MEMPHIS, Tennessee, April 14 (TNSper) -- Baker Donelson, a law firm, issued the following news release: Baker Donelson has elected 15 new shareholders across the Firm. The new shareholders and their primary areas of practice and office locations are: * Luke P. Cantrell (Construction; Memphis, Tennessee) * Kimberly A. Chojnacki (Business Litigation; Houston, Texas) * Claude Czaja (Real Estate; Atlanta, Georgia) * Melissa M. Grand (Business Litigation; Baton Rouge, Louisiana) * Melodie Henge  more

SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, April 11 (TNSper) -- Centenary College of Louisiana issued the following news release: Dr. Dana Kress, longtime professor of French at Centenary, has been named the inaugural executive director of the Centenary College of Louisiana Press. The Centenary Press, founded in 2003, is best known for its heritage language imprint Les Editions Tintamarre, which is dedicated to preserving and publishing American literature written in languages other than English. "Dr. Kress is re  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 14 (TNSper) -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards announced his appointments to the following Louisiana boards and commissions. Capital Area Groundwater Conservation District The mission of the Capital Area Ground Water Conservation District is to provide for the efficient administration, conservation, orderly development, and supplementation of groundwater resources in the parishes of East Baton Rouge, East Felic  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 13 -- Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry issued the following news: In a major victory for the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), the community it serves, Attorney General Jeff Landry, and Mayor Latoya Cantrell - the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit blocked federal judge Susie Morgan from mandating New Orleans city employees appear at her command regardless of conflicting city duties and requiring them to do other things not authorized by the fede  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 14 (TNSpar) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU and the United States Secret Service, or USSS, have entered into a formal agreement for technology and talent development in cyber and for state and national security. The Memorandum of Understanding, or MOU, strengthens the interactions and collaborations between the agency and university in research, talent and outreach. The initial engagements from the agreement span computer scienc  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 11 (TNSfund) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: * * * With $520K in state support, LSU is expanding the LSU Health New Orleans dental hygiene program to LSU Alexandria to address acute workforce needs in central Louisiana. * * * "Rather than reinventing the wheel, we take advantage of a university that's statewide, where different campuses can work together to meet critical needs," said Haywood Joiner, dean of the College of Health   more

MARIETTA, Ohio, April 14 (TNSres) -- Marietta College issued the following news release: Marietta College was well represented at the 69th annual Research Conference of the Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA) as four Psychology professors and eight undergraduate and graduate students attended and presented at the conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, from April 5-8. Founded in 1955, SEPA is the largest psychological organization in the southeast and one of the largest in the United S  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 12 -- Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry issued the following news on April 11, 2023: Fighting back against a federal judge's latest attempt to usurp authority from local officials in our State, Attorney General Jeff Landry has filed a legal brief supporting the City of New Orleans in a matter related to the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) consent decree. Over the express objection of City officials and without the authority to do so, Judge Susie Morgan a  more

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, April 15 (TNSconf) -- Nicholls State University issued the following news release: Nicholls State University is proud to partner with former U.S. Rep. Billy Tauzin and business leader Donald "Boysie" Bollinger to hold the inaugural Bollinger-Tauzin Business & Political Leadership Institute from 4-5:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 27, 2023, in the Mary and Al Danos Theater. The leadership session will be held in conjunction with the Geaux N Lead Student Leadership Summit sponso  more

HAMMOND, Louisiana, April 15 (TNSres) -- Southeastern Louisiana University issued the following news release: Could a simple spray be developed to block a pathogen from entering the leaves of rice plants, thereby preventing blast disease - one of the world's most devastating cereal diseases - from destroying between 10 and 35 percent of the world's rice harvest every year? That's the goal of Dr. Michael Marletta, a '73 SUNY Fredonia graduate and Professor of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Bi  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 11 (TNSjou) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: Tulane University researchers have discovered a possible genetic cause for hypermobility (commonly known as double-jointedness) and a range of associated connective tissue disorders such as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, according to preliminary findings published in the journal Heliyon. You may know someone with overly flexible joints, a friend or family member who can easily slide into a split or bend   more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 11 (TNSper) -- Tulane University issued the following news release on April 10, 2023: Multi-hyphenate New Orleans musician, songwriter and philanthropist Anders Osborne joins Tulane University's School of Liberal Arts for its Summer 2023 "Maymester" session, where he'll teach a two-week Intro to Music Business course with Creative Industries Director and Professor of Practice Bill Taylor. Osborne's six-string virtuosity, inventive musicality, and poetic songcraft   more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 11 (TNSjou) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: Sea levels along the U.S. Southeast and Gulf coasts have been rapidly accelerating, reaching record-breaking rates over the past 12 years, according to a new study led by scientists at Tulane University. In the study, published in Nature Communications, researchers said they had detected rates of sea-level rise of about a half an inch per year since 2010. They attribute the acceleration to the com  more