EVENDALE, Ohio, March 8 -- G.E. Aerospace, a subsidiary of General Electric, issued the following news release: Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, is producing a Hybrid-Electric Demonstrator (HEX), a fully-autonomous hybrid-electric vertical-take-off-and-landing (eVTOL) prototype. With a maximum gross weight of more than 7,000-pounds, the uncrewed aircraft will serve as a flying test-bed to evaluate large aircraft design, novel propulsion systems and control architectures for sustained hover,  more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 8 (TNSres) -- Gov. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: Ohio Governor Mike DeWine today announced that the state has launched new data dashboards to better track and report data on overdose deaths and other substance-use related measures for all 88 Ohio counties. These statewide dashboards were adopted and expanded from dashboards created through the National Institutes of Health-funded HEALing Communities Study - the largest implementation study ever c  more

KENT, Ohio, March 8 (TNSpp) -- Kent State University issued the following news: The "Dear Ukraine" global community poem, an interactive website created by Kent State's Wick Poetry Center, has encouraged people of all ages around the world to share their voices, inspired by a model poem written by Ukrainian-American poet Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach. In a new partnership, the "Dear Ukraine" exhibit was recently installed on the walls of the Center for Prayer and Pilgrimage at the Washington Nation  more

CINCINNATI, Ohio, March 8 (TNSres) -- Mount St. Joseph University issued the following news: * * * Lani Acasio was a dedicated man of faith and truth whose amicable nature lent to the inception of one of the greatest and most pervasive families ever known. * * * "Lani" is the Hawaiian word for "heaven." Its proto-Polynesian roots can also lend to translations like "sky" or "royalty." "Lani" can even be used as a suffix in the Hawaiian language to describe the majesty or spirituality of a sub  more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 8 -- Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost issued the following news release: Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and seven other attorneys general announced two related judgments effectively shutting down a massive robocall operation that bombarded Americans with billions of illicit robocalls, including more than 69 million to Ohioans. "Stopping annoying robocalls is a lengthy process, but this judgment is a reminder that we can cut them off," Yost said. "There are enough distract  more

DELAWARE, Ohio, March 8 (TNSpp) -- Ohio Wesleyan University issued the following news release: U.S. foreign policy historian Sarah B. Snyder will discuss "When, How, and Why Has the United States Put Human Rights 'at the Center' of its Foreign Policy?" when she presents Ohio Wesleyan University's 2023 Kragalott Lecture. A professor at American University's School of International Service Snyder, Ph.D., will speak at 7 p.m. March 22 in the Bayley Room on the second floor of OWU's Beeghly Librar  more

ASHLAND, Ohio, March 8 (TNSper) -- Ashland University issued the following news: Three faculty members at Ashland University were awarded promotion to full professor--Chris Chartier in the department of psychology, Hilary Donatini in the department of languages and literatures and Patricia Saunders in the department of biology and toxicology--following the action of the board of trustees at a recent meeting. In addition, Jonathan Naylor in the department of health sciences, Sathiyaprakash Ramd  more