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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Texas Newsletter for 2025-04-03 ( 25 items ) |
2025 Big 12 Gymnastics National Honors (10)
IRVING, Texas, April 3 -- The Big 12 Conference, a college athletic conference, issued the following news:
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2025 Big 12 Gymnastics National Honors
The following Big 12 gymnasts have earned national honors during the 2025 season.
* WCGA Regular Season All-Americans
First Team
Makenna Smith, Utah - Vault
Grace McCallum, Utah - Uneven Bars, Balance Beam
* Second Team
Grace McCallum Utah - All-Around
Makenna Smith, Utah - All-Around, Floor
Camie Winger, Utah - Balance Beam
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ABS Expands Singapore Footprint with New Office and Services to Respond to Growing Client Demand (10)
HOUSTON, Texas, April 2 [Category: Transportation] -- The American Bureau of Shipping posted the following news release:
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ABS Expands Singapore Footprint with New Office and Services to Respond to Growing Client Demand
World Class Facility Houses Industry-Leading ABS Research Teams and Supports Expanded Remote Survey Capabilities
(SINGAPORE) Increasing demand from shipowners for ABS services in Singapore has prompted ABS to invest in an expanded regional head office housing industry-le more PR
Arnold Ventures Reacts to Senate Budget Committee's Irresponsible Proposal to Use Current Policy Baseline In Reconciliation Process (10)
HOUSTON, Texas, April 3 -- Arnold Ventures (formerly the Laura and John Arnold Foundation) issued the following news:
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Arnold Ventures Reacts to Senate Budget Committee's Irresponsible Proposal to Use Current Policy Baseline In Reconciliation Process
"The precedents being set are reckless, and the damage to America's economic foundation would be lasting."
George Callas, executive vice president for public finance at Arnold Ventures, provided the following statement in response to the an more PR
Being physically active, even just a couple of days a week, may be key to better health (10)
DALLAS, Texas, April 2 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Heart Association posted the following news release:
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Being physically active, even just a couple of days a week, may be key to better health
Research Highlights:
* New research suggests that participating in at least 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity in just two days had similar health benefits as distributing the activity throughout the week.
* People who followed the "weekend warrior" approach, co more PR
Boise State's Allen, Wolf Win Southland Beach Volleyball Pair of the Week (10)
FRISCO, Texas, April 3 -- The Southland Conference issued the following news:
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Boise State's Allen, Wolf win Southland Beach Volleyball Pair of the Week
Boise State's Avery Allen and Abbie Wolf have won the Southland Conference Beach Volleyball Pair of the Week, as announced Tuesday by the conference office.
Pair of the Week: Boise State - Avery Allen and Abbie Wolf, Boise State
Allen and Wolf went 3-0 at the Utah Beach Classic this past weekend, winning two duals from the No. 4 posit more PR
East Texas A&M's Fuseini, McNeese's Francis Win Outdoor Track & Field Weekly Awards (10)
FRISCO, Texas, April 3 -- The Southland Conference issued the following news:
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East Texas A&M's Fuseini, McNeese's Francis win Outdoor Track & Field Weekly Awards
Ibrahim Fuseini of East Texas A&M and McNeese's Marcus Francis have earned the Men's Track & Field Athletes of the Week awards, respectively, as announced by the conference office on Wednesday. This is Francis' second-straight award of the outdoor season.
Men's Track Athlete of the Week: Ibrahim Fuseini - Sprints - Jr. - Accr more PR
Group-IB Recognized with the 2025 Frost & Sullivan Global Technology Innovation Leadership Award (10)
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, April 2 [Category: BizConsulting] -- Frost and Sullivan, a provider of market research and analysis, growth strategy consulting and corporate training services, posted the following news release:
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Group-IB Recognized with the 2025 Frost & Sullivan Global Technology Innovation Leadership Award
SAN ANTONIO, TX. - April 2, 2025 - Frost & Sullivan has named Group-IB the recipient of the 2025 Global Technology Innovation Leadership Award in recognition of its groundbreakin more PR
Houston-area residents voice clear preferences on key state issues in new Kinder Institute survey (10)
HOUSTON, Texas, April 2 -- Rice University posted the following news release:
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Houston-area residents voice clear preferences on key state issues in new Kinder Institute survey
The Texas State Capitol Building.
As Texas lawmakers deliberate key policy proposals in the 89th legislative session, a new survey from Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research sheds light on the preferences of Houston-area residents on school choice, education funding, firearm regulations, water in more PR
More Than 99% Of U.S. Dogs Have A Behavior Problem, Texas A&M Researcher Finds (10)
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, April 2 -- Texas A&M University's College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences issued the following news release:
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More Than 99% Of U.S. Dogs Have A Behavior Problem, Texas A&M Researcher Finds
While most owners report behavior problems as relatively minor or not worth addressing, Dr. Bonnie Beaver's study finds that behavior problems are a common part of dog ownership.
A researcher at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences ( more PR
New Orleans' Tesic, A&M-Corpus Christi's Mykytyn Named Jersey Mike's SLC Tennis Players of the Week (10)
FRISCO, Texas, April 3 -- The Southland Conference issued the following news:
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New Orleans' Tesic, A&M-Corpus Christi's Mykytyn Named Jersey Mike's SLC Tennis Players of the Week
New Orleans' David Tesic and A&M-Corpus Christi's Yana Mykytyn have won this week's Jersey Mike's Southland Conference Tennis Players of the Week awards, as announced by the Conference Office on Tuesday.
Men's Player of the Week: David Tesic, New Orleans - Sr. -- Kamp-Lintfort, Germany
Tesic moved his record more PR
New Rice institute to study lifetime health impacts and develop targeted interventions (10)
HOUSTON, Texas, April 2 -- Rice University posted the following news release:
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New Rice institute to study lifetime health impacts and develop targeted interventions
Rice University has launched the Institute of Health Resilience and Innovation (IHRI), a pioneering research initiative dedicated to understanding the lifetime impacts of health stressors and developing targeted interventions to improve well-being across diverse populations.
From left: Rice Institute of Health Resilience a more PR
OpenStax announces completed computer science collection (10)
HOUSTON, Texas, April 2 -- Rice University posted the following news release:
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OpenStax announces completed computer science collection
OpenStax, a leading provider of high-quality open educational resources and interactive learning technologies housed at Rice University, announces the completion of its computer science digital textbook collection. These resources provide free, up-to-date, relevant and engaging learning content to support students and educators in one of today's most pop more PR
Southwestern University: Alumni Couple Pledge $1 Million Gift for New Multi-Purpose Sports Complex (10)
GEORGETOWN, Texas, April 3 -- Southwestern University issued the following news:
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Alumni Couple Pledge $1 Million Gift for New Multi-Purpose Sports Complex
The field at the new multi-purpose sports complex will be named in honor of Kevin and Elizabeth Dice for their generous donation to the facility.
Southwestern University's new multi-purpose sports complex is one step closer to reality as Kevin '81 and Elizabeth '84 Dice have pledged a $1 million gift toward the construction of the fa more PR
Supreme Court upholds FDA decision to deny marketing applications for certain flavored e-cigarettes (10)
DALLAS, Texas, April 2 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Heart Association posted the following news release:
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Supreme Court upholds FDA decision to deny marketing applications for certain flavored e-cigarettes
WASHINGTON, DC, April 2, 2025 -- The Supreme Court today ruled unanimously that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) properly rejected applications from two manufacturers of e-cigarette liquids to market fruit- and dessert-flavored products. Nancy Brown, CEO of the America more PR
SwRI develops process to produce graphene from CO2 (10)
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, April 3 [Category: Business] -- Southwest Research Institute issued the following news release:
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SwRI develops process to produce graphene from CO2
April 2, 2025 -- Chemical engineers at Southwest Research Institute produced gram quantities of graphene and other carbonaceous materials by bubbling carbon dioxide through a bed of liquefied alkali earth metals. Graphene, a carbon allotrope, is used for everything from biomedical devices to sensors and electronics. The in more PR
TCU Collects Big 12 Beach Volleyball Weekly Honors (10)
IRVING, Texas, April 3 -- The Big 12 Conference, a college athletic conference, issued the following news:
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TCU Collects Big 12 Beach Volleyball Weekly Honors
TCU's Allanis Navas and Sofia Izuzquiza were named the Big 12 Beach Volleyball Pair of the Week.
Navas and Izuzquiza picked up three wins against No. 1 UCLA, No. 4 Stanford and No. 9 Long Beach State at the Death Volley Invitational in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. All three wins came in straight sets at the No. 3 position and improved more PR
Texas A&M University College of Engineering: Using Text-Generating AI to Power Nuclear Research (10)
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, April 3 -- The Texas A&M University College of Engineering issued the following news:
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Using Text-Generating AI to Power Nuclear Research
A nuclear engineering graduate student is researching how generative artificial intelligence can speed up nuclear science research.
By Julianne Hodges
Text-generating AI programs like ChatGPT are known for everyday tasks like answering questions, but that's not all they're good for. These AI agents can use their text-parsing p more PR
Texas A&M University's Mays Business School Announces Partnership With Creative Destruction Lab (10)
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, April 3 -- Texas A&M University issued the following news:
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Texas A&M University's Mays Business School Announces Partnership With Creative Destruction Lab
Nine-month mentorship program aims to accelerate early-stage energy and space technology startups.
Texas A&M University's Mays Business School is proud to announce the launch of Creative Destruction Lab-Texas through a partnership with Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a global nonprofit organization founded at more PR
UCF's 1V8+ Earns Big 12 Boat of the Week After Sarasota Sweep (10)
IRVING, Texas, April 3 -- The Big 12 Conference, a college athletic conference, issued the following news:
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UCF's 1V8+ Earns Big 12 Boat of the Week After Sarasota Sweep
UCF's 1V8+ was tabbed as Big 12 Boat of the Week, completing a five-race sweep for the Knights at the Sarasota 2K at Nathan Benderson Park.
Coxswained by Audrey Vilendrer, the varsity eight finished with a time of 6:27.05, ahead of North Carolina, Michigan State, Iowa and Miami at the Sarasota 2K. The crew of Sofia Nabo more PR
UH, OSU and TCU Earn Big 12 Outdoor Track & Field Weekly Awards (10)
IRVING, Texas, April 3 -- The Big 12 Conference, a college athletic conference, issued the following news:
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UH, OSU and TCU Earn Big 12 Outdoor Track & Field Weekly Awards
Houston's Antrea Mita earned Big 12 Outdoor Track and Field's Men's Athlete of the Week while Oklahoma State's Emma Robbins and TCU's Indya Mayberry shared the Women's Athlete of the Week. All three student-athletes participated in the 97th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays.
Mita won the men's high jump with a clearance more PR
United We Dream: Bring Back Our Students and Families to Sackets Harbor Now! (10)
WASHINGTON, April 3 -- United We Dream issued the following news release:
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Bring Back Our Students and Families to Sackets Harbor Now!
Washington, D.C. - Last Thursday, three children and their mother were kidnapped by ICE in Sackets Harbor, New York. The family was taken nearly 2,000 miles away from their home and thrown into the Karnes detention camp in Texas. Following the family's disappearance, the Sackets Harbor school district and neighbors are speaking out against the abduction a more PR
University of Texas-Arlington: How This Tiny Snake Could Change Our View of Genetics (10)
ARLINGTON, Texas, April 3 -- The University of Texas Arlington campus issued the following news release:
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How this tiny snake could change our view of genetics
UTA scientists reveal how the flowerpot snake repairs DNA and provides insights into human genetic conditions like Down Syndrome
The flowerpot snake, one of the world's smallest snakes, has some unusual distinctions. Also known as the Brahminy blind snake, it's the only known snake species with three sets of chromosomes instead o more PR
UT-Southwestern Medical Center: Grant Worth Up to $5 Million Aids Research for Cerebellar Disorders (10)
DALLAS, Texas, April 3 -- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center issued the following news release:
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Grant worth up to $5 million aids research for cerebellar disorders
UTSW team receives funding from Raynor Cerebellum Project to develop treatments for congenital brain disease
DALLAS - April 02, 2025 - A multidisciplinary team of UT Southwestern Medical Center specialists, led by Nader Pouratian, M.D., Ph.D., and Peter Tsai, M.D., Ph.D., has received a grant worth up to $5 more PR
UTMB Angleton Danbury Campus Re-designated as a Level IV Trauma Center (10)
GALVESTON, Texas, April 3 -- The University of Texas Medical Branch issued the following news release:
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UTMB Angleton Danbury Campus re-designated as a Level IV Trauma Center
The University of Texas Medical Branch Angleton Danbury Campus was recently redesignated as a Level IV Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons.
With an Emergency Department that recorded over 25,000 patient visits throughout FY24, the location is an integral part of the community it serves.
"As a level I more PR
UTRGV's Harris, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi's Green Win Outdoor Track & Field Weekly Awards (10)
FRISCO, Texas, April 3 -- The Southland Conference issued the following news:
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UTRGV's Harris, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi's Green win Outdoor Track & Field Weekly Awards
UTRGV's Nayla Harris and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi's Cyan Green have earned the Women's Track & Field Athletes of the Week awards, respectively, as announced by the conference office on Wednesday.
Women's Track Athlete of the Week: Nayla Harris, UTRGV - Sprints/Jumps - Jr. - Seguin, Texas
Harris moved to No. 1 in the SLC more PR
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