BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Dec. 12 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: Name: Griffin Armstrong College: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Major: Human nutrition, foods, and exercise Hometown: It's complicated. Armstrong was born in Fairbanks, Alaska, but as the son of an Army officer, he has lived all over the world in Hawaii, Spain, and Korea. His family now lives in Blacksburg. The pathway to being a Hokie Armstrong came to Virginia Tech in January 2023, after transferring from more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 11 -- Farm Credit Bank of Texas issued the following news release on Dec. 10, 2024: Texas Farm Credit District stockholders have re-elected John L. "Jack" Dailey of Extension, Louisiana, to the Farm Credit Bank of Texas board of directors. Additionally, the board has reappointed Dorothy Nichols of Reston, Virginia, as an outside director. Both will begin three-year terms on January 1, 2025. Dailey, a board member since 2019, chairs the bank's compensation committee and ser more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Dec. 10 -- Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill issued the following news on Dec. 9, 2024: Attorney General Murrill announced that Louisiana received $1,400,289 from a settlement with Marriott International, Inc. A coalition of 50 Attorneys General reached settlements as the result of a multistate investigation into a large multi-year data breach of one of its guest reservation databases. The Federal Trade Commission, which has been coordinating closely with the states more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Dec. 14 -- Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill issued the following news on Dec. 13, 2024: Attorney General Liz Murrill is warning four voice service providers that they have been transmitting suspected illegal robocall traffic on their networks on behalf of one or more of their customers. The attorney general is a member of the 51-attorney general Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force, which has been investigating these providers. In the warning letters, t more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Dec. 14 -- Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill issued the following news on Dec. 13, 2024: Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill joined 24 states in urging the U.S. Senate to swiftly confirm President Trump's nominee, Kash Patel, as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"). Patel is a proven leader who will restore integrity to the FBI. As National Security Advisor to the House Intelligence Committee, Patel uncovered Foreign Intelligence Surveillance  more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Dec. 13 -- Gov. Jeff Landry, R-Louisiana, issued the following news on Dec. 12, 2024: Governor Jeff Landry signed an executive order establishing a Fiscal Responsibility Program which will monitor state spending and ensure our government operates in the most efficient and effective manner. The Program will be led by Fiscal Responsibility Czar, Steve Orlando, and will be comprised of a minimum of nine members. These include Senators Hodges, Miguez, Boudreaux, and Stine,  more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Dec. 12 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU is proud to announce its invitation to join the distinguished AI Alliance, a collaborative network of leading institutions and organizations dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence research, development, and governance. This invitation is the result of months of coordinated effort by LSU's Office of Data and Strategic Analytics (ODSA), including members of its AI Faculty Fellows program more PR

WILLIAMSPORT, Pennsylvania, Dec. 14 (TNSres) -- The Pennsylvania College of Technology issued the following news: While helping with a training activity at the Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Donnamarie Lovestrand saw more than a decade of inquiry put into practice. That inquiry began in 2011 when Lovestrand, now an associate professor of nursing at Pennsylvania College of Technology, was a staff nurse in the post-anesthesia care unit of Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital at Fo more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Dec. 11 -- Tulane University issued the following news release: Starting next fall, Tulane University School of Social Work will launch an online version of its unique Master of Science in Disaster Resilience Leadership (MS-DRL), a pioneering program that equips future leaders with the skills necessary to address and manage the complex challenges posed by disasters and crises. Housed within Tulane's Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy, the program is designed to mee more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Dec. 10 -- Tulane University issued the following news release: The Tulane University Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine has been awarded $4.76 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to continue Partners for Advancing Health Equity (P4HE Collaborative), a national research learning collaborative that aims to inform and synchronize research to advance solutions toward health equity. With nearly 700 members nationwide and global more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Dec. 13 -- The University of New Orleans issued the following news release: The University of New Orleans will offer a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience after the new program was approved this week by the Louisiana Board of Regents. The degree program will prepare students for employment or graduate school in the broad field of neuroscience, which is the study of the nervous system, its functions and its disorders. Neuroscientists focus on the brain and how it generat more PR

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 14 (TNSpro) -- Western Governors University-Utah issued the following news release on Dec. 13, 2024: * * * Leavitt School of Health aims to train 3,000 new nurses in Texas and adjacent states by 2028 * * * HOUSTON, TX, DECEMBER 13, 2024 - The Western Governors University (WGU) Michael O. Leavitt School of Health (LSH) today announced the expansion of its Clinical Learning and Simulation Center in Houston, a nursing lab created to clinically train students across Te more PR