NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Sept. 15 (TNSPer) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: Maurita N. Poole, PhD, the director and curator of the museum at Clark Atlanta University, has accepted the appointment as the new director of the acclaimed Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University. Poole will oversee the venerable museum, which has received status as the top museum or gallery in the state of Louisiana and one of the 25 best in the United States over the past five years by the Amer  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Sept. 15 (TNSOps) -- Florida State University issued the following news: The Florida State University Center for Disaster Risk Policy's drone team was taken by a Blackhawk helicopter into Grande Isle, Louisiana, last month to lend its expertise in the wake of Hurricane Ida. That's the first time a drone team has been airlifted into a disaster impact area as part of an urban search and recovery effort, said CDRP Director David Merrick. It also underscores the increasingly  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 14 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: On Monday, Gov. John Bel Edwards requested a pre-landfall Federal Declaration of Emergency in a letter to President Joseph R. Biden in advance of Tropical Storm Nicholas, which is forecast to bring heavy rainfall and potentially damaging flash flooding to Louisiana this week. On Sunday, Gov. Edwards declared a state of emergency for Tropical Storm Nicholas, allowing the state to begin its prepara  more

NEW YORK, Sept. 10 (TNSRes) -- Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory issued the following news: By Elise Gout On August 29, the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4 storm. More than one million people across the state were left without power, including the entire city of New Orleans. The storm then moved to the Northeast, where it brought record-setting windspeeds and rainfall. In New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland  more

RUSTON, Louisiana, Sept. 16 (TNSRes) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Research developed at Louisiana Tech University may soon find its way into space. Dr. Shawn Chen, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering for Louisiana Tech's College of Engineering and Science and Institute for Micromanufacturing, and Dr. Kristopher Harris, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, have begun research into improved energy storage systems, making space flight safer for astronauts, and ex  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 15 (TNSPar) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: * * * FIREStarter: LSU Partners With Louisiana State Police, Industry to Train Hundreds of New Cybersecurity Professionals, Deploy Cyber Range With State Support Through its new Cybersecurity Talent Initiative Fund, the Louisiana Board of Regents is investing $185,911 in LSU in a broad workforce development effort to rapidly train more cybersecurity professionals. The initiative, called   more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 14 (TNSGra) -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news on Sept. 13, 2021: Cercospora leaf blight has been a bane to soybean farmers in the mid-South region of the United States for the better part of two decades, costing the industry more than $250 million in the past five years alone. Now, thanks to a three-year, $324,988 research grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, LSU AgCenter plant pathologist Sara Thomas-Sharma  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 14 (TNSRes) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Clare Falcon will become the new state geologist of Louisiana and director of the Louisiana Geological Survey, or LGS, on Sept. 20. She brings more than 25 years of professional geoscience experience, most of which has been in industry, to the state leadership position. "We're thrilled to have Dr. Falcon as the new Louisiana Geological Survey director. Her vast industry expertise will bri  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 15 (TNSRes) -- Louisiana State University issued the following Q&A with Joshua Darr, assistant professor of political communication: * * * A Google alert prompted LSU Assistant Professor of Political Communication Joshua Darr to drop everything else he was working on. From the alert, he read that Julie Makinen, the executive editor of The Desert Sun newspaper in southern California, had mentioned one of his studies. In this study, he had found political polarizati  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 17 (TNSJou) - Louisiana State University issued the following news release: * * * Researchers determine a way to forecast rough hurricane seasons in the Gulf of Mexico by looking at atmospheric temperatures in spring * * * By analyzing the temperature of the atmosphere several miles above the Earth, researchers have found a way to predict how many hurricanes may sweep through the Gulf of Mexico in the summer and fall. These new models for Gulf hurricane predict  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 15 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards on Tuesday thanked President Joseph R. Biden for his quick approval of the Governor's request for a federal emergency declaration for Tropical Storm Nicholas, which was granted by the President on Monday night. "I want to thank the President and Louisiana's federal counterparts at FEMA for their strong partnership as we work to respond to the threat of Tropical Storm Nichola  more