IRVING, Texas, April 15 (TNSOps) -- The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame issued the following news release on April 14, 2021: The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF) announced today the members of the 2021 NFF Hampshire Honor Society, which is comprised of college football players from all divisions of play who each maintained a cumulative 3.2 GPA or better throughout their college careers. An elite group of 897 players from 256 schools qualified for   more

CHICAGO, Illinois, April 13 (TNSPol) -- The American Bar Association issued the following news release: The American Bar Association filed an amicus brief on April 5, seeking to have the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit rule that a bail system that allows pretrial release only if the defendant pays a specific amount of bail money violates the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the 14th Amendment. The case, arising out of Dallas County, Texas, tests the constitutionality of t  more

WACO, Texas, April 14 (TNSOps) -- The American Football Coaches Association issued the following news: Trailing 6-0 in the second quarter, North Dakota State's Christian Watson returned a kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown, giving the Bison a 7-6 lead, they would never let go. The Bison won 23-20, earning two first-place votes and keeping their No. 3 ranking in the AFCA FCS Coaches' Top 25 Spring Poll. North Dakota State hosts No. 4 South Dakota State in the final game of the regular season. RE  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 (TNSRep) -- The American Property Casualty Insurance Association issued the following news release: The American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA) released a new report that highlights that the non-negotiated prices of leading hospital systems were approximately three to five times the negotiated paid prices in various locations, including California, Florida, Texas, New York, and the Washington, DC region. The report entitled "Actual Paid Medical Costs Should  more

NEW YORK, April 15 (TNSAwa) -- The Association for Computing Machinery issued the following news release on April 14, 2021: ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that Scott Aaronson has been named the recipient of the 2020 ACM Prize in Computing for groundbreaking contributions to quantum computing. Aaronson is the David J. Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. The goal of quantum computing is to harness the laws of qu  more

AUSTIN, Texas, April 14 (TNSPol) -- The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network issued the following news release on April 12, 2021: Sponsored by Sen. Huffman and Sen. Zaffirini, SB 1028 will be heard by the Senate Business and Commerce Committee today at 8 a.m. and can be viewed here. The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) is in support of the bipartisan legislation that would save thousands of lives lost from a disease that is easily detected and prevented by makin  more

DALLAS, Texas, April 13 -- Circulation, a journal from the American Heart Association, published research articles on the following topics in its April 13, 2021 edition: Original Research Articles: * Association of Metabolic Surgery With Major Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Previous Myocardial Infarction and Severe Obesity: A Nationwide Cohort Study * Bariatric Surgery and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: A Population-Based Retros  more

WASHINGTON, April 13 (TNSPer) -- The Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers issued the following news release: The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers welcomed 10 new member firms in Q1 2021. The new members include: AccuRisk Solutions (Chicago, Ill.), At-Bay (San Francisco, Calif.), BenefitMall (Dallas, Texas), CHAZ Insurance Services (Bangkok, Thailand), Choice Insurance Agency (Virginia Beach, Va.), Corvus Insurance Services (Boston, Mass.), The Horton Group (Orland Park, Ill.), Miller In  more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 15 -- The Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, a peer-reviewed journal from the Decision Sciences Institute that says it features research relevant to teaching and learning in the decision sciences - quantitative and behavioral approaches to managerial decision making, published research articles on the following topics in its April 2021 edition: CONCEPTUAL RESEARCH: * Developing a distinctive consulting capstone course in a supply chain curriculum EMPIRIC  more

WASHINGTON, April 13 (TNSRes) -- The Defenders of Wildlife issued the following news: The beautiful, brightly colored golden-cheeked warbler has returned to Texas from Central America to breed and start a new generation. Unfortunately, these songbirds may not have a home to return to if their woodland habitat continues to disappear at the current rate. Ahead of the of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) Species Status Assessment for the golden-cheeked warbler, Defenders of Wildlife has   more

LANDOVER, Maryland, April 16 -- The Epilepsy Foundation issued the following news release on April 14, 2021: Epilepsy Foundation announced today that Washington state Governor Jay Inslee signed House Bill 1085 into law to protect students with seizure disorders. Washington state follows Virginia whose Senate Bill 1322 (also known as the Jamie and Brie Strong Act) automatically became law on March 31, 2021. Five other states -- Kentucky, Indiana, Texas, Illinois, and New Jersey have successfully  more

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, April 14 -- The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services issued the following statement: * * * On Sunday, Chris Wallace used RAICES' statement to confront Governor Abbott on his politically motivated actions towards the detention of migrant children at the Freeman Coliseum. Jonathan Ryan, President and CEO at RAICES, released the following statement in response: "We stand by our statement because this isn't the first time that Governor Greg Abbott has   more

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, April 16 (TNSRes) -- Harte Research Institute issued the following news release: Four marine researchers from the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies and Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi have received over $1.6 million in grants to restore the health and water quality of several local Texas bay ecosystems, and conduct research that will help stave off future environmental problems in these important coastal estuaries. The Matagorda Bay Mitigation Trust  more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 15 (TNSGra) -- Houston Advanced Research Center issued the following news release: The Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) received a two-year $600,000 grant award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to develop a modeling framework that advances systems-level understanding of the impacts of climate change on electrical power infrastructure. The funded project is part of HARC's clean energy research portfolio, which identifies and supports cost-effective, practical ene  more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 15 (TNSRes) -- The Houston Association of Realtors issued the following news release: A shortage of available homes priced at $250,000 and below combined with frenzied shopping among high-end homes produced a surge in pricing when compared to a Houston housing market in the grips of a pandemic-related lockdown a year earlier, in March 2020. Record low interest rates continued to fuel the buying bonanza. According to the latest Houston Association of Realtors (HAR) Market   more

AUSTIN, Texas, April 15 (TNSPol) -- The Human Rights Campaign issued the following news release on April 14, 2021: The Texas Senate passed the Senate Bill 29, legislation aimed at banning transgender youth from participating in sports. Legislators across the country have failed to provide examples of issues in their states to attempt to justify these attacks on transgender youth, laying bare the reality that they are fueled by discrimination and not supported by fact. Collegiate and professiona  more

AUSTIN, Texas, April 17 (TNSPol) -- The Immigrant Legal Resource Center issued the following news release: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton continues to use his white supremacist agenda to attack immigrants. In the latest of his frivolous lawsuits, Paxton has sued the Biden- Harris Administration, on behalf of Texas and Louisiana, alleging that the administration's interim immigration enforcement priorities are unlawful. The Biden-Harris administration has issued interim immigration enforcemen  more

AUSTIN, Texas, April 17 -- Intervention in School and Clinic, a journal that says it focuses on curricular, instructional, social, behavioral, assessment and vocational strategies and techniques that have a direct application to the classroom settings from the Hammill Institute on Disabilities, published research articles on the following topics in its May 2021 Special Series: Juvenile Delinquency and Disabilities: A Global Perspective: Special Series Features: * Legal Framework for the Educa  more

OMAHA, Nebraska, April 12 -- Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology, a peer-reviewed journal that says it disseminates science and practice of otolaryngology head and neck surgery from the Triological Society, published research articles, including the following topics, in its April 2021 edition: ALLERGY, RHINOLOGY, AND IMMUNOLOGY: * Short-term chemosensory distortions and phantoms in COVID-19 COMPREHENSIVE (GENERAL) OTOLARYNGOLOGY: * Otolaryngology burden of disease and surgical case tri  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, April 17 -- Limnology and Oceanography Journal - Methods, a journal that says it deals with problems in the aquatic sciences from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, published research articles on the following topics in its April 2021 edition: New Methods: * A sensitive fluorescent assay for measuring carbon-phosphorus lyase activity in aquatic systems * Rapid and precise measurements of radon in water using a pulsed ionization chamber *   more

WASHINGTON, April 16 (TNSPer) -- The National Immigration Forum issued the following news release: Pressure on President Biden to follow through and raise the refugee resettlement ceiling is increasing -- including from evangelical Christian women. In a new op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, Sheila Joiner, a conservative Christian in Fort Worth, Texas, urges Biden to keep his campaign promise and raise the refugee admissions ceiling, joining thousands of other Christians who are urging Biden to  more

NEW YORK, April 15 (TNSRes) -- The Rockefeller Foundation issued the following news release: Areas with a high share of minority population were four times more likely to have suffered a power outage during the recent Texas blackout compared to predominantly white areas, reveals new analysis published by the Electricity Growth and Use in Developing Economies (e-GUIDE) Initiative. The analysis (https://eguide.io/) was conducted after the events of February when a severe winter storm knocked ma  more

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, April 14 (TNSOps) -- Southwest Research Institute issued the following news release: As electrified and hybrid vehicles become increasingly common on roads and highways around the world, Southwest Research Institute is launching a new industry consortium, Advanced Fluids for Electrified Vehicles (AFEV), to expand the industry's understanding of the stressors placed on electric vehicle fluids, or "e-fluids." Original equipment manufacturers, lubricant manufacturers and supp  more

FAIRFAX, Virginia, April 15 (TNSPer) -- The Specialized Carriers and Rigging Association issued the following news release: SC&RA is pleased to welcome six new members and three returning members to the Association family. They are: All Directions Trucking App Inc - A PEVO booking service, located in Laurys Station, Pa. FalconEye Electronics - Helping trucking companies drive safer with camera systems. Headquartered in Austin, Texas. KCE - Providing over-dimensional freight transport, permit  more

WACO, Texas, April 15 (TNSAwa) -- The American Football Coaches Association issued the following news on April 14, 2021: Morningside's Steve Ryan highlights today's announcement of the 2021 Spring AFCA NAIA Regional Coach of the Year winners. The AFCA recognizes five regional Coach of the Year winners in each of the Association's five divisions: Football Bowl Subdivision, Football Championship Subdivision, Division II, Division III and NAIA. The winners are selected by active members of the  more

FOREST KNOLLS, California, April 15 (TNSOps) -- The Turtle Island Restoration Network issued the following news release on April 14, 2021: Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) joined a coalition of local, regional, and national environmental and community groups in urging for action to stop deepwater port terminals proposed throughout the Gulf of Mexico, off the Texas and Louisiana coasts. TIRN was just one of over 25 groups that pledged their name to this effort. A letter was sent to Tran  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, April 14 (TNSAwa) -- United Soccer Coaches issued the following news: United Soccer Coaches announced its College Player of the Week awards on Tuesday afternoon with six student-athletes representing NCAA Divisions I, II, and III. NCAA Division I Men: Jack Haywood (Butler) NCAA Division I Women: Lauren Geczik (Texas A&M) NCAA Division II Men: Carlos Navarro (North Greenville) NCAA Division II Women: Jillian Leetch (Rockhurst) NCAA Division III Men: Nick Iregui (Westm  more

DALLAS, Texas, April 15 -- Weather and Forecasting, a journal that says it features prevention, evaluation, management and rehabilitation of injuries from the National Athletic Trainers' Association, published research articles, including the following topics, in its April 2021 edition: ARTICLES: * A Summary of GFS Ensemble Integrated Water Vapor Transport Forecasts and Skill along the U.S. West Coast during Water Years 2017-20 * Toward Unifying Short-Term and Next-Day Convection-Allowing En  more

NEW YORK, April 17 (TNSOps) -- The National Basketball Association issued the following news release: Two-time All-American Charli Collier of Texas tonight was selected by the Dallas Wings with the first overall pick of WNBA Draft 2021 presented by State Farm(R), which was held virtually for a second year in a row in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. A finalist for the Lisa Leslie Award as the nation's top center, Collier is the first No. 1 overall selection in the WNBA Draft from the University  more