ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Aug. 31 -- Ameren, a provider of electric power services, issued the following news release: Delmar DivINe's latest contribution to St. Louis begins every day as soon as the sun rises over the horizon. New solar panels, installed by Ameren Missouri, are now generating renewable energy on the nonprofit campus' parking lot in the West End. "We want Delmar DivINe to be a catalyst for community development and social improvement north of Delmar Boulevard," said Jorge Riopedre,  more

SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, Aug. 31 -- Drury University issued the following news: Drury University will have an exciting addition to campus this fall, an outdoor recreation complex called the Panther Pad. The Panther Pad will feature new pickleball courts, the revitalization of the basketball and tennis courts and a new pavilion grill and beverage area for students and spectators to enjoy. The project was made possible by the generosity of several members of the O'Reilly family, including: * Austi  more

OVERLAND PARK, Kansas, Aug. 31 -- Johnson County Community College issued the following news release: Jacquelyn Eidson, Ph.D., director of the National Higher Education Benchmarking Institute, has been appointed to serve as a member of the Regional Advisory Committee: Central by U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel A. Cardona, Ed.D. As a member of the Regional Advisory Committee: Central, Eidson will provide advice and recommendations regarding the educational needs of Colorado, Kansas, Missouri  more

SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, Aug. 30 -- Missouri State University issued the following news release: * * * CoxHealth, Missouri State University, Ozarks Technical Community College and Springfield Public Schools comprise the joint venture. * * * Four of our region's leading institutions announced the creation of the Alliance for Healthcare Education on Aug. 29. The Alliance is a bold, collaborative approach that will develop the talent to meet - and exceed - our region's health care workforce need  more

COLUMBIA, Missouri, Aug. 31 (TNSres) -- The University of Missouri issued the following news release: * * * Online professional development can help teachers prevent, recognize and respond to students with disabilities being bullied. * * * Students with disabilities are often bullied and socially excluded in school at a far greater rate than their classmates. To help teachers recognize, respond to and prevent bullying toward these students, researchers at the University of Missouri collabora  more

MARYVILLE, Missouri, Aug. 30 -- Northwest Missouri State University issued the following news: Northwest Missouri State University welcomed its newest faculty and staff members in August as employees gathered for opening meetings to begin the 2023-24 academic year. New employees who have begun work at Northwest since January are introduced below. Bikash Adhikari began work at Northwest in August as a computer software and programming specialist in the Learning and Teaching Center. Dr. Onema   more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Aug. 31 -- Polsinelli, a law firm, issued the following news release: Polsinelli had a strong presence at the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association's 2023 Lavender Law Conference and Career Fair in Chicago, the premier national event for the LGBTQ+ bar. Polsinelli focused its presence on thought leadership, recruiting and networking with more than 2,000 attending attorneys in private practice and in-house, general counsel, law students, judges and legal scholars - a record turn  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Aug. 31 (TNSres) -- The Washington University St. Louis School of Medicine issued the following news release: * * * Brain areas marked by distinct activity patterns very early, marsupial study shows * * * Babies are born with brains pre-organized into areas dedicated to movement, vision, hearing and other functions, a critical infrastructure that equips them to start learning about the world from the moment they take their first breaths. But little is known about how the  more

COLUMBIA, Missouri, Aug. 31 -- The University of Missouri's School of Journalism issued the following news release: When the University of Missouri School of Journalism's Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk launched more than a year ago, the mission was to do more than report on important water, agricultural and environmental stories unfolding in this more than a million-square-mile area. The goal was to explore why issues were arising and what could be done about them. So far, the team o  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Aug. 31 (TNSres) -- The Washington University St. Louis' George Warren Brown School issued the following news: By Myra Lopez Drew Crenshaw, a first-year Public Health Sciences doctoral student at the Brown School, has been selected into the inaugural class of the AI Advancements and Convergence in Computational, Environmental and Social Sciences (AI-ACCESS) National Research Traineeship (NRT). The National Science Foundation-funded fellowship trains students working in the  more