INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, Oct. 3 -- Barnes and Thornburg, a law firm, issued the following news release: Barnes & Thornburg has added labor and employment, corporate, litigation, intellectual property and real estate attorneys and legal professionals to its Atlanta, Chicago, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Raleigh, and South Bend offices. A patent agent in the Atlanta office, Elizabeth Daugherty is focused on mechanical and electrical technologies with nearly a decade of experience preparing and prose  more

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Oct. 4 -- Briar Cliff University issued the following news: Briar Cliff University hosted it's fourth annual Future Educators Summit, sponsored by the Briar Cliff Education Department. Over 85 students from Bishop Heelan, Lawton-Bronson, Dakota Valley, Elk Point-Jefferson, Bishop Garrigan, and Cherokee High School were in attendance. "Educators are extremely important in the development of children," said Theresa Engle, Education Department Chair at Briar Cliff University. "T  more

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Oct. 3 (TNSres) -- The University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy issued the following news: "We have great data in Iowa, and we are always interested in working with graduate students to probe it and see what we can learn." That was an invitation from Meghan Oster (PhD '21), who was already working at Iowa College Aid, the state's coordinating agency for all tuition assistance programs, when she returned to lead a weekly seminar as part of the Causal Inference i  more

GRINNELL, Iowa, Oct. 3 -- Grinnell College issued the following Q&A on Oct. 2, 2023, with Academic Assistant Cheryl Fleener-Seymour: * * * Q: What does your role at Grinnell entail? A: I am an academic assistant (AA) and support the departments on the south pavilion of the Humanities and Social Studies Center (HSSC). I assist faculty with their classroom prep, travel arrangements, reimbursements, bringing guests to campus, helping with faculty searches -- whatever the task is I try my best to  more

GRINNELL, Iowa, Oct. 3 -- Grinnell College issued the following news: Grinnell College is proud to share the news that the College has received a generous grant totaling $138,000 in support of its Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) program. This significant grant renewal highlights the College's unwavering dedication to fostering a diverse faculty and promoting the multivocality of the humanities and related disciplines. The Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program, which is at th  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 4 -- The Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release on Oct. 3, 2023: Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today announced her appointment of Aaron McKay as Chief of Staff. McKay is a graduate of Upper Iowa University and recently served as the State of Iowa Director for U.S. Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks. He has served over 20 years in the legislative branch of the federal government with extensive experience in Veterans Affairs, Military Ac  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 3 -- The Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release on Oct. 2, 2023: Today, Attorney General Bird led a coalition of 24 states in a letter opposing a proposed Biden Administration rule that will illegally mandate social, environmental, and race-based regulations for infrastructure projects and stop development in its tracks. The Biden Administration's woke environmental scheme is part of its larger radical climate change plan. With the new rule i  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 3 (TNSres) -- Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig issued the following news on Oct. 2, 2023: Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig commented on the Iowa Crop Progress and Condition Report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. The report is released weekly April through November. Additionally, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship provides a weather summary each week during this time. "With an assist from a burst of summer-  more

AMES, Iowa, Oct. 3 -- Iowa State University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences issued the following news release: A new degree option was introduced within the industrial technology major in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (ABE) that will prepare students to be manufacturing and systems maintenance experts. Upon graduation, the students will be prepared to enter careers that support biological and biomanufacturing systems in our ever-evolving world. The biolog  more

AMES, Iowa, Oct. 4 (TNSres) -- Iowa State University's College of Engineering issued the following news: Luke Roling's computational research work in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) has received the support of the Jack R. and Carol A. Johnson Faculty Fellowship in Chemical and Biological Engineering. Roling, an assistant professor, along with his research group, applies computational chemistry toolkits to problems in catalysis and surface science. Active research pr  more

AMES, Iowa, Oct. 4 -- Iowa State University's College of Engineering issued the following news: Associate professor Qi An focuses on using quantum mechanics and data-based computational methods to study materials science. In recent studies conducted by An and his team, significant progress was made in the field of ceramics. One of their works focused on improving the ductility of superhard materials. Normally, these materials have high strength but limited plasticity. "By introducing a small   more

AMES, Iowa, Oct. 3 -- Iowa State University issued the following news release: Humans from the very beginning have found beauty in the rhythms of nature, but one Iowa State University professor is turning the data produced by plants and the environment into a literal work of art. Johnny DiBlasi, an assistant professor of art and visual culture, recently received a $10,000 grant from the Iowa Arts Council to develop "Transcoded Ecologies," a project that fuses artificial intelligence and plant   more

AMES, Iowa, Oct. 3 (TNSres) -- Iowa State University issued the following news release: Like fingerprints, a firearm's discarded shell casings have unique markings. This allows forensic experts to compare casings from a crime scene with those from a suspect's gun. Finding and reporting a mismatch can help free the innocent, just as a match can incriminate the guilty. But a new study from Iowa State University researchers reveals mismatches are more likely than matches to be reported as "inconc  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 3 -- Iowa Workforce Development issued the following news release: Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) announced the hiring of James Williams, Ed.D. as the new Division Administrator for Vocational Rehabilitation Services, effective today. Williams will oversee the state's vocational rehabilitation program, which moved to IWD as part of the state's alignment effort. The move is designed to make it easier for Iowans to access all available workforce services in a single locat  more

AMES, Iowa, Oct. 3 (TNSres) -- Iowa State University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences issued the following news release: * * * This is the third and final story in a series highlighting CALS researchers and their journeys to funding and enlightenment. The other articles feature work by Joshua Selsby, professor of animal science, and Melha Mellata, associate professor of molecular microbiology. * * * Equipment has arrived at labs in Kildee Hall and the Molecular Biology Building tha  more

DECORAH, Iowa, Oct. 3 -- Luther College issued the following news: Luther College's Justin M. Sprung, an assistant professor of psychology, co-authored Personnel Psychology, a comprehensive and accessible textbook that delves into the psychological principles behind human resource practices. Sprung, who has taught in the psychology department at Luther since 2013, along with his co-authors Alexandra Luong and Michael J. Zicker, draw from their experiences in teaching and research to provide ps  more

COLUMBIA, Missouri, Oct. 4 (TNSres) -- The University of Missouri issued the following news release: * * * Findings from University of Missouri study can help emphasize messages of compassion and support toward opioid-dependent mothers. * * * The rate of opioid use among pregnant women in the United States quadrupled between 1999 and 2014 and continues to rise -- an alarming trend that researchers from the University of Missouri and University of Iowa say has exposed the stigma felt by opioi  more