HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 27 -- Rice University issued the following news release: On the eve of Thanksgiving, Scott Abell had more than just turkey and gratitude on his mind he had a historic moment to savor. Before a packed house of Rice University leadership, players, media, family and friends at the Brian Patterson Sports Performance Center, Abell was officially introduced as Rice's Dunlevie Family Head Football Coach. "This is a dream come true," Abell said. "Honored, so grateful." Reginald D more PR

DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 25 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Heart Association issued the following news release: DALLAS, Nov. 25, 2024 The thrill of bagging a big buck or gobbler can bring a smile to any hunter's face. But the exertion of dragging that trophy back to camp could bring on a heart attack or stroke, according to the American Heart Association, celebrating a century of lifesaving service as the world's leading nonprofit organization focused on heart and brain health for all. "Ma more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 25 -- Rice University issued the following news release: With over 25 years of experience as an orchestral musician, Elizabeth Freimuth '98 brings a wealth of knowledge to Rice University's Shepherd School of Music. (Photo courtesy Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra)Elizabeth Freimuth '98, Shepherd School of Music alumna and principal horn of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, will join the Shepherd School of Music faculty as professor of horn in the fall of 2025. Freimuth ta more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 -- The American Public Transportation Association issued the following news release on Nov. 25, 2024: * * * * APTA is advocating for at least $57.5 million of emergency appropriations to the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) Public Transportation Emergency Relief program to support public transit agencies recovering from recent natural disasters, including Hurricanes Helene and Milton. * This emergency funding would support disaster recovery for public transit agencie more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 28 (TNSres) -- The Baylor College of Medicine issued the following news: A new study published in the journal Nature reports results of the first-in-human phase 1 clinical trials of a novel immunotherapy approach for solid tumors expressing glypican-3 (GPC3). Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Cancer Center led the study, which tested chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells enhanced with the protein interleukin-15 (IL-15). CAR T cells have shown more PR

MADISON, Wisconsin, Nov. 28 -- FFRF Action Fund, an organization that says it develops and advocates for legislation, regulations and government programs to preserve the constitutional principle of separation between state and church, issued the following news: FFRF Action Fund is naming Texas state Rep. James Talarico its "Secularist of the Week" for the third time, for his leadership in denouncing the state's new bible-infused curriculum. Talarico, who has represented Texas' 52nd District s more PR

MADISON, Wisconsin, Nov. 25 [Category: Religion] -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation issued the following news release: The Freedom From Religion Foundation will contact every Texas public school district to urge rejection of the bible-infused curriculum that the Texas Educational Agency has narrowly approved. The earliest this curriculum could go into effect is next August. While religion is not part of the entire curriculum, the so-called "Bluebonnet Learning" unnecessarily introduces re more PR

PLANO, Texas, Nov. 26 -- The First Liberty Institute issued the following news release: * * * The defense of Gethsemani Baptist Church and their mission to feed countless families in need continues after Judge rejects City of San Luis' motion to dismiss. San Luis, AZ-- The U.S. District Court of Arizona rejected the motion to dismiss filed by the City of San Luis. You can read the order here. The city is aiming to stop Gethsemani Baptist Church's food ministry, which regularly serves more t more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 27 -- Houston Christian University issued the following news release: Houston Christian University (HCU) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign joined forces to accelerate advanced computing in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Science to empower and shape the next generation of world changers through joint strategic projects in teaching, research and service. The collaboration allows the universities to e more PR

DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 25 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Heart Association issued the following news release: In a tremendous victory for public health, the U.S. Supreme Court today refused to hear a tobacco industry challenge to graphic health warnings on cigarette packs and advertisements required under a 2020 FDA rule. The court's decision to deny certiorari leaves in place a March ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that upheld the FDA's proposed warnings. The Fi more PR

BEAUMONT, Texas, Nov. 27 (TNSres) -- Lamar University issued the following news: Lamar University celebrated academic excellence and innovative research during the 2024 David J. Beck Fellows ceremony on Nov. 15 in the Reaud Executive Event Space, recognizing senior Ryan Shugart and junior Mahima Verma. The fellowship, established by LU alumnus and attorney David J. Beck, provides full scholarships and up to $10,000 for summer research projects, empowering students to pursue unique academic en more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 26 -- Rice University issued the following news release: A team of researchers led by Anna-Karin Gustavsson at Rice University has developed an innovative imaging platform that promises to improve our understanding of cellular structures at the nanoscale. This platform, called soTILT3D for single-objective tilted light sheet with 3D point spread functions (PSFs), offers significant advancements in super-resolution microscopy, enabling fast and precise 3D imaging of multip more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 25 -- Rice University issued the following news release: By George Hale, special to Rice News Newly developed halide perovskite nanocrystals (HPNCs) show potential as antimicrobial agents that are stable, effective and easy to produce. After almost three years, Rice University scientist Yifan Zhu and colleagues have developed a new HPNC that is effective at killing bacteria in a biofluid under visible light without experiencing light and moisture-driven degradation common  more PR

NEW YORK, Nov. 26 -- LatinoJustice PRLDEF issued the following news release: A Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) official for the South Texas Region shared on Sunday on his social media platform, a video of an unaccompanied 2-year-old from El Salvador, at the Texas border stating how under Operation Lone Star (OLS), DPS found several children crossing the border. In light of this news, LatinoJustice PRLDEF issued the following statement that can be attributed to Lourdes M. Rosado, Presi more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 25 -- Rice University issued the following news release: Black Americans are more interested in life-extending health technologies than their white peers, and religion increases this desire, according to new research from Rice University, the University of South Carolina and Purdue University. "Divine Purpose? Religion, Race, and Attitudes Toward Life Extension Technology" explores the intersection of religion, race and technology and reveals complex motivations behind lif more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 26 -- Rice University issued the following news release: The Center for Innovation and Translation of POC Technologies for Equitable Cancer Care (CITEC) hosted its inaugural convening Nov. 11-12 at Rice University, marking a significant milestone in ongoing efforts to advance health equity in cancer care. The event brought together leading minds in engineering, oncology and global health to foster collaboration and recognize achievements within CITEC's community. During th more PR

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Nov. 26 -- The Institute for Justice issued the following news release on Nov. 25, 2024: WASHINGTON--Today, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear a case brought by an innocent woman seeking compensation after a McKinney, Texas, SWAT team destroyed her home while pursuing a fugitive in July 2020. Vicki Baker, represented by the Institute for Justice (IJ), was seeking to make it clear that victims of such destruction are entitled to compensation under the Fifth Ame more PR

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Nov. 19 (TNSres) -- Texas A&M University's College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences issued the following news release: Researchers at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) are working with parrot free-flight experts and partners in Brazil in an effort to increase the success rate of releasing captive parrots into the wild. In a recently published study, the team successfully released a small flock of blue and yellow maca more PR

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Nov. 26 [Category: Construction] -- Associated General Contractors of America issued the following news release: Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, Texas and Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina, Hawaii Have Highest Number And Percentage of Job Gains, While New York City and Duluth, Minn.-Wis. Experience Worst Job Losses Construction employment rose in 238, or 66 percent, of 358 metro areas between October 2023 and October 2024, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contrac more PR

IRVING, Texas, Nov. 27 -- The University of Dallas issued the following news release: Author, journalist and literary critic Cynthia L. Haven will speak at the next event in the McDermott Lecture Series. Haven has held visiting fellowships at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and at Stanford University, which continues to host her blog, The Book Haven. She is a prominent articulator of the work of Rene Girard, the French-born American historian, literary critic and philosopher whose  more PR

FORT WORTH, Texas, Nov. 23 -- The University of North Texas Health Science Center issued the following news: By Steven Bartolotta The Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine's Division of Performing Arts has received a grant of $40,000 from the Rea Charitable Trust to continue to grow the world's only Performing Arts Medicine Fellowship program. It is the third straight year the Rea Charitable Trust has generously donated to the fellowship program, the only one in the world that trains physician more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 28 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas issued the following news release: Using generative artificial intelligence, a team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin has converted sounds from audio recordings into street-view images. The visual accuracy of these generated images demonstrates that machines can replicate human connection between audio and visual perception of environments. In a paper published in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, the research more PR

DENTON, Texas, Nov. 27 (TNSres) -- The University of North Texas issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has enlisted cybersecurity experts from the University of North Texas to overhaul its hiring processes, with the ultimate goal of safeguarding national security. UNT researchers, led by computer science and engineering faculty Ram Dantu and Cihan Tunc, have received $2.1 million in funding from the Cyber Service Academy under the DoD's Chief Information Offic more PR

DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 27 -- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center issued the following news release: To meet the growing demands for cancer treatment in Tarrant County and surrounding areas, UT Southwestern Medical Center is expanding its cancer services in the Fort Worth Medical District with construction of a new two-story Radiation Oncology campus that will house the city's first MRI-guided precision radiation treatment. At its recent meeting in Austin, the UT System Board of Re more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 28 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center issued the following news release: * * * Novel CAR T cell therapy obe-cel demonstrates high response rates in adult patients with advanced B-cell ALL Trial results supported recent FDA approval for patients with relapsed/refractory disease Patients with relapsed or refractory CD19-positive B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who were treated with the novel anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T c more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 [Category: Political] -- America First Legal, a civil rights organization, issued the following news release: Last week, the Texas Supreme Court ruled in favor of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, blocking politically motivated depositions by former Office of the Attorney General (OAG) employees. The plaintiffs had sued for wrongful termination and attempted to weaponize the civil discovery process against AG Paxton by forcing him to sit for a deposition on matters that had more PR

DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 25 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Heart Association issued the following news release: DALLAS, Nov. 25, 2024 Research shows that as much as half of your risk for heart disease can come from your family genes. Experts from the American Heart Association, celebrating a century of lifesaving service as the world's leading nonprofit organization focused on heart and brain health for all, say knowing your family health history is an important step to reducing your risk f more PR