SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July 30 (TNSpro) -- The Alamo Colleges District issued the following news release: St. Philip's College will begin pursuing the Bachelor of Applied Technology (BAT) in Cybersecurity Engineering degree, pending approval by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. On July 26, 2022, the Alamo Colleges District Board of Trustees unanimously approved the opportunity for St. Philip's College to pursue an Associate of Applied Science to BAT Cybers  more

FORT WORTH, Texas, July 27 -- American Airlines issued the following news release: The American Airlines Education Foundation is easing the cost of higher education for 452 students who are dependents of the airline's team members. In its largest donation to date, the Education Foundation awarded more than $1.2 million in scholarship funds for the 2022-2023 school year. Each recipient received a $2,500 scholarship, and 107 first-generation college students each received an additional award of   more

SAN ANGELO, Texas, July 27 (TNSres) -- Angelo State University issued the following news: Angelo State University has been awarded a $113,292 grant from the Trellis Foundation to fund a research and education project on mental health and wellbeing for college students in general, and ASU students in particular. The project is titled "Removing the Stigma of 'Crazy' and Restoring Humanity: Improving Student Mental Health and Wellbeing Through Education, Primary Intervention and Connection." Dr.   more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 29 (TNSres) -- Austin Community College District issued the following news release: Austin Community College District (ACC) has been selected to receive funding support from the U.S. Department of State's Increase and Diversify Education Abroad for U.S. Students (IDEAS) Program. ACC is one of 44 colleges and universities across the United States that will use the IDEAS grants. "Study abroad programs are a wonderful opportunity to learn about a new culture and country while   more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 26 (TNSawa) -- The Baylor College of Medicine issued the following news: The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has named Dr. David L. Nelson, professor of molecular and human genetics and holder of the Cullen Foundation Professorship in Molecular Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine, as the 2022 recipient of the Victor A. McKusick Leadership Award. The award, which includes a $10,000 prize, is named in honor of the late Dr. Victor A. McKusick and is bestowed upon  more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 27 (TNSawa) -- The Baylor College of Medicine issued the following news: The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has named Dr. David L. Nelson, professor of molecular and human genetics and holder of the Cullen Foundation Professorship in Molecular Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine, as the 2022 recipient of the Victor A. McKusick Leadership Award. The award, which includes a $10,000 prize, is named in honor of the late Dr. Victor A. McKusick and is bestowed upon  more

SAN RAMON, California, July 29 -- Chevron, an energy company, issued the following news release: "Our mission is 'safe, reliable, profitable operations,' and this project checks all those boxes," general manager Tim Sutherland says of the Light Tight Oil (LTO) project. The project, which recently received regulatory approval, will increase the amount of crude oil that can be processed at our Chevron Pasadena Refinery in Pasadena, Texas. The ability to process more crude oil at the facility wi  more

MCKINNEY, Texas, July 27 (TNSpar) -- Collin College issued the following news release on July 26, 2022: Collin College and its Collision Technology program today announced a new partnership with Enterprise Holdings to promote the growth and expansion of a two-year apprenticeship model that the Enterprise Holdings Foundation sponsors as the Collision Engineering Program (CEP). Now active in five schools across the U.S., the program is designed in collaboration with the automotive industry and e  more

WASHINGTON, July 27 -- The Democratic Governors Association issued the following news: New reporting details that in the wake of the tragic shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Doug Mastriano went on a tirade, blaming teachers and gun-free school zones for school shootings -- despite research to the contrary. Mastriano also compared common-sense gun control efforts to Hitler and Nazi Germany: The gubernatorial nominee made similar comments in 2018 as a state Senate candidate by  more

WASHINGTON, July 28 -- The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release: Next weekend, extreme MAGA Republicans will gather in Dallas, Texas for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Standing alongside Donald Trump and Ted Cruz will be the extreme, far-right Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Viktor Orban is known for homophobic, racist, and anti-immigrant comments. The extreme MAGA GOP praises him and embraces his harmful ideologies. Associated Press: "O  more

IRVING, Texas, July 30 -- ExxonMobil, an energy provider and chemical manufacturer, issued the following news release on July 29, 2022: Exxon Mobil Corporation today announced estimated second-quarter 2022 earnings of $17.9 billion, or $4.21 per share assuming dilution. Second-quarter results included a favorable identified item of nearly $300 million associated with the sale of the Barnett Shale Upstream assets. Capital and exploration expenditures were $4.6 billion in the second quarter and $  more

IRVING, Texas, July 27 -- ExxonMobil, an energy provider and chemical manufacturer, issued the following news release: ExxonMobil has made two new discoveries offshore Guyana to the southeast of the Liza and Payara developments in the Stabroek block. The discoveries at Seabob and Kiru-Kiru are the sixth and seventh in Guyana this year, with the total number of discoveries in Guyana at more than 25. * Seabob and Kiru-Kiru wells in Stabroek block are sixth and seventh discoveries in 2022 * Guya  more

ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida, July 30 (TNSres) -- Flagler College issued the following news: Flagler College's Dr. Lori Lee (Department of Humanities), alongside James Davidson of University of Florida and Liz Ibarrola of University of Texas at Austin (Co-Project Investigators), have been working on an archaeology research project at Fort Mose. They recently finished their third field season at the historically significant site, which was the first legally sanctioned free Black town in the present-da  more

NEW YORK, July 28 (TNSconf) -- Fox News Media, a business unit of Fox, issued the following news release: FOX Nation will present a live summit helmed by FOX News Media's global markets editor Maria Bartiromo on Wednesday, August 3rd at 11 AM/ET. The special, entitled The Broken Border Crisis: Live Summit will take place in Edinburg, Texas and feature an in-depth look at the economic, political and human impact of the situation on our nation's southern border. Throughout the hour, Bartiromo al  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, July 28 -- Gov. Brian P. Kemp, R-Georgia, issued the following news release: The governors of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas united in providing a response to President Biden's statement in which he celebrated the decline in gas prices in their respective states: "From the first day of his Administration, President Biden has repeatedly undermined America's energy independence with a series of decisions that led to record high gas prices in  more

DALLAS, Texas, July 30 -- Haynes and Boone, a law firm, issued the following news release: On July 21, 2022, AEGIS Hedging Solutions announced that its subsidiary, AEGIS SEF, has received final approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) of its registration as a Swap Execution Facility (SEF), which makes AEGIS the first Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) to register as a SEF. Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Phil Lookadoo, head of the firm's Washington, D.C., office, represented AE  more

ARLINGTON, Texas, July 27 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas Arlington campus issued the following news release: * * * UTA is only university in U.S. with an arc-heated, hypersonic wind tunnel * * * A University of Texas at Arlington researcher is studying how turbulence in hypersonic conditions impacts the response of materials used in heat shields. Luca Maddalena, UTA aerospace engineering professor and director of the Aerodynamics Research Center (ARC), and his team received a three-yea  more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 29 (TNSres) -- Texas Southern University issued the following news: Texas Southern University has been selected to be part of the launch of a new research project by Meta. This research, led by Meta's Civil Rights and Responsible AI Teams, is being done with the goal of creating a better user experience for historically marginalized communities. This effort will allow Meta to better understand the experiences different communities have on Instagram, how its technology may   more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 27 (TNSres) -- The University of Houston issued the following news release: On July 20th, 53 years after Neil Armstrong took one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind, NASA announced target launch dates for the Artemis I mission, the agency's long-awaited first step to returning astronauts to the moon and eventually Mars. Even though there won't be people onboard the Orion spacecraft when it blasts off later this year, it will carry dozens of tiny tributes creat  more

WASHINGTON, July 27 -- The National Republican Senatorial Committee issued the following news release: According to FOX News, recently uncovered posts show that PA Senate candidate John Fetterman previously signed pledges to supporting an outright ban on fracking in Pennsylvania and new fossil fuel leasing nationwide, which supports tens of thousands of PA jobs. Overall, the fossil fuel industry in Pennsylvania supports about 50,547 jobs, a 2021 report published by the Pennsylvania Department   more

IRVING, Texas, July 28 -- Nexstar Media Group, a television broadcasting company, issued the following news release: Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXST) announced today that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.90 per share of its common stock. The dividend is payable on Thursday, August 25, 2022, to shareholders of record on Thursday, August 11, 2022. In addition, The Board of Directors approved a new share repurchase program authorizing the Company to repurchas  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, July 28 (TNSper) -- The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center issued the following news: Stefanie Beavers, DNP, R.N., NEA-BC, has been named chief nursing officer for Oklahoma Children's Hospital OU Health. Beavers brings 15 years nursing practice and administration expertise to Oklahoma Children's Hospital. She was most recently associate chief nursing officer at the University of Texas, Arlington, where she also held a faculty appointment as clinical assistan  more

ALBANY, New York, July 30 (TNSawa) -- Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences issued the following news release: Viveca Velez Negron, a P4 student has won the prestigious 2022 AACP Trainee Poster Competition in the Student Pharmacist category. Viveca and her mentors, Dr. Laurie Briceland and Dr. Paul Denvir traveled to Grapevine, Texas to attend the 123rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, where she presented her poster titled, "I Do Not Belong Here!", an  more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 29 -- Paul Hastings, a law firm, issued the following news: Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, advised Spearmint Energy, a next-generation renewable energy company, on the acquisition of a 150 MW battery energy storage project from Con Edison Development, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Con Edison Clean Energy Businesses. Located adjacent to the King Mountain Wind Farm in Upton County, Texas, the project will provide much-needed battery energy storage assets to Wes  more

BEAUMONT, Texas, July 28 (TNStalk) -- Lamar University issued the following Q&A on July 27, 2022, with Dann Brown, provost and vice president of academic affairs: * * * In his nearly three-decade career as an educator, Dr. Dann Brown has built and extensive record of leadership, achievement and service as a professor, academic researcher and administrator. Brown served as associate provost at Lamar University since 2020 and prior to joining LU, he served as dean of University College and dire  more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 30 (TNSper) -- Rice University issued the following news release: Ramamoorthy Ramesh, a condensed matter physicist and materials scientist with more than 25 years in academia, industry, national labs and government service, has been named Rice University's vice president for research. Ramesh currently serves as the Purnendu Chatterjee Chair in Energy Technologies and is also a professor of physics and materials science and engineering at the University of California, Berk  more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 26 (TNSjou) -- Rice University issued the following news release: * * * Lab manipulates dead spiders' legs with a puff of air to serve as grabbers * * * Spiders are amazing. They're useful even when they're dead. Rice University mechanical engineers are showing how to repurpose deceased spiders as mechanical grippers that can blend into natural environments while picking up objects, like other insects, that outweigh them. "It happens to be the case that the spider, af  more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 26 (TNSjou) -- Rice University issued the following news release: * * * Chemical engineers fine-tune design of PFOA-destroying nanoparticles * * * Rice University chemical engineers have improved their design for a light-powered catalyst that rapidly breaks down PFOA, one of the world's most problematic "forever chemical" pollutants. Michael Wong and his students made the surprising discovery in 2020 that boron nitride, a commercially available powder that's commonly us  more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 26 (TNSjou) -- Rice University issued the following news release: Tetrahedron-shaped nanoparticles are interesting enough by themselves, but under the right circumstances, Rice University scientists have discovered they do something remarkable. While doing a routine check on a batch of tiny gold tetrahedrons, Rice chemist Matthew Jones and graduate student Zhihua Cheng found their microscopic particles had the unanticipated ability to arrange themselves into 2D chiral supe  more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 27 (TNSres) -- Rice University issued the following news release: * * * NIH-funded study will test interventions for improving caregivers' health * * * Providing care for people with dementia is a physically demanding and emotionally taxing job that often falls upon loved ones, whose own health can suffer as a result. A new, five-year study funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Aging and led by Rice University psychologist Bryan Denny will   more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 26 (TNSres) -- Rice University issued the following news release: Even if they've never served time in prison, people who have felony convictions still have difficulty accessing stable housing, according to new research from a Rice University sociologist. "Housing Instability Following Felony Conviction and Incarceration: Disentangling Being Marked from Being Locked Up ," authored by Brielle Bryan , an assistant professor of sociology at Rice, compares felons who were inca  more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 26 (TNSjou) -- Rice University issued the following news release on July 25, 2022: * * * Researchers publish scenario that explains 2016 discovery by NASA's Curiosity rover * * * Planetary scientists from Rice University, NASA's Johnson Space Center and the California Institute of Technology have an answer to a mystery that's puzzled the Mars research community since NASA's Curiosity rover discovered a mineral called tridymite in Gale Crater in 2016. Tridymite is a high  more

WASHINGTON, July 28 -- The Ripon Society issued the following news release: With the House and Senate trying to reach agreement on legislation that would strengthen America's ability to innovate and compete against China around the globe, The Ripon Society held a breakfast meeting this past Thursday morning with two Republican leaders who are helping to spearhead the negotiations to get their thoughts on the status of the bill and the prospect that a deal can be reached this year. The leaders   more

RAPID CITY, South Dakota, July 30 (TNSper) -- The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology issued the following news release: Kyle Knight, Ph.D., has been selected as the new head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at South Dakota Mines. Knight comes to Mines from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where he was an associate professor of sociology and served as chair of the Department of Sociology. He received his B.B.A. in marketing from the University of Texas at Ar  more

HUNTSVILLE, Texas, July 28 (TNSawa) -- Sam Houston State University issued the following news: Ricardo Montelongo, associate professor of educational leadership at Sam Houston State University, was recently honored by two different universities. He received the 2022 Outstanding Graduate Mentor award from SHSU, and the Robert H. Shaffer Distinguished Alumni award from his doctoral alma mater, Indiana University - Bloomington. "The awards symbolize the help, care, and love my friends, colleagues  more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 28 (TNSfund) -- The University of Houston issued the following news release: A $3 million gift from the A.R. "Tony" and Maria J. Sanchez Family Foundation to the University of Houston will establish a scholarship endowment for sales and digital marketing students. In recognition of the gift, the Program for Excellence in Selling (PES) at the C. T. Bauer College of Business will be named the A.R. "Tony" and Maria J. Sanchez Program for Excellence in Selling. Laredo native T  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 27 (TNSres) -- Entergy posted the following joint news release with Sempra Infrastructure, on July 26, 2022: Sempra Infrastructure, a subsidiary of Sempra (NYSE: SRE) (BMV: SRE), and Entergy Texas, Inc. today announced they have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop options designed to accelerate the deployment of new renewable energy generation resources and to increase the resiliency of power supply in Entergy Texas's Southeast Texas service   more

NACOGDOCHES, Texas, July 27 (TNSper) -- Stephen F. Austin State University issued the following news: Stephen F. Austin State University music alumnus Brian Miller has been named executive director of the Grammy Award-winning Houston Chamber Choir. Miller, who previously served as chorus manager with the Houston Symphony, joins the Houston Chamber Choir with more than a decade of experience in the professional and educational choral realm. He earned a Master of Music in Choral Conducting in 20  more

ALPINE, Texas, July 30 (TNSpar) -- Sul Ross State University issued the following news: The Sul Ross State University Educational Leadership Program has been approved for a partnership with K-12 districts for the Principal Residency grant. The program is authorized by the Texas Education Agency. Sul Ross State has been approved in each of the five years it has applied. The Principal Residency grant uses federal professional development funds to pay for principal candidates to leave the classr  more

STEPHENVILLE, Texas, July 26 (TNSres) -- Tarleton State University issued the following news release: The Institute for Predictive Analytics in Criminal Justice at Tarleton State University has published an addendum to its annual report regarding racial profiling data. The Sandra Bland Act (effective September 2019) greatly improves the ability to conduct meaningful data analysis of Texas law enforcement agencies. In the statewide 2021 study conducted by IPAC, anomalies detected in Hispanic da  more

LAREDO, Texas, July 30 (TNSacc) -- Texas A&M International University, a member of the Texas A&M University System, issued the following news release: As the Fall semester readies to start at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU), the College of Arts and Sciences, department of Psychology and Communication has learned its popular graduate program in Counseling Psychology has been reaccredited through January 2028. News of the reaccreditation of the Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology   more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, July 30 (TNSres) -- The Texas A&M University's Engineering Experiment Station issued the following news on July 29, 2022: By Kala McCain In a state as vast as Texas, temperatures can be extreme. From the daunting heat of long summer days to record-breaking cold snaps, the drastic fluctuation has the potential to adversely affect infrastructure. "It is a combination of materials and landscape," said Dr. Anand Puppala, interim director for the Center for Infrastructure R  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, July 29 (TNSres) -- The Texas A&M University's Engineering Experiment Station issued the following news on July 28, 2022: By Rachel Rose With the record-breaking heat and drought weather conditions Texas is currently facing, finding a solution to the growing need for reliable power from the electric grid is at an equally all-time high. Dr. Thomas Overbye, professor and O'Donnell Foundation Chair III in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M   more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, July 22 (TNSres) -- Texas A&M University issued the following news: * * * Advice from two Texas A&M physicians on keeping cool and healthy during a heat wave. * * * By Maria Salas With millions of Americans sweating through triple-digit temperatures this month, two Texas A&M family medicine doctors say it's important for people to stay cool and hydrated during the ongoing heat wave. Dr. Jason R. McKnight, clinical associate professor with the Department of Primary C  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, July 27 (TNSres) -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news on July 26, 2022: With the record-breaking heat and drought weather conditions Texas is currently facing, finding a solution to the growing need for reliable power from the electric grid is at an equally all-time high. Dr. Thomas Overbye, professor and O'Donnell Foundation Chair III in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University and director of t  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 30 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: For the second time this week, Attorney General Paxton and a bipartisan group of attorneys general announced an agreement in principle to address the opioid crisis. The proposed settlement would require the former opioid maker Allergan to pay up to $2.37 billion to participating States and local governments. Once finalized, the combined Allergan and Teva settlements would provide as much as $6.6 bil  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 29 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Attorney General Ken Paxton joined an Arizona-led 17-state complaint against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Department of Justice, and the Acting Director of ATF, to fight the Biden administration's unconstitutional rulemaking that would regulate firearm parts manufacturers. The rulemaking seeks, among other things, to regulate unfinished, non-functional parts as if  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 29 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release and letter on July 28, 2022: Attorney General Ken Paxton led a multistate letter urging President Biden to stop fast-tracking inflation by implementing expensive and unfunded measures to address his so-called "climate emergency." Spending $2.3 billion on the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program at a time of historically high inflation is irresponsible and adds to the ever-increas  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 27 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release on July 26, 2022: The Biden Administration recently acceded to criticism from Attorney General Ken Paxton and other attorneys general regarding a new regulatory proposal restricting public charter school grants. In a recent Oklahoma-led letter to the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), several states argued that two proposed changes to a federal charter school program would decrease the educational o  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 27 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release on July 26, 2022: Yesterday Attorney General Paxton secured a ruling against imposing mask mandates on Texas children in violation of state law. In a win for Texas families and the rule of law, the New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated a lower court's injunction on Texas's statewide mask-mandate ban and ordered the court to dismiss the underlying lawsuit. In July 2021,  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 27 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release on July 26, 2022: Attorney General Paxton joined 22 attorneys general in a lawsuit filed against the Biden Administration's new guidance on sex discrimination for schools and programs that receive federal nutritional assistance. The lawsuit names the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as a defendant and was filed in the Eastern District of Tennessee. On May 5, 2022, the USDA's Food and Nu  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 27 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Attorney General Paxton joined a Kentucky-led amicus brief to support Ohio's petition for certiorari with the Supreme Court in the capital case Shoop v. Cunningham, No. 21-1587. The Cincinnati-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit adopted a view of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) that encourages harassment of jurors sitting in judgment on capital punishment cases   more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 30 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Attorney General Paxton has reached an agreement on key financial terms with opioid maker Teva, which would provide up to $4.25 billion to participating states and local governments. While critical details of the settlement remain the subject of ongoing negotiations, Teva disclosed the key financial terms in its earnings announcement. Texas previously entered into a separate deal with Teva, which incl  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 28 -- The Texas Democratic Party issued the following news on July 27, 2022: Following a speech by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (and speaker at next week's CPAC gathering in Dallas) that Orban's own aide called "pure Nazi text," the Texas Democratic Party asks. Are Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick, and other Texas Republicans really going to share a stage next week with this internationally-condemned racist? CNN reports that the CPAC Dallas speaker "was also denounced by   more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 27 -- The Texas Democratic Party issued the following news on July 26, 2022: After the Uvalde Consolidated ISD School Board unanimously voted last night to pass a resolution calling on Gov. Abbott to convene a special legislative session to raise the minimum age of purchasing an assault rifle from 18 to 21, Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa released the following statement: "Governor Abbott, listen to Uvalde. "Listen to the pain the Uvalde community is feel  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 29 -- The Texas Democratic Party issued the following news on July 28, 2022: Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa released the following statement on Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn voting against the Sgt. 1st Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our PACT Act: "There are few political moves that are as heinous, as egregious, as rage-inducing, as using servicemembers or veterans as political pawns. But that's exactly what Senators Cruz and Cornyn did last night. "Te  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 22 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following proclamation: WHEREAS, I, GREG ABBOTT, Governor of the State of Texas, issued a disaster proclamation on March 18, 2022, as amended and renewed in a number of subsequent proclamations, certifying that wildfires that began on February 23, 2022, posed an imminent threat of widespread or severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property in Andrews, Aransas, Archer, Bee, Bell, Blanco, Borden, Bosque, Brewster, Brooks, Brown,  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 28 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release on July 27, 2022: Governor Greg Abbott today commended the Texas Workforce Commission's (TWC) award of more than $1.5 million in state-funded job training grants to Ranger College. The Erath County community college was presented with two checks by TWC Commissioner Representing Labor Julian Alvarez for more than $324,000 from a Jobs and Education for Texans (JET) grant and more than $1.2 million from a Skills  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 26 (TNSper) -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release on July 25, 2022: Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Dee Johnson to the 47th Judicial District Court in Armstrong, Potter, and Randall Counties for a term set to expire on December 31, 2022, or until her successor is duly elected and qualified. Dee Johnson of Amarillo is partner and counsel for Packard, Hood, Johnson & Paul, L.L.P. She is a member of the State Bar of Texas, Texas Association of Defe  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 27 (TNSper) -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release: Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Kathy Sellers to the Governing Board of the Texas School for the Deaf (TSD) for a term set to expire on January 31, 2027. The board oversees the provision of all School for the Deaf services and is responsible for budget preparation, policy adoption, and the appointment of the superintendent. Kathy Sellers of Kosse is Lead Interpreter for Bryan Independent Schoo  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 29 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following statement on July 28, 2022: * * * Governor Greg Abbott today issued a statement commending the United States Congress for passing the CHIPS Act of 2022 to promote the research, development, and fabrication of semiconductors within Texas and the United States. "Texas is a beacon of innovation and has remained the nation's leading exporter of semiconductors and other electronic components for eleven years in a row. "Th  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 30 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release on July 29, 2022: Governor Greg Abbott today commended the Texas Workforce Commission's (TWC) award of more than $247,000 in Jobs and Education for Texans (JET) grant funding to South Plains College in West Texas. TWC Chairman and Commissioner Representing the Public Bryan Daniel presented the check for this state-funded grant that will be used by the community college to help purchase and install automotive   more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 28 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release on July 27, 2022: Governor Greg Abbott today announced the Governor's Public Safety Office (PSO) is providing $1.25 million to the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District (UCISD). The funds will provide counseling, trauma-informed care, crisis intervention, and community outreach efforts for students and faculty affected by the tragic shooting at Robb Elementary School. These state financial resources  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 25 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release on July 23, 2022: Governor Greg Abbott today provided an update on the State of Texas' ongoing coordinated wildfire response efforts at a press conference following a briefing with state and local officials in Glen Rose. Earlier this week, the Governor directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) to continue coordinating the state's ongoing response to these fires, including the Chalk Mountain F  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 27 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following proclamation: WHEREAS, I, GREG ABBOTT, Governor of Texas, do hereby certify that the shooting that occurred on May 24, 2022, at Robb Elementary School in the City of Uvalde has caused widespread and severe damage, injury, and loss of life in Uvalde County, Texas; and WHEREAS, those same conditions continue to exist in Uvalde County; NOW, THEREFORE, in accordance with the authority vested in me by Section 418.014 of the   more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 27 -- The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation issued the following news release: Texas needs more Registered Accessibility Specialists (RASes). Although 2,000+ construction projects are registered statewide with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR), only 545 people are licensed to review and inspect those projects to ensure that the projects are designed and constructed to comply with the Texas Accessibility Standards. Texas enacted the Texas E  more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 28 (TNSpar) -- Texas Southern University issued the following news: Texas Southern University and Houston Community College leaders announced a first-of-its-kind agreement to provide a seamless path for HCC students to transfer to TSU. The schools have signed a memorandum of understanding that will help graduates from HCC's Drafting & Design Engineering Technology program to transfer into TSU's College of Science, Engineering, and Technology to obtain a bachelor's degree i  more

SAN MARCOS, Texas, July 28 (TNSfund) -- Texas State University issued the following news release: Texas State University has received two federal Upward Bound grants from the U.S. Department of Education totaling $3.6 million to help more low-income students who would be the first members of their families to earn degrees. Upward Bound, one of the TRIO programs funded under the Higher Education Act, is a college access and retention program that prepares students for post-secondary education b  more

SAN MARCOS, Texas, July 29 (TNSawa) -- Texas State University issued the following news release: Idza Luhumyo, a second-year student in Texas State University's MFA Creative Writing program, has been awarded the 2022 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing. She was honored for her short story "Five Years Next Sunday," described by the judges as "an incandescent story." The award was announced July 18 at a ceremony in London. Luhumyo is the fifth Kenyan to win the prize. The AKO Caine Prize, introd  more

SAN MARCOS, Texas, July 27 (TNSres) -- Texas State University issued the following news release: Alyson Collins, associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Texas State University, has received a grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) to conduct research that will improve the performance of students with or at-risk for disabilities in text-based writing. The four-year, $3 million grant is in response to challenges imposed   more

VICTORIA, Texas, July 28 (TNSres) -- The University of Houston Victoria campus issued the following news release: Armando Chavez-Rivera, a University of Houston-Victoria associate professor of Spanish, recently received an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship to conduct research at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston. As part of the fellowship, Chavez-Rivera will travel to Boston for four weeks in order to study a manuscript and other documents from the 1800s involving trade with Cuba. The l  more

VICTORIA, Texas, July 28 (TNSres) -- The University of Houston Victoria campus issued the following news release: A University of Houston-Victoria student branch of an international technological society recently hosted its inaugural international conference, bringing participants from a dozen countries together to discuss artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. The UHV Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Student Branch held the UHV International Conference on Artificial Intel  more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 26 (TNSres) -- The University of Houston issued the following news release on July 25, 2022: * * * UH Survey Links Households' Vulnerability to Resiliency After Disaster * * * The chances your household will completely recover from a natural disaster could depend almost entirely on how financially and socially vulnerable you were before the crisis hit, according to a survey released today by the University of Houston's Hobby School of Public Affairs. The survey team stu  more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 30 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston issued the following news: A study at UTHealth Houston has discovered a new molecular mechanism-controlling metabolism. Led by the lab of Mikhail Kolonin, PhD, professor and director of the Center for Metabolic and Degenerative Diseases in the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine with McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, the research focuses on the formation of brown adipocytes, the  more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 28 (TNSjou) -- The University of Texas's MD Anderson Cancer Center issued the following news release: * * * Featuring targeted therapies for BPDCN and AML, insights to improve immunotherapy in pancreatic cancer, and surgical advances for metastatic cancers * * * The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center's Research Highlights provides a glimpse into recent basic, translational and clinical cancer research from MD Anderson experts. Clinical advances include treatin  more

ARLINGTON, Texas, July 28 (TNSfund) -- The University of Texas Arlington campus issued the following news release: The University of Texas at Arlington's Department of History has received a $350,000 gift from an anonymous alumna, the largest unrestricted donation in department history. The gift will immediately support an array of new scholarships and prizes for prospective history majors, as well as funding opportunities for other students across campus who are interested in studying history  more

ARLINGTON, Texas, July 29 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas Arlington campus issued the following news release: * * * UTA electrical engineering professor working to make real-time artificial intelligence * * * A University of Texas at Arlington researcher has received a three-year grant worth nearly $600,000 from the National Science Foundation to make the technology used with artificial intelligence (AI) faster and more energy efficient so it can be used in real time. Qilian Liang, prof  more

ARLINGTON, Texas, July 29 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas Arlington campus issued the following news release: * * * Current UTA students and recent grads present innovative work at state conference * * * A group of students and recent graduates of The University of Texas at Arlington's College of Nursing and Health Innovation (CONHI) showcased its research to the Texas public health community as part of the UTHealth School of Public Health Research Beyond Boundaries Conference. Ariel Ha  more

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July 27 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio issued the following news release: The UT Health San Antonio School of Nursing has received $4 million to expand health care services to foster care youth and their families. The four-year Health Resources and Services Administration grant will fund access to community-based health care for foster care children and their families in 28 counties in Central Texas and the Hill Country, the same ar  more

RICHARDSON, Texas, July 30 (TNSawa) -- The University of Texas Dallas campus issued the following news: A team of University of Texas at Dallas student engineers won a first-place award at the 2022 Capstone Design Conference for developing a system that helps a corporate sponsor test its devices to prevent blood clots after surgery. The UTDesign Senior Capstone Program team shared the top honor with teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Florida. UT Dallas hosted the natio  more

CANYON, Texas, July 27 (TNSconf) -- West Texas A&M University issued the following news: West Texas A&M University's Center for the Study of the American West will host author James L. Haley as he shares "Ten Tall Texans You've Probably Never Heard Of." The event is set for 7 p.m. Aug. 4 in the Sybil B. Harrington Fine Arts Complex Recital Hall on WT's Canyon campus. According to Dr. Alex Hunt, CSAW director and Haley Endowed Professor of Western Studies, Haley's "Ten Tall Texans" are unexpec  more

CANYON, Texas, July 28 (TNSbook) -- West Texas A&M University issued the following news: A new book by West Texas A&M University's history department head will shed light on a 1970s political battle in the Texas Panhandle that presaged ongoing culture wars. "You Will Never Be One of Us: A Teacher, a Texas Town and the Rural Roots of Radical Conservatism" by Dr. Timothy Bowman will be published July 28 by the University of Oklahoma Press. In the book, Bowman profiles Wayne Woodward, a 1968 gra  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 30 (TNSper) -- Western Governors University-Texas issued the following news release: Online, nonprofit university Western Governors University (WGU) has announced Allen Travis as Strategic Partnerships Manager serving Oklahoma and Arkansas. Travis has served in various capacities with WGU over the past eight years, including enrollment counselor for teachers college and continuing graduate specialist. Travis comes to WGU with more than 10 years' experience as an account ma  more