WORCESTER, Massachusetts, July 1 (TNSAwa) -- Clark University issued the following news: Four members of the Clark community have been awarded the 2021 John W. Lund Community Achievement Award by Clark University President David Fithian for their significant contributions to the Worcester community. This year's recipients are John Rogan, professor of geography and adjunct professor of biology; Donald Spratt, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry; Donna Hamalainen, Major Gifts assis  more

WORCESTER, Massachusetts, July 1 (TNSPer) -- Clark University issued the following news: When Davis Baird arrived at Clark in 2010 as the new provost, then-President David Angel handed him a daunting assignment: spearhead the creation of the Academic and Financial Plan that would guide Clark over the next five years. "I was thrown into the deep end of the pool," he said at the time, "but I'm not drowning. It's been good for me." And good for Clark. As he steps down from the provost's position  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 1 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on June 30, 2021: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced funding to carry out beach water quality monitoring and public notification programs in the five coastal New England states. EPA is awarding a total of $1,111,000 between for Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire to assist in these efforts. The announcement came on Scarborough State Beach i  more

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: Through its Agency of Human Services, the State of Vermont recently received a $14,305,846 FEMA grant for community-based, COVID-19 testing of Vermonters. The Vermont agency contracted with Cambridge, Massachusetts-headquartered CIC Health to provide coronavirus testing throughout the Green Mountain State. FEMA provided funds through a grant from its Public A  more

BOULDER, Colorado, July 1 (TNSOps) -- The Geological Society of America issued the following news release: GSA's dynamic online journal, Geosphere, posts articles online regularly. Locations and topics studied this month include the central Appalachian Mountains; fossil pollen in Colombia; the precision and accuracy of model analyses; the Bone Spring Formation, Permian Basin, west Texas; and the geochronology of modern river sediment in south-central Alaska. You can find these articles at https  more

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, July 1 (TNSPer) -- Goodwill Industries International, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, issued the following news release: Goodwill Industries International (GII), the leading workforce provider in North America, announced the appointment of Dr. Samantha-Rae Dickenson. Dr. Dickenson will lead the development and promotion of DEI plans and implement workplace and initiatives and best practices. Dr. Dickenson will also support the 156 local Goodwill nonprofit organizations in the U.S.   more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, July 1 (TNSsro) -- The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission issued the following order of notice (No. DE 21-109) involving Public Service Company of New Hampshire dba Eversource Energy: 2021 Transmission Cost Adjustment Mechanism ORDER OF NOTICE On May 28, 2021, Public Service Company of New Hampshire d/b/a Eversource Energy (Eversource, or the Company) filed a letter notifying the Commission that it would propose an adjustment to its average transmission cost adj  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, July 1 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - New England Field Office issued the following news release: The U.S Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) estimated 171 thousand acres of corn planted for all purposes in New England for 2021, up 2% from last year's acreage of 168 thousand acres. Connecticut Corn planted for all purposes in 2021 is estimated at 26 thousand acres, up 8% from 24  more

WASHINGTON, June 30 -- Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Washington, ranking Republican member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, issued the following remarks during an Energy Subcommittee hearing on modernizing the U.S. electric grid: * * * Excerpts and highlights from her prepared remarks: HYDROPOWER DELIVERING RELIABLE ENERGY "Now, what has become clear to the American public over the past year has been the role of state and federal policies that jeopardize affordable, reliable ener  more

TUCSON, Arizona, July 1 (TNSJou) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: Data from the AZ HEROES study show COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective in preventing SARS-CoV-2 infections, and when breakthrough infections do occur, the level of infection and impact of the disease are significantly reduced. People who contract COVID-19 even after vaccination are likely to have a lower viral load, experience a shorter infection time and have milder symptoms than those who are   more