DOYLESTOWN, Pennsylvania, June 18 -- Delaware Valley College issued the following news: Bristol-Myers Squibb, a leading biopharma company, has awarded Delaware Valley University a $20,000 grant to fund student research. Through Student Research, a course at the University, undergraduates spend a semester exploring a topic of their choosing under the guidance of a faculty mentor. Students form and test hypotheses and present their results to the University community as part of the course. The fu  more

FORT COLLINS, Colorado, June 19 [TNSresearch] -- Colorado State University issued the following news: If the climate continues warming as predicted, spruce beetle outbreaks in the Rocky Mountains could become more frequent, a new multi-year study led by Colorado State University finds. While insect disturbances naturally cycle through forests, the current spruce beetle epidemic affecting Colorado Engelmann spruce forests has been one of the largest on record. The Colorado State Forest Service   more

DOVER, Delaware, June 17 -- Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings issued the following news release: Attorney General Kathy Jennings has announced that her office's Consumer Protection Unit has secured an agreement to recover $23,362 in debt relief for 5 former ITT Tech students in Delaware as part of a 43-state multistate settlement. The settlement is with Student CU Connect CUSO, LLC ("CUSO"), which offered deceptive loans to finance students' tuition at the failed for-profit college ITT   more

DOVER, Delaware, June 21 -- Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings issued the following news release: A 25-year-old man who rented a room in a home in Georgetown was sentenced in Superior Court for beating and raping a woman who lived in the home, and for killing another man. In October 2016, Juan Tovar Cruz returned to the house on Wilson Hill Road where he had just started living the week before. Tovar Cruz threatened the woman who lived there, then tied her up with an electrical cord and r  more

WILMINGTON, Delaware, June 17 -- DuPont issued the following news release: * * * - Campaign Kicks Off with First-Of-Its Kind Film Integrating Seamless Dynamic Video and Live Stream * * * DuPont (NYSE: DD) is launching an integrated marketing campaign, "Invent a better n:ow," aimed at reintroducing the nearly 217-year old brand as the source of essential innovations that transform industries and everyday life and highlighting products that make up the company's new portfolio. A key component   more

NEW CASTLE, Delaware, June 17 -- New Castle County issued the following news release: * * * - New Castle County Scholarship makes higher education affordable for nearly three dozen local students * * * College tuition costs have more than doubled over the past twenty years, creating significant and growing barriers to post-secondary education for families in Delaware and across the country. This spring County Executive Matt Meyer launched the New Castle County Scholarship Program to address   more

NEW CASTLE, Delaware, June 20 -- New Castle County issued the following news release: * * * - Investment Continues County's Commitment to Enhance Services in Middletown-Odessa-Townsend Area * * * County Executive Matthew Meyer was joined Tuesday by County Council members, legislators and local residents as he announced that a new 90-acre county park will be developed on a county-owned property on Shallcross Lake Road just off of Marl Pit Road north of Middletown. The announcement reflects th  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, June 17 -- Gov. Kevin Stitt, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Governor Kevin Stitt announced today that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved the state's request for disaster assistance for four more Oklahoma counties impacted by flooding, tornadoes, severe storms and straight-line winds. The disaster assistance benefits individuals and business owners affected by severe storms that have occurred since May 7 in Cherokee, Le Flore, No  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, June 21 -- The Pennsylvania House Democrats issued the following news release on behalf of Pennsylvania State Rep. Joanna McClinton, D-Philadelphia/Delaware: State Rep. Joanna McClinton, D-Phila./Delaware, congratulated two organizations from her district on receiving a portion of $708,354 in city grants for grassroots efforts to stem gun violence in Philadelphia. The two organizations, Community of Compassion and Muslims 4 Humanity, were among two dozen city-based or  more