CAMDEN, New Jersey, Aug. 3 -- American Water, a water and wastewater company, issued the following news release on Aug. 2, 2023: American Water (NYSE: AWK), the largest regulated water and wastewater utility company in the U.S., today announced it has been recognized for 12 Partnership for Safe Water (PSW) awards at several facilities across its national footprint. The awards, which honor the efforts in continuously optimizing water treatment plant and distribution system operation and performa  more

CAMDEN, New Jersey, Aug. 4 -- American Water, a water and wastewater company, issued the following news release on Aug. 3, 2023: American Water (NYSE: AWK), the largest regulated water and wastewater utility company in the U.S., today announced that it has been recognized as a top-scoring company for the fifth consecutive year on the Disability Equality Index(R) (DEI), the world's most comprehensive benchmarking tool to measure disability workplace inclusion against competitors. "American Wate  more

CAMDEN, New Jersey, Aug. 4 -- American Water, a water and wastewater company, issued the following news release: American Water and New Jersey American Water hosted Project WET 2.0 (Water Education Today) and Climate, Water and Resilience Workshop for formal and non-formal educators (grades K-12) at the American Water Headquarters last month. This Project WET workshop provided these educators with a six-hour, hands-on water education training where each participant left with the tools and reso  more

FREEHOLD, New Jersey, Aug. 3 -- CentraState Healthcare System issued the following news: The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), representing more than 200,000 surgical nurses across the country, has named CentraState Medical Center as a Center of Excellence in Surgical Safety: Smoke Evacuation. This award recognizes CentraState for its commitment to patient and workplace safety by taking a comprehensive approach to ensuring a smoke-free environment wherever surgical smoke is  more

SOMERSET, New Jersey, Aug. 2 -- Catalent Inc., a pharma, biotech and consumer health company, issued the following news on Aug. 1, 2023: Catalent, Inc. (NYSE: CTLT), the leader in enabling the development and supply of better treatments for patients worldwide, today announced that Lisa Evoli has been named Senior Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer, effective immediately. Ms. Evoli joins Catalent from Integra Lifesciences, a global medical technology company based in Princeton, New   more

FREEHOLD, New Jersey, Aug. 3 -- CentraState Healthcare System issued the following news: CentraState Healthcare System announced Kerrie Konior, RN, Oncology, was awarded with the DAISY Foundation's DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses. Konior was selected by the DAISY committee of nurses and healthcare leaders at CentraState. "Kerrie's commitment to her patients and loyalty to her colleagues make her a role model for the nursing profession," says Dawn Kline, BSN, RNC-LRN, DHA, Executive Direct  more

FLORHAM PARK, New Jersey, Aug. 3 (TNSres) -- Conduent, a business process services and solutions company, issued the following news release on Aug. 2, 2023: * * * Key Q2 2023 Highlights * Revenue and Adj. Revenue (1) : $915M * Pre-tax Income (Loss): $(7)M * Adj. EBITDA Margin (1) : 10.2% * New business signings ACV (2) : $208M * Net ARR Activity Metric (2) (TTM): $137M * * * Conduent (NASDAQ: CNDT), a global technology-led business process solutions company, today announced its second q  more

ROSELAND, New Jersey, Aug. 4 -- Blackstone, an investment firm, issued the following news release on Aug. 3, 2023: CoreWeave, a specialized cloud provider of large-scale GPU-accelerated workloads, today announced it has secured a $2.3 billion debt financing facility. The funding was led by Magnetar Capital and funds managed by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities ("Blackstone") with strategic participation from leading asset management firms Coatue and DigitalBridge Credit, and funds and accounts   more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 4 -- Holland and Knight, a law firm, issued the following news release: Holland & Knight advised Imperial Dade in its acquisition of Apache Group. The transaction was announced on August 1. Headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, Imperial Dade is the leading independently owned and operated distributor of foodservice packaging, facilities maintenance supplies and equipment in North America. Headquartered in Arden Hills, Minnesota, Apache Group is a premier distributo  more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Aug. 5 -- Gov. JB Pritzker, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Charles Wright will begin serving as the IDHS Inspector General. Wright currently serves as Deputy Inspector General for the Illinois Department of Services (IDHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) where he oversees investigations into abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation of persons with disabilities at facilities and agencies throughout Illinois. He previously worked as an Assistant Inspecto  more

HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey, Aug. 1 -- Centenary University issued the following news release: Centenary University President Dale Caldwell, Ed.D., has appointed Jordan Glatt as vice president for advancement and special assistant to the president. A resident of Summit, NJ, Glatt has extensive experience in business, education, and government, driving results for organizations ranging from startups to global brands. "As the new president of Centenary University, I have assembled a talented team t  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Aug. 3 -- John Wiley and Sons issued the following news release: Workers express little interest in seeing learning and development (L&D) activities taken over by artificial intelligence (AI), according to new survey data from Wiley (NYSE: WLY). Nearly six in ten respondents (59%) in the latest Wiley Workplace Intelligence report, Artificial Intelligence in Learning and Development: Five Surprising Facts You Need to Know, say they prefer to see an instructor--in-person or   more

NEWARK, New Jersey, Aug. 2 -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following news release on Aug. 1, 2023: Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced that the ARRIVE Together (ARRIVE) program is up and running in the state's largest city: Newark has joined the growing list of municipalities piloting versions of the Attorney General's expanding initiative to provide greater medical resources to residents experiencing mental and behavior health emergencies. The anno  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, Aug. 1 -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following news release on July 31, 2023: Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced today that the Division on Civil Rights (DCR) has issued guidance that explains how DCR will enforce the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD) in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis. In 303 Creative, the U.S. Supreme Court considered whether the First Amendment barred the a  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, Aug. 1 -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following news release on July 31, 2023: Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs today announced that the Bureau of Securities revoked the registration of a former New Jersey broker-dealer agent and assessed a $150,000 civil penalty against him for violating New Jersey's securities laws by selling unregistered securities of a startup tequila production company whose founder   more

NEWARK, New Jersey, Aug. 5 -- National Grid, an electricity and natural gas delivery company, issued the following news release on Aug 4, 2023: * * * If awarded, the project will create more than 1,700 unique jobs in New Jersey. The project will reduce New Jersey's electric system greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 52 million tons over the life of the project - the equivalent of taking over 11 million cars off the road. The project will deliver investment and job-training programs for overbur  more

CAMDEN, New Jersey, Aug. 3 -- New Jersey American Water, a water and wastewater company, issued the following news release: New Jersey American Water will replace over one mile of aging water main in Audubon starting this summer. The company will upgrade the aging water lines that were installed as far back as the 1900s with new 8-inch ductile iron main along West Kings Highway from West Atlantic Avenue to Hillside Avenue and West Merchant Street from Oakland Avenue to Central Avenue. The proj  more

CAMDEN, New Jersey, Aug. 3 -- New Jersey American Water, a water and wastewater company, issued the following news release: New Jersey American Water will replace over five miles of aging water main in Fair Haven, Middletown Township, and Union Beach starting this summer. The company will upgrade the aging water lines that were installed as far back as the 1920s with new ductile iron main along the following streets: Fair Haven * Church Street entire length * Fisk Street entire length * Hay  more

CAMDEN, New Jersey, Aug. 3 -- New Jersey American Water, a water and wastewater company, issued the following news release: New Jersey American Water will replace over two miles of aging water main in Linwood and Pleasantville starting this summer. The company will upgrade the aging water lines that were installed as far back as the 1920s with new 8- and 12-inch ductile iron main along the following streets: Linwood * Barr Avenue from Maple Avenue to Wabash Avenue Pleasantville * Magnolia P  more

CAMDEN, New Jersey, Aug. 3 -- New Jersey American Water, a water and wastewater company, issued the following news release: New Jersey American Water will install approximately 700 feet of new water main in Linden starting this week. The company will install the new 8- and 24-inch ductile iron main along Stiles Street, from Lynn Court to West Linden Avenue, and West Linden Avenue, from Stiles Street to Coolidge Street. The project also includes installing one fire hydrant and 20 utility-owned   more

CAMDEN, New Jersey, Aug. 2 -- New Jersey American Water, a water and wastewater company, issued the following statement release on Aug. 1, 2023: * * * New Jersey American Water President Mark McDonough issued the following statement today on the passing of Lieutenant Governor Sheila Oliver: We are saddened by the passing of Lt. Governor Sheila Oliver. A trailblazer who dedicated her life to community service, it was incredibly fitting that she should lead the state's Department of Community A  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Aug. 3 (TNSres) -- Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs issued the following Q&A on Aug. 1, 2023, with Alyssa Sharkey, lecturer of public and international affairs: * * * For the first time, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the United Nations Population Fund have produced a joint report analyzing global progress on maternal deaths, newborn deaths, and stillbirths. Alyssa Sharkey, lecturer of public and international affairs, an affi  more

LAWRENCEVILLE, New Jersey, Aug. 3 -- Rider University issued the following news release: Rider's University Libraries received a $4,700 grant to significantly expand its virtual reality programming. The funding from the Level Up Your Library Mini-Grants program of LibraryLinkNJ, a library cooperative, will provide additional equipment, including the purchase of a gaming laptop to increase virtual reality (VR) applications and a 360 VR camera to create original VR content. The new laptop will s  more

LAWRENCEVILLE, New Jersey, Aug. 1 -- Rider University issued the following news release: 107.7 The Bronc WRRC-FM has once again been nominated for College Radio Station of the Year by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB). This prestigious award is the highest recognition a college or university radio station can receive in the broadcast industry. The student-run station is one of only two college radio stations to achieve four consecutive nominations in the history of the award. This  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, Aug. 3 -- Rutgers University issued the following statement on Aug. 2, 2023, by Chancellor Nancy Cantor: * * * Our hearts are broken today as the Rutgers University - Newark family joins our colleagues across Rutgers, the Newark community, and all of New Jersey in sadness at the loss of one of our sheroes, Lieutenant Governor Sheila Oliver. Her vision and courage as a boundary-breaking leader were surpassed only by her compassion for the people she served and her example f  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, Aug. 3 (TNSres) -- Rutgers University issued the following news: With support from the National Science Foundation, Rutgers-Newark's Lily Khadempour and Dartmouth's Bala Chaudhary are building a national networking and mentorship program for women of color in ecology, evolutionary biology, and allied fields. When Lily Khadempour was preparing to start her first faculty position in January of 2021, she sought to form her own mentorship network. "It was then that I realized   more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Aug. 4 -- Rutgers University issued the following news: After decades of decline, fatal coronary heart disease may rise again unless Americans modify three major risk factors: smoking, drinking, and obesity. A Rutgers study just published in American Heart Journal found that deaths from coronary heart disease among people ages 25 to 84 dropped to 236,953 in 2019 from 397,623 in 1990, even though Americans' median age increased to 38 from 33 over the last three decade  more

GALLOWAY, New Jersey, Aug. 4 -- Stockton University issued the following news: As climate change makes storms stronger and sunny-day flooding more prevalent, educating the next generation of coastal zone managers becomes even more important. Stockton University created its graduate-level Coastal Zone Management program in 2020, and a $500,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will provide new resources to enhance research opportunities, said Peter Straub, professor  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, Aug. 1 -- Thomas Edison State University issued the following news release: Lorraine M. Chewey, EdD, has been appointed associate dean for Undergraduate Programs at the W. Cary Edwards School of Nursing and Health Professions. In her new role, she will work closely with Dr. Ruth Wittmann-Price, dean of the school, in strategic planning, growth and delivery of academic curricula that bolster the university's commitment to expanding its undergraduate nursing and health profe  more

BASKING RIDGE, New Jersey, Aug. 4 -- Verizon, a communications and technology solutions company, issued the following news release on Aug. 3, 2023: Verizon Business, along with Nokia, is heading to the Bay Area to showcase the power of 5G through dynamic, immersive demonstrations of current and some forward-looking use cases and products during this 5G Innovation Sessions tour stop on August 9. The event will feature presentations, panels, and demonstrations by industry leaders and product exp  more

BASKING RIDGE, New Jersey, Aug. 5 -- Verizon, a communications and technology solutions company, issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2023: Attention Walmart shoppers: Straight Talk Wireless, a leading no-contract wireless carrier sold exclusively at Walmart, Walmart.com and StraightTalk.com, today announced a new ad campaign featuring actor/comedian Jim Gaffigan. The spot marks Straight Talk's first live-action campaign in four years, and highlights the brand's new family plans, which  more

WAYNE, New Jersey, Aug. 1 -- William Paterson University issued the following news release: Days before she walked across William Paterson University's Commencement stage, Bhavya Yalamanchili's senior thesis, a project required of all Honors College students on William Paterson University's campus, earned a special distinction: It was published in an academic journal--the Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet--alongside the work of seasoned researchers and professors across the nation. Ho  more