SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Sept. 15 -- Briar Cliff University issued the following news: Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy, Erin Vogel, PT, DPT, OCS, WCC, AIB-PT, was honored at the Fall Meeting of the American Physical Therapy Association: South Dakota (APTA-SD) on Thursday night with the Physical Therapist of the Year Award. This Award is given annually to one physical therapist in South Dakota who has been a member of APTA-SD for a minimum of 75% of their physical therapy career, demonstrates c  more

ANKENY, Iowa, Sept. 15 -- Des Moines Area Community College issued the following news release: DMACC announced this week that 20,431 students are enrolled in fall 2023 semester classes across the College's 13 locations, marking a nearly three percent increase over DMACC's fall 2022 enrollment numbers. The current fall semester numbers are also a significant increase from the 18,201 students who were enrolled at DMACC in Fall 2020 during the depths COVID-19 pandemic. "Our fall 2023 enrollment   more

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa, Sept. 15 -- The University of Northern Iowa issued the following news release: University of Northern Iowa faculty members Bettina Fabos, PhD, and John DeGroote have received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Digital Humanities Advancement Grant of $150,000 to build augmented reality environments for the UNI campus and the city of Ottumwa, Iowa. The project, called Mainstreet 360-, is a 360-degree street view mapping application that is part of the Fortepan IA ph  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 14 (TNSres) -- Grand View University issued the following news: The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board are pleased to announce that Dr. Alec Zama, Professor of Business at Grand View University, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to Moldova to teach management courses in Moldova and conduct research on the non-profit sector for four months during the fall semester of 2023. Dr. Zama has served as a faculty mem  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 15 -- The Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following statement on Sept. 14, 2023: * * * Wednesday, Governor Kim Reynolds announced Deputy Attorney General David Faith's appointment as a district judge in Judicial Election District 5A. Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird released the following statement in response: "I am so proud of Deputy Attorney General David Faith for his appointment as a district judge in Judicial Election District 5A. David has not only  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 15 -- Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig issued the following news on Sept. 14, 2023: Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig today announced the formation of the Livestock Protection Innovation Grant Program. The program will provide grant funding to assist Iowa-based companies in the development of safe and effective vaccines that may help protect Iowa livestock from foreign animal diseases. Though the threat of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) remains hi  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 14 -- The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship issued the following news on Sept. 13, 2023: Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced today that the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship is now accepting pre-applications for cost-share grant funding to support urban conservation projects. "Communities of all sizes can utilize urban conservation cost-share grants for locally led projects that help manage stormwater, reduce runoff and   more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 14 -- Gov. Kim Reynolds, R-Iowa, issued the following news release on Sept. 13, 2023: Gov. Kim Reynolds today announced her appointment of David Faith as a district judge in Judicial Election District 5A. Faith, of Indianola, Iowa, is a deputy attorney general at the Iowa Office of the Attorney General. He received an undergraduate degree from Concordia College and his law degree from the University of Iowa College of Law. Faith fills a vacancy created by the retiremen  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 15 -- The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: DNR staff work with individuals, businesses and communities to help them protect our natural resources by complying with state and federal laws. This approach is very effective. In the few cases where compliance cannot be achieved, the DNR issues enforcement actions. The following list summarizes recent enforcement actions. Find the entire, original orders on DNR's website at www.iowadnr.go  more

AMES, Iowa, Sept. 14 (TNSres) -- Iowa State University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences issued the following news release: The impacts of obesity and heat stress on reproductive health will be the focus of a study at Iowa State University funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The research project will determine whether heat stress causes additive impacts on ovarian toxicity in lean and obese mice. It will investigate impacts from the compound known as DM  more

AMES, Iowa, Sept. 15 -- Iowa State University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences issued the following news release: As farming for carbon credits gains traction across the agricultural landscape, farmers and soil conservationists need easy-to-understand benchmarks to measure and monitor carbon. An Iowa State University team is poised to help. The group will lead training for a process to measure and monitor soil carbon stocks as part of a new national program meant to provide a basis   more

AMES, Iowa, Sept. 14 (TNSres) -- Iowa State University issued the following news release: Entrepreneurs are often told that they need to boost the visibility of their businesses to attract more customers and grow. But in developing countries with high rates of crime, greater visibility can make them a target. This is one of the findings from a newly published study led by Paul Sanchez-Ruiz, assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship at Iowa State University. The research team inter  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 14 -- The Iowa Utilities Board issued the following news release on Sept. 13, 2023: The Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) today issued an order approving a petition for a franchise to construct, maintain, and operate a new electric transmission line in Iowa by SOO Green HVDC Link ProjectCo, LLC (SOO Green). The petition referred to as the SOO Green transmission line project in Docket No. E-22436, proposes to build approximately 174 miles of 525 kilovolt underground high voltag  more

ANKENY, Iowa, Sept. 15 -- Des Moines Area Community College issued the following news release: The DMACC Foundation has received a major donation from the Miller family, including Tom Miller, Dick Miller, Deb Miller and John Miller, that will change the DMACC Water Environmental Technology (WET) Program. The Miller family, which is known for its longtime service in Iowa's water industry, have donated $284,943 to create a WET lab and classrooms in an area being renovated in Building 9 at the D  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, Sept. 15 -- Gov. Jim Pillen, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release on Sept. 14, 2023: Today, Governor Pillen announced his appointment of Sara Bauer of Fremont as county court judge for the Sixth Judicial District of Nebraska. The district includes Burt, Cedar, Dakota, Dixon, Dodge, Thurston, and Washington Counties. Bauer is currently an assistant city attorney in Council Bluffs, Iowa. She has worked in numerous firms, particularly in Omaha; and helped establish and  more

DECORAH, Iowa, Sept. 14 -- Luther College issued the following news on Sept. 13, 2023: Luther College and Vesterheim, the National Norwegian-American Museum and Folk Art School, will welcome Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Anniken Huitfeldt, to Decorah this September. Huitfeldt will give a lecture on Luther's campus at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 23, at Noble Recital Hall in the Jenson-Noble Hall of Music. The talk is free and open to the public; it will conclude around 12:30 p.m. As Min  more

DECORAH, Iowa, Sept. 15 (TNSres) -- Luther College issued the following news: Luther College nursing major Duong Truong, class of 2024, spent his summer researching a Buddhist hospital in Taiwan and helping set up nursing school scholarships for Catholic nuns in Vietnam. As a nursing major at Luther, Truong has seen many examples of many Christian-affiliated hospitals in the U.S. that integrate belief into their care and mission, but he noticed a gap in research on Buddhist hospitals. He wante  more