HOUSTON, Texas, April 3 -- The University of Houston issued the following news: By Bryan Luhn A new, $3 million gift will help reinforce the University of Houston's long-standing mission to provide students with a world-class education and ensure they are given every opportunity to succeed in and out of the classroom. The Houston Works Scholarship Fund will provide scholarship support to working junior and senior students in select majors at the C.T. Bauer College of Business, all majors at   more

IRVING, Texas, April 3 -- 7-Eleven, a convenience store chain, issued the following news release: It's officially Slurpee drink season and 7-Eleven, Inc. is inviting customers to celebrate in style with the return of the retailer's annual Bring Your Own Cup Day on Saturday, April 13. For one day only, 7-Eleven(R), Speedway(R) and Stripes(R) customers can grab a vessel of their choosing and fill it with the iconic frozen and fizzy beverage for only $1.99./* Slurpee drink fans are encouraged to   more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 4 -- The University of Texas's MD Anderson Cancer Center issued the following news release: Padmanee Sharma, M.D., Ph.D., associate vice president of Immunobiology, professor of Genitourinary Medical Oncology and Immunology, and director of scientific programs for the James P. Allison Institute at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, has been elected to the 2024 class of Fellows of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Academy in recognition of   more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 5 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas's MD Anderson Cancer Center issued the following news release: * * * Awards presented at AACR Annual Meeting recognize significant achievements in translational research and oncology leadership * * * Two researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center will be honored with Scientific Achievement Awards at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2024 for accomplishments in clinical and tra  more

DALLAS, Texas, April 5 -- AECOM, an infrastructure firm, issued the following news release on April 4, 2024: AECOM (NYSE: ACM), the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, today announced that the Victoria State Government has appointed AECOM, in partnership with Acciona and MACA Civil, as alliance non-owner participants to design and construct Australia's M80 Ring Road Completion between Plenty Road and the North East Link in Watsonia, Melbourne. AECOM will serve as the lead consultant  more

DALLAS, Texas, April 2 -- AECOM, an infrastructure firm, issued the following news release on April 1, 2024: AECOM (NYSE: ACM), the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, today announced that it has been selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to provide environmental restoration and compliance services at facilities across the United States as part of the NASA Environmental Restoration and Compliance Contract (NERCC). Under this five-year contract, AECOM   more

FORT WORTH, Texas, April 4 -- American Airlines issued the following news: American Airlines, Make-A-Wish and Disney will grant the wishes of children battling critical illnesses in celebration of World Wish Month. On April 17, 28 wish families will board the Wish Flight and fly on a one-of-a-kind, chartered plane from Dallas-Fort Worth to Orlando, Florida, to fulfill their wishes to go to Walt Disney World Resort(R). American recently hosted a special wish reveal celebration at its Fort Worth  more

SAN ANGELO, Texas, April 3 -- Angelo State University issued the following news: By Tom Nurre Angelo State University's chapter of the Alpha Chi national collegiate honor society recently inducted 41 new members for the spring 2024 semester during a ceremony in the Houston Harte University Center. Alpha Chi is one of the nation's most prestigious honor societies that is open to undergraduate students majoring in all academic disciplines. To be eligible, students must rank in the top 10% of se  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, April 3 -- Texas A&M University's College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences issued the following news release: An 8-year-old Australian Shepherd named Ollie survived a monthlong onslaught of unexpected health emergencies thanks to the veterinarians, staff, and students at the Texas A&M Small Animal Teaching Hospital (SATH). During her time at the SATH, Ollie received three life-saving surgeries that began with treatment for bladder stone complications but e  more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 6 (TNSres) -- The Baylor College of Medicine issued the following news: Baylor College of Medicine is the champion of the 2024 STAT Madness competition! Similar to the March Madness bracket-style basketball competition, but focused on science, this national event pits research institutions against each other for the top innovation spot in science and medicine published in the previous year. This year, 50 institutions across the U.S. sent their candidate studies to STAT M  more

WACO, Texas, April 5 -- Baylor University issued the following news on April 3, 2024: More than 1,450 students will volunteer at over 50 sites around Waco during Baylor University's biannual Steppin' Out community service event from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 6. A beloved Baylor tradition, Steppin' Out is a student-led day of community service specifically dedicated to helping Waco residents. The biannual event began in 1985 as a week of service leading up to a University-wide day of ser  more

FORT WORTH, Texas, April 2 (TNSres) -- BNSF Railway, a freight transportation company, issued the following news release: Investments from BNSF Railway customers totaled more than $4.1 billion in 2023, the freight rail provider reported this week. Significant investments were made from supply chain partners and customers, including Cenovus Energy and Green Bison Soy Processing LLC. As a result of these and other customer investments, BNSF projects supported the creation of more than 4,200 new j  more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 5 -- The University of St. Thomas issued the following news: University of Saint Thomas-Houston announces Fr. David Michael Moses, a charismatic Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston and well-known speaker, musician, and songwriter, as its 2024 Keynote Commencement Speaker on Saturday, May 11, 11 a.m., at NRG Stadium, 8400 Kirby Drive. UST commencement celebrates the achievements of 684 undergraduates and 302 graduate students. Both the Baccalaureate Mass  more

SEGUIN, Texas, April 2 -- Texas Lutheran University issued the following news: Next time you haul your books up to the circulation desk, you'll notice that there's a new addition at Blumberg Memorial Library. That would be the brand new Biblioteca Hybrid Self-check Kiosk--and it makes checking out books quicker and easier than ever. "Thanks to the BUENOS Title V grant, students and faculty will be able to check out or renew library books quickly and efficiently with this new technology," says   more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 5 -- Rice University issued the following news release: If you were to throw a message in a bottle into a black hole, all of the information in it, down to the quantum level, would become completely scrambled. Because in black holes this scrambling happens as quickly and thoroughly as quantum mechanics allows, they are generally considered nature's ultimate information scramblers. Rice University theorist Peter Wolynes and collaborators at the University of Illinois Urban  more

CLEMSON, South Carolina, April 2 (TNSres) -- The Clemson University's Cooperative Extension issued the following news: * * * Renowned Texas cotton breeder takes lead of Clemson's Florence research station * * * After a national search, Clemson University has announced the hire of a world-renowned scientist as the new director of its Pee Dee Research and Education Center (REC). Jane Dever was a professor, cotton breeder and Regents Service Fellow at Texas A&M AgriLife Research at Lubbock in   more

FLORENCE, South Carolina, April 5 -- The Clemson University's Cooperative Extension issued the following news: After a national search, Clemson University has announced the hire of a world-renowned scientist as the new director of its Pee Dee Research and Education Center (REC). Jane Dever was a professor, cotton breeder and Regents Service Fellow at Texas A&M AgriLife Research at Lubbock in her most recent post prior to coming aboard April 1 at Clemson, where she will lead its research facili  more

ITHACA, New York, April 2 -- Cornell University issued the following news: Cornell virology experts are sequencing the bird flu virus that struck cows in the Texas panhandle last week, after work at Cornell and two other veterinary diagnostic laboratories found the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus in cattle samples, a first for this species. Sequencing of the virus may help scientists understand why it jumped to cows and how future outbreaks may be prevented. "When there is sp  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, April 1 -- The University of Wisconsin Madison campus issued the following news: Dairy cows on a farm near in Wisconsin. Photo: Bryce Richter On March 25, 2024, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza had been detected in dairy herds in Texas and Kansas. Additional cases were detected four days later in a dairy herd in Michigan that received cows from Texas. No cases have been detected in Wisconsin and there are   more

CHICAGO, Illinois, April 3 -- Crowe, a public accounting, consulting and technology firm, issued the following news release: Crowe LLP, a public accounting, consulting and technology firm in the U.S. with offices around the world, has entered into an agreement with Belt Harris Pechacek LLLP (BHP), a firm dedicated exclusively to providing audit and support services to local Texas governments, for the BHP team to join Crowe. The transaction, which is expected to close in the next 30 days, will f  more

ROUND ROCK, Texas, April 6 -- Dell Technologies, a company that says it provides technology and services portfolio for the data era, issued the following news release: Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) and Northwestern Medicine are using AI to innovate and strengthen patient care to deliver significant advancements in medicine, including the development and evaluation of a generative multimodal large language model (LLM) for the interpretation of chest x-rays. Northwestern Medicine embarked on a   more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 5 -- Rice University issued the following news release: Rice University graduate student Han Wu conducting an angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy experiment in Rice's Quantum Materials Spectroscopy Laboratory. Photo by Gustavo Raskosky/Rice University.By Jade Boyd Special Rice News Rice University physicists have discovered a phase-changing quantum material -- and a method for finding more like it -- that could potentially be used to create flash like memory capabl  more

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, April 3 -- Del Mar College issued the following news: Competition included postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate students representing 31 different higher education institutions from across Texas. Only five were community colleges. Of the 88 presentations made by student participants, 59 were undergraduates who gave poster presentations, and one student winning the top prize in the Bacteriophage Microbiology category was Del Mar College (DMC) Biotechnology major Eliza  more

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, April 3 -- The University of Tennessee's Chattanooga Campus issued the following news: The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Department of History and Africana Studies program announced that Dr. Michael Vinson Williams will join the UTC community in August as a professor of history and director of Africana Studies. Williams comes to UTC from the University of Texas at El Paso, where he has spent the last eight years as a professor of history and director of UTEP's   more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 6 -- Eastern Connecticut State University issued the following news: On Friday, March 29, Elsa Nunez, president of Eastern Connecticut State University, was one of 11 recipients of the first SUCCESS Awards, hosted in Houston, TX, by TheDream.US, the Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, and Immigrants Rising. The SUCCESS Awards recognize committed institutions, student advocates and higher education leaders who are supporting undocumented students' acce  more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 4 -- The University of Houston Law Center issued the following news release: National leaders in healthcare, the legal profession and academia will delve into the aftermath and ramifications of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in SFFA v. Harvard at an upcoming conference titled "Justice and Health for All: The Future of Affirmative Action in Legal and Medical Education" taking place on Friday, April 12, 2024. "In SFFA v. Harvard, the U.S. Supreme Court found that th  more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 6 -- Greenberg Traurig, a law firm, issued the following news release: Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP's Houston office will be honored at the Texas Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) Coalition Inaugural Membership Meeting & Conference April 12. The office will be recognized as the 2024 Texas MLP Champion of the Year for its support of the Coalition and helping MLPs in Texas. The firm is a sponsor of the event which will feature as its keynote speaker, Bethany Hamilto  more

DALLAS, Texas, April 5 -- Greenberg Traurig, a law firm, issued the following news release: Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP represented Savoir-Faire Consulting (a/k/a Savvy Oil & Gas Consulting or "Savvy"), a severance tax and royalty compliance consulting firm, in its strategic alliance with Enertia Software, an upstream oil and gas software-solutions provider. The partnership is designed to provide operators with an integrated offering of cutting-edge upstream oil & gas compliance solu  more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 4 -- Halliburton, a provider of products and services to the energy industry, issued the following news release: Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL) has added the SuperFill(TM) II diverter to its SuperFill(TM) surge reduction equipment portfolio. The SuperFill II diverter redirects fluid flow to minimize frictional pressure loss through the length of the landing string, which enhances the benefits of the auto-fill float equipment. The innovative operating glass seat provides a  more

ABILENE, Texas, April 3 -- Hardin-Simmons University issued the following news: Earlier this spring, Hardin-Simmons student Jeremy Chabarria participated in the College Band Directors National Association's (CBDNA) Southwestern Division Conference Intercollegiate Honor Band. To participate in the band, Jeremy was nominated and then participated in an audition in December. He auditioned as a French horn player and was accepted as the 4th chair out of 8 French horns who auditioned. Jeremy is a   more

ABILENE, Texas, April 4 -- Hardin-Simmons University issued the following news: The Master of Athletic Training program at Hardin-Simmons University is now accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE). Graduates of HSU's M.A.T. program are eligible to take the Board of Certification, Inc. examination; passing the BOC examination makes graduates eligible for an athletic training practice credential in the 49 states that regulate athletic training, making   more

DALLAS, Texas, April 3 -- Haynes and Boone, a law firm, issued the following news release on April 2, 2024: Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Charles A. Beckham, Jr. has been elected Chair of the Board of Directors of the American College of Bankruptcy. The Chair of the College is the chief executive officer of the College and supervises the business and affairs of the College. Charlie's new role follows a two-year term as President of the College, in which he served as the principal operating off  more

DALLAS, Texas, April 2 -- Haynes and Boone, a law firm, issued the following news release: Haynes and Boone, LLP Partners Deb Coldwell, Maral Kilejian and Elizabeth Weldon are featured in Franchise Times' Legal Eagles listing of the top franchise practitioners in the U.S. This is Deb's 20th time to be named a Legal Eagle. Legal Eagles are "star legal professionals" who have been nominated or recommended by peers, clients and the publication's editors, according to Franchise Times. "With a keen  more

DALLAS, Texas, April 2 -- Haynes and Boone, a law firm, issued the following news release: A team of California litigators from Haynes and Boone, LLP earned a complete defense verdict after a two-week jury trial in the Central District of California on March 22 for Black Gold Farms, a respected, family-run farming operation. The trial team was led by Partner Jason Lao with assistance from Associates Andrea Levenson, Alfredo Amoedo and Letitia Johnson-Smith as well as Counsel Thomas Moore from   more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 6 -- Houston Christian University issued the following news release: Houston Christian University (HCU) held a groundbreaking ceremony for Founders Hall 2, the final building in the Morris Family Center for Law & Liberty complex on Tuesday, April 2. HCU President Robert Sloan joined the Morris Family, members of HCU's Board of Trustees and Executive Council, faculty, staff and Brookstone Construction contractors to mark the beginning of construction on the final phase of   more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 5 (TNSres) -- Houston Christian University issued the following news release: Faculty in the College of Science & Engineering (COSE) at Houston Christian University (HCU) will be able to enhance student performance in traditionally challenging freshman-level math and science courses thanks to a $500K project grant funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). Established by the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, the NSF's top priorities are to promote disco  more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 2 -- The University of Houston issued the following news: Every year since 1932, Houstonians have turned out in droves to celebrate Texas' Western heritage at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. The multi-week event features rides and entertainment, agriculture exhibitions and, of course, world-class rodeo. But as champion athletes compete for a purse that totals more than $2 million and visitors enjoy a star-studded concert series and top-dollar livestock, the Houston L  more

BROWNWOOD, Texas, April 5 -- Howard Payne University issued the following news: Howard Payne University students and personnel participated in the third annual William B. Dean, M.D. Lecture Series and Community Impact Day last Wednesday. More than 380 volunteers worked on various service projects with 22 community organizations. "Each year, this event is an opportunity for our university to give back to our community," said Dr. Cory Hines, HPU president. "It's also a very tangible way we can l  more

DALLAS, Texas, April 3 -- Hunton Andrews Kurth, a law firm, issued the following news on April 2, 2024: Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP represented the initial purchasers in connection with a private offering to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of $575 million aggregate principal amount of 4.375% exchangeable senior notes due 2027 and $575 million aggregate principal amount of 4.125% exchangeable senior notes due 2029, by Rexford Indust  more

DALLAS, Texas, April 2 -- Hunton Andrews Kurth, a law firm, issued the following news: Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP acted as counsel to the remarketing agent for the remarketing of $86 million aggregate principal amount of West Virginia Economic Development Authority Solid Waste Disposal Facilities Revenue Refunding Bonds (Appalachian Power Company - Amos Project), Series 2015A. Appalachian Power Company ("APCo") is a subsidiary of American Electric Power Company ("AEP") and is part of AEP's vert  more

DALLAS, Texas, April 6 -- Hunton Andrews Kurth, a law firm, issued the following news: Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP advised Duke Energy Florida, LLC (the "Company") on a SEC-registered offering of $173 million aggregate principal amount of First Mortgage Bonds, Floating Rate Series due 2074. The Company will pay interest on the Bonds quarterly in arrears at a floating rate equal to compounded SOFR minus 0.35%. The Company, a Florida limited liability company and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary  more

DALLAS, Texas, April 5 -- Hunton Andrews Kurth, a law firm, issued the following news: Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP advised the underwriters on SEC-registered offerings by Public Service Company of Colorado (the "Company") of $(i) $450 million aggregate principal amount of 5.35% First Mortgage Bonds, Series 41 due 2034 and (ii) $750 million aggregate principal amount of 5.75% First Mortgage Bonds, Series 42 due 2054 (the "2054 Bonds"). The Company will allocate an amount equal to the net proceeds o  more

DALLAS, Texas, April 2 -- Hunton Andrews Kurth, a law firm, issued the following news on April 1, 2024: Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP begins its new fiscal year with the promotion of the following eleven lawyers. The firm proudly recognizes these talented individuals for their accomplishments and outstanding client service. Mark W. Connolly (Corporate, Richmond) represents clients in a broad range of alternative investment transactions, including private fund formations, private equity, joint ventu  more

DALLAS, Texas, April 3 -- Hunton Andrews Kurth, a law firm, issued the following news on April 2, 2024: The Global Economic Development, Commerce & Government Relations (GECON) team of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP provided site selection service and incentive negotiation services to Bridgetown Natural Foods, LLC in its recent project to locate a new east coast facility. Bridgetown Natural Foods is a manufacturing partner for leading all-natural, organic and gluten-free snack brands, and the projec  more

DALLAS, Texas, April 6 -- Hunton Andrews Kurth, a law firm, issued the following news: Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP special counsel and former D.C. Circuit judge Thomas B. Griffith recently moderated a conversation at the National Governors Association's (NGA) winter conference between Supreme Court Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Amy Coney Barrett, who shared their views on the importance of navigating disagreements with "reasoned arguments, civility and respect." Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, w  more

BOISE, Idaho, April 4 -- Gov. Brad Little, R-Idaho, issued the following news release on April 3, 2024: Two teams of Idaho State Police (ISP) troopers headed out today on a three-week deployment to help the State of Texas secure the U.S.-Mexico border. The send-off for ISP took place this morning in front of the Idaho Capitol after Governor Brad Little took the troopers to breakfast at locally owned Moon's Cafe in Boise. Governor Little announced the three-week mission during his State of the  more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 6 -- Axiom Space Inc., a provider of human spaceflight services and developer of human-rated space infrastructure, issued the following news release: Houston-based company Axiom Space announces that Allen Flynt has joined the Axiom Space executive team as chief officer, mission services, a new organization that will encompass mission integration and operations. Flynt brings an impressive history to Axiom Space. Most recently, he served as senior vice president of growth   more

MADISON, Wisconsin, April 1 -- The University of Wisconsin Madison campus issued the following news: Jonathan Levine Jonathan Levine, a professor of veterinary neurology and the head of small animal clinical sciences at Texas A&M University, has been selected as the next leader of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. Levine will step into the role on Aug. 1, 2024, as the fourth dean in the school's 41-year history. He will replace Mark D. Markel, who announced la  more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 3 (TNSres) -- KBR, a provider of differentiated, professional services and technologies, issued the following news release on April 2, 2024: KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced today that it will host a conference call to discuss its first quarter 2024 financial results on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, at 7:30 a.m. Central Time (8:30 a.m. Eastern Time). The company plans to issue its first quarter 2024 earnings release and earnings presentation in advance of the call. Both will be avai  more

BEAUMONT, Texas, April 3 (TNSres) -- Lamar University issued the following news on April 2, 2024: Lamar University's College of Graduate Studies successfully hosted its second Graduate Research Conference on Thursday, March 28, at the Setzer Student Center. The inception of the conference began in 2019, but the pandemic put a pause to the event. "We began the Graduate Research Conference in 2019 as a research 'celebration' to find out what appetite our students and faculty had for such a show  more

BEAUMONT, Texas, April 2 -- Lamar University issued the following news: By April Thompson Securing financial aid is a crucial step in ensuring access to higher education opportunities. Lamar University's Office of Financial Aid aims to serve its students, offering a comprehensive array of financial aid services designed to alleviate the financial burdens associated with pursuing a college education. In this Q&A with Director of Student Aid Megan Begnaud, we discuss the services provided by L  more

BURNET, Texas, April 2 -- The Lower Colorado River Authority issued the following news release on April 1, 2024: BURNET AND LLANO COUNTIES, Texas - The Lower Colorado River Authority on Monday announced two new programs to assist lakeside property owners in managing nuisance aquatic vegetation on Inks Lake, Lake LBJ and Lake Marble Falls. The programs are: * A new treatment zone schedule to consolidate efforts of lakeside property owners wanting to remove or treat nuisance aquatic vegetation   more

SAN DIEGO, Texas, April 3 -- LPL Financial LLC, a company that provides support from independent financial advisors to financial institutions, issued the following news release on April 2, 2024: LPL Financial LLC announced today that financial advisor Matthew Edwards has joined LPL Financial's broker-dealer, RIA and custodial platforms. He reported serving approximately $210 million in advisory, brokerage and retirement plan assets/* and joins LPL from Ameriprise. Based in Sarasota, Fla., Edwa  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, April 5 -- Mayer Brown, a law firm, issued the following news: Mayer Brown obtained a significant trial win on behalf of Pantech Corporation and Pantech Wireless, LLC against OnePlus Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. in the Eastern District of Texas in a patent infringement suit, Pantech Corp. et al. v. OnePlus Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. After a week-long trial, on March 29, 2024, the jury found that OnePlus willfully infringed five of Pantech's patents related to wireless  more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 2 -- Rice University issued the following news release: Mayor John Whitmire will participate in a wide-ranging conversation April 3 on the challenges and opportunities for Houston at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. This Director's Lecture Series event will feature an armchair discussion between Whitmire and Baker Institute fellow Ed Emmett, followed by a Q&A session. What: Baker Institute event: A Conversation With Houston Mayor John Whitmire. When:  more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 6 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas's MD Anderson Cancer Center issued the following news release: * * * Featuring combination therapies for AML and lung cancer, insights into treatment resistance, the role of tumor microbiomes in immunity, and improved HPV screening * * * The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center's Research Highlights showcases the latest breakthroughs in cancer care, research and prevention. These advances are made possible through seamless   more

SAN DIEGO, Texas, April 5 -- LPL Financial LLC, a company that provides support from independent financial advisors to financial institutions, issued the following news release on April 4, 2024: LPL Financial LLC announced today that financial advisors Christopher "Noah" Geoghegan, CTFA, and Tomohiko "Tom" Minami, CFP(R), CFA(R), have launched a new independent practice, MG Partners Private Wealth, through affiliation with LPL Financial's supported independence model, LPL Strategic Wealth Servi  more

REDMOND, Washington, April 2 -- Oracle, a developer of hardware and software products, issued the following news release: Redmond, WA and Austin, Texas -- Microsoft Corp. and Oracle are expanding their collaboration to meet growing customer demand for Oracle Database@Azure around the world. Oracle Database@Azure will expand to five more regions, which brings the total planned multicloud availability footprint to 15 regions globally. "Bringing Oracle Database@Azure to Europe will enable custome  more

HELENA, Montana, April 3 -- Gov. Greg Gianforte, R-Montana, issued the following news release on April 2, 2024: Today, Governor Greg Gianforte announced a deployment by the Montana National Guard (MTNG) to support the state of Texas in its efforts to secure the southern border of the United States. The announcement coincided with the governor signing an executive order declaring a disaster on the southern border. "Today, I signed a disaster declaration to mobilize Montana resources to help se  more

AUSTIN, Texas, April 2 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas issued the following news release: A new study by an interdisciplinary team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin provides the most reliable validation to date of the connection between physical activity, sleep quality and psychological health. The study found that physical activity lengthened REM latency -- that is, the time it takes to enter the REM stage. This may indicate that exercise helps consolidate deeper sleep s  more

STARKVILLE, Mississippi, April 3 -- Mississippi State University issued the following news on April 2, 2024: Mississippi State University and Lone Star College in The Woodlands, Texas, today [April 2] formalized an articulation agreement streamlining a seamless transfer process for Lone Star graduates to the Magnolia State's leading university. The partnership creates greater student options for advanced educational pathways and specialized degrees that can significantly enhance career prospec  more

DENTON, Texas, April 6 -- The University of North Texas issued the following news release: The University of North Texas welcomed Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett to campus April 3 and 4. His visit to the College of Music included a standing-room-only performance with the university's famed One O'Clock Lab Band. "Meeting students is always inspiring to me," Lovett said. "Anytime you get to be around people who are interested and engaged and trying their best, that's all you   more

FORT DAVIS, Texas, April 4 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory issued the following news release: The highly competitive NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) recently named 24 new fellows to its 2024 roster. Among the awardees are Jed McKinney, a postdoctoral fellow at The University of Texas at Austin, and Cheng-Han Hsieh, who will be joining UT Austin after completing his doctorate at Yale University this summer. The NHFP enables outstanding postdoctoral sci  more

DALLAS, Texas, April 5 -- The Dallas Independent School District issued the following news release: Education has always played an important role in Dallas ISD Police Chief Albert Martinez's life. Now, in his new role as the top police officer for the district, he is combining his support for education with his passion for serving others. While growing up, education was strongly emphasized by his mother, who was born and raised in Mexico and who didn't have the same educational opportunities a  more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 3 (TNSres) -- Occidental Petroleum, an oil and gas, exploration and production company, issued the following news release: * * * Hold Conference Call Wednesday, May 8, 2024 * * * Occidental (NYSE: OXY) will announce its first quarter 2024 financial results after close of market on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, and will hold a conference call to discuss results on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, at 1 p.m. Eastern/12 p.m. Central. The conference call may be accessed by calling 1-866-871  more

AUSTIN, Texas, April 5 -- Oracle, a developer of hardware and software products, issued the following news release on April 4, 2024: Austin, Texas and Denver, Colorado -- Oracle and Palantir today announced a partnership to provide secure cloud and AI solutions aiming to power businesses and governments around the world. Oracle's distributed cloud and AI infrastructure, combined with Palantir's leading AI and decision acceleration platforms, will help organizations maximize the value of their d  more

AUSTIN, Texas, April 6 -- Oracle, a developer of hardware and software products, issued the following news release: Oracle has been recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Europe Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) 2023-2024 Vendor Assessment1. The report notes that healthcare organizations should consider Oracle if they are "a midsize or large healthcare provider seeking a data-driven, secure EHR with scalable intelligent features, and a robust and compliant cloud-based value proposition  more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 3 -- Rice University issued the following news release: Experts on Northeast Asia's energy security, policy and environmental efforts discussed the January Taiwan election on the latest podcast episode from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. Taiwanese voters elected William Lai, a supporter of Taiwanese sovereignty, as their next president. This has strained relations between Taiwan and China with Beijing increasing pressure on the self-governed island,   more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 1 -- Rice University issued the following news release: Mark Torres, assistant professor of earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Rice University, has won a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to unlock new insights in river water chemistry, including its implications for addressing environmental concerns. Torres' five-year, $612,930 grant is to develop innovative approaches for analyzing variations in river water chemistry. He will lead a research t  more

SOUTHLAKE, Texas, April 5 -- Sabre, a travel technology company, issued the following news release on April 4, 2024: Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), a leading technology provider to the global travel industry, today announced key leadership appointments to advance its hotel growth expansion strategy. As previously mentioned, Sabre believes it can be the premier business-to-business (B2B) lodging platform in the Global Distribution System marketplace by enabling efficient global travel throug  more

NEW YORK, April 2 -- Sony Music Entertainment issued the following news release on April 1, 2024: Sony Music and Campside Media, in partnership with Pegalo Pictures, today announced the season premiere of 19 Days, a new season of Witnessed that explores the 2018 investigation of deadly serial bombings in Austin, Texas leading up to the popular South by Southwest Festival. The first episode is available today, and subscribers to The Binge can listen to all episodes now. Hosted by journalist   more

GEORGETOWN, Texas, April 6 -- Southwestern University issued the following news: Following a national search, Southwestern University has hired David A. Ortiz, Ph.D. as the inaugural Vice President for Equity, Accountability, and Inclusive Excellence. Dr. Ortiz has over 30 years of experience in higher education as a faculty member, executive administrator, and nationally recognized advocate for diversity in post-secondary education. "I am very pleased to welcome Dr. Ortiz to Southwestern Uni  more

AUSTIN, Texas, April 6 -- St. Edward's University issued the following news release: Since July 2023, St. Edward's University has received more than $4.4 million in gifts from generous donors and foundations to strengthen our institution's efforts in empowering education for all students on the hilltop. "The St. Edward's family is honored to receive these numerous contributions wholeheartedly given by our philanthropic supporters," said St. Edward's University President Montserrat Fuentes. "Pa  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, April 3 -- The Florida Department of Transportation issued the following statement on April 2, 2024: * * * Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) Secretary Jared W. Perdue, P.E. issued the following statement following two separate Federal Court decisions that ruled in favor of twenty-two states, including Florida, who sued the federal government to block the implementation of the unlawful greenhouse gas emissions program. "Florida is glad to see both Texas and Kent  more

WEATHERFORD, Oklahoma, April 4 -- Southwestern Oklahoma State University issued the following news release on April 3, 2024: The SWOSU Physics and Engineering Club's Rocket Dawgs claimed their third consecutive Argonia Cup title on Sunday, March 24. The Argonia Cup, an annual rocketry competition held in the Rocket Pasture near Argonia, Kansas each spring, saw participation from eighteen university teams this year. Among the competitors were schools such as Auburn University, University of Okla  more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee issued the following news release on April 3, 2024: This week, the DCCC launched a billboard campaign in seven states calling out House Republicans and Republican challengers who have supported legislation that would outlaw IVF nationwide. In Nebraska's Second Congressional District: [See photo in the link at bottom.] In Texas's 34th Congressional District: [See photo in the link at bottom.] In New Mexico's Second Congr  more

FORT WORTH, Texas, April 3 -- Tarrant County College issued the following news release: Calling all poets, performers and academics. Tarrant County College Northwest will host renowned writer/musician/educator G'Ra Asim during its inaugural, free TCC Northwest Campus Mixtape: Memoir and Media event April 9-11 featuring live performances, academic presentations, creative workshops and open mic poetry. Organizers anticipate a dynamic project as the public joins members of the TCC community in a   more

DALLAS, Texas, April 4 -- Trammell Crow Co., a developer and investor in commercial real estate, issued the following news release: Trammell Crow Company (TCC), a global real estate developer, has promoted Aaron Thielhorn to Market Leader for TCC's Houston office, which develops throughout the Greater Houston market. In this role, Aaron will oversee the day-to-day operations of the office and the strategic oversight of all new development and investment activity in the region. He will assume t  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, April 3 -- Thomas Edison State University issued the following news release: Thomas Edison State University (TESU) and Central Texas College (CTC) have established a transfer agreement that provides Central Texas students with a seamless transfer experience to TESU. The institutions established the partnership earlier this year. Students who earn associate degrees in Aviation Science, Business Administration, Criminal Justice, Homeland Security or Interdisciplinary Studies   more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, April 6 -- The Texas A&M Forest Service issued the following news on April 5, 2024: On Tuesday, April 2, Texas A&M Forest Service held the second of three funding meetings of fiscal year 2024 for the Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program, awarding 74 grants totaling approximately $1.3 million. Grant funding from the program will help Texas rural volunteer fire department recipients from this allocation purchase equipment such as dry hydrants, fire and rescu  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, April 6 (TNSres) -- Texas A&M University's Health Science Center issued the following news: * * * New study finds punitive anti-drug workplace policies could backfire * * * A new study from the Texas A&M University School of Public Health uses national data on drug use and mental health to explore how workplace drug policies correlate with opioid use and misuse and psychological distress in American workers. Aurora Le, PhD, associate professor in the Department of He  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, April 4 (TNSres) -- Texas A&M University issued the following news: By George Hale Could digital humans -- realistic virtual representations of humans that communicate through text-to-speech and speech-to-text interfaces -- provide online training that is as effective as that provided by real humans? The idea is promising, according to a new study published in Applied Ergonomics and conducted by Texas A&M University School of Public Health researchers Kaysey Aguilar, M  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, April 5 -- Texas A&M University issued the following news: By Luke Henkhaus The last time the shadow of a total solar eclipse passed over the Lone Star State, it was the summer of 1878. Rutherford B. Hayes was president, and the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas had opened its doors to students just two years prior. Plenty has changed since then, but the total eclipse on April 8 promises to be just as stunning as the one that captivated parts of Texas 146 ye  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, April 5 -- Texas A&M University's College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences issued the following news release: When fourth-year veterinary student Angelica Allegro shadowed a dairy veterinarian for the first time in 2022, she immediately knew that the data-driven field of dairy medicine was where she wanted to spend her life. As Allegro prepares to graduate from the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) with her Doctor of Vete  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, April 3 -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: By Nancy Luedke What if we could do more with carbon dioxide (CO2) than lock it safely away in the subsurface? What if this greenhouse gas could instead be used in geothermal energy and power millions of homes worldwide? Touka Elsayed, a master's student in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University, is winning attention by testing this concept in her r  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, April 6 (TNSres) -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: By Lauren Jenkins More than 1,200 middle school and high school students from across Texas traveled to College Station from March 22-23, 2024, to showcase their science and engineering projects at the Texas Science and Engineering Fair (TXSEF). Students competed at regional science and engineering fairs from January to March before advancing to the state fair held at Texas A&M   more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, April 6 (TNSres) -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: By Alyssa Schaechinger On April 2, Texas A&M University hosted some of the nation's most prestigious engineers and researchers for the National Academy of Engineering's Regional Meeting and Symposium. The symposium consisted of six sessions, which highlighted multidisciplinary research related to this year's meeting theme: Space and Time. "This symposium is another way Texas A&  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, April 5 -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: By Maddi Busby Dr. Dale Cope, professor of practice in mechanical engineering, was selected to participate in the Community Advancement Reciprocal Educational Experiences (CARE2) Fellowship Program supported by the Texas A&M University Center for Teaching Excellence. As a professor of practice for over eight years, Cope specializes in sophomore-level engineering courses. He focuses on t  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, April 6 -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: By Alyssa Schaechinger Science fiction author Andy Weir spoke with Texas A&M students, faculty and staff ahead of the National Academy of Engineering's Regional Meeting and Symposium, sharing insights into his background, writing, and inspirations. Growing up with a physicist father and an electrical engineering mother, Andy Weir's passion for science and technology comes as no surprise  more

AUSTIN, Texas, April 3 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release on April 2, 2024: Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that the State of Texas and the United States have reached a settlement to recover natural resource damages caused by the March 2019 fire at the Deer Park facility owned by International Terminals Company, LLC ("ITC"). ITC has agreed to pay over $6.6 million to state and federal Natural Resource Trustees to resolve claims for natural resource dama  more

AUSTIN, Texas, April 3 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced a partnership between the Office of the Attorney General ("OAG") and Texas State University ("TXST") to facilitate educational opportunities and bring more investigative power to solving cold cases. The TXST program, termed the Cold Case Team, is a one-year internship program enabling students in the Texas State University School of Criminal Justice and Crimin  more

AUSTIN, Texas, April 5 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following statement on April 3, 2024: * * * "Today, my office was proud to defend SB 4, Texas's new border security law, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. As counsel explained, Texas has gone as far as Arizona v. United States allows by using the State's sovereign police power to protect the border in a way that mirrors rather than conflicts with federal law. The OAG has also expressly explained in our bri  more

BEAUMONT, Texas, April 4 -- Lamar University issued the following news: On Tuesday, April 2, Texas Academy, Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers (SASE), and the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) organized a special event aimed at providing valuable insights into the healthcare industry. Hosted at LU's Landes Auditorium, the event featured a diverse panel of professionals from Baptist Hospitals representing various disciplines within the medical field. Spearheaded by students, t  more

AUSTIN, Texas, April 6 -- The Texas Democratic Party issued the following news on April 5, 2024: Today, the Texas Democratic Party hosted a virtual press call to denounce SB 17 - the state MAGA Republicans' ban on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion funding and services at public universities and colleges in Texas. In response to SB 17, the largest university system in our state, University of Texas at Austin, terminated more than sixty faculty members involved in DEI services and dissolved progra  more

AUSTIN, Texas, April 5 -- The Texas Education Agency issued the following document from Commissioner Mike Morath on April 4, 2024: * * * Subject: Collaborative Task Force on Public School Mental Health Survey Category: Student Supports Next Steps: Schools respond to survey by May 23, 2024 This letter provides information to school officials and superintendents regarding a required survey designed by the Collaborative Task Force on Public School Mental Health. Background The 86th Texas Leg  more

AUSTIN, Texas, April 5 -- The Texas Education Agency issued the following document from Commissioner Mike Morath on April 4, 2024: * * * Subject: Travel Reimbursement Rates Category: Grant Fund Expenditures Next Steps: Proper preparation of travel reimbursement requests The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts has published the travel and mileage reimbursement rates (https://fmx.cpa.texas.gov/fmx/travel/textravel/rates/current.php) for state fiscal year 2024, as summarized below: * The aut  more

AUSTIN, Texas, April 2 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release on April 1, 2024: Governor Greg Abbott today announced that the City of Corinth has been designated by the Texas Music Office (TMO) as a Music Friendly Texas Certified Community after completing the multi-step certification process. The Music Friendly Texas program, the first in the nation since introduced by TMO in 2016, seeks to foster music business-related economic development and job creation in Texas ci  more

AUSTIN, Texas, April 6 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release on April 5, 2024: Governor Greg Abbott today announced four Jobs and Education for Texans (JET) grants totaling more than $1.2 million have been awarded to four schools in North Central Texas by the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC). The JET grants will support career and technical education (CTE) training programs by helping the schools purchase and install equipment to initially train over 1,500 students for  more

AUSTIN, Texas, April 3 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release on April 2, 2024: Governor Greg Abbott today celebrated the groundbreaking of Texas A&M University's South Texas Workforce Development Project advanced manufacturing training facility near the Port of Brownsville and lauded the state's efforts to bring high-quality training programs to hardworking Texans. Organized by the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service, the center will provide training to Texans in t  more

AUSTIN, Texas, April 6 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release: Governor Greg Abbott, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), and the Texas National Guard continue to work together to secure the border; stop the smuggling of drugs, weapons, and people into Texas; and prevent, detect, and interdict transnational criminal activity between ports of entry. Since the launch of Operation Lone Star, the multi-agency effort has led to over 506,500 illegal immigrant apprehe  more

AUSTIN, Texas, April 3 (TNSres) -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release on April 2, 2024: Governor Greg Abbott today celebrated Texas' continuing economic expansion as new data (https://www.bea.gov/news/2024/gross-domestic-product-state-and-personal-income-state-4th-quarter-2023-and-preliminary) recently released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis shows the Texas economy again growing faster than the nation as a whole. In the fourth quarter of 2023, real gross domestic p  more

SEGUIN, Texas, April 6 -- Texas Lutheran University issued the following news: Texas Lutheran University has been awarded the HEAP (Highly Established Action Plan) Seal of recognition. The seal is given through the All In Campus Democracy Challenge, a national awards program. It is reserved for colleges and universities which demonstrate the highest commitment to increasing student voting rates, helping them to form habits of active and informed citizenship and promoting civic engagement on a n  more

SEGUIN, Texas, April 5 -- Texas Lutheran University issued the following news: TLU's Dr. Scott Bailey has been named this year's Southwestern Psychological Association (SWPA) Fellow. SWPA, a nine-state affiliate of the American Psychological Association, has a mission to promote and strengthen scientific, promotional, and educational facets within the field of psychology, and the fellowship is the highest honor it can bestow. SWPA Fellows are chosen based upon significant contributions to the d  more

SAN MARCOS, Texas, April 2 -- Texas State University issued the following news release: Texas State University (TXST) has partnered with the Texas Office of Attorney General (OAG) to create the inaugural TXST Cold Case Team to help investigate unsolved crimes in the state. The Cold Case Team is a one-year internship program enabling TXST students in the School of Criminal Justice and Criminology to work with the OAG Cold Case and Missing Persons Unit (CCMPU). Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton   more

SAN MARCOS, Texas, April 4 (TNSres) -- Texas State University issued the following news release: Two Texas State University doctoral students have been selected as winners of the Dissertation Fellowship from the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. This highly competitive, $10,000 national fellowship is awarded annually to only 15 active society members who are doctoral candidates and are completing dissertations. This year marks the second time that TXST has had two Phi Kappa Phi Dissertation Fell  more

SAN MARCOS, Texas, April 2 -- Texas State University issued the following news release: Lillian Dees, a Texas State University alum, former director of the LBJ Student Center and senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology, has designated the Lillian Dees and Darla Wood Endowed Scholarship in Sociology as the beneficiary of a generous estate gift. The endowment provides scholarships to undergraduates and graduate students enrolled at TXST in the College of Liberal Arts pursuing a degree in   more

SAN MARCOS, Texas, April 6 -- Texas State University issued the following news release: The Center for Professional Sales at Texas State University's McCoy College of Business was awarded Best Sales Program by its accrediting agency, the University Sales Center Alliance (USCA). The Center for Professional Sales at TXST is the first program in the world to receive the award. The USCA comprises more than 85 sales centers throughout the United States, Canada, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, April 4 (TNScapv) -- Texas A&M University issued the following news: Texas A&M University and Cactus Jack, the official brand of multi-platinum, diamond-certified recording artist and style icon Travis Scott, have teamed up with digital sports platform Fanatics, leading sports retailer Lids and Mitchell & Ness to announce a first-of-its-kind, collegiate-inspired apparel collection. The "Jack Goes Back to College" collection features a product range across 28 collegiate   more

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, April 3 -- Trinity University issued the following news: By Kennice Leisk On Saturday, March 16, and Thursday, March 21, Trinity University hosted a delegation of 10 basketball players and coaches from Zambia. Trinity business professors Jacob Tingle '95, Ed.D., and Brandon Crooms, Ph.D.; education professor Angela Breidenstein '91, M'92, Ed.D.; alumna Emily Ellis '22; and graduate students Yvette Pena '18, M'19, M'24; Haley Thames '22, M'24; and Maeve Armand '23, M'24 disc  more

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, April 5 (TNSres) -- Trinity University issued the following news: * * * Economics professor discusses research in Chile and international lectures on Adam Smith * * * Trinity University is excited to announce that economics professor Maria Pia Paganelli, Ph.D., has been granted her second Fulbright Scholarship. Paganelli will spend the Fall 2024 semester in Chile, the same location as her first Fulbright. There, she will investigate whether Adam Smith's ideas on free bank  more

RED OAK, Texas, April 4 (TNSres) -- Texas State Technical College issued the following news on April 3, 2024: More than 10 students from Texas State Technical College's North Texas location are preparing to put their skills to the test. The students will compete at the 2024 SkillsUSA Texas Postsecondary Leadership and Skills Conference taking place from Thursday, April 18, to Saturday, April 20, in Houston. "Our students and faculty have been working hard to prepare for the opportunity to par  more

ABILENE, Texas, April 3 -- Texas State Technical College issued the following news: All four of Texas State Technical College's West Texas locations will be well represented during the 2024 SkillsUSA Texas Postsecondary Leadership and Skills Conference in Houston on April 18-20. With a total of 27 students participating from the Abilene, Breckenridge, Brownwood and Sweetwater locations, TSTC provost Andy Weaver is excited to see more students involved in the SkillsUSA competitions. "This is t  more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 6 (TNSres) -- The University of Houston Law Center issued the following news release: In response to the seven aid workers being killed in an Israeli air strike, UHLC Professor Emeritus Jordan J. Paust says the attack on each car was deliberate. "Clearly each car was intentionally targeted. Israeli leaders say aid workers were not intentionally killed despite the clear markings on each vehicle and coordination by the World Central Kitchen of their route with the IDF. But   more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 4 (TNSres) -- The University of Houston issued the following news: By Laurie Fickman On the morning of June 6, 2023, a substantial portion of the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine - vital for water management and hydroelectric power generation - suffered a collapse while under Russian control. Russia had seized the dam early into its invasion of Ukraine, and though independent investigations suggested that Russia destroyed it to prevent a counterattack from Ukraine, Russia has deni  more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 5 (TNSres) -- The University of Houston issued the following news: * * * Team Introduces Advances in Mobile Measurement Platform and Data Analysis * * * By Sally Strong Trailblazing research from the University of Houston affirms air pollution levels in the San Antonio area can exceed federal limits, confirming measurements that over recent years have earned the city a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency non-attainment designation. The Alamo City has company: Houston  more

FORT WORTH, Texas, April 3 -- The University of North Texas Health Science Center issued the following news: By Paula Cobler The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth's new College of Nursing has received the necessary approvals to accept students to its first undergraduate and graduate nursing degree programs this fall. Both the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges recently approved a Reg  more

FORT WORTH, Texas, April 2 (TNSres) -- The University of North Texas Health Science Center issued the following news: By Sally Crocker New research by Dr. Matthew Rossheim at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth's School of Public Health has analyzed the concerning marketing practices of derived psychoactive cannabis products - including their growing availability in the Fort Worth community and online - to encourage better accountability and legislation around the  more

FORT WORTH, Texas, April 4 -- The University of North Texas Health Science Center issued the following news: By Libby Maness The first time many people hear the term "health coach," they immediately think weight loss, going to the gym and dieting. While these are things health coaches encourage, that's not what they are trained to do. Through collaborative goal setting, health coaches partner with their patients to identify their goals whether it's managing a chronic condition, reducing stres  more

MOBILE, Alabama, April 3 (TNSres) -- The University of South Alabama issued the following news release: Two University of South Alabama biomedical sciences students have earned acceptance into the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. South was also named the organization's outstanding chapter for 2024. Connor Holm and Anita Nguyen, both third year biomedical sciences majors, are two of just 31 students nationwide to be inducted this year. They were honored recently at the n  more

AUSTIN, Texas, April 4 -- The University of Texas issued the following news release: Although many visitors to Texas Science & Natural History Museum are familiar with exhibits featuring towering fossils of dinosaurs from millions of years ago, the museum's newest exhibition is all about sustainability for the future. Each year, the fashion industry produces plastics for the manufacture of synthetic materials, using the equivalent of 300 million bathtubs of petroleum in the process. To advance  more

AUSTIN, Texas, April 6 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas issued the following news release: The University of Texas at Austin is boosting its commitment to research and education in quantum science and engineering by establishing the Texas Quantum Institute. This expanded investment reflects the University's recognition of the vast potential that quantum science and engineering hold to benefit society through new approaches to computing, energy-efficient electronics, secure communications, ul  more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 4 (TNSres) -- The University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering issued the following news: USC, UPenn, Texas A&M, Oregon State, Georgia Tech, Temple University, and NASA Johnson Space Center are teaching dog-like robots to navigate craters of the moon and other challenging planetary surfaces in research funded by NASA. The Palmer Glacier on Oregon's Mount Hood isn't the moon, but it's a good place to practice. Some 6,000 feet up the snow-capp  more

FORT DAVIS, Texas, April 4 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory issued the following news release: A team of astronomers, including Danielle Berg and John Chisholm at The University of Texas at Austin, has used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to survey the starburst galaxy Messier 82 (M82). Located 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major, this galaxy is relatively compact in size but hosts a frenzy of star formation activity. For comparison,  more

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, April 4 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio issued the following news release: The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) is establishing the Be Well Institute on Substance Use and Related Disorders, a pioneering initiative dedicated to advancing research, education and evidence-based treatments. The new institute includes the current Be Well Texas initiative of UT Health San Antonio as part of a  more

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, April 2 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio issued the following news release: By Steven Lee Boris A. Zelle, MD, FAAOS, FAOA, professor, vice-chair of research and chief of orthopaedic trauma in the Department of Orthopaedics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), recently received the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2024 Diversity Award, recognizing outstanding contributions to   more

DALLAS, Texas, April 4 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center issued the following news release: By focusing on a poxvirus protein, a team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists has discovered an antiviral immune pathway that broadly fights a wide variety of viruses. Their findings, reported in Nature Microbiology, could eventually lead to new ways to prevent or treat viral infections or thwart autoimmune diseases. "To learn how immune responses work, we let   more

TYLER, Texas, April 4 -- The University of Texas Tyler Campus issued the following news release: The University of Texas at Tyler received nearly $114,000 from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, State Wildlife Grant Program and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to enhance freshwater mussel conservation in Louisiana. Dr. Neil Ford, UT Tyler professor emeritus of biology, serves as principal investigator on the two-year research project. Ford will lead a Houston-based environmental  more

TYLER, Texas, April 2 -- The University of Texas Tyler Campus issued the following news release: The University of Texas at Tyler School of Medicine received a $400,000 gift from an anonymous donor to support the hospice and palliative medicine fellowship. The purpose of the gift is to retain physicians in the East Texas region. After a doctor graduates from medical school and residency, completing a fellowship can offer them additional specialization and differentiate them from other candidat  more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 6 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas's MD Anderson Cancer Center issued the following news release: * * * MD Anderson study is first in U.S. to show the benefits of changing treatment order, which include fewer operations and improved patient satisfaction * * * Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center showed that altering the sequence of breast cancer treatment to administer radiation before mastectomy allowed for concurrent breast reconstructio  more

ARLINGTON, Texas, April 3 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas Arlington campus issued the following news release: * * * Researchers join project that will compare methods for testing hypersonic materials * * * Aerospace engineers at The University of Texas at Arlington are teaming with researchers from the University of Arizona and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to understand how to best reproduce flight-relevant hypersonic conditions. Luca Maddalena, professor of aerospace   more

EL PASO, Texas, April 5 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas's El Paso campus issued the following news release: Psychology researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso are making progress towards understanding the biological underpinnings of depression, a leading cause of disability that affects approximately 280 million people around the world. In a study published this April in the Journal of Affective Disorders, UTEP psychologist Sergio Iniguez, Ph.D., and his co-authors make the case  more

DALLAS, Texas, April 2 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center issued the following news release: Cancer cells release a significantly more concentrated level of acid than previously known, forming an "acid wall" that could deter immune cells from attacking tumors, UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists show in a new study. Their findings, published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, could pave the way for new cancer treatment approaches that alter the acidic environme  more

DALLAS, Texas, April 3 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center issued the following news release: * * * Studies look at new therapy to reduce allergy response, a support program for teens, pregnant patients with MS, and babies born early * * * Antibody treatment lowers risk for food allergies Millions of children have food allergies, many of which can cause severe illness or death. In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of researchers, i  more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 1 -- Rice University issued the following news release: In a heartwarming display of emotion, potential future students of Rice University captured video of themselves opening their acceptance letters for the Fall 2024 admissions cycle. Despite the competitive nature of the admissions process, the video highlights the pure joy and excitement that comes with being accepted to Rice, according to Yvonne Romero Da Silva, vice president for enrollment. "The overwhelming respo  more

FORT WORTH, Texas, April 4 -- Weaver, a provider of an assurance, tax and advisory services, issued the following news release: National accounting and advisory firm, Weaver, welcomes Zi Wang as a director in its Transaction Advisory Services practice. Zi has spent 10 years in accounting and financial advisory within the Big Four leading financial diligence services for private equity investors and strategic corporate buyers. In his most recently role, Zi worked within quality of earnings and   more