Targeted News Service logo

-- Preview Email Newsletter
Research at Public Policy Groups Newsletter for 2024-07-02 ( 5 items )  
CAIR-CA Welcomes Release of Attorney General's '2023 Hate Crime in California' Report (10)
WASHINGTON, July 2 (TNSres) -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations issued the following news release on July 1, 2024: The California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CA) today welcomed the release of California State Attorney General Rob Bonta's statewide 2023 Annual Hate Crime report. The annual Hate Crime Report presents and analyzes statistics on hate crimes reported to law enforcement agencies throughout California. It aims to help the public and law enforce more PR

Charitable Giving Gains Fall Short of Inflation, Annual Report Finds (10)
WASHINGTON, July 2 (TNSres) -- The National Association of College and University Business Officers posted the following news: Charitable giving to the nonprofit sector within the United States totaled $557.16 billion last year, according to Giving USA 2024: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2023 (https://givingusa.org/giving-usa-u-s-charitable-giving-totaled-557-16-billion-in-2023/). The report was published last week by the Giving USA Foundation and authored by the Indiana Univer more PR

Field Museum: Sixty-Million-Year-Old Grape Seeds Reveal How the Death of the Dinosaurs May Have Paved the Way for Grapes to Spread (10)
CHICAGO, Illinois, July 2 (TNSres) -- The Field Museum issued the following news release: * * * Scientists describe nine new species of fossil grapes (60 to 19 million years old), including the oldest ones ever found in the Western Hemisphere * * * If you've ever snacked on raisins or enjoyed a glass of wine, you may, in part, have the extinction of the dinosaurs to thank for it. In a discovery described in the journal Nature Plants, researchers found fossil grape seeds that range from 60 to more PR

One Minute Mentor: Plasma Nitriding Equipment (10)
NOVELTY, Ohio, July 2 (TNSres) -- ASM International posted the following news: Cold-walled (double-walled water-cooled) systems were the first generation of plasma nitriding furnaces. This technology is also a vacuum-based process but employs the principle of glow discharge to provide energy for heating and nitriding at one time. Therefore, the independent control of the temperature stability and the nitriding intensity is not possible because both processes are using the same energy source--th more PR

ORAU 2024 Pollard Scholarship Recipients Announced (10)
OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 2 (TNSres) -- The Oak Ridge Associated Universities issued the following news release: ORAU awarded five William G. Pollard Scholarships of $2,500 each toward undergraduate studies for the 2024-25 academic year. The recipients of this year's scholarships include Priya Latchana, Kira Palau, Taylor Layman, Inioluwa Abiodun-Adeniyi and Desdemona Stubbs. Annually, ORAU awards these scholarships to employees' children who display exceptional achievements in their high sc more PR