NEW YORK, Feb. 25 -- The City University of New York issued the following news on Feb. 24, 2026: * * * CUNY Chancellor Felix V. Matos Rodriguez Testifies at NYS Joint Legislative Hearing on the FY 2027 Executive Budget Proposal City University of New York Chancellor Felix V. Matos Rodriguez testified today during a joint New York State Senate and Assembly Legislative Public Hearing on the Fiscal Year 2027 New York State Executive Budget Proposal. The Chancellor's complete prepared remarks ar more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 -- The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration released the following testimony by Simon R. Hankinson, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation Center for Border Security and Immigration, from a Feb. 10, 2026, hearing entitled "Somali Fraud in Minnesota - The Tip of the Iceberg": * * * My name is Simon Hankinson. I am the senior research fellow in the Center for Border Security and Immigration at The Heritage Foundation. The views I express more PR

SANTA CRUZ, California, Feb. 24 -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news: * * * Humanities skills are transferable skills * UC Santa Cruz humanities students graduate with a toolkit of transferable skills in high demand across fields ranging from academia to the entertainment industry and high-tech startups. They analyze, synthesize, collaborate, write, listen, and adapt. Even in a rapidly changing employment landscape, where industries evolve and career  more PR

WURZBURG, Germany, Feb. 24 -- The University of Wurzburg issued the following news release: * * * Mate choice: How social trends influence mate diversity * Why are there often many different types of males in an animal group? According to the theory of evolution, only the "best" should have prevailed over time. A team from Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg (JMU) has now set out to find an answer to this question. Scientists from the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) in Heidelberg an more PR

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Feb. 25 (TNSjou) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: * * * How Studying Yeast in the Gut Could Lead to New, Better Drugs A new study sheds light on the behavior of yeast cells in the gut, paving the way for new lines of yeast that more efficiently produce therapeutic drugs tailored to address specific diseases. "Yeast is promising as a drug-delivery platform," says Nathan Crook, corresponding author of the study and an associate prof more PR

NEW YORK, Feb. 24 [Category: Media] -- PEN America, an organization that says it stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression, posted the following news release: * * * PEN America Joined by More than 100 Writers in Urging Release of Iranian Poet * (NEW YORK) -PEN America and PEN Sydney were today joined by noted authors Margaret Atwood, Khaled Hosseini, Azar Nafisi, and George Saunders, among others, in urging the Iranian government to immediately rele more PR

GLASSBORO, New Jersey, Feb. 25 (TNSjou) -- Rowan University issued the following news: * * * Rowan-Virtua SOM student contributes to published precision oncology research Second-year Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine student Wynn Bastianelli recently contributed to a peer-reviewed research paper published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology: Precision Oncology, highlighting her early involvement in academic research and her interest in pediatric oncology. The publication stems fro more PR

PERTH, Australia, Feb. 24 -- Murdoch University posted the following news: * * * The edible landscape where all can enjoy the fruits of others' labour * New research from Murdoch University reveals why a thriving edible garden in central Brisbane is attracting thousands of people daily and offers a blueprint for other local and state government to provide fresh food as a public service. Our public spaces, parks and gardens are largely ornamental -but they could offer so much more if partly more PR

LOS ANGELES, California, Feb. 25 (TNSjou) -- The UCLA Health issued the following news release: * * * Solving cancer immunotherapy's fuel shortage UCLA researchers equipped T cells with a protected sugar source, helping them attack solid tumors more effectively * Researchers at UCLA have found a way to supercharge immune cells with a fuel source that tumors can't steal, dramatically improving their ability to survive and attack solid tumors in preclinical studies. The approach (https://ww more PR

LEXINGTON, Kentucky, Feb. 24 -- The University of Kentucky issued the following news: * * * UK scientists and scholars among top 2% of most-cited researchers in the world * The University of Kentucky is well-represented on a list of the most-cited researchers in the world. In a database compiled by Stanford University in a partnership with Elsevier, 125 current UK scientists and scholars appear among the top 2% of the most-cited researchers across 22 disciplines. Citations are one measure  more PR

MANCHESTER, England, Feb. 24 -- The University of Manchester issued the following news release: * * * 'The Plastic Divide' - how carrier bag bans impact the poorest communities Written by: Joe Stafford A new study from The University of Manchester has shed light on an unexpected consequence of plastic bag bans in East Africa, and why well-intentioned environmental laws may actually be making life harder for the people they aim to protect. Anthropologist Dr Declan Murray spent nine months  more PR