ATLANTA, Georgia, June 29 -- Delta Air Lines issued the following news: The home arena for the Utah Jazz will bring back a familiar name this summer - Delta Center - in the most visible expression of Delta's support of the NBA team and more importantly: an expanded commitment by the airline to the Salt Lake City community - home to one its hub airports. Delta will become the Official Airline of the Utah Jazz and the team's arena will re-take the Delta Center name on July 1, building on Delta's  more

JUNEAU, Alaska, June 29 (TNSper) -- Gov. Mike Dunleavy, R-Alaska, issued the following news release on June 27, 2023: Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy has appointed Amy Welch to the Fairbanks Superior Court. Ms. Welch was chosen from a list of individuals nominated by the Alaska Judicial Council and forwarded on to the Governor. She will replace Judge Paul Lyle who retires next month. Ms. Welch has lived in Alaska for nine years and has practiced law for nine years since graduating from the Univ  more

JACKSONVILLE, Florida, June 27 (TNSjou) -- The University of North Florida issued the following news release: University of North Florida faculty member Dr. Barry Albright is part of a research team led by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) who have unlocked new evolutionary information following the discovery of a 94-million-year-old mosasaur in the gray shale badlands of the National Park Service Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in southern Utah. Mosasaurs are fully marine-adapted reptil  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 27 (TNSjou) -- The University of Utah Health issued the following news release: Children with disabilities, and their families, may face discrimination in the hospitals and clinics they visit for their health care, according to a new study led by researchers at University of Utah Health. These attitudes may lead to substandard medical treatment, which could contribute to poor health outcomes, say the study's authors. "They mistreated her and treated her like a robot.  more

LOGAN, Utah, June 30 (TNSjou) -- Utah State University issued the following news: * * * Jeffrey Hazboun is among researchers featured in a June 29 briefing from NSF-funded North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves Physics Frontier Center * * * Utah State University physics alum Jeffrey Hazboun is among a national team of scientists reporting breakthrough findings about gravitational waves that could reveal new information about supermassive black holes. The research team   more

LOGAN, Utah, June 29 (TNSawa) -- Utah State University issued the following news: Julie Gast, professor of Kinesiology and Health Science and director of the Health Education and Promotion Master of Public Health program at Utah State, has been honored with the Beatty Award from the Utah Public Health Association for her long career of distinguished service in the field of health education and promotion. The Beatty Award is the UPHA's most prestigious achievement, given annually to a member of  more

LOGAN, Utah, June 28 (TNSjou) -- Utah State University issued the following news: Nearly 1 in 4 transgender and nonbinary individuals report having to teach medical providers about their needs, according to a recent study co-authored by a Utah State University researcher. The article, co-authored by USU's Guadalupe Marquez-Velarde, was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open last month. "If you perceive that your clinician is not knowledgeable enough t  more

LOGAN, Utah, June 29 (TNSres) -- Utah State University issued the following news: Amy Odum, a professor of psychology at Utah State University, is researching ways to address adolescent nicotine usage with a new method to study nicotine addiction in rats. To study the factors that influence nicotine addiction among youth, Odum and her team are in the final stages of developing the Rodent Electronic Nicotine Delivery System (RENDS), a novel system that allows rats to voluntarily inhale nicotine  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 28 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: The Medicaid Fraud and Patient Abuse Division of the Utah Attorney General's Office filed charges on June 22 against two Hidden Hollow Care Center employees in Orem concerning the death of C.N., a former patient. Amy Lauritzen and Laetitia Odunze have each been charged with one count of Reckless Aggravated Abuse of a Vulnerable Adult as third-degree felonies. Investigators found that C.N. had run o  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 30 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: This week, Attorney General Sean D. Reyes, a national leader in the fight against the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) movement, highlighted two significant developments. First, embattled BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, who was at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Sunday, told his audience, "...I'm ashamed of being part of this conversation," - referring to the ESG discussion, reiterating that he was  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 30 (TNSres) -- The Utah Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity issued the following podcast on June 28, 2023: * * * Business Elevated Podcast (Season 5 Episode 24) This podcast series features business and government leaders discussing what it's like to live and work in the great state of Utah. The Business Elevated podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify. Summary This episode features a conversation with Brian Torgersen, director   more

LOGAN, Utah, June 28 (TNSres) -- Utah State University issued the following news: New research reveals an alarming decline in the number of fish species in the critical Mekong River system, a change connected to dam development on the world's most productive river system. Two tributaries of the river in Southeast Asia showed declines of the number of fish species, while an increase in diversity was noted in a third, largely free-flowing tributary. "This is one of the first studies to show red  more