BEEBE, Arkansas, Oct. 27 (TNSawa) -- Arkansas State University-Beebe issued the following news release: ASU-Beebe Chancellor Dr. Jennifer Methvin and the Institutional Advancement team have returned from the District 4 National Council for Marketing and Public Relations conference held Oct. 20-22, 2022, in Houston, Texas, with renewed energy and six new awards. As members of the NCMPR District 4, which includes community colleges located in Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and   more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Oct. 27 (TNSjou) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release on Oct. 26, 2022: The debut issue of an open peer-reviewed journal, published by University of Wyoming Libraries, launched today (Wednesday). The Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education (JOERHE) offers librarians, instructors and other open educational resources (OER) experts from around the world a platform for their scholarship on OER, open pedagogy, open access and similar top  more

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, Oct. 27 -- Gov. Mark Gordon, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: Last year, Governor Mark Gordon set up a plan to help Wyoming Survive, Drive and Thrive using federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds. Most of the proposals from that planning process were approved by the State Legislature in Senate File 66. This year, state agencies have been busy implementing application rules for these programs. While the application review process is ongoing, it is clear that  more

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, Oct. 28 -- Gov. Mark Gordon, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: Governor Mark Gordon's Reimagining and Innovating the Delivery of Education (RIDE) Advisory Group and the Wyoming State Board of Education (SBE) discussed the findings from the public input gathered by the RIDE and Profile of a Graduate initiatives at a joint meeting last week. The RIDE Advisory Group was established with a goal to study and develop recommendations for elevating Wyoming's primary and   more

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, Oct. 27 (TNStalk) -- Gov. Mark Gordon, R-Wyoming, issued the following statement on Oct. 26, 2022: * * * Governor Mark Gordon has responded to today's release of the Consensus Revenue Estimating Group (CREG) October report. The Governor welcomed the news of higher-than-expected state revenue forecast, but stressed a fiscally conservative approach to utilizing the funds, most of which should be considered one-time in nature. The October CREG report shows that all major state  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Oct. 28 (TNSjou) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Scientists researching forest carnivores such as martens, foxes and coyotes spend hours clambering through rugged terrain, sometimes in deep snow, placing and baiting camera traps to learn about animals' behavior in relation to their habitat. In recent years, this on-the-ground work has received a big boost from what might seem to be an unlikely source: NASA. In a new scholarly paper that detail  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Oct. 28 -- The Pennsylvania Senate Republicans issued the following news release on Oct. 27, 2022: State Senator John Yudichak (I-Luzerne/Carbon) and State Senator Lisa Baker (Luzerne/Wyoming/Susquehanna/Wayne/Pike) announced today that new jobs and more investment will be coming to northeastern Pennsylvania after the Senate voted to create and expand tax credit programs to support targeted investments in key industries. House Bill 1059 would make new resources availa  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Oct. 28 (TNSbook) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Retired University of Wyoming Department of Botany chair Dennis Knight is co-author of a book that highlights the Northern Great Plains and blends the natural and human histories of the region. Knight, a professor emeritus of botany and former president of the Ecological Society of AmerIca, co-wrote the book with W. Carter Johnson, a professor emeritus at South Dakota State University. Titled "E  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Oct. 29 (TNSjou) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Previous studies have determined that astronauts can judge inverted movements better than people on Earth due to the astronauts' unique visuomotor experience with inverted movements in space. Now, a new study, in which University of Wyoming researchers played key lead roles, shows that people on Earth with extended visuomotor experience with inverted movements -- such as vertical dancers -- can o  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Oct. 29 (TNSres) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Working in a University of Wyoming lab six years ago, undergraduate computer science student Russell Todd, of Baggs, sought to merge a state-of-the-art virtual-reality system with a cutting-edge motion-capture system to understand human-computer interaction. Little did Todd know at the time, but he and his colleagues in the Perception-Action-Cerebral-Executive (PACE) lab would not only help creat  more

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, Oct. 25 (TNSrpt) -- The Wyoming Department of Education issued the following news release: The Wyoming Department of Education (WDE) has released the state's reading and mathematics results on the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation's Report Card, or NAEP. "NAEP scores are an important indicator of how Wyoming stacks up nationally," said Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction Chad Auer. "In terms of public education in Wyoming - we have  more