HARTFORD, Connecticut, June 17 -- Connecticut State Colleges and Universities issued the following news release: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that Tunxis Community College and the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) College of Technology have received a $7.5 million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to lead the nation's only NSF National Center for Next Generation Manufacturing. The center will partner with leadership teams from Columbus State Communi  more

TOPEKA, Kansas, June 15 -- Gov. Laura Kelly, D-Kansas, issued the following news: Governor Laura Kelly today announced that Kansas was recognized by Site Selection magazine as having the top business climate in the West North Central region of the United States in 2021. In 2020, Kansas ranked fourth in the West North Central region for business climate - jumping three spots to first place in 2021. Kansas is followed in ranking order by Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Nor  more

HUNTINGTON, West Virginia, June 18 (TNSAwa) -- Marshall University issued the following news release: A newly established scholarship at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine by James W. Gigantelli, M.D., and his wife, Lori, reflects their dedication to wellness of both body and mind, as well as values committed to making beneficial choices in diet, exercise and lifestyle. The Gigantellis relocated in 2019 from Nebraska with their youngest daughter when James Gigantelli wa  more

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, June 15 -- The Missouri Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: A partnership between the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the University of Kansas will receive $1.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to study the feasibility of recovering critical minerals from coal and associated strata in the Cherokee-Forest City Basin, which encompasses Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and the Osage Nation. The Department of  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, June 19 -- The Nebraska Democratic Party issued the following statement: * * * Nebraska Democratic Party Black Caucus Chair Precious McKesson issued the following statement Friday after President Joe Biden declared Juneteenth a federal holiday: "As we celebrate Juneteenth, the emancipation of slavery, let's not forget the struggle we still continue to face as African Americans. Yesterday, President Biden led our country in acknowledging the importance of why Juneteenth is a  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, June 19 -- Gov. Pete Ricketts, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: Governor Pete Ricketts held a ceremonial signing of Legislative Bill (LB) 451 this afternoon at the Highlander Dining Room in North Omaha. The bill was introduced and prioritized by State Senator Terrell McKinney of Omaha. It strengthens protections against workplace discrimination on the basis of race, clarifying that race includes characteristics such as hair texture and protective hairstyles.   more

CURTIS, Nebraska, June 16 (TNSMon) -- The Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture issued the following news release: The University of Nebraska system has taken a key step forward in addressing its growing deferred maintenance needs following a successful bond sale that generated $400 million for building renewal and repair projects across the campuses. The sale - the largest issuance of new bonds in NU history - was the first transaction after the passage of LB384, a plan championed by Sen.  more

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- NPR [National Public Radio] issued the following news release: KCUR is pleased to announce that longtime journalist and editor Holly Edgell will become the first managing editor of the Midwest Newsroom - a public radio collaboration among stations in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska. Edgell will help define the editorial vision for this four-state collaboration that's focused on investigative reporting, and will develop a strategy for executing it, according to Sarah M  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, June 16 (TNSAwa) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has awarded stipends to 104 undergraduates to participate in research with a faculty mentor this summer. Nebraska's Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) Program supports undergraduates to work with faculty mentors in research or creative activities. Students receive stipends of $2,400 to engage in intensive research   more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, June 17 (TNSOps) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: Nebraska's Andre F. Maciel was intrigued when he chanced upon a knitters' group in Tucson, Arizona, in 2011, during his doctoral program. Now a professor of marketing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Maciel wondered why people in Tucson, of all places, would devote uncounted leisure hours to creating shawls, scarves and sweaters. They lived in a desert. Their loved ones rar  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, June 15 (TNSOps) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release on June 14, 2021: As well as demonstrating her virtuosity, a newly-published Hilda Raz poetry collection pays tribute to her contributions to Nebraska's cultural landscape as longtime editor of the nationally regarded Prairie Schooner literary quarterly. "Letter from a Place I've Never Been: New and Collected Poems, 1986-2020" was edited by Kwame Dawes, himself a lauded poet who s  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, June 17 (TNSAwa) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: The winner of the 2021 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize is author Leo Killsback for the two-volume set "A Sacred People: Indigenous Governance, Traditional Leadership and the Warriors of the Cheyenne Nation" and "A Sovereign People: Indigenous Nationhood, Traditional Law and the Covenants of the Cheyenne Nation" (Texas Tech University Press, 2020). Killsback is   more