INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, April 25 -- Barnes and Thornburg, a law firm, issued the following news release: Barnes & Thornburg represented entertainment management company Milk & Honey Music + Sports + Ventures in its acquisition of VMG Sports. The acquisition more than doubles Milk & Honey's National Football League (NFL) client roster, which includes Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs and Paris Johnson Jr. of the Arizona Cardinals, bringing its total representation across football and baseba  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, April 25 -- Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, a law firm, issued the following news: BCLP recently achieved a significant victory in a Hague Convention case, successfully reuniting a father with his child who was wrongfully taken from Mexico to the United States. A team from BCLP's Kansas City office acted swiftly and effectively, securing a court order for the child's return to Mexico and further solidifying our commitment to tackling the most critical social justice issues aro  more

WICHITA, Kansas, April 25 -- Gov. Laura Kelly, D-Kansas, issued the following news release on April 23, 2024: Yesterday, Governor Laura Kelly participated in the "Accessible Health Care Coverage for Kansans" town hall in Wichita, hosted by the Kansas Health Foundation (KHF). Governor Kelly and Ed O'Malley, KHF President and CEO, discussed Medicaid expansion and engaged with Wichita-area business owners, community leaders, and audience members about the impact expanding Medicaid would have on Ka  more

TOPEKA, Kansas, April 25 -- Gov. Laura Kelly, D-Kansas, issued the following news release on April 24, 2024: Governor Laura Kelly today announced an alternative tax cuts package for the Legislature to consider when it returns to the Statehouse later this week. "Kansans need meaningful sales, property, and income tax relief. However, we must ensure that the plan is affordable for the long term," Governor Laura Kelly said. "We must be mindful of the fiscal mistakes of the previous administration  more

TOPEKA, Kansas, April 25 -- Gov. Laura Kelly, D-Kansas, issued the following news release on April 24, 2024: Governor Laura Kelly today signed Senate Bill 438, establishing the Kansas Blueprint for Literacy, a Literacy Advisory Committee, and directing the Kansas Board of Regents to appoint a Director of Literacy Education. "The Kansas Blueprint for Literacy is an innovative piece of legislation that will transform how we prepare educators to teach reading and better equip our students with th  more

TOPEKA, Kansas, April 25 -- Gov. Laura Kelly, D-Kansas, issued the following news release on April 23, 2024: Governor Laura Kelly today signed Senate Bill 458, reforming the Kansas Standard Asset Seizure and Forfeiture Act. The bill establishes new guidelines for asset forfeiture, improving due process for property owners, increasing governmental accountability, and not unduly interfering with federal assistance to local law enforcement in asset forfeiture. "This bill represents a significant   more

PITTSBURG, Kansas, April 25 -- Gov. Laura Kelly, D-Kansas, issued the following news release on April 24, 2024: Today, Governor Laura Kelly toured the John Parolo Education Center located on the campus of the Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas in Pittsburg. Governor Kelly was joined on the tour of the educational facility by members of the health center's leadership team and their Board of Directors, who discussed how Medicaid expansion could help address Kansas' health care workforce   more

MANHATTAN, Kansas, April 26 (TNSres) -- Kansas State University issued the following news release: Kansas State University's Johnson Cancer Research Center is endorsing the next generation of cancer researchers and supporting cutting-edge research in the field with its new Graduate Cancer Research Scholarship and Support Award. The center has selected two outstanding graduate students to receive this esteemed award: Grant Brooke, doctoral student in microbiology, Topeka; and Ramona Weber, doct  more

SALINA, Kansas, April 25 -- Kansas Wesleyan University issued the following news release: Kansas Wesleyan Men's Volleyball will make the move to the Heart of America Conference starting with the 2025 season. KWU spent its first three seasons playing in the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC). "Making the move to the Heart of America is a feather in the cap for our program," said Kansas Wesleyan Athletic Director Miguel Paredes. "There are many advantages for us making this move. The Heart  more

SALINA, Kansas, April 26 -- Kansas Wesleyan University issued the following news release: The Kansas Wesleyan community is still celebrating the events of April 20's Scholarship Gala, when the university announced more than $2.7 million in gifts and pledges. It was the single-largest fundraising night in school history, highlighted by a million-dollar gift from Dr. Kent Cox '65 and wife Adrienne. Cox was part of the "Gang of Eight," a well-known group of Physics students from the classes of 19  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, April 25 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: Fifteen doctoral students have been selected to receive the University of Kansas' prestigious Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year, marking the 35th anniversary of the program since its establishment in 1989. This incoming group of fellows matches the largest cohort, bringing the total number of beneficiaries to over 200 students throughout program's history. In fall 2  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, April 25 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: Jennifer Raff is on a mission to make genetic research on human evolution something everyone can understand. Raff, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas, was recently awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on the history of human populations through sequencing the genomes of contemporary peoples and their ancestors. The fellowship will allow Raff to work on he  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, April 26 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: The University of Kansas community is remembering Taylor Roth, an associate researcher with KU's Center for Public Partnerships & Research (CPPR). Roth died April 19 at age 32 after a 13-year battle with brain cancer. Roth held a doctorate in child psychology from the University of Nebraska. She began working at CPPR in August 2023 following a postdoctoral position focused on translating research to policymakers.  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, April 25 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: Four University of Kansas students received honors during the 21st annual Capitol Graduate Research Summit in Topeka on March 22. Annie Chuning, Kara Hageman, Natalie Lind and Luke Parker were each honored for their exceptional research and presentations at an event that assembles the top graduate student researchers in the state of Kansas. Food insecurity, health and BMI Annie Chuning, doctoral student  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, April 25 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: Locations around the globe are experiencing climate disasters on a regular basis. But some of the most marginalized populations experience disasters so often it has come to be normalized. A new study from the University of Kansas found residents of one Seoul, South Korea, neighborhood have grown so accustomed to living through extreme climate events they have developed a "disaster subculture" that challe  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, April 26 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: Research appearing in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry shows for the first time SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, can be inhibited from replicating in living cell cultures using a compound that targets "Mac-1," a protein key to defending SARS-CoV-2 against the human immune response. University of Kansas researchers in the lab of Anthony Fehr, associate professor of molecular biosciences   more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, April 25 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: Links -- both real and imagined -- between race and disease are far older than the COVID-19 pandemic. A University of Kansas researcher says her new study of a 19th century Cuban aqueduct project during a cholera outbreak proves this, first in the way poor people of color were looked down upon as vectors of disease spread and then in how they were victimized by "infrastructural violence." Ninel Valderram  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, April 25 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: Eleven University of Kansas students were honored for their leadership on the Lawrence campus at the Tradition of Excellence Award ceremony, co-hosted by KU Endowment, the KU Alumni Association and the Student Alumni Endowment Board. The annual awards were presented April 19 at KU Endowment and recognize students from diverse majors who have significantly enhanced the KU community through endeavors such as serving  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, April 25 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: Anti-vaccine sentiments are not new. But in recent years, attitudes toward vaccines have increasingly become more politicized along partisan lines. Accompanying such hesitancy is escalating distrust of China, which is where the COVID-19 epidemic originated. A new study titled "The politics of flu vaccines: international collaboration and political partisanship" examines the influence of international co  more

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana, April 26 -- The University of Louisiana's Lafayette Campus issued the following news: By Charlie Bier The College of Engineering's Dr. Terrence Chambers traces the origins of his career to a 22-acre plot of land in Kansas bordered by wheat fields. There, just outside the family home and "miles from anything," sat his father's aviation mechanic's business. Federal Aviation Administration-mandated overhauls of airplane engines were the elder Chambers' specialty. He catered   more