SACRAMENTO, California, Feb. 1 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following proclamation on Jan. 30, 2025: * * * Governor Gavin Newsom today issued a proclamation declaring January 30, 2025, as Fred Korematsu Day. The text of the proclamation and a copy can be found below: PROCLAMATION Fred Korematsu did not set out to become a civil rights hero, but at the age of 23, he made the bold choice to challenge the policy of Japanese internment - and forever altered the course of histo more PR

NOTRE DAME, Indiana, Feb. 5 -- The University of Notre Dame issued the following news: * * * Physicist Laura Fields granted a Presidential Early Career Award Laura Fields, an associate professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Notre Dame, received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for her research studying the properties of fundamental particles called neutrinos. Fields was among the nearly 400 researchers who were named  more PR