RALEIGH, North Carolina, Oct. 21 (TNSper) -- Gov. Roy Cooper, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Governor Roy Cooper has appointed Stephanie L. Reese to serve as Superior Court Judge in Judicial District 18B, serving part of Guilford County. The Honorable Joe Craig retired recently and Ms. Reese will fill the vacant seat created by his retirement. "Stephanie Reese will bring years of legal expertise to the bench," Governor Cooper said. "I am thankful for her willingness to se  more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 19 (TNSjou) -- Ohio State University issued the following news: * * * Study details first glimpse at complex marine microbial interactions * * * The types of ocean bacteria known to absorb carbon dioxide from the air require more energy - in the form of carbon - and other resources when they're simultaneously infected by viruses and face attack from nearby predators, new research has found. Viruses are abundant in the ocean, and research now suggests that marine viruses  more

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, Oct. 18 -- Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist issued the following news release on Oct. 17, 2022: Wake Forest University School of Medicine today announced Dr. L. Ebony Boulware, as its new dean. She will also serve as vice chief academic officer and chief science officer of Atrium Health. Boulware will join the medical school in January 2023 and will succeed Dr. Julie Ann Freischlag, who remains as CEO of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist and chief academic office  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (TNSres) -- The Society for Science, an organization that promotes the understanding and appreciation of science and the vital role it plays in human advancement, issued the following news release: Society for Science (the Society) is pleased to announce two STEM Ambassadors and two STEM Fellows who are working to support STEM research, programming, outreach and understanding of science communications. "As the Society for Science expands its efforts to increase access to ST  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Oct. 19 (TNSres) -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: Virginia Tech researchers from the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics and the Department of Biochemistry have discovered a characteristic of a common oral bacterium that relocates to pancreatic cancer tumors that may help guide future therapeutic interventions for treatment. The bacterium, Fusobacterium nucleatum, may play a key role in how aggressively cancer grows and moves throughout the body.   more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Oct. 21 (TNSper) -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: Robert Denton, the W. Thomas Rice Chair, a professor of communication, and the founding director of the School of Communication in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech, has been conferred the title of W. Thomas Rice Chair Emeritus and professor emeritus by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors. The emeritus title may be conferred on retired professors, associate professors, and administr  more

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, Oct. 21 (TNSbook) -- Wake Forest University issued the following news: Michael Schur, television writer, producer and creator of the sitcom "The Good Place," visited Wake Forest to talk with students, sit in on a philosophy class and participate in an open-to-the-public discussion on character, ethics, his television shows and his new book, How to be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question. Schur's visit was presented by Wake Forest's Program for Lea  more

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, Oct. 19 (TNSper) -- Wake Forest University issued the following news: Corey D. B. Walker, Ph.D., M.Div., M.T.S., has been named interim Dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity, beginning Jan. 1, 2023. A distinguished scholar of African American social, political and religious thought, Walker will continue to serve as Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities and director of Wake Forest's African American Studies Program. "Corey Walker is an exceptiona  more