BURBANK, California, Jan. 10 -- ABC, a division of Walt Disney, issued the following news release on Jan. 9, 2024: * * * TUESDAY, JAN. 23 10:00-11:00 p.m. EST - The Rookie: "Labor Day" (502) (Rebroadcast. OAD: 10/2/22) Logline: Officer John Nolan is moving closer to his new role as a training officer and tasked with overseeing Officer Aaron Thorson. Meanwhile, Lucy's successful undercover assignment earns her an invitation for specialized training in Sacramento. (TV-14, L) Watch episodes on  more

RIVERSIDE, California, Jan. 10 -- Bourns, a manufacturer and supplier of electronic components, issued the following news release on Jan. 9, 2024: Bourns, Inc., a leading manufacturer and supplier of electronic components for power, protection, and sensing solutions, today released the industry's first planar signal BMS transformer. Meeting the need for planar technology that can provide reliable and safe communication in a growing group of high voltage electric vehicle (EV) and other high ener  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Jan. 10 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on Jan. 9, 2024: Building on partnerships with law enforcement and the Legislature, successful efforts to fight crime, and record-level investments to strengthen public safety, Governor Gavin Newsom today called for new legislation expanding criminal penalties, bolstering police and prosecutor tools to combat theft and take down professional criminals who profit from smash and grabs, retail the  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Jan. 10 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on Jan. 9, 2024: Today, Governor Gavin Newsom's Administration launched Build.ca.gov to highlight once-in-a-generation investments in California infrastructure that will benefit communities around the state. With $41 billion already at work thanks to historic state funding and unprecedented help from the Biden-Harris Administration, the website illustrates how transformative these investments a  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Jan. 10 -- The California Public Utilities Commission issued the following decision denying compensation (Agenda ID No. 22153) on Jan. 9, 2024. Here are excerpts: * * * BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA Application of Pacific Gas and Electric Company for Approval of the Retirement of Diablo Canyon Power Plant, Implementation of the Joint Proposal, And Recovery of Associated Costs Through Proposed Ratemaking Mechanisms. (U39E.) DECIS  more

NORTHRIDGE, California, Jan. 10 -- California State University's Northridge Campus issued the following news release: California State University, Northridge has been awarded a five-year, $3 million Title V grant from the U.S. Department of Education DHSI (Developing Hispanic Serving Institutions) program for the creation of a new project to increase the number of underrepresented students studying science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) and the arts, and health sciences and to clo  more

SAN MARCOS, California, Jan. 10 -- California State University's San Marcos Campus issued the following news: Dr. Bill W. Stacy, the founding president of Cal State San Marcos, died on Jan. 4 in Cape Girardeau, Mo., after a lengthy illness. He was 85. At the time of its founding, CSUSM was the first U.S. public state university to be established in more than 20 years. In fall 1989, Stacy was given one year to hire founding faculty and lay the groundwork for CSUSM's campus, academic mission and  more

RIVERSIDE, California, Jan. 10 -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: UC Riverside has received the 2024 Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement. The announcement was made Jan. 8 by the American Council on Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The designation recognizes UCR's strong community-engaged research, as well as collaborations with area schools, non-profit organizations, businesses, and other organ  more

SAN DIEGO, California, Jan. 10 -- General Atomics Aeronautical Systems issued the following news release: General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) demonstrated its rapidly maturing open standards-based autonomy ecosystem for Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAVs) on an MQ-20 Avenger(R) as part of a live flight test on Nov. 2, 2023. The flight combined three autonomy providers, government-provided human-machine interface (HMI) hardware, and GA-ASI's autonomy core to meet multiple object  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Jan. 10 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release on Jan. 9, 2024: Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of 16 attorneys general, today filed an amicus brief (https://ilag-dev.dotcms.cloud/dA/d3f4c64b-77a9-4509-baaf-28007e76d94a/fileAsset/Amicus%20Brief%20As%20Filed%20-%20Regino%20v.%20Staley%2023-16031%20(1).pdf) in support of a California school district in Regino v. Stanley, a case addressing the constitutionality of the dist  more

SAN DIEGO, California, Jan. 10 -- LPL Financial LLC, a company that provides support from independent financial advisors to financial institutions, issued the following news release on Jan. 9, 2024: LPL Financial LLC announced today that financial advisor Peter Manning, CPA, PFS of Helmsman Financial Strategies has joined LPL Financials' broker-dealer, RIA and custodial platforms. The firm reported serving about 200 individual clients with approximately $175 million in advisory assets* and join  more

PASADENA, California, Jan. 9 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: When our Sun was a young star, 4.56 billion years ago, what is now our solar system was just a disk of rocky dust and gas. Over tens of millions of years, tiny pebbles of dust coalesced, like a snowball rolling larger and larger, to become kilometer-sized "planetesimals"--the building blocks of Earth and the other inner planets. Researchers have long tried to understand the ancient environments in  more

SAN BERNARDINO, California, Jan. 10 -- California State University San Bernardino campus issued the following news: Ontario Police Detective Cameron Williams, a CSUSB alumnus, credits the college education he received as being an important factor in gaining life experience and success in his career. Jan. 9 is National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day. Cal State San Bernardino alumnus and Ontario Police Detective Cameron Williams (15' BS, kinesiology), says he's thankful for the education he re  more

SANTA CLARA, California, Jan. 9 -- NVIDIA, a designer of graphics processing units for the gaming, cryptocurrency and professional markets, issued the following news release on Jan. 8, 2024: NVIDIA today announced GeForce RTX(TM) SUPER desktop GPUs for supercharged generative AI performance, new AI laptops from every top manufacturer, and new NVIDIA RTX(TM)-accelerated AI software and tools for both developers and consumers. Building on decades of PC leadership, with over 100 million of its RT  more

MALIBU, California, Jan. 10 -- Pepperdine University issued the following news: In December 2023, Pepperdine Libraries officially launched "Preserving the History of South Los Angeles," an initiative to preserve the voices and lived experiences of the South Los Angeles Black community. With support from California Humanities, a nonprofit organization that funds humanities-based projects and programs to help tell the stories of California, the project features recorded oral history interviews fr  more

MALIBU, California, Jan. 10 -- Pepperdine University issued the following news on Jan. 8, 2024: Following extensive research, development, and collaboration across the institution, president Jim Gash announced today the launch of the University's new logo. The new logo reinforces the University's brand pillars of Christian faith and academic excellence. Trademarked in the fall of 2023, the logo will be visible across the institutional landscape and incorporated in all branding materials effect  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Jan. 10 -- Platinum Equity, an investment firm, issued the following news release on Jan. 9, 2024: Platinum Equity announced today the acquisitions of Augusta Sportwear Brands ("ASB") and Founder Sport Group ("FSG"). Both companies are suppliers of team uniforms, and off-field performance wear and fan apparel for the youth and recreational sports markets. Financial terms of the private transactions were not disclosed. "Youth sports play an important role in society an  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Jan. 10 -- The California Public Utilities Commission issued the following news release on Jan. 9, 2024: The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) will hold a webinar to demystify the application process for its new Clean Energy Access (CEA) Grant Program. With grants reaching up to $500,000, this initiative is tailored to support projects that enhance access to, or education about, the CPUC's clean energy programs. The expert-led panel, featuring application   more

DAVIS, California, Jan. 10 (TNSres) -- The University of California's Davis School of Law issued the following news: Chancellor Gary S. May has selected Professor Irene Oritseweyinmi Joe as a 2023-24 UC Davis Chancellor's Fellow. As part of the five-year fellowship, Joe will receive a one-time award of $25,000 to support research, teaching and service activities. Established in 2000, the Chancellor's Fellows program honors the achievements of outstanding faculty members still early in their ca  more

SAN DIEGO, California, Jan. 10 -- Qualcomm, a developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies, products and services, issued the following news release: * * * Highlights: * New cockpit and ADAS integration platform from Bosch based on the Snapdragon Ride Flex system-on-chip (SoC), Qualcomm Technologies' leading-edge platform designed to support mixed criticality workloads and allowance for digital cockpit and ADAS functions to co-exist on one single SoC. * Empowers automakers to re  more

SAN DIEGO, California, Jan. 10 -- Qualcomm, a developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies, products and services, issued the following news release: * * * Highlights: * Snapdragon Digital Chassis maintains strong momentum with full suite of products for next generation Gen AI-enabled digital cockpits, connected car technologies, connected services, advanced driver assistance and automated driving systems. * Comprehensive automotive product portfolio with industry leading perfor  more

LA JOLLA, California, Jan. 10 -- The Salk Institute for Biological Studies issued the following news release: Salk Institute Professor Terrence Sejnowski has been named 2024 Scientist of the Year by the ARCS Foundation of San Diego. The ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Students) San Diego chapter is honoring Sejnowski for his pioneering research in neural networks and computational neuroscience. Each year, an ARCS committee that includes multiple members and the foundation's president, an  more

SANTA CRUZ, California, Jan. 10 -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news: The Division of Undergraduate Education at UC Santa Cruz is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Soraya Murray as the new Provost of Porter College, effective July 1, 2024. Dr. Murray, an esteemed interdisciplinary scholar with a passion for mentorship, will bring a unique perspective to her new role. "As a talented and collaborative leader, Soraya will serve as a champion for the  more

SANTA CRUZ, California, Jan. 10 -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news: The Division of Undergraduate Education at UC Santa Cruz proudly announces the appointment of Shelly Grabe as the new Provost of Rachel Carson College, effective July 1, 2024. Grabe, a Professor of Social Psychology at UC Santa Cruz, brings a depth of experience in research, activism, and interdisciplinary collaboration. "The Colleges, College Provosts, and the Council of Provosts, are   more

RIVERSIDE, California, Jan. 10 (TNSres) -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: * * * Discovery opens window to more effective treatment * * * Meet MYC, the shapeless protein responsible for making the majority of human cancer cases worse. UC Riverside researchers have found a way to rein it in, offering hope for a new era of treatments. In healthy cells, MYC helps guide the process of transcription, in which genetic information is converted from DNA into  more

LA JOLLA, California, Jan. 10 -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following statement on Jan. 8, 2024, by Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla: * * * Welcome back to campus, and Happy New Year! As we begin 2024, we have the opportunity to look back at the past year, celebrate our many successes and evaluate our progress against our ambitious institutional goals. I am immensely proud of all we have accomplished. Together, we expanded our education, research and health enterpr  more

LA JOLLA, California, Jan. 10 -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news release: Algorithms seem to follow us wherever we go, relentlessly recording and subtly influencing the relationships we have with others. Media artist Lauren Lee McCarthy is fascinated by the potential consequences--a diminishing boundary between self and systems, the embracing of efficiency at the cost of privacy and the cultural impacts when values are imparted in code. A solo exhibitio  more

LA JOLLA, California, Jan. 10 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news release: As part of ongoing efforts to understand the scale of the environmental impact from industrial waste dumping off the coast of Southern California, researchers from UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography revisited two industrial undersea dumpsites in April 2023 to identify objects discarded on the seafloor. Led by Scripps oceanographers Sophia Merrifield and Er  more

LA JOLLA, California, Jan. 10 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news release: University of California San Diego and Salk Institute Professor Terrence Sejnowski has been named 2024 Scientist of the Year by the ARCS Foundation of San Diego. The ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Students) San Diego chapter is honoring Sejnowski for his pioneering research in neural networks and computational neuroscience. Each year, an ARCS committee that includes  more

LA JOLLA, California, Jan. 10 -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news release: Following an extensive national search, Diane M. Simeone, MD, has been appointed director of Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health, effective April 1, 2024. Simeone brings robust institutional, national and international leadership experience to both oncologic patient care and scientific research, with a focus on establishing novel models of interdisciplinary collaboration.   more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Jan. 9 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Francisco campus issued the following news release: * * * Researchers have found a gene that links deafness to cell death in the inner ear in humans - creating new opportunities for averting hearing loss. * * * A person's hearing can be damaged by loud noise, aging and even certain medications, with little recourse beyond a hearing aid or cochlear implant. But now, UCSF scientists have achieved a breakthrough in   more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Jan. 10 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Francisco campus issued the following news release: * * * CRISPR collaboration combines expertise from three UC schools to scale treatment for diseases that industry has largely passed by - until now. * * * Children and adults with rare, deadly genetic diseases have fresh hope for curative therapies, thanks to a new collaboration between the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) and Danaher Corporation, a global li  more

SANTA CRUZ, California, Jan. 10 (TNSres) -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news: * * * Alumna and Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate reflects on her academic journey and career * * * Growing up in Southern California, the daughter of two Iranian immigrant parents, Farnaz Fatemi (Porter, '91, American studies) didn't necessarily feel connected to her heritage. It wasn't until she attended UC Santa Cruz as an undergraduate student, taking courses in women's st  more

BERKELEY, California, Jan. 10 (TNSres) -- The University of California Law School issued the following news: By Andrew Cohen Several Berkeley Law alumni were among a group of leading experts who examined new developments and vexing challenges at a recent conference on gender discrimination, harassment, and violence. Advocates, investigators, and academics provided updates from California and around the world at the event, presented by the school's Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and A  more

RIVERSIDE, California, Jan. 10 (TNSres) -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: * * * AI queries can potentially be used for nefarious purposes * * * UC Riverside computer scientists have identified a security flaw in vision language artificial intelligence (AI) models that can allow bad actors to use AI for nefarious purposes, such as obtaining instructions on how to make bomb. When integrated with models like Google Bard and Chat GPT, vision language mo  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Jan. 10 -- The University of California's Los Angeles School of Law issued the following news on Jan. 9, 2024: Kendra Fox-Davis '06 brings a unique "inside-outside" perspective to her work. She has dedicated her career to protecting civil rights, from grassroots activism as a student to being a civil rights attorney for the U.S. Department of Education, and later working within the University of California to ensure compliance with anti-discrimination laws and policies.  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Jan. 10 (TNSres) -- The University of Southern California issued the following news release: A previously unidentified genetic mutation in a small protein provides significant protection against Parkinson's disease and offers a new direction for exploring potential treatments, according to a new USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology study. The variant, located in a mitochondrial microprotein dubbed SHLP2, was found to be highly protective against Parkinson's disease;  more