SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, Feb. 11 (TNSPer) -- Centenary College of Louisiana issued the following news release on Feb. 10, 2022: Patrick Morgan has joined Centenary's Magale Library as director of library reference and instruction. Morgan will work to increase student and faculty engagement with the library and to improve information literacy across campus. "I'm here to grow the Library's involvement in student success and faculty engagement in ways that are universally beneficial and measurable,  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Feb. 11 (TNSPer) -- Loyola University issued the following news release on Feb. 10, 2022: Loyola University New Orleans announced today that President Tania Tetlow, who has passionately and capably helmed the university for almost four years, has accepted a new role as president of Fordham University in New York City. Fr. Justin Daffron, S.J., Loyola's Vice President of Mission and Identity, will serve as interim president next year and work with the board and the rest  more

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana, Feb. 9 (TNSAwa) -- The University of Louisiana's Lafayette Campus issued the following news story on Feb. 8, 2022: Dr. Xu Yuan, an assistant professor in the School of Computing and Informatics at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, recently received one of the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards. The NSF's Faculty Early Career Development Program recognizes researchers in the early stages of their careers. The program's CAREER Award acknowledges a  more

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, Feb. 8 (TNSOps) -- Nicholls State University issued the following news release: Sisters Rachel and Leah Callais are donating $120,000 to Nicholls State University to create endowed professorships in coastal studies. Each sister is donating $60,000 and their gift will create two professorships named after their father, Mike: The University of Louisiana System Foundation and Charles M. Callais Endowed Professorship in Coastal Studies The University of Louisana System Foun  more

WILMINGTON, North Carolina, Feb. 8 (TNSPar) -- Cape Fear Community College issued the following news: Cape Fear Community College recently partnered with the American Jail Association to offer Objective Jail Classification training for advanced and challenging populations to participants across the nation. The training took place at the CFCC North Campus and attracted agencies in North Carolina, Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Minnesota, and Virginia to Wilmington to participate. The training   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 -- The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release on Feb. 10, 2022: The Biden-Harris administration announced state-by-state funding that will soon be available to build out a national electric vehicle charging network, thanks to President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This announcement marks an important step towards making electric vehicle charging accessible to all Americans and creating thousands of jobs for electrical workers. Take a look   more

WEST MONROE, Louisiana, Feb. 10 -- Entergy issued the following news release: Entergy Louisiana is constructing a new substation and distribution circuits in Ouachita Parish as part of its commitment to increasing the resilience of the electric system and providing customers with reliable power. The approximately $19 million project will benefit around 3,000 customers south of West Monroe. Utility crews expect to complete the project and energize the Cotton substation and new powerlines someti  more

DALLAS, Texas, Feb. 8 -- Haynes and Boone, a law firm, issued the following news release on Feb. 7, 2022: A Haynes and Boone, LLP team lead by Partner Tom Harris represented Brookshire Grocery Co. (BGC) in its acquisition of Reasor's LLC's 17 grocery stores in Oklahoma. The transaction was completed Jan. 25, 2022. With the acquisition, BGC now has more than 200 stores with close to 20,000 employee-partners serving Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma. "We are excited for the opportunity to  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 12 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards announced $100 million dollars has been allocated to 33 Louisiana parishes through the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP). The HMGP funding will be used to support recovery and mitigation projects in the parishes related to Hurricane Zeta, the severe winter weather event in 2021, the May 2021 flooding event and Hurricane Ida. The total amount listed below may include fundi  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 9 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards and Alliance Compressors LLC announced that the company is investing $45 million over the next two years to expand its compressor assembly facility in Natchitoches and keep pace with increased global demand for energy efficient air conditioning. With the capacity expansion, Alliance is creating 78 direct new jobs with an average annual salary of $47,000. The company is also re  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Feb. 8 (TNSPar) -- Loyola University issued the following news release: "Opera Connects" is a new artistic partnership between the opera programs of Loyola University New Orleans and Xavier University of Louisiana. Both schools have made substantial contributions to the distinguished operatic legacy of our city. The inaugural concert will take place this month at Loyola and will showcase faculty and students from the two institutions in performance of vocal music by thre  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 11 (TNSJou) -- The Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center issued the following news release: Calorie restriction improves metabolic and immune responses that help determine both how long a person lives and how many years of good health they enjoy, a new study shows. "Two years of modest calorie restriction reprogrammed the pathways in fat cells that help regulate the way mitochondria generate energy, the body's anti-inflammatory response  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 12 (TNSOps) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release on Feb. 11, 2022: LSU announced today that Our Lady of the Lake and LCMC Health have committed to investing $245 million in LSU over the next 10 years to transform healthcare in Louisiana. "As Louisiana's flagship university, LSU has an inherent commitment and responsibility to elevate our state," said LSU President William F. Tate IV. "This landmark chapter in our longstanding partnerships  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 8 (TNSRes) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: One might be surprised to learn there have been thousands of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes over the last couple centuries, the majority of which remain undiscovered. LSU Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Corina Barbalata is working alongside University of Michigan and Michigan Technological University researchers to design motion-planning algorithms for underwater robots to gather d  more

HAMMOND, Louisiana, Feb. 10 (TNSOps) -- Southeastern Louisiana University issued the following news release: Southeastern Louisiana University's Department of Computer Science is hosting the first of the spring Industry Connect Distinguished Lectures Feb. 17 at 4 p.m. Scheduled in the Envoc Innovation Lab, located in room 2026 in the Computer Science and Technology Building, the free lecture is titled "Can Data Science Spot Fake News." Shubhangi Rastogi, an experienced researcher with a demonst  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 11 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following statement: * * * Gov. John Bel Edwards issued the following statement on the formation of the Select Committee to Investigate Ronald Greene Incident in the Louisiana House of Representatives. Gov. Edwards said: "I welcome any and all legislative oversight and hope that this will be a productive, nonpartisan discussion of how to continue the ongoing reforms at Louisiana State Police so that what happen  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Feb. 10 (TNSJou) -- Texas A&M University's Health Science Center issued the following news: * * * Rebecca Fischer and Benika Dixon co-author JAMA commentary that extends research about COVID-19 and college athletics * * * College athletes and non-athlete college students may be less likely to contract COVID-19 than young adults in the general public, according to a new JAMA Open Network commentary co-authored by Texas A&M University School of Public Health's Rebecca F  more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, Feb. 9 (TNSOps) -- The University of Tennessee's Institute of Agriculture issued the following news release: For the last two years, Extension specialists with the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture have led the USDA's Southeast Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives (SDBII) program across Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina. A new round of funding is expanding the program's reach to all 12 southeastern states, including Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carol  more