SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, July 11 (TNSper) -- Centenary College of Louisiana issued the following news release: Dr. Karen Soul, provost and dean of the college at Centenary, has been selected as one of 36 higher education leaders to participate in the Executive Leadership Academy (ELA) sponsored by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) and the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC). Soul began the year-long program at a seminar last week in Washington, D.C. "I am hono  more

LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana, July 12 (TNSper) -- McNeese State University issued the following news: Dr. Ann Warner has been named dean of the McNeese State University College of Nursing and Health Professions, according to Dr. Chip LeMieux, provost and vice president for academic affairs and enrollment management at McNeese. The college includes the departments of undergraduate nursing, graduate nursing, psychology and counseling (which includes the Kay Dore Counseling Center and McNeese Autism Pr  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 11 -- Entergy issued the following news release: Entergy Nuclear recently announced several leadership moves at its nuclear plants in Arkansas and Louisiana, as well as its headquarters operations in Jackson, Miss. Joe Sullivan, Entergy site vice president at Arkansas Nuclear One in Russellville, has been named site vice president at Waterford 3 Steam Electric Station in Killona, La. Sullivan replaces John Ferrick who will transition to fleet vice president, outage  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 15 (TNSper) -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news on July 14, 2023: Today, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced that Louisiana Workforce Commission Sec. Ava Cates will resign effective August 31, 2023. "Sec. Cates has served honorably since the beginning of my administration," said Gov. Edwards. "Under her leadership at the Louisiana Workforce Commission, Louisiana has achieved record-breaking low unemployment with more people working than eve  more

CLEVELAND, Tennessee, July 7 (TNSres) -- Lee University issued the following news: Lee University's Dr. Glenna Lashley recently presented research at the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) National Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. Lashley's research studied the current state of Nurse Practitioner Preceptors, specifically the barriers and advantages to precepting. Preceptors are experienced licensed clinicians who act as teachers and coaches who supervise nursing students d  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 15 (TNSper) -- McGlinchey Stafford, a law firm, issued the following news release: McGlinchey Stafford is pleased to announce that Christopher John has joined the firm's Financial Services Litigation Group as an Associate Attorney in the Dallas office. Christopher focuses his practice on representing financial services clients in the mortgage lending, automobile finance, and insurance industries. McGlinchey hired 31 new attorneys, including 28 litigators, from Janua  more

MONROE, Louisiana, July 11 -- Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry issued the following news: Attorney General Jeff Landry's office obtained a conviction of a recently re-elected Chief of Police for Malfeasance in Office, Theft (Felony), and Possession of Controlled Dangerous Substances. As Chief of Police for the Village of Grayson, Mitch Bratton was personally responsible for more than $10,000 of narcotics funds, which went missing between 2016 and 2019, resulting in four counts of malfeas  more

RUSTON, Louisiana, July 11 (TNSres) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Ella Goodwin, a junior technical writing student at Louisiana Tech University, presented at the 2023 Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine, and Ethics (COMET) held in Cork, Ireland in late June. Goodwin's presentation, "Culture and Ecosystems of Care: A Framework for Understanding International Health and Medical Contexts," highlighted work she has done with Tech's Center for Health an  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 12 (TNSres) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: A new means of wound-healing technology could be available to surgeons and patients in the near future thanks to a team of researchers from LSU Biological Engineering, Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, and Inha University in the Republic of Korea. By injecting a lignin composite made of two types of nanoparticles--one is lignosulfonate, which is the byproduct of woo  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 11 (TNSres) -- The Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center issued the following news release: * * * Pennington Biomedical researcher Dr. Stephen Hennigar is studying dietary strategies to improve iron status in iron deficient women * * * The presence of iron in blood is crucial for the transport of oxygen throughout the body. Without enough iron, iron deficiency, or the more severe form, iron deficiency anemia develops, resulting in sym  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 12 (TNSper) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Danny Barrow has been selected to serve as LSU's Permanent Vice President for Enrollment Management & Student Success, pending approval by the LSU Board of Supervisors. Barrow has been serving as the Interim Vice President since March. In the permanent role, Barrow will continue to lead recruiting and retention efforts that attract the best and brightest students who will succeed in the cl  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 11 (TNSper) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: The LSU Office of Innovation & Technology Commercialization has named its new director, technology licensing and commercialization veteran Spencer Rogers. Rogers was previously associate director of technology transfer at Brigham Young University, which had one of the nation's most successful tech transfer offices. While there, Rogers successfully negotiated over 100 license agreements rep  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 13 (TNSper) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: The LSU College of Human Sciences & Education named Alex Garn, PhD, as interim director of the LSU School of Kinesiology. Garn will begins this role immediately, following the retirement of Director Melinda Solmon, PhD. "Please join me in welcoming Dr. Alex Garn to this leadership role in the LSU School of Kinesiology," said LSU College of Human Sciences & Education Dean Roland Mitchell. "  more

SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, July 8 -- Southwestern Electric Power, an American Electric Power company, issued the following news release: The AEP Foundation, at the recommendation of SWEPCO, is donating $100,000 to help local communities affected by the June 16 supercell storm that caused catastrophic damage across the Ark-La-Tex. Four regional food banks will share the gift: Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana, East Texas Food Bank, Harvest Texarkana and Titus County Cares. "We know our communities   more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, July 13 (TNSpconf) -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: For the first time in 14 years, Texas A&M University hosted the 2023 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Southwest Student Regional Conference. The two-day conference, sponsored by LyondellBasell (an international chemical company), is held annually. Students from McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana; Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas; Tecnologico  more