LARAMIE, Wyoming, May 20 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release on May 19: Incoming University of Wyoming President Ed Seidel will be at the table with some of the nation's leaders in industry, higher education and research as a member of the Council on Competiveness, the leading national organization focused on keeping the United States at the forefront of economic competitiveness. Seidel, who becomes UW's 28th president July 1, was invited to join the council based up more PR

WASHINGTON, May 19 -- The Center for Science in the Public Interest issued the following news release on May 18: Jerold R. Mande, who served in key nutrition and food safety roles during the Obama administration, has joined the Center for Science in the Public Interest as senior advisor, the organization's president, Dr. Peter G. Lurie, announced. Mande comes to CSPI from Tufts University, where he had served as Professor of the Practice at the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutri more PR

WASHINGTON, May 19 -- ProEnglish, an advocate of English language, issued the following news: The Governor of Puerto Rico, Wanda Vazquez, has announced that the island will hold a nonbinding referendum in November about whether Puerto Rico should become a U.S. state. The referendum will ask a single question: Should Puerto Rico be immediately admitted as a U.S. state? Previous referendums have presented voters with more than one question or with various options, including independence, stateh more PR

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- Rep. David Trone, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Congressman David Trone (MD-06) hosted a conversation about our nation's health and higher education systems amid the COVID-19 global pandemic with President of American University and former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell. The conversation is the third in a new series hosted by Trone called Candid COVID Conversations, which will feature periodic discussions covering some of the m more PR

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- The Union of Concerned Scientists issued the following news release: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has had a diminished role communicating with the public about the novel coronavirus pandemic compared to the role the agency played during previous epidemics, according to a Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) analysis released today. The analysis quantifies and compares to past administrations, the current administration's practice of prioritizing pre more PR