LOGAN, Utah, March 2 (TNSres) -- Utah State University issued the following news: A group of Utah State University researchers from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHaSS) was one of two teams in the state selected to participate in the 2022-23 Scholars Transforming Through Research (STR) Program. According to the Council on Undergraduate Research website, "These teams represent 62 institutions from 28 states and are made up of 75 Campus Representatives and 124 undergraduate resea  more

LOGAN, Utah, March 2 (TNSres) -- Utah State University posted the following news: Four undergraduate students, along with two graduate students and their mentor, will have their research published at the Applied Power Electronics Conference in Orlando this March. The authors of the paper include Tucker Skinner, Dakota Goodrich, McKay Waite, Conner Sabin, Aditya Zade, Sanat Poddar and Assistant Professor Hongjie Wang. Zade and Poddar are graduate students. This is the same group that was award  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, March 2 -- Gov. Josh Shapiro, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release on March 1, 2023: Governor Josh Shapiro is leading the way on opening the doors of opportunity to more people and expanding our workforce. Since the Governor signed an executive order removing four-year college degree requirements for most state government jobs, Georgia's state senate and the state of Alaska have followed suit. Governor Shapiro was one of the first governors to take action  more

SALT LAKE, Utah, March 4 -- NetChoice issued the following news on March 3, 2023: Last night, NetChoice sent a letter to Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, requesting that he veto two bills from the legislature. While the legislature was well intentioned, Utah's SB 152 and HB 311 are unconstitutional and will force businesses to collect children's sensitive personal data, endangering their safety online. "Given their risks to children's data privacy and unconstitutionality, we ask Gov. Cox to veto both HB  more

SYRACUSE, New York, March 1 (TNSpp) -- Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications issued the following news: U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah will be the keynote speaker at the award ceremony for the Toner Prizes for Excellence in Political Reporting on Monday, March 27, in Washington, D.C. The Toner Prizes, sponsored by Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, honor the life and work of late alumna Robin Toner '76, the first woman to be national po  more

SYRACUSE, New York, March 1 (TNSpp) -- Syracuse University issued the following news: U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah will be the keynote speaker at the award ceremony for the Toner Prizes for Excellence in Political Reporting on Monday, March 27, in Washington, D.C. The Toner Prizes, sponsored by Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, honor the life and work of late alumna Robin Toner '76, the first woman to be national political correspondent for The New York Time  more

LOGAN, Utah, March 2 (TNSrpt) -- Utah State University issued the following news: * * * The USU Utah Women & Leadership Project recently released a report seeking to better understand domestic violence in Utah. * * * A recent U.S. survey estimated that 1 in 3 Utah women (33.6%) will experience some form of sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in her lifetime. Additionally, 41.6% of Utah women will experience psychological aggression, and 36.4% will exper  more

LOGAN, Utah, March 4 (TNSfund) -- Utah State University issued the following news: Marissa Tsugawa, a research professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State University, recently received a $75,000 grant from the nonprofit Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs, or GEAR UP. GEAR UP is a highly competitive grant program that empowers local partnerships between K-12 schools, institutions of higher education, state agencies and community organizations  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 28 (TNSpro) -- Western Governors University-Utah issued the following news release: Western Governors University (WGU) is announcing it will offer the Google Career Certificate in Digital Marketing and E-commerce as part of its Master of Science in Marketing, Digital Marketing and Marketing Analytics degrees. To help connect graduates to jobs, the certificate program includes an employer consortium of over 150 companies--including Verizon, Walmart, and Google--that wi  more