SALISBURY, North Carolina, Nov. 15 -- Catawba College issued the following news: Catawba College is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Lee F. Ball, Jr. as the new Executive Director for their Center for the Environment. Ball brings a wealth of experience, expertise, and a strong commitment to sustainability education to his new role. He will begin his tenure at Catawba in early January 2024. "We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Ball to Catawba College as the Executive Director of the Center  more

DURHAM, North Carolina, Nov. 15 (TNSres) -- Duke University Pratt School of Engineering issued the following news: For more than a decade, Amanda Randles, the Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Duke University, has been developing supercomputer models of how blood flows through our arteries at the cellular and particulate level. Dubbed HARVEY for short, the evolving algorithm can simulate how an individual's specific cardiovascular archite  more

DURHAM, North Carolina, Nov. 15 (TNSres) -- Duke University issued the following news: Summary: The Supreme Court on Monday issued a statement laying out a code of conduct for its nine justices in response to political pressure and public criticism over undisclosed gifts and ethical conflicts of interest. Comments below from Duke Law professor Veronica Root Martinez are available for use in your coverage. Quotes: "The Supreme Court's ethics code is good news on many levels. There are, however  more

DURHAM, North Carolina, Nov. 15 -- Duke University Pratt School of Engineering issued the following news: In a world where AI technology has generated both excitement and apprehension, Duke University stands at the forefront of innovation. Duke's Pratt School of Engineering and Duke Learning Innovation have joined forces to establish the Center for Research & Engineering of AI Technology in Education (CREATE). This collaborative initiative aims to advance the use of artificial intelligence (AI  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 -- The National Republican Congressional Committee issued the following news: As members of the North Carolina Democrat Party, it's clear Don Davis and Wiley Nickel have an antisemitism problem. North Carolina Dems have made it clear they don't support Israel, so the question remains: Do Davis and Nickel support their party's antisemitism? "They say actions speak louder than words, but Don Davis and Wiley Nickel aren't saying or doing anything to stand up against North Ca  more

CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, Nov. 15 (TNSres) -- The University of North Carolina's Gillings School of Global Public Health issued the following news: Better air quality and health are achievable through actions to address climate change, according to the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5), released today by the United States Global Change Research Program. Published periodically as part of a congressional mandate, the assessment is a summary of the latest climate science, informed by ex  more

WILMINGTON, North Carolina, Nov. 15 -- The University of North Carolina Wilmington campus issued the following news release: UNCW and Wilmington Health are proud to announce a groundbreaking partnership aimed at elevating the standard of health, well-being and performance of student-athletes at UNCW. As a leading healthcare provider in the community, Wilmington Health is committed to supporting UNCW's 19 varsity programs by providing comprehensive medical services, sports medicine and perform  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Nov. 15 (TNSres) -- Yale School of Public Health issued the following news: A new study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health finds air pollution may negatively impact standardized test scores. The cross-sectional study, employing a two-way fixed-effects model, appears in the open access peer-reviewed medical journal JAMA Network Open. Using data from the North Carolina Education Research Data Center, the researchers tracked 2.8 million public school s  more