MONTGOMERY, Alabama, Oct. 18 -- The Alabama Secretary of State issued the following news release on Oct. 17, 2023: Secretary of State Wes Allen announced today that his office provided Geographical Information System (GIS) services for the purpose of districting voters and administering elections in all 67 Alabama counties. "Utilizing GIS for voter district assignment and precinct assignment is highly accurate when compared to paper mapping and drawing," said Secretary Allen. "We are proud to   more

AUBURN, Alabama, Oct. 17 (TNSres) -- Auburn University's College of Engineering issued the following news: Ryan Pollard hadn't made an oral presentation until Thursday, October 12. Onlookers would have never known. The first-year graduate student in mechanical engineering from Huntsville, Alabama, enchanted faculty judges with his three-minute spiel, "A Kinematics-Based Approach to Future Joint Angle Prediction," winning a cumulative $2,350 and the top overall prize in Auburn Engineering's 11   more

SELMA, Alabama, Oct. 18 -- The Alabama Department of Commerce posted the following news on Oct. 17, 2023: Colclasher Enterprises LLC, a plastic pipe manufacturer, officially announced plans to invest $9 million to establish a production facility in Selma's Craig Industrial Park as part of a project that will create 21 jobs. The Selma & Dallas County Economic Development Authority said Colclasher Enterprises has begun retrofitting an existing building at #2 Industrial Parkway for the manufactur  more

ENTERPRISE, Alabama, Oct. 18 -- Enterprise State Community College issued the following news: Troy Maharrey will serve the Alabama Aviation College as its 2023-24 SGA President. As SGA President, Maharrey hopes to build a sense of community on campus while also focusing on academic growth. His goals include adding a National Business Association Chapter or a Women in Aviation Chapter to further promote students in a positive light for future business opportunities. He said that "adding more o  more

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama, Oct. 18 -- Adtran, a provider of networking and communications equipment, issued the following news release on Oct. 17, 2023: Adtran today announced that Kyndryl, a leading multinational information technology infrastructure services provider, is leveraging its Ensemble virtualization suite to deliver secure, managed enterprise cloud access services. Adtran's Ensemble Connector and Ensemble SaaS management and orchestration (MANO) platforms give Kyndryl's customers an open,  more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Oct. 18 (TNSres) -- The University of Arkansas's School of Medical Sciences issued the following news release: Todd Brinkley, M.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Psychiatric Research Institute as an outpatient psychiatrist. An assistant professor in the UAMS College of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry, Brinkley sees patients in the Psychiatric Research Institute's Walker Family Clinic as well as UAMS' Student Wellness Program. A di  more

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, Oct. 18 -- Samford University issued the following news release: Jean Sullivan knows what a winning team looks like. She was there every step of the way as her late husband, Pat, contributed to so many of them as a football player, assistant coach and head coach, including his 2013 Samford team that won the program's first Southern Conference championship. Samford itself is no stranger to winning on and off the field. The Bulldogs captured 11 Southern Conference championsh  more

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama, Oct. 18 (TNSres) -- The University of Alabama issued the following news: Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, have supported a ground-breaking measurement that is helping solve a 60-year-old cosmic mystery that involves the question of why the Sun's corona, the outermost part of the Sun's atmosphere, is so much hotter than the surface of the Sun itself. The director of UAH's Center for Space Plasma and Ae  more