ALFRED, New York, Oct. 7 (TNSper) -- Alfred University issued the following news release: Alfred University President Mark Zupan announces that Mark G. Danes will be joining the University as vice president of Marketing and Communication, effective Nov. 1. Danes comes to Alfred University from Des Moines University, where he has led the marketing and communications team since 2016. "It is a distinct privilege to be invited to join Alfred University at a time of exciting opportunity across the   more

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, Oct. 7 (TNSjou) -- Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist issued the following news release: The National Institute of Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health, recently awarded Wake Forest University School of Medicine a five-year grant expected to total $30 million to support research to test a novel rehabilitation program designed for older patients hospitalized for acute heart failure. Heart failure, a condition in which the heart is not pumping bloo  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 7 (TNSres) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * A partner effort among Brown scholars, volunteers and Native American leaders, Stolen Relations has recovered thousands of Indigenous enslavement records, drawing attention to a topic rarely broached in school history lessons. * * * About 350 years ago, in the midst of a conflict known as King Philip's War, the English captured and enslaved a group of Wampanoag Native Americans. The Wampa  more

LOWELL, Massachusetts, Oct. 7 -- Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release and letter: Assistant Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Katherine Clark (MA-05) joined Representatives Lori Trahan (MA-03), Richard E. Neal (MA-01), James P. McGovern (MA-02), Jake Auchincloss (MA-04), Seth Moulton (MA-06), Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Stephen F. Lynch (MA-08), and William R. Keating (MA-09) and Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Edward J. Markey (D-MA) in requesti  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Oct. 7 (TNSjou) -- The Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center issued the following news release: In a large clinical trial that directly compared four drugs commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes, researchers found that insulin glargine and liraglutide performed the best of four medications approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to maintain blood glucose levels in the recommended range. Blood glucose management is a key component of  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights issued the following statement by Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan involving a hearing on Sept. 20, 2022, entitled "Oversight of Federal Enforcement of the Antitrust Laws": * * * I am Lina Khan, Chair of the Federal Trade Commission, and I am pleased to testify today on behalf of the Commission.1 I want to thank members of this Committee for the opportunity to discuss our curre  more

ORONO, Maine, Oct. 7 (TNSres) -- The University of Maine issued the following news release: New England's droughts in 2016, 2020 and 2022 offer a preview of farming amid a changing climate. This has caused farmers who rely on rainfall to seek more reliable water sources. Rachel Schattman, assistant professor of sustainable agriculture at the University of Maine, is leading the study of a novel shallow well design that is 50% to 75% cheaper to dig than drilled wells. Collaborators on the proje  more