MORGANTOWN, West Virginia, April 10 -- West Virginia University issued the following story: A leader and expert in process operations, risk assessment and food safety has been selected as the next dean of the West Virginia University Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design. Darrell Donahue's appointment as the dean of the Davis College was announced Thursday by Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Maryanne Reed. Donahue most recently has served as chair of the Dep more PR

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April 10 -- Indiana University East campus issued the following news: The coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis has led to many unanswered questions for students and their families. Chera LaForge, Ph.D., associate professor of political science at Indiana University East, was asked to share her thoughts about the political response to the pandemic. LaForge received her doctorate in political science and her Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana more PR

TOPEKA, Kansas, April 10 -- The Kansas Corporation Commission issued the following order (No. 19-GIMT-056-GIT): In the Matter of An Investigation to Determine the Assessment Rate and the Affordable Local Service Rate for Rate-of-Return Regulated Carriers for the Twenty-Third Year of the Kansas Universal Service Fund, Effective March 1, 2019. ORDER APPROVING TRAFFIC FACTORS FOR METROPCS MICHIGAN, LLC The above-captioned matter comes before the State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas more PR

LANSING, Michigan, April 10 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release: * * * - Alternate care facility set to open for patients starting Friday, April 10 * * * Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced a partnership of health care providers providing critical support, staffing and resources at the TCF Regional Care Center, scheduled to accept its first 25 patients this Friday, April 10. The partnership includes Henry Ford Health System, McLaren Health Care, Beaumont H more PR

LANSING, Michigan, April 10 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release on April 9: Governor Gretchen Whitmer created the Michigan Coronavirus Task Force on Racial Disparities. The task force, chaired by Lt. Governor Garlin Gilchrist II, will consist of leaders across state government and health care professionals from communities most impacted by the spread of coronavirus. The task force will hold it's first meeting this week. As of today, over 40% of COVID-19 deat more PR

LANSING, Michigan, April 10 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release: * * * - Governor directs all Michiganders to stay home, stay safe through April 30 * * * Governor Whitmer signed executive order 2020-42, extending her prior "Stay Home, Stay Safe" order through the end of April. As with the prior order, Executive Order 2020-42 limits gatherings and travel and requires all workers who are not necessary to sustain or protect life to stay home. Executive Order  more PR

LANSING, Michigan, April 8 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release: * * * - Whitmer announces appointments to the 55th, 67th, and 97th District Courts * * * Governor Gretchen Whitmer appointed Richard L. Hillman to the 55th District Court of Ingham County, Jessica J. Hammon to the 67th District Court of Genesee County, and Nicholas J. Daavettila to the 97th District Court of Houghton County. "Richard, Jessica, and Nicholas have strong backgrounds and a wide more PR

LANSING, Michigan, April 7 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release: Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed executive order 2020-37, which renews the restrictions on entry into care facilities and juvenile justice facilities the governor issued on March 14, 2020 until May 3, 2020. The order now requires facilities to use best efforts to facilitate remote visitations between individuals under their care and their loved ones, using phone or video conferencing software. T more PR

LANSING, Michigan, April 7 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release: Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed Executive Order 2020-38, which relaxes requirements for responding to FOIA requests made by mail or fax during the COVID-19 emergency. This action will protect workers who handle FOIA requests by allowing public bodies to defer portions of requests that would require workers to report to work in-person. The Executive Order takes effect immediately and ends at 11:5 more PR

LANSING, Michigan, April 6 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer teamed up with the Detroit Lions, Pistons, Red Wings, and Tigers to release a call to action video encouraging nurses and doctors to bring their skills to Michigan as a way to volunteer and help bolster the number of health care professionals on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. "I am grateful for the health care professionals who are on the front lines of this pand more PR

LANSING, Michigan, April 9 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release: * * * - Health care provider to help set up alternate care facility in Novi * * * The State of Michigan has selected the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, in collaboration with Ascension Michigan, as the site of a second alternate care facility to expand medical capacity during the state's response to COVID-19. This decision comes days after Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced the state's more PR

LANSING, Michigan, April 11 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release: The TCF Regional Care Center - Michigan's first alternate care facility - opens in Detroit to provide critical care to COVID-19 patients. The alternate care facility will accept up to 25 patients, April 10, with staffing resources coming on board in the coming days to be able to care for 250 patients by the end of next week. Led by The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, the 350,000  more PR

LANSING, Michigan, April 8 -- The Michigan Public Service Commission issued the following news release: April is national Safe Digging Month, but this year the annual designation takes on added importance as Michigan and the nation deal with the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on daily life and emergency resources. The Michigan Public Service Commission urges homeowners and contractors to postpone any non-essential digging until Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's Stay Home, Stay Safe executive order  more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, April 9 [TNSbiologyresearch] -- Michigan State University's College of Natural Science issued the following news: In a new study, published in the journal Nature, Michigan State University scientists show how plant genes directly select which microbes get to live inside their leaves in order to stay healthy. This is the first study to show a causal relationship between plant health and assembly of the microbiome of the phyllosphere - the total above-ground portions of p more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, April 8 [TNSbiologyresearch] -- Michigan State University's College of Natural Science issued the following news: The textbook example in ecology, literally, goes like this: The poisonous rough-skinned newt and the garter snake are locked in an evolutionary arms race. The more resistant the snake becomes to the newt's neurotoxic defense, the more deadly toxin the newt produces--in some newts, enough to kill two dozen humans. But in a study published in the open-access j more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, April 7 [TNSbiologyresearch] -- Michigan State University's College of Natural Science issued the following news on April 6: Before there were farms in southwest Michigan, there were prairies. For thousands of years, tall grass prairies stood undisturbed until European settlers turned the rich, highly productive soils to agriculture. Today, tall grass prairies East of the Mississippi are virtually extinct. But some landowners want to return land throughout the Midwest  more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, April 7 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: Carbohydrates are complex molecules, difficult to synthesize in the lab, but doing so is useful in studying beneficial sugars such as those found in human breast milk, or enabling researchers to tailor the chemical structure of drug candidates, vaccines and natural products. University of Michigan chemists have developed a simple method of synthesizing carbohydrates that widens the range of labs that  more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, April 7 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: Research projects and innovations related to COVID-19 have ramped up quickly across the University of Michigan, spurred by doctors, public health experts, scientists, economists and engineers, and encouraged by research leaders. Even though the university paused most of its massive laboratory and clinical research operations in March to prevent the spread of coronavirus, hundreds of people from many o more PR

KALAMAZOO, Michigan, April 11 -- Western Michigan University issued the following news: When researchers encounter something unexpected, their curiosity can drive them in a new direction, and to work with the library. Answering questions--including obscure or tricky ones--is one of a librarian's many talents. Recently, WMU Libraries' special collections staff and librarian helped the Smithsonian Archives find answers about the designer of their iconic sunburst seal. Smithsonian staff were look more PR

KALAMAZOO, Michigan, April 9 -- Western Michigan University issued the following news: How do you prepare for your career when in-person contact is no longer an option? That is a question that many students are learning to answer creatively with assistance from the staff at the Zhang Career Center. As WMU moved to distance education, staff members in the career center shifted to remote advising appointments and offering instruction on topics like building a professional resume, LinkedIn profil more PR

KALAMAZOO, Michigan, April 11 [TNSgrants] -- Western Michigan University issued the following news: Western Michigan University full-time faculty, staff and administrators who have innovative ideas to help address the many challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic are invited to apply for a new grant program offered through the Office of Research and Innovation. Funded by the Meader Presidential Endowment, the COVID-19 Response Grant program, designed to support small-scale research projects a more PR