PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Oct. 30 (TNSres) -- Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute issued the following news on Oct. 29, 2024: The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) today announced the agenda for its 2024 Research Review. The annual event showcases the most innovative SEI research and development projects from the past year. The 2024 Research Review will be held in person in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, November 13. Attendance at this free event is limited,   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- American Bridge 21st Century, an organization that says it focuses on holding Republicans accountable and helps deliver Democratic victories, issued the following news release on Oct. 30, 2024: Today, following the horrific comments made about Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican community at Donald Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden, American Bridge 21st Century announced a rapid-fire text campaign in three key battleground states -- Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Oct. 31 -- The American Friends Service Committee issued the following agency statement on Oct. 30, 2024: * * * Yesterday, the Israeli Knesset passed two laws that ban the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) - the primary provider of assistance to Palestinians. The bills prohibit UNRWA from operating or providing services in any territory controlled by Israel and ban any communication between the Israeli government and UNRWA. UNRWA serves almost six mill  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Oct. 31 (TNSres) -- Drexel University issued the following news release: Polypharmacy, commonly defined as taking five or more medications daily, is a significant health care concern impacting over 30% of older adults. It is associated with poor health outcomes like falls, medication interactions, hospitalizations and even death. Older adults are at an increased risk of experiencing polypharmacy if they have multiple chronic conditions. While older adults with Alzhei  more

GROVE CITY, Pennsylvania, Oct. 30 -- The Grove City College issued the following news release: Grove City College's School of Business will host economist Dr. Richard N. Langlois for a lecture at 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15 in Sticht Lecture Hall of the Staley Hall of Arts and Letters on campus. Langlois is chair of the Economics Department at the University of Connecticut and the author of several books about the economics of organization, institutions, and business. He will discuss his most-recen  more

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 30 -- The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis issued the following news release: * * * Key Takeaways: Shell's Pennsylvania petrochemical plant is highly unlikely to meet its financial targets. Reasons for optimism about the petrochemical industry's outlook will probably be short-lived. Forecasts suggest the margins for three major products at the Shell Pennsylvania plant will decline through at least 2028. Slowing demand from China and overcapacity c  more

WILLIAMSPORT, Pennsylvania, Oct. 30 (TNSres) -- Lycoming College issued the following news: Visiting Scholar, archaeologist, and museum professional James Doyle, Ph.D., will deliver a talk entitled, "Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Mayan Art," on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 4:30 p.m., in the Humanities Research Center on the Lycoming College campus. The lecture is a free event and is open to members of the public. "Maya artists depicted the gods at all stages of their lives: in childhood, as adults in   more

BRYN MAWR, Pennsylvania, Oct. 30 -- Bryn Mawr College issued the following news: Math students in Professor of Mathematics Victor Donnay's Math Modeling and Sustainability course are taking their math problem-solving skills out of the classroom and applying them to real-world situations with environmental and economic impacts. The course, taught bi-annually and supported by the Praxis Program, has teams of students work to address a sustainability issue relevant to a community partner. On Oct  more

WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pennsylvania, Oct. 30 [Category: Materials Management] -- ASTM International, formerly the American Society for Testing and Materials, which develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical standards for materials, products, systems and services, issued the following news release: Applications include pavement marking directional symbols, pedestrian crossings, and parking emblems. A new ASTM International standard (D8584) will provide guidance for evaluating the quality   more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Oct. 30 -- PennEnvironment issued the following news release on Oct. 29, 2024: * * * Environmental champions in state legislature highlighted * * * The statewide nonprofit environment organization PennEnvironment released its list of endorsed candidates today for state offices for Election Day 2024. "PennEnvironment's endorsements are meant to serve as a tool to help Pennsylvanians know how to cast their ballot for the environment when they go to the polls on Ele  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Oct. 30 -- The Pennsylvania Municipal League issued the following news: * * * Over the last week, the Shapiro Administration has announced more than $1.7 billion in new economic development investments, contributing to over 4,550 jobs * * * Since taking office, Governor Josh Shapiro has worked to make Pennsylvania more economically competitive, attracting more businesses and creating good-paying jobs. So far, he's secured over $3 billion in private sector investment  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 -- The Sunrise Movement issued the following news release: In a powerful show of youth mobilization, Sunrise Movement announced this week that it has contacted over 1.9 million young voters across pivotal swing states for the 2024 general election. Throiugh large-scale phone and text banks, as well as digital advertising, Sunrise is driving voter engagement in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, emphasizing the critical role this  more

RIVERSIDE, California, Oct. 31 (TNSres) -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: * * * Social sciences and public policy professors say the 2024 cycle is more difficult to predict * * * Surveyed professors at UC Riverside predict Kamala Harris will prevail in five of seven battleground states, according to a straw poll conducted by UCR's news team beginning October 25. The poll considered the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Caroli  more

UNIVERSITY CITY, Pennsylvania, Oct. 31 (TNSres) -- The University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine issued the following news release: * * * By poring over decades worth of data, researchers hope to better determine how pesticides, metals, and exposures to other elements impact Alzheimer's disease risk * * * PHILADELPHIA-- To better understand how day-to-day exposures to chemicals earlier in life can contribute to conditions like Alzheimer's disease later on, researchers at the   more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Oct. 31 (TNSres) -- The University of Pennsylvania's Stuart Weitzman School of Design issued the following news: Speaking at a recent event, Scott Kleinman, University of Pennsylvania alum and Apollo Global Management Inc. co-president, reflected on conversations he had more than a decade ago with Mark Alan Hughes, then a professor of practice at the Weitzman School of Design, about their vision for a new center for energy policy. "I definitely saw that young people  more

NEW YORK, Oct. 30 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The American Civil Liberties Union, an organization that works to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the U.S., issued the following news release: HARRISBURG, Pa. The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court today ruled that disqualifying a timely vote due to a missing or incorrect handwritten date on the mail ballot return envelope is unconstitutional. In the case, the ACLU of Pennsylvania, nation  more