbor, Maryland. All Annenbe more PR