CHICAGO, Illinois, April 20 -- The American Library Association issued the following news release: The Coretta Scott King Book Awards Round Table (CSKBART) invites the community to celebrate and recognize the 2024 Coretta Scott King Book Awards John Steptoe New Talent author and illustrator winners. The John Steptoe New Talent Award is established to affirm new talent and to offer visibility to excellence in writing and/or illustration which otherwise might be formally unacknowledged within a   more

CANBERRA, Australia, April 20 -- The Australian Automobile Association issued the following news release: The Queensland Government has agreed to share with the Commonwealth and the public previously secret data about the causes of car crashes, traffic policing and the condition of roads to help tackle the escalating road safety crisis. The nation's peak motoring group today welcomed this commitment and urged the Federal Government to compel other states to follow suit by linking the $10 billi  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 20 (TNSres) -- Yale University issued the following news: By Lisa Prevost When the United States claimed sovereignty over a handful of overseas territories around the turn of the 20th century, object lessons in American patriotism followed straight away. The American flag was immediately raised above schoolhouses and government buildings. Postage stamps and money were reprinted with images of American symbols and heroes. National iconography appeared nearly every  more

HAMILTON, Ontario, April 20 (TNSres) -- McMaster University issued the following news: By Sara Laux It's tempting to think of environmental research in terms of science: measurements of global temperatures and parts-per-million of carbon in the atmosphere, chemical pollutants in water, or number of species at risk. But there are other ways to understand the environment - and one is to bring a cultural, historical, philosophical, or other humanistic perspective to the complex ideas and issues   more

WASHINGTON, April 20 (TNSres) -- The Human Rights Campaign issued the following news release: * * * "Ryan Walters on X: A Platform for Hate, Ignorance, and Self-Indulgence" reveals how Walters spends far more time uplifting anti-LGBTQ+, anti-teacher rhetoric and boosting his own personal brand than uplifting the students and schools he was elected to serve. * * * A new report from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the largest LGBTQ+ rights organization in the country, reveals new details of h  more

GENEVA, Switzerland, April 20 -- The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk issued the following remarks on April 19, 2024, at the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent: * * * Madam Chair, Members of the Permanent Forum, Colleagues and friends, I am delighted to be speaking with you this afternoon. I returned this morning from an important mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is why I could not be with you earlier. I felt it was crit  more

TUCSON, Arizona, April 20 -- The University of Arizona's Health Sciences issued the following news release on April 19, 2024: * * * The new Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine complex will officially open to the public Saturday, May 4, with a free open house from noon to 4 p.m. The center's 30,000 square feet are spread across three buildings designed to embody and promote whole-person wellness and the principles of integrative health. Each building represents an aspect of the whole pe  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 20 -- The University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences issued the following news on April 19, 2024: * * * A capacity crowd filled Irvine Auditorium for the author's discussion with Professor Emily Wilson during the School of Arts & Sciences Dean's Forum. * * * Laughter may not be what you'd expect to hear during a conversation about dystopian societies between two literary lions. But laughter frequently filled Penn's Irvine Auditorium during a disc  more

LOGAN, Utah, April 20 (TNSres) -- Utah State University issued the following news: By Sydney Dahle Rose Hu, the associate dean for research in the College of Engineering and professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Utah State University, has been selected as a fellow for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The fellowship is one of the nation's highest scientific achievements. "I am extremely honored to be named as an AAAS Fellow," Hu said. "It is  more