CHICAGO, Illinois, April 29 (TNSAwa) -- The International Interior Design Association issued the following news release: IIDA is proud to announce the winners of the 2022 IIDA/HD Expo Product Design Awards. The prestigious competition honored products that excelled across seven criteria including aesthetics, cost and value, design innovation, environmental responsibility, need, technical advancements, and usage. This year, entries were judged in person by a panel of notable design industry prof  more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 28 -- Battelle, a nonprofit research and development organization, issued the following news release: Battelle launched a weeklong pilot demonstration in early March of its first-to-market total solution for PFAS removal and destruction at a wastewater treatment facility operated by Heritage-Crystal Clean in western Michigan. The Battelle PFAS AnnihilatorTM Mobile Unit, a closed-loop, on-site destruction solution powered by supercritical water oxidation (SCWO), was used to  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, April 28 -- The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services issued the following news release: April 27, marks the two-year anniversary that Florida's hemp program, overseen by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS), began to accept applications to grow industrial hemp following formal approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). FDACS manages and regulates Florida's hemp program and permit kitchens that make edible cann  more

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations issued the following written testimony by Sven Beckert, history professor at Harvard University, involving a hybrid hearing on April 5, 2022, entitled "An Enduring Legacy: The Role of Financial Institutions in the Horrors of Slavery and the Need for Atonement": * * * I am submitting this testimony to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House Committee on Financial Oversight for  more

WASHINGTON, April 26 -- The National Park Foundation issued the following news release: Unidos En La Musica: A Latin American Festival returns to St. Augustine on Saturday, May 7 with a strategic partnership with Castillo de San Marcos National Monument and Fort Matanzas National Monument, thanks to support from the National Park Foundation's Latino Heritage Fund. This new partnership will bridge Latino music-goers to the city's Latino heritage sites dating back over 400 years. Taking place on   more

BURNABY, British Columbia, April 30 (TNSRes) -- Simon Fraser University issued the following news: We turn on technology from the moment we start our days--but imagine if it was already integrated into everyday objects around us. In the School of Interactive Art and Technology's Everyday Design Studio, founded a decade ago by SFU professor Ron Wakkary, researchers are infusing textiles with technology--weaving 'threads' of Wi-Fi into fabric--as a way of pushing boundaries to further understand   more

AUSTIN, Texas, April 28 (TNSJou) -- The University of Texas issued the following news release on April 27, 2022: * * * An enzyme variant created by engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin can break down environment-throttling plastics that typically take centuries to degrade in just a matter of hours to days. This discovery, published today in Nature, could help solve one of the world's most pressing environmental problems: what to do with the billions of tons of plastic  more