STARKVILLE, Mississippi, Nov. 10 (TNSRes) -- Mississippi State University issued the following news: Mississippi State's Graduate Student Association is honoring 47 winners of the university's 20th Graduate Student Research Symposium. The recent virtual event gave 80 students the chance to showcase oral and poster presentations to a panel of MSU faculty members and researchers. Projects were divided across four categories--education, arts and sciences, and business; forest resources and veteri  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Logistics Agency issued the following news on Nov. 12, 2021: By Colin Jay Williams DLA Historian * * * Editor's note: "Celebrating 60 years" is a series of seven articles highlighting DLA's support to America's military since the agency was created Oct. 1, 1961. * * * When airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon on 9/11, Vice Adm. Keith W. Lippert, the Defense Logistics Agency's 14th director, had to decide   more

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, Nov. 11 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-St. Paul District issued the following news release on Nov. 10, 2021: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is preparing for major repairs at six of its Mississippi River locks this winter to ensure they continue working as designed. Maintenance is scheduled at Lock and Dam 4, Alma, Wisconsin; Lock and Dam 5A, near Fountain City, Wisconsin; Lock and Dam 6, Trempealeau, Wisconsin; Lock and Dam 7, near La Crescent, M  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 -- The House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management issued the following testimony by Andrew Phelps, chairman of the Response and Recovery Committee of the National Emergency Management Association, as part of an Oct. 26, 2021, hearing entitled "Are Federal Emergency Management Agency's Assistance Programs Adequately Designed to Assist Communities Before, During and After Wildfire?". Phelps is also the  more

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, Nov. 9 -- The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency issued the following news release on Nov. 8, 2021: The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) today released its proposed impaired waters list for 2022 that added 305 water bodies with 417 new impairments, bringing the total to 2,904 water bodies with 6,168 impairments. For the first time, the MPCA listed waters in Greater Minnesota with PFAS contamination. Other notable waters on the 2022 list include the Root River in so  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service Iowa office issued the following news release: Conservation practice funding from USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) totaled $83 million to Iowa farmers in fiscal year 2021, which will help treat natural resource concerns on nearly 323,000 agricultural land acres. The $83 million obligated dollars in Iowa are a record by more than $9 million, when Iowa NRCS obligated $73.7  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (IL-17) cast her vote to help pass the transformational bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. This historic package makes the largest investment in the nation's roads, bridges, broadband, energy grids, and more, since the Eisenhower presidency. "America's success has always been through our working families and middle class - this package will set our nation up for su  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 -- Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: * * * Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (IA-01) released the below statement on the infrastructure package. "Too often in Washington, the potential for important, bipartisan policy is torpedoed by partisan politics. The need to make meaningful investments in our nation's real infrastructure--roads and bridges, locks and dams, and broadband--was sacrificed to advance a partisan, socialist spending spree. "I have ta  more

ST. CHARLES, Missouri, Nov. 11 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Kansas City District issued the following news release on Nov. 10, 2021: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District, collaborated with the St. Paul District, of the Mississippi Valley Division, to bring the Dredge Goetz onto the Missouri River from late October through early November 2021 to participate in a pilot project to dredge sediment that had created shallow areas in the shipping channel. The Goetz has provid  more