BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 3 (TNSPer) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: The LSU College of Human Sciences & Education named Laura Hensley Choate, EdD, as interim director of the LSU School of Education. Choate's appointment follows Dr. Neil Mathews, Patrick and Edwige Olinde Professor, announcing his retirement this year. Choate is currently the Acting Associate Dean for Academic Programs & Services in the College of Human Sciences & Education. The director of  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, March 2 (TNSAwa) -- Loyola University issued the following news release: One of New Orleans' top business leaders and restaurateurs will receive the 2021 Integritas Vitae Award from Loyola University New Orleans. Longtime Loyola trustee Edgar "Dooky" Chase III will receive the high honor, literally translated as "a life of integrity." "For more than 50 years, Dooky has been a tireless champion of Loyola, helping to create access to higher education, and showing us what  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, March 3 -- Entergy issued the following news release: Entergy New Orleans seeks The New Orleans City Council's approval to issue $150,000,000 in securitized bonds to replenish the Company's storm reserve, which was fully depleted following Hurricane Ida restoration efforts. "Storm reserves allow Entergy New Orleans to access an important source of funding during a severe storm," said Deanna Rodriguez, Entergy New Orleans president and CEO. "Increasing, replenishing, and  more

MANHATTAN, Kansas, March 2 (TNSOps) -- Kansas State University issued the following news release: The Associated General Contractors of Kansas Student Chapter at Kansas State University in the GE Johnson Department of Architectural Engineering and Construction Science took 14 students and two faculty advisors on its annual winter break service project. This year's trip was to Hammond, Louisiana, for five days in January, serving local residents left with damage in the wake of Hurricane Ida. C  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 2 (TNSOps) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Citizens-turned-community leaders have the potential to enact positive change with the right tools and resources. Join the LSU Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs' 2022 John Breaux Symposium as national and state leaders discuss what it means to engage civically and explore the ways citizens can play a role in bettering their communities. "Civic Engagement for the Common Good" will tak  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 4 (TNSPar) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release on March 3, 2022: Louisiana State University, or LSU, announced they have been selected as an education partner for Amazon's Career Choice program, providing Amazon's hourly employees that live in Louisiana access to online and on-campus bachelor's degrees and short-form college credit certificates, or MicroCreds. "With a focus on 'Scholarship First,' our mission is to provide excellent edu  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 5 (TNSJou) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU physicists' research findings open a promising avenue for confirming the quantum origin of the Hawking radiation. LSU physicists have leveraged quantum information theory techniques to reveal a mechanism for amplifying, or "stimulating," the production of entanglement in the Hawking effect in a controlled manner. Furthermore, these scientists propose a protocol for testing this idea in  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, March 2 -- Oklahoma Attorney General John O'Connor issued the following news release: Attorney General John O'Connor is joining a coalition of 25 states, led by Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, in opposition to President Biden's proposed rule to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) that would prohibit liquefied natural gas (LNG) from being transported by rail car in the United States. The coalition argues that this Biden proposal wil  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, March 3 -- The Oklahoma Democratic Party issued the following news release on March 2, 2022: James Inhofe's resignation is the ending of a reign of hypocrisy, out-of-touch lawmaking, and loony rhetoric. Oklahomans have endured 36 years of legendary obstructionism, climate change denial, misogyny, and crying that our schools are brainwashing our children. "Inhofe, the do as I say--not as I do, Senator leaves behind a legacy of hypocrisy," stated Alicia Andrews, Chair of  more

SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, March 4 -- Southwestern Electric Power, an American Electric Power company, issued the following news release: On behalf of the American Electric Power Foundation, Southwestern Electric Power Co. presented Southern University at Shreveport (SUSLA) with a $100,000 grant to support its Project Engineering and Technology program called SUSLA Project EaT. The program at the historically Black university focuses on enrolling students who are under-represented in energy-relate  more

SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, March 1 -- Southwestern Electric Power, an American Electric Power company, issued the following news release: The Public Utility Commission of Texas has approved a base rate increase for Southwestern Electric Power Co., a unit of American Electric Power (Nasdaq: AEP). The PUCT approved the increase in base rates to recover SWEPCO's investments in generation, transmission and distribution facilities since 2016, plus increased operations and maintenance costs to provide r  more

COMMERCE, Texas, March 1 (TNSOps) -- Texas A&M University's Commerce Campus issued the following news: Several faculty members in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at Texas A&M University-Commerce represented the university well at the recent Southern Region Conference of the American Association for Agricultural Education. The conference, held this year in New Orleans, Louisiana, saw educators from across several U.S. States present research among their peers and parti  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, March 5 (TNSOps) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: Health care workers experience alarming levels of burnout, low job satisfaction and compassion fatigue, leading to poor behavioral health outcomes for themselves and contributing to increased health disparities for the communities they serve. The Tulane University School of Social Work (TSSW) plans to address these issues as part of a $2.27 million grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Services   more