KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, Nov. 9 -- The College and University Professional Association for Human Resources issued the following news release: Andy Brantley, president and chief executive officer of CUPA-HR, has been appointed to the board of directors of EDUCAUSE, the association for technology in higher education, beginning January 2024. His previous EDUCAUSE service includes membership on the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force in 2018. "The partnership between higher education chief HR   more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, Nov. 9 -- The College and University Professional Association for Human Resources issued the following news release on Nov. 8, 2023: On November 7, CUPA-HR, joined by 49 other higher education associations, submitted comments in response to the Department of Labor (DOL) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to update the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime regulations. In the NPRM, the DOL proposes to update the salary threshold for the "white collar" exemptions to the  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Nov. 1 (TNSres) -- Ducks Unlimited issued the following special report: * * * By Mike Brasher, PhD; Dan Smith, PhD; John Coluccy, PhD For most waterfowl biologists and hunters, some of this year's waterfowl survey results, which were released in mid-August by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), came as an unpleasant surprise. In the spring of 2022, following years of prairie drought, the number of ducks arriving and settling on the breeding grounds was lower than it   more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Nov. 8 -- Ducks Unlimited issued the following news release: Ducks Unlimited's efforts to save the Great Salt Lake got a major boost this week thanks to nearly $5 million in grants from The Great Salt Lake Watershed Enhancement Trust. On Tuesday, the trust announced DU received the grants to implement projects that will benefit the struggling Great Salt Lake's wetland ecosystem. The grants in total are the single largest award DU has ever received in Utah. The projects inc  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Nov. 6 (TNSres) -- Ducks Unlimited issued the following commentary: * * * By Mark Lindberg It's November 3 on the Izembek Lagoon near Cold Bay, Alaska. A 10-year-old female Pacific brant is staging with other birds and facing what may be the biggest decision of her life. The temperature is a relatively warm 45 degrees Fahrenheit, and the wind is blowing out of the northeast at 25 miles per hour. This bird must decide whether to stay put and spend the winter in coastal Ala  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Nov. 2 -- Ducks Unlimited issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced major investments in climate-smart agriculture practices, including four projects totaling $52 million awarded to Ducks Unlimited (DU). The grants are awarded under the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP), which incentivizes a voluntary, partnership-driven approach to conservation on working agricultural lands. The DU-led projects to receive funding  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Oct. 30 -- Ducks Unlimited issued the following news release: Earlier this year, Ducks Unlimited and other wetland and waterbirds advocates were preparing for the worst: A gruesome botulism outbreak killing thousands of waterfowl and other birds on Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern California. But that dire scenario didn't come to pass this year, thanks in large part to the efforts of one group, the Tulelake Irrigation District (TID). This year, TID was fa  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Nov. 11 -- Ducks Unlimited issued the following news release: Ducks Unlimited (DU) received an $8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to implement on-farm climate-smart practices in Northeast Iowa. The funding is part of four separate grants totaling nearly $52 million, which will be used for projects in Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wisconsin. The grant was awarded to DU under the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP), which incenti  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Nov. 7 (TNSres) -- The Oak Ridge Associated Universities issued the following news release: For Michael Holtz, creating the deliverable for his ORAU Thought Leadership Research Award was almost as important as writing his thesis for the Master of Science degree he received in 1998. "Kind of like grad school, this project was the culmination of a lot of things," said Holtz, a senior communications and marketing specialist for ORAU. "It involved research into ORAU's early h  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Nov. 10 -- The Pacific Legal Foundation issued the following news release on Nov. 9, 2023: Today, Do No Harm, an association of medical professionals, filed a federal lawsuit to stop Tennessee's unlawful consideration of race in appointments to state boards and commissions. The Tennessee Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners requires one board member to be a racial minority, which has nothing to do with podiatry. A seat reserved for a racial minority opened in June 2023, a  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Nov. 8 -- The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy issued the following news release: For the first time in the 90-year history of the Tennessee Valley Authority, several nonprofit advocacy organizations submitted a "Motion to Intervene" in the authority's Integrated Resource Plan process, a comprehensive study that projects how TVA will meet demand for energy over the next 25 years. In the motion, groups called on TVA to make its IRP process more open and transparent by hos  more