NEW YORK, Dec. 28 -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams issued the following news release on Dec. 27, 2023: As Texas Governor Greg Abbott triples down on efforts to use asylum seekers as political pawns, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, and Denver Mayor Mike Johnston called for additional federal support to manage the national asylum seeker crisis. With a record number of crossings at the border set yet again, New York City and other impacted cities have begun to see   more

HUNT VALLEY, Maryland, Dec. 28 -- EA Engineering, Science and Technology, a provider of environmental, compliance, natural resources, and infrastructure engineering and management solutions, issued the following news release: EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, Inc., PBC (EA), a leading provider of interdisciplinary environmental services, is proud to announce 16 officer-level appointments--2 to Senior Vice President and 14 to Vice President. Senior Vice President (SVP) * James Costello,  more

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 29 -- The Republican Party of Texas issued the following news release: The Republican Party of Texas (RPT) is releasing the following open letter from RPT Chairman Matt Rinaldi to the Texas Nationalist Movement regarding a ballot proposition on the March 2024 Republican Primary ballot. The letter states in part: "On December 11, 2023, at approximately 12:05 p.m., you submitted eleven boxes of petition signatures on behalf of the Texas Nationalist Movement in support of a ba  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Dec. 25 (TNSres) -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: By Bailey Noah Art and engineering collided in the third annual Artistic Engineering Contest, held annually by the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University. Initiated in 2020, the contest serves as a platform for students, faculty and staff to demonstrate how they see beauty in science and engineering. Art submissions were reviewed and ranked by faculty, sta  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Dec. 21 (TNSres) -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: By Raven Wuebker Polymer-air batteries often face challenges related to stability, kinetics and conductivity. In response, Dr. Jodie Lutkenhaus has developed a method to use a polymer as an anode in these batteries. In a recent article published by Joule, Lutkenhaus, associate department head of internal engagement and chemical engineering professor at Texas A&M University, col  more

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 30 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release: Governor Greg Abbott, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), and the Texas National Guard continue to work together to secure the border; stop the smuggling of drugs, weapons, and people into Texas; and prevent, detect, and interdict transnational criminal activity between ports of entry. Texas has bused: * Over 12,500 migrants to Washington, D.C. since April 2022 * Over 33,600 migrants to New York   more

ROSENBERG, Texas, Dec. 28 -- Texas State Technical College issued the following news: The year 2023 was a big one for Texas State Technical College across the state and at the Fort Bend County campus. With record enrollment, the groundbreaking for a new building and the addition of some programs, the campus had a lot happening. Bryan Bowling, provost for the campus, emphasized the collaborative efforts between TSTC, local and regional officials, and the community in helping spur along the grow  more

MARSHALL, Texas, Dec. 28 -- Texas State Technical College issued the following news on Dec. 27, 2023: According to Forbes Advisor, there are approximately 1.13 billion websites on the World Wide Web today, but 82% of them are inactive. Texas State Technical College created the Web Design and Development program in part to help future web developers create perpetually active websites that can be seen across the world. "One of the easiest ways a site can fail is that customers never see it becau  more

RIVERSIDE, California, Dec. 20 (TNSres) -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: * * * UC Riverside physicist helped develop PRIYA, a new cosmological simulation model * * * Distant quasars -- massive celestial objects that emit large amounts of energy -- make the brightest light in the universe. Using quasar light data, the National Science Foundation-funded Frontera supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, or TACC, helped UC Riverside astrono  more

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Dec. 28 (TNSres) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: A team led by University of Rhode Island doctoral student Priscilla Pena has won the 2023 Innovations in Teaching award from the Society of Marketing Advances for a strategy that uses competition to boost student participation and learning. Pena and Jen Riley, senior lecturer of marketing at Vanderbilt University, presented the strategy, "The Participation Competition," at the society's annual  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 30 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined a bipartisan amicus brief, led by the State of Texas, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Calhoun v Google. The case involves a question of privacy rights over syncing Chrome and Google accounts. The plaintiffs in the case allege that Google has been collecting and profiting off their personal information collected from Chrome - even when they   more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 28 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes led an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States in Texas v. New Mexico. The case involves a proposed resolution of a dispute over water rights between several states, which the federal government is attempting to block. In 2014, Texas sued New Mexico and Colorado claiming that New Mexico had breached the 1939 Rio Grande Compact, which apportions water fro  more