PHOENIX, Arizona, Oct. 11 -- Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes issued the following statement on Oct. 10, 2023: * * * Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and a bipartisan group of 13 attorneys general from California, Delaware, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia, released the following joint statement on the current situation in Israel and the attacks launched by Hamas: "We are aghast and outraged  more

CLEMSON, South Carolina, Oct. 14 -- Clemson University issued the following news: Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Clemson University, was honored Oct. 10 with the AES Electrophoresis Society Distinguished Service Award at the annual meeting in Reno, Nevada. The award acknowledges Martinez-Duarte's comprehensive involvement and pivotal contributions to the society's success and expansion. He has held several leadership roles in the organization, serving  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 14 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * An interactive architectural installation combined textile arts and engineering on a desert landscape. * * * Set against the vast and surreal backdrop of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, Burning Man is an annual gathering that transforms the flat, barren expanse into a vibrant playground for artistic and creative expression. Here, "Burners" come to both witness and contrib  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Oct. 12 -- The Nevada Democratic Party issued the following news release: The front page of Sunday's Las Vegas Sun details Sam Brown's efforts to hide his leadership role in a radical anti-choice organization from his Personal Financial Disclosure report in apparent violation of federal law - and the new complaint he's facing over his shady actions. Brown failed to include his position as Chairman and President of the Nevada Faith and Freedom Coalition, a spin-off of a natio  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Oct. 11 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following joint statement on Oct. 10, 2023: * * * Attorney General Kwame Raoul today joined bipartisan group of 13 attorneys general from Arizona, California, Delaware, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia, to release the following joint statement on the current situation in Israel and the attacks launched by Hamas. "We are aghast and  more

CARSON CITY, Nevada, Oct. 11 -- Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford issued the following joint statement on Oct. 10, 2023: * * * Today, Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford has joined New York Attorney General Letitia James and 12 other attorneys general from Arizona, California, Delaware, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia in releasing the following joint statement on the current situation in Israel and the   more

CARSON CITY, Nevada, Oct. 14 -- Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford issued the following news release on Oct. 13, 2023: Today, Attorney General Aaron Ford announced he has joined a multistate coalition of 24 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief to protect the access to medication abortion. The coalition of attorneys general filed the brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) and Danco Laboratories LLC's petitions to reverse the U.S. Cou  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Oct. 13 -- Gov. Joe Lombardo, R-Nevada, issued the following news release on Oct. 12, 2023: Today, Governor Joe Lombardo announced his plan to transform the Nevada Public Option into a Market Stabilization Program. The plan will bring greater stability to Nevada's individual market for health insurance by reinvesting 1332 waiver funds back into the marketplace and provider system. The State's new approach follows Governor Lombardo's commitment in his State of the State remar  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Oct. 12 -- The Nevada Democratic Party issued the following news release: After new reporting revealed that Mitch McConnell's handpicked candidate Sam Brown tried to hide his leadership position with a radical anti-choice organization in apparent violation of federal law, he's now been caught trying to erase his close ties to the group from their website altogether. According to the Las Vegas Sun, "Brown was still featured prominently on the Nevada Faith & Freedom Coalition'  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Oct. 12 -- The Nevada Democratic Party issued the following news release: Governor Lombardo is being admonished for his ethically bankrupt actions as he tries to avoid accountability from the law, first by stacking the Ethics Commission with his own cronies, and now, questioning the constitutionality of the Ethics Commission itself. As usual, Lombardo is doing whatever it takes to protect his own interests. Read the scathing commentary below. Las Vegas Sun Editorial: Govern  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Oct. 12 -- The Nevada Democratic Party issued the following news release: * * * New complaint filed with the Department of Justice by NV Dems Chair outlines how Brown left the position off of his Personal Financial Disclosure report in apparent violation of federal law * * * Mitch McConnell's handpicked candidate Sam Brown is facing a complaint over his efforts to hide his role as President and Chairman of a radical anti-choice organization from his Personal Financial Disc  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Oct. 12 -- The Nevada Democratic Party issued the following statement on Oct. 11, 2023: * * * Nevada State Democratic Party Chair Daniele Monroe-Moreno released the following statement on Donald Trump officially filing to run in the NV GOP caucus: "Donald Trump and the NV GOP are hellbent on bringing the same MAGA agenda that rigged the economy for the ultra-wealthy, paved the way for the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and failed working families in Nevada," said Nevada State   more

HOUSTON, Texas, Oct. 11 -- Rice University issued the following news release: Rice University professors of physics and astronomy Patrick Hartigan and Patricia Reiff are available to discuss the Oct. 14 annular eclipse. The eclipse will be widely visible in Texas, Oregon, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico as well as some parts of California, Idaho, Colorado and Arizona. Both Hartigan and Reiff are nationally recognized experts on eclipses and have done numerous public talks, educational outreach  more

RENO, Nevada, Oct. 12 (TNSres) -- The University of Nevada issued the following news release: * * * Parsons shares his passion for hosting the Summer Arts Workshops, teaching about art and environment and more * * * University of Nevada, Reno President Brian Sandoval chats with Rick Parsons, director of the Holman Arts & Media Center located at the University's Wayne L. Prim Campus, in Sagebrushers season 2 episode 13. Parsons, who also serves as the director of the Summer Arts Workshops, is  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Oct. 11 -- North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein issued the following joint statement on Oct. 10, 2023: * * * Attorney General Josh Stein and a bipartisan group of 13 Attorneys General from Arizona, California, Delaware, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia, released the following joint statement on the current situation in Israel and the attacks launched by Hamas: "We are aghast and outr  more

NEW YORK, Oct. 11 -- New York Attorney General Letitia James issued the following joint statement on Oct. 10, 2023: * * * New York Attorney General Letitia James and a bipartisan group of 13 attorneys general from Arizona, California, Delaware, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia released the following joint statement on the current situation in Israel and the attacks launched by Hamas: "We are aghast and outra  more

BUFFALO, New York, Oct. 11 (TNSres) -- The University at Buffalo (State University of New York) issued the following news release: * * * Interdisciplinary team to combine AI, high-performance computing and modeling to better understand Lahaina fire; reduce likelihood of future disasters * * * A wildfire swept through the west Maui community of Lahaina on Aug. 8 killing at least 97 people and destroying more than 2,000 buildings. Shortly thereafter, an interdisciplinary research team from th  more

RENO, Nevada, Oct. 12 -- The University of Nevada issued the following news release: A triple-degree alumnus of the University of Nevada, Reno who was a first-generation student is the new director of the University's Biotechnology Program in the University's College of Agriculture, Biotechnology & Natural Resources. Karla Hernandez, who will also serve as a teaching assistant professor in the College's Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, obtained her bachelor's and master's degree  more

RENO, Nevada, Oct. 11 (TNSres) -- The University of Nevada issued the following news release: * * * Professor of Elementary Mathematics Education, Teruni Lamberg, Ph.D., chairs conference * * * In an endeavor to spark a love for mathematics among all students, the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education Conference held its annual conference in Reno, Nev. on Oct. 1-4 at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa. Hosted by the College of Education &   more

RENO, Nevada, Oct. 7 (TNSres) -- The University of Nevada issued the following news release: * * * Know Your Position and the Defensive Plays * * * NSA cybersecurity expert delivers keynote at University's Cybersecurity Conference Oct. 5. * * * Cybersecurity is a team sport. National Security Agency cybersecurity expert Tamela Dukes hit home that point during her keynote address at the University's Cybersecurity Conference Oct. 5 at the Joe Crowley Student Union. A cybersecurity threat h  more

RENO, Nevada, Oct. 11 (TNSres) -- The University of Nevada issued the following news release: * * * Project includes software supported by sensors to help farmers make better watering decisions * * * A three-year research project led by the University of Nevada, Reno will develop open-source software to help farmers better manage water supply, especially for Nevada's crucial crop of alfalfa. The project is funded by the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and  more

RENO, Nevada, Oct. 11 (TNSres) -- The University of Nevada issued the following news release: * * * Applications open Dec. 1 for the summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program offered through the College of Engineering * * * Undergraduates interested in learning to design and develop new biosensing technologies to address open challenges in human health, agriculture and the environment may apply for the University of Nevada's summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (R  more

RENO, Nevada, Oct. 12 (TNSres) -- The University of Nevada issued the following news release: * * * Researcher partners with Lithium Americas to find sustainable carbon solutions * * * Can material leftover from mining lithium be used to store carbon? That's the question Nevada Gold Mines Professor Pengbo Chu will be pursuing in his research lab with support from Lithium Americas. Lithium Americas is a chemical production company aiming to extract and process lithium on site in northern Nev  more

RENO, Nevada, Oct. 12 (TNSres) -- The University of Nevada issued the following news release: * * * Professor Ives discusses what we know about cheating and ways to reduce it * * * We know a lot about cheating in higher education, but maybe not the most important stuff. We know that cheating (including plagiarism) happens more often than we would like and more often than most of us would guess. On anonymous surveys, more than half of university students in developed countries acknowledge so  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Oct. 11 -- The University of Nevada Las Vegas campus issued the following news release: With her clinical contacts and student focus, Melinda Bechtel built the ultrasound degree program into a career launching pad. When Melinda Bechtel was asked to be the new director of UNLV's ultrasound program, she readily obliged. The program had made huge strides since she had first enrolled as a student in 1998. For starters, students could actually use ultrasounds in the ultrasound p  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Oct. 11 (TNSres) -- The University of Nevada Las Vegas campus issued the following Q&A on Oct. 9, 2023, with Research Impact Librarian Christina Miskey: * * * UNLV's Research Impact Librarian enjoys connecting with others through pop culture. * * * Whether you want to know about how to use author identifiers to track your research output or discuss how the latest episode of Ahsoka impacts the overall Star Wars universe, Christina Miskey ('12, History) is ready to chat. A  more