NEW YORK, Aug. 5 -- Hearst issued the following news on Aug. 4: Ten young journalists have won Hearst Journalism Fellowships and will begin their two-year appointments in Hearst newsrooms around the country on August 17, Hearst President and CEO Steven R. Swartz and Hearst Newspapers President Jeff Johnson announced today. The 10 new journalists will join five fellows who have completed their first year of work as professionals in training, and who are rotating to a second Hearst Newspapers ne  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release on Aug. 4: U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine) met with nearly 50 Maine school psychologists via teleconference to discuss the importance of meeting the mental health needs of students - especially given the increased coronavirus-related challenges posed by the upcoming school year. The virtual organization was formed at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic as a way for school psychologists to connect and d  more

NEW YORK, Aug. 5 -- Little, Brown and Company will publish the following book on Aug. 18, 2020 titled "Break It Up - Secession, Division and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union" by Richard Kreitner: The publisher provided this outline of the work: The novel and fiery thesis of Break It Up is simple: The United States has never lived up to its name--and never will. The disunionist impulse may have found its greatest expression in the Civil War, but as Break It Up shows, the seductio  more

LA CROSSE, Wisconsin, Aug. 5 -- The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: The serendipitous discovery of an aggressive invasive grass never before documented in Wisconsin sparked a rapid response effort in July culminating with Department of Natural Resources staff and partners surveying the property and hand-pulling small patches of the plants and spraying larger patches with herbicide. As a result, invasive species experts believe the invasive species,   more

WALTHAM, Massachusetts, Aug. 5 -- The New England Journal of Medicine, a peer-reviewed medical journal from the the Massachusetts Medical Society that says it delivers research and interactive clinical content to physicians, educators and the global medical community, published research articles on the following topics in its July 30, 2020 edition: Perspective: * Fundamentals of U.S. Health Policy: Health Care as an Ongoing Policy Project * Covid's Color Line -- Infectious Disease, Inequity,  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Aug. 5 -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following news release: External Professor Melanie Moses has been named a new council member of the Computing Community Consortium. Comprised of 20 members, the council is selected by the Computing Research Association in consultation with the National Science Foundation to "help catalyze and enable ideas for future computing research." The "Future of the human climate niche" paper, which was conceived during an SFI working group a  more

FARMINGTON, Connecticut, Aug. 5 -- Tunxis Community College issued the following news release on Aug. 4: Tunxis Community College professor Dr. Karen Wosczyna-Birch, also director of the CT College of Technology and executive director of the Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing, received an Innovative Program of the Year Award during the national High Impact Technology Exchange Conference's (HI TEC) awards presentation held virtually on July 29. She is one of three individuals to   more