HANOVER, New Hampshire, Feb. 26 (TNSOps) -- Dartmouth College issued the following news release: For more than 50 years, the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program has advanced post-secondary teaching and learning. In 1999, under the leadership of Donald Pease, the Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities, the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies program began offering interdisciplinary concentrations in globalization studies, creative writing, cultural studi  more

AUGUSTA, Maine, Feb. 26 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following radio address transcript: * * * Hello, this is Governor Janet Mills and thank you for listening. Maine's economy, like that of the rest of the nation, is making a comeback. Our Gross Domestic Product, which is a key measure of growth, has not only fully bounced back from the pandemic, it has surpassed pre-pandemic projections. Our unemployment rate, 4.7 percent - still too high - has fallen by nearly half what it was  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Feb. 26 (TNSOps) -- The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston issued the following news release: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has acquired the painting Tailleur pour dames (1957), a major work by Remedios Varo (1908-1963), a leader of the Surrealist movement in the Americas. Varo made fewer than 200 oil paintings during her life, and Tailleur pour dames is one of her very rare, large-scale works, the majority of which remain in private collections. It is the first paint  more

RESTON, Virginia, Feb. 26 -- The First Responder Network Authority, an independent agency within the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration that oversees the nation's communications network dedicated to emergency responders and the public safety community, issued the following Q&A by Owen Smith and Edward Parkinson: * * * What's the news? Vermont's first responders are getting a major boost in their wireless communications thanks to the FirstNet networ  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 -- Rep. James Comer, R-Kentucky, ranking Republican member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, issued the following news release: House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Republican lawmakers called on District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser to end D.C.'s mask mandate requiring masks at schools, childcare facilities, and libraries. The lawmakers emphasize mask mandates harm children's development and provide no health benefit.   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 -- Rep. Fred Keller, R-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release on Feb. 25, 2022: In case you missed it, Congressman Fred Keller (PA-12) today published an Op-Ed urging President Joe Biden to prioritize the production and exportation of American energy as a critical deterrent against Russian President Vladimir Putin's continued aggression toward Ukraine. In the piece, Congressman Keller argues the Biden administration's policies, such as canceling pipelines and shutt  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 26 (TNSRes) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: The Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) at the Yale School of Medicine ranked first in the nation in research dollars awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2021, as tabulated by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research. The 2021 total, $18,174,130, is a significant increase from 2020, when the department ranked third in the nation. "We are very proud of all of our faculty, rese  more