CONCORD, Massachusetts, May 6 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-New England District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District received a permit application to conduct work in waters of the United States from the Town of Edgartown for proposed work in Lighthouse Pond near North Water Street in Edgartown, Mass. The proposed work involves improvement dredging of sandy material within two heavily shoaled areas in Lighthouse Pond to increase the ti  more

CANBERRA, Australia, May 6 (TNSres) -- The Australian Research Council issued the following news release on May 5, 2023: Today Australian Research Council (ARC) Chief Executive Officer, Ms Judi Zielke PSM, announced the award of $22 million for 50 Early Career Industry Fellowships under the Industry Fellowships Program. The Early Career Industry Fellowships scheme provides opportunities for new and emerging researchers to work with highly experienced, leading professors and shoulder-to-shoulde  more

WELLESLEY HILLS, Massachusetts, May 5 (TNSper) -- Massachusetts Bay Community College issued the following news release: MassBay Community College's Department of Athletics has named David Lee as the Buccaneers first Head Coach of Unified Sports at the college. Coach Lee has already launched practices for MassBay's Unified basketball, making MassBay the first community college in Massachusetts with a Unified Sports team. According to the Special Olympics website, Unified Sports teams were cre  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, May 5 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following remarks on May 4, 2023, by Deputy Assistant Attorney General Lisa H. Miller at the American Bar Association's 33rd Annual National Institute on Health Care Fraud: * * * I want to thank the American Bar Association, and specifically, Gabriel Imperato, for inviting me to deliver today's keynote. Having investigated and prosecuted health care fraud crimes in some of my prior roles in the department, both as part of t  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, May 5 (TNSjou) -- Johns Hopkins Medicine issued the following news release: In a study of 17 people from five families, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they found that ultra-lengthy DNA endcaps called telomeres fail to provide the longevity presumed for such people. Instead, people with long telomeres tend to develop a range of benign and cancerous tumors, as well as the age-related blood condition clonal hematopoiesis. Reporting in the May 4 issue of The New Englan  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 6 (TNSjou) -- The Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center issued the following news release: A new American Heart Association scientific statement assessed and scored the heart healthiness of popular dietary patterns, and the DASH Diet - developed in part at Pennington Biomedical Research Center - received a perfect score as the top heart-healthy eating plan. "Pennington Biomedical has a long history and association with the DASH Diet," sa  more

MIDDLEBURY, Vermont, May 5 -- Middlebury College issued the following news on May 4, 2023: Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, a marine biologist and one of the leading international voices in climate change action, will give the Commencement address to the Middlebury College Class of 2023 on Sunday, May 28. A policy expert and writer, Johnson cofounded and leads Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for the future of coastal cities. In 2020, she coedited the bestselling climate anthology All We Can Save and  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 29 (TNSres) -- Mintz, a law firm, issued the following news release: Mintz is pleased to announce that it has become an official sponsor of the Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC). The PMC serves as an essential fundraising event for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, which has been providing care to cancer patients through innovative research and treatment for 75 years. While Mintz had previously fielded and sponsored a team of cyclists riding in the PMC, a preeminent cycling e  more

WESTBOROUGH, Massachusetts, May 6 (TNSgov) -- The New England First Amendment Coalition issued the following news release on May 5, 2023: The New England First Amendment Coalition recently demanded that an ordinance prohibiting offensive speech during Nashua, N.H., town meetings be repealed, calling the restriction a violation of the state's constitution. The Nashua Board of Aldermen last year enacted an ordinance that bans "crude, vulgar, profane and/or obscene remarks." In a May 5 letter se  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, May 6 (TNSjou) -- The University of Vermont issued the following news on May 5, 2023: * * * Talking with Bill Keeton about the value of old growth * * * Walking along a steep ridge, under large hemlock trees, ten miles outside of Burlington, Vermont--Bill Keeton is worrying about Europe's remaining old forests. He's so concerned, in fact, that he and some colleagues wrote a letter to the journal Science--published on May 5, 2023--calling for rapid action to protect them.  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, May 5 -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news: Bathsheba Demuth, Ph.D., an environmental historian, set out to study two cultures -- capitalist whalers in the late-19th-century United States and communist whalers in the mid-20th-century Soviet Union. She expected to find large differences. That turned out not to be the case. Both groups saw whales purely in economic terms, leaving little room to ponder the fine line between life and death and the relat  more