SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, March 8 (TNSres) -- Centenary College of Louisiana issued the following news release: Centenary College senior Marco Basteris, a biology major from Houston, Texas, was recently chosen to present research at the 2023 Southeast American College of Sports Medicine Conference (ACSM) in Greenville, South Carolina. Basteris gave a presentation on research completed during Spring 2022, on the effects of cell phone use during outdoor exercise. "I couldn't be more proud of Marco,  more

HOUSTON, Texas, March 11 (TNSconf) -- CenterPoint Energy issued the following news release on March 10, 2023: CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (NYSE: CNP) today announced that its 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders will be held on Friday, April 21, 2023, at 9 a.m. CT in the CenterPoint Energy Tower auditorium, 1111 Louisiana Street, Houston, Texas. Shareholders who hold shares of CenterPoint Energy common stock at the close of business on February 24, 2023, will receive notice of the meeting and wil  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, March 10 -- Entergy issued the following news release: Residents and businesses of the City of Abbeville and the Town of Erath are now being served by a stronger, more resilient electric system after Entergy Louisiana completed a $15 million upgrade to a section of transmission lines in Acadiana. Planning for the Five Points to Erath transmission project began in fall 2019 and construction and electric work, along with energizing the strengthened line segment, were comp  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 10 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards' economic mission to Asia shifted to South Korea Thursday, with the governor meeting with executives of Lotte Chemical, a leading Korean investor in Louisiana. Lotte has major manufacturing facilities in the Lake Charles area and is considered a significant economic development partner in Louisiana's Southwest Region. Discussions with Lotte executives explored the company's   more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 8 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards continued his economic development mission to Asia Tuesday by visiting a silicon semiconductor plant and meeting with top executives of two of the world's largest chemical manufacturing companies. The governor was joined by Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Don Pierson, members of the governor's staff and LED's Office of International Commerce and Business Development.   more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 11 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards wrapped up a week of high-level engagements with business and government leaders in Asia Friday by discussing a wide range of economic and policy issues with U.S. Ambassador of South Korea Philip S. Goldberg. Earlier in the day, the governor and Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Don Pierson visited the corporate headquarters of Kumho Tire, one of the world's largest ti  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 7 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: A Louisiana delegation led by Gov. John Bel Edwards met Monday with top energy, industry and trade officials from Japan, one of Louisiana's leading international trade partners, kicking off the governor's economic mission to Asia. The governor also visited with executives of Zen-Noh, whose subsidiary Zen-Noh Grain Corp. is based in Louisiana. Later in the day, Gov. Edwards and Louisiana Economic De  more

BLOOMINGTON, Indiana, March 7 (TNSjou) -- Indiana University issued the following news release: Research from scientists at Indiana University and Louisiana State University reveals new information about the role humans have played in large-scale land loss in the Mississippi River Delta -- crucial information in determining solutions to the crisis. Published in Nature Sustainability, the study compares the impacts of different human actions on land loss and explains historical trends. Until no  more

RUSTON, Louisiana, March 10 (TNSfund) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Hunt Forest Products LLC has pledged $500,000 to support the new Forest Products Innovation Center on Louisiana Tech University's South Campus. The facility will provide space and support for a transdisciplinary approach to solving the challenges associated with the timber industry. The Forest Products Innovation Center is slated to become a hub for discovering new methods to capture, produce, and uti  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 9 (TNSres) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Six LSU faculty members have been selected to receive Rainmaker awards this year by the LSU Office of Research & Economic Development, or ORED. These faculty members show outstanding research, scholarship and creative activity for their respective ranks and disciplines. The Rainmaker awards recognize both sustained and continuing work as well as the impact that work has had on the academic   more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 10 (TNSpar) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: The LSU Student Health Center and the LSU Ogden Honors College have partnered on a new mental health initiative, providing students with access to a mental health professional in the French House. "Our honors students are academic superstars, but it's also clear that many of them are struggling: anxiety, depression, eating and sleep disorders - not to mention some full-scale crises," said  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 8 (TNSpar) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU, BRAC and NexusLA are partnering to create Startup City Launch, a new, 10-week training program to help entrepreneurs turn their ideas into scalable businesses. The program builds upon The Idea Village's proven IDEAinstitute program that has served over 300 founders in the last four years and is an expansion of the Baton Rouge partners' recently released Startup City magazine. "The ID  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 7 (TNSjou) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Research from scientists at LSU and Indiana University reveals new information about the role humans have played in large-scale land loss in the Mississippi River Delta--crucial information in determining solutions to the crisis. The study published today in Nature Sustainability compares the impacts of different human actions on land loss and explains historical trends. Until now, scienti  more

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, March 7 -- Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued the following news release: In order to protect the constitutional liberties of all Americans, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry filed their motion for a preliminary injunction in their landmark free speech lawsuit, Missouri v. Biden. After receiving thousands of internal federal documents, the attorneys general ask the court to block top officials in the federal   more

AUSTIN, Texas, March 11 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Attorney General Paxton filed a multistate amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court, led by West Virginia and Louisiana, to protect the religious liberties of workers across America. Prior to joining this merits-stage brief, Paxton filed a cert-stage brief in the same case. The Supreme Court's ultimate decision in this case, which is centered around a postal worker wanting to observe the Sabba  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, March 11 -- Reed Smith, a law firm, issued the following news release on March 10, 2023: * * * Global law firm Reed Smith today announced that it has advised Hub International in its acquisition of the assets of Dwight W. Andrus Insurance Inc., Dwight Andrus & Richard Insurance, Inc., and DAI Shreve, LLC (collectively, "Dwight Andrus Insurance"). * * * Hub is a leading global insurance brokerage and financial services firm providing risk management, insurance, employee ben  more

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, March 9 (TNSfund) -- Nicholls State University issued the following news release on March 8, 2023: Nicholls State University Athletics Department received a $60,000 donation from REV/REV Business as part of a five-year corporate partnership agreement with Nicholls Athletics. In 2023, $20,000 of the donation will be used to recognize the long-time support and generosity REV has contributed to its athletics department by offering naming rights to the academic classroom house  more

BATON ROUGE, SHREVEPORT, March 8 (TNSpar) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU is pursuing a bold vision to work side-by-side with industry to put students on the frontlines of the relentless global fight against cyberattacks. In partnership with Splunk, the market leader in software and solutions to secure complex digital infrastructures, and TekStream, Splunk's cloud partner that brings technical expertise and staffing solutions to organizations of all sizes, L  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, March 8 (TNSres) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at Tulane University reported a rise in violence against women, especially in the area of intimate partner violence (IPV). A national committee is now bringing the issue to the forefront, and one of the leaders of Tulane's research in this area has been invited to join the conversation. Reggie Ferreira, an associate professor in the Tulane School of Social W  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, March 10 (TNSjou) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: Simultaneous alcohol and marijuana use among college students is on the rise across the country, according to a new Tulane University study published in the journal Addictive Behavior Reports. The proportion of U.S. college students using both substances increased to 8.44% during 2015-2019 from 8.13% the previous four years, according to the study which examined data from National Survey on Drug U  more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, March 9 (TNSres) -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news: After graduating from Parkview High School, Magen Schlesier, a December 2022 graduate of UA Little Rock, never had any plans to attend college. "I read a book by James Michener called 'The Drifters,'" she said. "It made me want to travel and experience the world." That is exactly how Schlesier spent the next decade of her life. She attended bartending school in Las Vegas and worked across the coun  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, March 9 (TNSres) -- The University of New Orleans issued the following news release: Researchers at the University of New Orleans Transportation Institute have received a $12 million, four-year federal grant for transit-oriented research and education conducted through the Center for Equitable Transit-Oriented Communities (CETOC). In addition, the University received a $1.5 million federal grant to continue its maritime and multimodal transportation research and educati  more

NEW YORK, March 7 -- White and Case, a law firm, issued the following news release: Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Excelerate Energy, Inc. on its entry into a 20-year liquefied natural gas (LNG) sale and purchase agreement with Venture Global LNG. Under the agreement, Excelerate will purchase 0.7 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) of LNG on a free-on-board (FOB) basis from the Plaquemines LNG facility in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, approximately 20 miles south of New Orleans. The  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 8 (TNSpro) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: The LSU Center for Internal Auditing, the world's first and premier university-based internal audit education program, is expanding to include a greater focus on cybersecurity risk and environmental, social & governance (ESG) issues. In recognition of these changes, the program has been renamed the LSU Center for Internal Auditing & Cybersecurity Risk Management (LSUCIA&CRM). "Building on   more