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News Tipoffs - Mississippi Editors Newsletter for Tuesday October 01, 2024 ( 6 items )  

Army Engineer Research & Development Center Engineer Awarded SMART Grant
VICKSBURG, Mississippi, Oct. 1 -- The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center issued the following news story: By Kaley Skaggs, public affairs specialist, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Research Civil Engineer Joelle Westcott with the Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) was awarded the Department of Defense (DoD) Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Program Creative Resea  more

EEOC Sues Two Employers for Sexual Harassment of Teens
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release: The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today filed lawsuits against two companies who failed to maintain harassment-free working environments for our nation's youth. "Young workers are particularly vulnerable to harassment and other forms of workplace discrimination because they have less work experience, are less likely to know when someone crosses a boundary, and may be afr  more

Iowa A.G. Bird Leads Fight to Defend Pork Producers and Family Farmers
DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 1 -- Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release on Sept. 30, 2024: Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today led 21 other states in supporting the appeal of a district court ruling that upheld Massachusetts's radical pork ban. Massachusetts's new "Question 3" pork ban goes further than Proposition 12 by preventing other states from selling pork in, or even transporting pork through, Massachusetts if farmers do not comply with Massachusetts's strict  more

Media Alert: Low-level airplane flights to image geology over parts of Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey issued the following news release: RESTON, Va. Low-level airplane flights are planned over a broad region in Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas to image geology using airborne geophysical technology. The survey will be conducted from early October for approximately 8 months, weather and wildfire restrictions permitting. Flights will cover areas within the Missouri counties of Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Boone,  more

NRL Materials Scientist Edward Gorzkowski Named American Ceramic Society Fellow
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -- The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory issued the following news release: By Mary E. Hamisevicz, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Corporate Communications U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) researcher Edward Gorzkowski, Ph.D., to be recognized as Fellow to the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) for outstanding contributions to the ceramic sciences by conspicuous achievement in the ceramic industry during the upcoming American Ceramics Society Awards Banquet held in Pittsburgh,  more

Wisconsin Army Guard Deploys More Than 300 Soldiers
STUTTGART, Germany, Oct. 1 -- The U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa, a service component of the U.S. Africa Command, issued the following news: By Vaughn Larson, Wisconsin National Guard Public Affairs Office VOLK FIELD, Wis. - Gov. Tony Evers and senior Wisconsin National Guard leaders joined families and friends at a formal sendoff ceremony Sept. 28 for more than 300 Wisconsin Army National Guard Soldiers deploying overseas. Most of the deploying Soldiers -- Company A and Compa  more