WASHINGTON, March 29 -- The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America issued the following news: The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) announced the 2022-23 All-American Honorees for all divisions. The awards were determined by the individuals and relays that finished in the top eight and top sixteen of their respective national championship meets earlier this month. Students who finished in the top eight earned First Team honors while students   more

GREENWOOD, Indiana, March 30 (TNSawa) -- College Sports Communicators issued the following news on March 28, 2023: Tamika Catchings is a basketball legend who has dedicated her time away from the court to motivating and uplifting others. For Catchings' outstanding achievements as a player and her commitment to serving her community, College Sports Communicators (CSC) has selected her as the 2023 Dick Enberg Award recipient. The Dick Enberg Award is presented annually to an individual who has d  more

WASHINGTON, March 28 -- The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America issued the following news: The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) announced its NCAA Men's Division I award winners and All-Americans for the 2022-2023 season. Awards are determined by a nationwide vote of CSCAA-member Division I head swimming coaches and diving coaches. All-Americans are selected on the basis of their finish at the NCAA Championships and a team's current memb  more

RUTHERFORD, New Jersey, March 29 (TNSpconf) -- Felician University issued the following news release: On Friday, March 24, Felician University held its third bi-annual Felician Autism Collaboration in Teaching (FACT) Conference in the Joseph and Joal Job Gymnasium on the Rutherford campus. Paul Aronsohn, New Jersey Ombudsman for Individuals with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities; Dr. Nasiah Cirincione-Ulezi, Founder and CEO of ULEZI, LLC, and Dr. Peter Gerhardt, the Executive Director  more

MONT ALTO, Pennsylvania, March 28 (TNSfund) -- Pennsylvania State University's Mont Alto campus issued the following news: Responding to emerging needs at Penn State Mont Alto, longtime Penn State supporters Earl and Kay Harbaugh have come forward with a gift to enhance training and support for students in the Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing. With more than 2,200 undergraduate and graduate students on 13 campuses, the Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing is one of the largest educator  more

CARLISLE, Pennsylvania, March 28 (TNSper) -- Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law issued the following news: Giselle Santibanez-Bania, the new assistant dean for academic and student services at Penn State Dickinson Law, has found again and again that pursuing an unexpected opportunity can lead to great things. As a high school senior, she applied to Washington University in St. Louis on a whim after a relative who was an adjunct professor at the school stopped by her house fo  more

EAST EARL, Pennsylvania, March 30 -- Gov. Josh Shapiro, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: Governor Josh Shapiro met with Lancaster County farmers at Silver Valley Farm to discuss his Administration's coordinated response to the Hi-Path Avian Influenza crisis and outline elements of his commonsense budget proposal that would help support and empower Pennsylvania farmers. Governor Shapiro, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, and Senator Scott Martin - the chairman of the   more

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- The National Collegiate Athletic Association issued the following news: Barbara Stevens' list of accomplishments from her basketball coaching days is staggering. In 43 years of leading teams in Divisions I, II and III, Stevens amassed 1,058 victories, was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball and Women's Basketball Halls of Fame and had the court at Bentley, where she coached 34 years, named for her. Stevens, who led Bentley to the 2014 NCAA Division II champ  more

READING, Pennsylvania, March 24 (TNSfund) -- Penn State's College of Education issued the following news: Inspired by the opportunity to memorialize her husband and support the community that brought them together, Penn State graduate Barbara Bradley has stepped forward with a gift of $350,000 to establish the John and Barbara Bradley Scholarship at Penn State Berks. First preference in awarding the scholarship will go to graduates of Daniel Boone Area High School in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, w  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, March 31 -- The Pennsylvania Senate Republicans issued the following news release: Declining enrollment and the cost of higher education highlighted Thursday's Senate Appropriations Committee hearings on the 2023-24 budget requests for state-related universities and the State System of Higher Education. The proceedings wrapped up the second of three weeks of budget hearings. Gov. Josh Shapiro's $45.8 billion plan seeks to boost state spending by more than $1.3 billion  more

MIDDLETOWN, Pennsylvania, March 30 (TNSres) -- Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg issued the following news: * * * Mary Murphy is the Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and the founder of the Equity Accelerator at Indiana University * * * Penn State Harrisburg will welcome Mary Murphy to campus for a discussion titled "Creating Cultures of Inclusion in STEM" on Tuesday, April 11, from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Room 210, Capital Union Building on campus.  more

MIDDLETOWN, Pennsylvania, March 29 (TNSres) -- Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg issued the following news: Roderick Lee, associate professor of information systems in Penn State Harrisburg's School of Business Administration, was awarded a SPEAK (Specialized Presentations to Enhance Awareness and Knowledge) seed grant from the Office of Research and Outreach at Penn State Harrisburg and an Interaction Grant from Penn State's Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence. The grants will su  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 1 (TNSjou) -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: * * * Mutations made spike protein more rigid, potentially improving virus' fitness * * * Just as a tight core is a component of good physical fitness for humans, helping to stabilize our bodies, mutations that tightened the core of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in new variants may have increased the virus's fitness, according to new research led by Penn State scientists. The research   more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 30 (TNSper) -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news on March 29, 2023: Penn State Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Patrick Kraft announced today (March 29) the hiring of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) head coach Mike Rhoades as the Peter and Ann Tombros Endowed Men's Basketball Head Coach. In 19 seasons as a collegiate head coach, Rhoades, a Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, native, has produced a 373-189 record, a winning pe  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 29 (TNSjou) -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: * * * Penn State astronomer helps identify the remarkable cosmic explosion only a few months after joining the Swift team * * * When the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory sent an automatic alert to her phone on Oct. 9, 2022, Penn State research technologist Maia Williams had no idea that the space telescope had just detected the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded. Or that, although   more