SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, June 24 (TNSreact) -- The Alliance Defending Freedom issued the following news release: The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Christiana Kiefer regarding the U.S. Department of Education's proposed rule published Thursday that interprets Title IX of the Civil Rights Act in a manner inconsistent with the plain meaning of that law to illegitimately inject it with the administration's political preferences, thereby disregarding a wi  more

DANVILLE, Kentucky, June 24 (TNSpro) -- Centre College issued the following news: Centre College is expanding its varsity athletic offerings for the 2022-23 school year, transitioning the campus' esports program into a varsity intercollegiate sport. Now the 25th varsity sport at Centre, the new program will recruit, train and compete at both the regional and national levels. Well-positioned to meet rising student demand, the athletic department has set several primary goals of the program, suc  more

WILLIMANTIC, Connecticut, June 23 (TNSconf) -- Eastern Connecticut State University issued the following news: Eastern Connecticut State University will host the first New England Cannabis Research and Education Conference (NECREC) on October 21-22. Connecticut's first academic conference on cannabis studies follows the launch of Eastern's minor in Cannabis Cultivation and Chemistry, the first such program in the state following the legalization of recreational cannabis in July 2021. NECREC ai  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, June 24 (TNSjou) -- Emory University issued the following news release: A key question in the study of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 disease is how the virus develops mutations that evade the body's immune response and treatments. Emory researchers posed this question in a study of five immunocompromised patients with prolonged SARS-CoV-2 infection. The results of that research are now online in the New England Journal of Medicine and in the June 23 print edition of the journal. Co  more

HANSCOM AFB, Massachusetts, June 24 -- The U.S. Air Force's Hanscom Air Force Base issued the following news: By K. Houston Waters, 66th Air Base Group Public Affairs A program executive officer is saying farewell to Hanscom as he transitions to a new role. Maj. Gen. Michael Schmidt, program executive officer for Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence and Networks, is scheduled to take over as the director of the Joint Strike Fighter Program, Office of the Secretary of Defense, headqu  more

HANSCOM AFB, Massachusetts, June 24 -- The U.S. Air Force's Hanscom Air Force Base issued the following news: By Mark Wyatt, 66th Air Base Group Public Affairs When first notified that she would become installation commander here, Col. Katrina Stephens was "absolutely elated." As she reflects on the past two years, she is proud that "despite all the challenges, we accomplished a lot." "When I found out I was coming to Hanscom in February 2020, few could have predicted the impact COVID would   more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, June 24 -- The New Hampshire Department of Natural and Cultural Resources issued the following news release: The N.H. Natural Heritage Bureau has announced that smooth slender crabgrass, a plant previously known to exist only at Rock Rimmon Park in Manchester, N.H., has been officially declared globally extinct. This is the first documented plant extinction in New Hampshire and only the fifth in New England since European settlement. Native to New Hampshire, smooth sle  more

ALBANY, New York, June 24 -- The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets issued the following news release on June 23, 2022: The New York State Departments of Agriculture and Markets (AGM) and Environmental Conservation (DEC) today highlighted several new actions New York State has taken to promote honeybee health and better protect pollinators statewide. Following an update to Agriculture and Markets Law in 2021, AGM launched a beekeeper registration program so that beekeepers can  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 24 (TNSjou) -- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center issued the following news release: Since the initial highly-infectious SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (officially known as BA.1 or B.1.1.529) of COVID-19 emerged last fall, new subvariants of Omicron continue to evolve. Notably, the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 - not identified in the United States until late April - now account for more than 21 percent of new cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 23 (TNSper) -- The University of California San Francisco campus issued the following news release: Prescott Woodruff, MD, MPH, a renowned leader in the pathogenesis and treatment of airway disease, has been appointed chief of UC San Francisco's Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine. Prescott will assume the role of chief on July 1. Woodruff has been a professor of medicine at UCSF since 2002 and has served as vice chief of research fo  more

WASHINGTON, June 23 -- The Senate Judiciary Committee issued the following testimony by Amy E. Swearer, a legal fellow at the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation, involving a hearing on June 15, 2022, entitled "Protecting America's Children From Gun Violence": * * * My name is Amy Swearer, and I am a Legal Fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation.1 My areas of scholarship and study include, among  more

LOWELL, Massachusetts, June 24 (TNSres) -- The University of Massachusetts Lowell campus issued the following news release: As summer 2022 gears up, the latest poll from UMass Lowell's Center for Public Opinion shows the uncertainty, fear and negative outlook felt by the public is multifaceted. Concluded earlier this week, the CPO poll found inflation, trust in the federal government and the handling of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic all top-of-mind concerns. Regionally, the Massachusetts gube  more

CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, June 23 (TNSper) -- The University of North Carolina's Gillings School of Global Public Health issued the following news: Top pharmaceutical research organization IQVIA has appointed Christina Mack, PhD, alumna and adjunct associate professor of epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, as chief scientific officer (CSO) for the company's Real World Solutions (RWS) arm. She replaces Nancy Dreyer, PhD '79, adjunct professor of epidemiology, who   more