TUCSON, Arizona, Sept. 25 -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: The University of Arizona's Arizona Astrobiology Center has received a $1 million gift from Eugene Jhong, a retired Google software developer turned philanthropist, to support interdisciplinary research exploring the origins of life and consciousness. The academic field of consciousness studies explores the mysteries of how we experience the world, focusing on how thoughts and feelings emerge from the bra  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, Sept. 25 -- The Arizona Democratic Party issued the following news release on Sept. 24, 2024: Today's Lake Tapes from the archives are a reminder of the danger Kari Lake's extreme agenda poses to women by threatening women's health care and stripping away their reproductive rights. Kari Lake's "clear record on" abortion includes repeated support for the "deeply, profoundly unpopular" 1864 ban on abortion without exceptions. Lake has not only called abortion a "sacrifice, "  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 -- The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release: As Americans living abroad begin to request their ballots, the DNC and Dems Abroad are ensuring that eligible American voters living in foreign countries have all the information they need to receive and fill out their ballots in the most important election of our lifetimes. It is not too late for Americans abroad to request their ballots. Americans abroad can head to votefromabroad.org to register to v  more

WINDOW ROCK, Arizona, Sept. 25 -- The Navajo Nation Government issued the following news release on Sept. 24, 2024: On Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024, the Health, Education, and Human Services Committee (HEHSC) convened in a special meeting to receive updates from the Division of Aging and Long-Term Care Support (DALTCS). Reports were provided by DALTCS Program Manager Marlinda Littleman, Sr. Program and Project Specialist Lee Begay, and Executive Director of the Navajo Department of Health Sherylen  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, Sept. 25 (TNSres) -- The University of Phoenix issued the following news release: * * * Geography often becomes a barrier for workers in rural America, particularly those of younger generations, as they feel driven to leave their communities to progress in their careers * * * By Sharla Hooper Today, the University of Phoenix Career Institute(R) and the Center on Rural Innovation (CORI), a nonprofit seeking to advance economic prosperity in rural communities, released the G  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Sept. 25 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona's Native Nations Institute issued the following news release: * * * The NNI team were responsible for content at two separate conferences for Tribal leaders in the summer of 2024. * * * It was a busy summer for the Native Nations Institute (NNI) Tribal and Direct Services (TDS) team! In the midst of attending to a surge in demand for their in-person Tribal facilitation and executive education services, the lean team of four als  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Sept. 25 -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: The University of Arizona College of Information Science will help more students - especially those from historically underrepresented backgrounds - get paid internships in community archives, thanks to a $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation's Public Knowledge Program. The grant will support the work of a collaborative of library and information sciences faculty members from nine universities acros  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Sept. 25 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: Astronomers from the University of Arizona, along with an international group of researchers, observed the atmosphere of a hot and uniquely inflated exoplanet using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. The exoplanet, which is the size of Jupiter but only a tenth of its mass, is found to have east-west asymmetry in its atmosphere, meaning that there is a significant difference between the two edges o  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Sept. 25 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: It's been a year since NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully delivered the largest-ever asteroid sample to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023. Since then, intriguing clues about the early solar system and potential origins of life on Earth have emerged from study of the sample, under the leadership of OSIRIS-REx principal investigator Dante Lauretta, a Regents Professor of planetary sciences at the Univ  more