BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Jan. 22 (TNSPer) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU graduate, Rachel Balkovec, will be the first woman manager in affiliated professional baseball history. The New York Yankees named Balkovec the new manager for the team's minor league Low-A affiliate team, the Tampa Tarpons. "LSU was an absolutely critical point in my career when I learned about elite level standards in championship programs. The coaches, players and professors all pla  more

ST. BONAVENTURE, New York, Jan. 19 (TNSPer) -- St. Bonaventure University issued the following news release: Dr. Rene Hauser has been named interim dean of the School of Education at St. Bonaventure University. Hauser replaces Dr. Latoya Pierce, who had been named interim dean in June after the retirement of Dr. Lisa Buenaventura. Pierce left to become the dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and chief diversity officer at Centenary College in Louisiana. Hauser has taught in the School of   more

SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, Jan. 21 -- Southwestern Electric Power, an American Electric Power company, issued the following news release on Jan. 20, 2022: Southwestern Electric Power Co. today announced its parent company, American Electric Power (Nasdaq: AEP), will invest $100 million to build a new transmission control center in Caddo Parish. The Shreveport Transmission Control Center (STCC) will control the operations of AEP's transmission system in the Southwest Power Pool regional power grid a  more

SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, Jan. 21 (TNSOps) -- Centenary College of Louisiana issued the following news release: Historian Dr. Wendy Lower will deliver Centenary College's 2022 Van Thyn Memorial Lecture virtually via Zoom at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, February 2. The event is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required at centenary.edu/vanthyn. Centenary students can earn 50 Passport Points for attending the virtual event. The lecture will be moderated by Dr. Lisa Nicoletti, Professo  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Jan. 20 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news on Jan. 19, 2022: Gov. John Bel Edwards announced the state will receive $2.6 billion in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) funding from theInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Extending Government Funding and Delivering Emergency Assistance Act (Supplemental Disaster Relief). This funding will support coastal, water management, and hurricane risk reduction projects throughout sou  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Jan. 19 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news on Jan. 18, 2022: Gov. John Bel Edwards today joined statewide and local leaders to announce the creation of the Governor's Task Force on Statewide Litter Abatement and Beautification, which will work to find policy solutions for Louisiana's litter problem, educate the public and promote community litter abatement activities. Created by executive order and managed by the Keep Louisiana Beautiful pro  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Jan. 21 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following joint news with American Electric Power: Gov. John Bel Edwards and American Electric Power Chairman, President and CEO Nicholas Akins announced that AEP, which manages the nation's largest electricity transmission system, will invest $100 million to develop a new Shreveport Transmission Control Center (STCC). The project will create 20 direct new jobs, with average salaries of $115,000, and retain 20 job  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Jan. 19 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news on Jan. 18, 2022: Gov. John Bel Edwards and State Health Officer Dr. Joseph Kanter released statements on Louisiana surpassing 1 million reported COVID infections. The Louisiana Department of Health reported 29,125 new cases Tuesday since January 14, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 1,025,748. "Today, Louisiana reaches another sobering milestone, with our state officially reporting m  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Jan. 17 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) announced plans to release a program that will dedicate $26.5 billion to states for investments in bridge repairs and infrastructure. The Bridge Formula Program, made possible through the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will allocate federal funds over five years to rural and urban bridges that are in need of repair or rehabilitation. Under   more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Jan. 21 (TNSRes) -- The Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center issued the following news release: * * * National Study Will Create Algorithm to Predict Individual Response to Nutrition * * * A new federally funded study will use machine learning to predict how an individual responds to a given diet, allowing physicians to offer patients personalized nutrition prescriptions to improve health and treat chronic diseases. "Food lies at the ep  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Jan. 19 (TNSRes) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU astronomers are leading a collaborative scientific observing program that will provide new images and information from the far side of the moon. LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy Assistant Professors Tabetha Boyajian and Matthew Penny have recruited a team of students, who are working on the design of the first lunar-based camera, or L-CAM1, that aims to launch in 2024. L-CAM1 is a  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Jan. 20 (TNSOps) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU is now the new host organization for the statewide network that provides training and technical support to small businesses and entrepreneurs throughout Louisiana. The Louisiana Small Business Development Center, or LSBDC, network consists of 10 regional offices. "As Louisiana's flagship university, LSU's resources and expertise are meant to serve the entire state. It's an honor for us  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Jan. 22 (TNSRes) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release on Jan. 21, 2022: LSU researchers are exploring new ways to use the oldest energy source on our planet--sunlight--to create truly green energy on demand. You've already heard of solar cells and solar panels, but David Vinyard, assistant professor in LSU's Department of Biological Sciences, is looking at another method of harnessing the power of the Sun: photosynthesis. The general idea of p  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Jan. 22 (TNSOps) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: A committee of judges from the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) has recognized the LSU Tiger Marching Band for their November 2021 show Land of the Free Because of the Brave, and invited the band faculty to present at the 2022 CBDNA Southern Regional Conference, to be held February 24-26, 2022 in Columbia, SC. Land of the Free Because of the Brave was comprised of recogn  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, Jan. 20 (TNSOps) -- Mercer University issued the following news: By Kyle Sears Director of Media Relations Mercer University School of Medicine's Department of Biomedical Sciences, in partnership with Mercer Medicine and Louisiana State University Health Shreveport (LSUHS), recently received a Rockefeller Foundation grant to begin viral genome sequencing of COVID-19 positive samples. MUSM received a $25,000 subaward as an accelerator site for the larger LSUHS grant project  more

STARKVILLE, Mississippi, Jan. 19 (TNSRes) -- Mississippi State University issued the following news: A Mississippi State physics and astronomy faculty member is part of a group of scientists landing a new telescope on the moon's surface. Angelle Tanner, an MSU associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Physics and Astronomy, is collaborating with other researchers from Louisiana State University, the SETI Institute and AstronetX PBC, a Boston, Massachusetts-headquar  more

HAMMOND, Louisiana, Jan. 20 (TNSPar) -- Southeastern Louisiana University issued the following news release: Officials at Southeastern Louisiana University recently met with officials from St. Augustine High School in New Orleans to form a partnership to recruit their students to Southeastern. During the meeting, participants discussed opportunities at Southeastern for St. Augustine students, such as the EXCEL Scholarship, the Southeastern Priority Scholarship, the Southeastern Promise, Projec  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Jan. 20 (TNSOps) -- The University of New Orleans issued the following news release: University of New Orleans public history students have taken their course work to the streets, specifically the streets of New Orleans, to share the stories behind some of the City's recently renamed thoroughfares. As part of a service learning class led by Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies director Mary Niall Mitchell, students have created a project entitled "From Robert E. Lee to   more