ASHLAND, Ohio, April 28 (TNSper) -- Ashland University issued the following news: Among the hundreds of graduate-level education students he taught during his nearly 15 years with Ashland University, Robert Thiede said Steve Paramore was one who stood out. "You knew he was going to do well as an educational leader," said Thiede, who retired in 2021. Paramore, who earned two master's degrees from AU in curriculum and instruction (2009) and educational administration (2014), officially became t  more

SPEARFISH, South Dakota, April 28 (TNSper) -- Black Hills State University issued the following news: Black Hills State University (BHSU) President Dr. Laurie S. Nichols announced her retirement from higher education. An established figure in South Dakota academia, Nichols has held statewide leadership roles at South Dakota State University, Northern State University, and, most recently, Black Hills State University. Prior to her presidency, Dr. Nichols worked in secondary and post-secondary p  more

CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 28 -- Cuyahoga County issued the following news release: Cuyahoga County launched its fourth round of the Healthy Urban Tree Canopy Grant Program (HUTC) this month, which supports communities in the planting of thousands of trees across Cuyahoga County. This grant program was created in 2019 to align with the County's Climate Change Action Plan released that same year. The program initiated an annual contribution of $1 million for five years to revitalize the tree canopy  more

AKRON, Ohio, April 28 (TNSawa) -- Babcock and Wilcox Enterprises, a provider of energy and environmental technologies and services for the power and industrial markets, issued the following news on April 27, 2023: Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) announced today that Douglas E. Lindsey has been named the 42nd recipient of the B&W Engineering Honors Award. During his more than 50 years of service, Lindsey has demonstrated invaluable engineering and problem-solving abilities that have helped countless cust  more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 28 -- The Ohio Democratic Party issued the following news on April 27, 2023: Yesterday, Steve Daines -chair of the NRSC, Senate Republicans' campaign arm - officially endorsed Donald Trump's bid for President. With another high-profile Republican backing Trump, Republicans in the already messy and divisive Ohio Senate primary are facing another fault line. Frank LaRose, who has been called out for running a "shadow campaign" for Ohio's U.S. Senate seat and said just days   more

DELAWARE, Ohio, April 28 (TNSres) -- Ohio Wesleyan University issued the following news release: Randolph Quaye, professor and co-chair of the Department of Africana, Gender, and Identity Studies at Ohio Wesleyan University, has been awarded his third Fulbright Scholar Award to conduct health care research in Tanzania, East Africa, during the 2023-2024 academic year. "The purpose is to investigate the importance of home-based care in delivering anti-retroviral (ART) to people with HIV in Tanza  more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 28 (TNSper) -- The Ohio State University Libraries issued the following news: Leticia Wiggins is joining the faculty of University Libraries as Ethnic Studies Librarian. Her appointment begins on June 12. In this role, she will serve as liaison to the Center for Ethnic Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. Leticia will establish programmatic approaches to building partnerships within the Ohio State academic community and beyond and will collaborate with other Librar  more