NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 28 -- Entergy issued the following news release: For the first two quarters of 2023, Entergy has awarded $6.4 million in shareholder contributions to 467 nonprofit organizations across Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. With support from local community partners, these grants helped strengthen communities by supporting education and workforce development, poverty solutions and environmental programs. "Giving back is central to Entergy's mission. Our shareh  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 28 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news on July 27, 2023: Today, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced his appointments to the following Louisiana boards and commissions. Task Force on Available and Affordable Commercial Motor Vehicle Insurance The Task Force on Available and Affordable Commercial Motor Vehicle Insurance studies, reviews, and reports on impediments to obtaining affordable commercial motor vehicle insurance in Louisiana. Mr.   more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 25 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards was a recent guest on the popular podcast Times Like These hosted by Charles Lane, a journalist and author of the book The Day Freedom Died that details the facts of the Colfax Massacre on Easter Sunday of 1873. The massacre is called one of the worst single instances of racial violence during Reconstruction, when dozens of Black men were killed by armed white men who were ang  more

PINEVILLE, Louisiana, July 27 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: SunGas Renewables, an independent division of GTI Energy, announced it is considering an investment of approximately $1.8 billion to establish a renewable low-carbon methanol production facility in Rapides Parish. The company projects its Pineville facility, Beaver Lake Renewable Energy (BLRE), would manufacture nearly 400,000 metric tons of green methanol per year for SunGas customers worldwide. If  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 27 (TNSres) -- The Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center issued the following news release: * * * For more than 30 years, Pennington Biomedical researchers have been working to enhance military health and performance * * * The Pennington Biomedical Research Center is helping to improve performance in our country's military by studying calorie expenditure during training missions and in combat, and how to minimize the loss of muscle ma  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 28 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: In a lab on the third floor of Patrick F. Taylor Hall, LSU Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Kofi Christie is bouncing from one station to another, checking in with the four students who make up the Christie Research Group. The fragile membranes they are creating and working with are relatively small, but if all goes to plan, the knowledge and insight they produce could be huge  more

ALEXANDRIA, Louisiana, July 27 -- Louisiana State University Alexandria campus issued the following news: The Louisiana State University of Alexandria College of Business releases its July 2023 issue of the Central Louisiana Economic Dashboard. Central Louisiana's economy continues to be supported by a strong labor market and consumer spending, says Randall Dupont, Dean of the LSUA College of Business. Although the Alexandria-Pineville area unemployment rate rose from 2.9% in April to 3.6% in   more

RUSTON, Louisiana, July 26 (TNSres) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news on July 25, 2023: Louisiana Tech's Dr. Craig Van Slyke, an expert in the field of information systems, recently published an article in Communications of the Association for Information Systems. Titled "Generative Artificial Intelligence in Information Systems Education: Challenges, Consequences, and Responses," Van Slyke's analysis provides a thorough examination of the challenges posed by AI integration  more

LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana, July 27 (TNSres) -- McNeese State University issued the following news: McNeese State University impacts Southwest Louisiana every day. According to a recent economic impact report, McNeese contributed $614 million in total income to the region in fiscal year 2021-22. In addition to educating the local workforce, McNeese adds to the economy through operations, construction, visitor and student spending, and the income and spending of McNeese alumni. "McNeese State Uni  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 28 -- Tulane University issued the following news release: The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University will host nationally bestselling and critically acclaimed authors Walter Isaacson and Michael Lewis at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 18 in McAlister Auditorium. The award-winning authors will discuss their newest works - Isaacson's biography Elon Musk and Lewis' portrait of Sam Bankman-Fried titled Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon. Scheduled to be release  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 27 (TNSres) -- Tulane University issued the following news release on July 26, 2023: As extreme heat scorches the Southwest, homes and businesses flood in the Northeast and smoke funnels into the U.S. from Canadian wildfires, the physical impacts of climate change have arguably never been greater. The cost of such extreme events to the nation's infrastructure will be enormous, Tulane University climate adaptation scholar Jesse M. Keenan told a U.S. Senate Committee  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 27 -- Tulane University issued the following news release: Longtime Tulane supporters Libby and Robert Alexander are donating $2.75 million to Tulane Athletics to help Community Sailing New Orleans (CSNO) build a new multipurpose headquarters on Lake Pontchartrain that will expand the organization's lakefront operations while continuing to serve as the home for Tulane's varsity sailing program. The Alexanders also recently made a gift to create the Connolly Alexande  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 27 (TNSjou) -- Tulane University issued the following news release on July 26, 2023: Who lived at Machu Picchu at its height? A new study, published today in Science Advances, used ancient DNA to find out for the first time where workers buried more than 500 years ago came from within the lost Inca Empire. Researchers, including Jason Nesbitt, associate professor of archaeology at Tulane University School of Liberal Arts, performed genetic testing on individuals bu  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 26 (TNSres) -- The University of New Orleans issued the following news release: Three members of the University of New Orleans counselor education program recently were awarded research grants from national organizations. Doctoral student Andrew Holmgren was awarded the annual Donald Hood Student Research Grant from the Association for Assessment & Research in Counseling (AARC) for his dissertation, "Caregiver Engagement in Their Child's Mental Health Rehabilitatio  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 27 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news on July 26, 2023: Last night, Attorney General Sean D. Reyes sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, calling for the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) to uphold the time-honored tenets of the American justice system when it comes to legal investigations and treatment of the president's son, Hunter Biden. The letter from General Reyes follows comments expressed by the state of   more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 25 (TNSres) -- The Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center issued the following news: Along with providing LSU Law students with direct scholarship support, tuition waivers, and funding for public interest field placements and advocacy competition travel throughout each academic year, the Dean's Council is generously providing funds for 10 Public Interest Law Society (PILS) Fellowships this summer. The fellowships are designed to provide a modest finan  more