BURBANK, California, June 1 -- ABC, a division of Walt Disney, issued the following news release on May 31, 2023: * * * * Kickoff Week Features College Football's Biggest Brands, Top Names * First Three Weeks Features 100+ Games; Nearly 1,000 Games All Season * Week 2 Features Top-Tier Tussles with Notre Dame/NC State, Texas A&M/Miami and Texas/Alabama * ESPN+ Boasts Most Expansive Season on Record * Bowl Season Returns with 40 Bowl Games, College Football Playoff Semifinals and National C  more

DUBLIN, Ohio, May 30 -- The Golf Coaches Association of America issued the following news: Ludvig Aberg of Texas Tech, Charles DeLong of Grand Valley State, Alex Price of Christopher Newport, Easton Johnson of The Master's, and Matthis Lefevre of New Mexico JC have been named the 2023 Jack Nicklaus Award presented by Workday recipients. The Nicklaus Award recognizes the national player of the year at the Division I, II, III, NAIA, and NJCAA levels. "I have been incredibly proud to have my name  more

NORMAN, Oklahoma, May 29 -- The Golf Coaches Association of America issued the following news: NCAA Division I PING All-Region honorees have been announced by the GCAA. Players across six regions earned all-region honors in 2023. * * * Division I PING All-Region Teams Northeast Piecheng Chen, St. Johns Michael Crowley, Loyola (MD) Muzzy Donohue, Boston College Riccardo Fantinelli, Princeton Brandon Gillis, Rhode Island Jake Griffin, Penn State Nathan Han, Columbia Cameron Harlock, Bo  more

OAKLAND, California, June 2 (TNSbook) -- The Independent Institute issued the following news release: An honest examination of the term "social justice" is essential in the current political economy. Twenty-one contributors to a new book agree on one thing: when the government attempts to implement social justice, the result is usually public funding of grift and reckless cronyism, otherwise known as "rent seeking." The best way to adjudicate "social justice" is the subject of the new book Is   more

DURHAM, North Carolina, June 2 (TNSgov) -- The Southern Coalition for Social Justice issued the following news release on June 1, 2023 and letter: Southern Coalition for Social Justice, along with more than 120 legal, nonprofit and LGBTQ organizations, current and former elected officials, members of the legal community, and individuals across North Carolina sent a letter today to the North Carolina Bar Association (NCBA) condemning its recent decision to cancel a drag show for fear of politica  more

TROY, New York, May 31 (TNSres) -- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute issued the following news: * * * $2.5 million grant from NIH to fund design of new treatment for Stargardt disease * * * Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Christopher Cioffi, Thomas and Constance D'Ambra Professor in Organic Chemistry, has received a $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, along with Konstantin Petrukhin of Columbia University and Gennadiy Moiseyev of Wake Forest University. The grant wil  more

WASHINGTON, May 30 -- The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee issued the following testimony by Ritchie Eppink, of counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho Foundation, involving a hearing on May 16, 2023, entitled "Artificial Intelligence in Government": * * * Thank you for your attention to artificial intelligence and automated decision-making in government programs, and for inviting me to testify about it at this important hearing. I was invited here t  more