CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, Jan. 11 (TNSres) -- The University of North Carolina's Gillings School of Global Public Health issued the following news: The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health announces the recipients of the first Gillings Research Excellence Awards. Eight faculty members were awarded $500 to help each support their research, scholarship and professional development. The purpose of the chair-nominated Gillings Research Excellence Awards is to recognize one early- to mid-  more

SALISBURY, North Carolina, Jan. 11 -- Catawba College issued the following news: Gidd Sasser, Catawba's Esports Program founding head coach and current director of Esports has been recognized as Director of the Fall 2023 season. "In 2018 Catawba College launched the first varsity Esports Program in the state of North Carolina and we were fortunate to hire Gidd Sasser," said Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer Jared Tice. "Since this time, Gidd has led the program to multiple champ  more

DURHAM, North Carolina, Jan. 11 (TNSres) -- Duke University issued the following news: A new report (https://rhg.com/research/us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-2023/) released Wednesday by the Rhodium Group estimated that U.S. greenhouse gas emissions fell 1.9 percent in 2023 compared to the previous year even as the economy grew. U.S. emissions have dropped 17.2 percent below 2005 levels, according to the report. While trending in the right direction, the report found the country must increase the   more

HIGH POINT, North Carolina, Jan. 11 -- High Point University issued the following news release: High Point University is one of just 40 colleges and universities in the nation to receive the 2024 Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement, an elective and voluntary designation that highlights an institution's commitment to community engagement and is awarded by the American Council on Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. This is the first time HPU has re  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Jan. 11 -- North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein issued the following news release: Attorney General Josh Stein supported proposed federal protections to make sure that digital payment and wallet services, including Venmo, CashApp, PayPal, and Zelle, are subject to the same protections as banks, credit unions, and other traditional financial institutions. "More and more North Carolinians are conducting business on Venmo and other digital payment platforms, and the  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Jan. 11 -- North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein issued the following news release on Jan. 10, 2024: Attorney General Josh Stein today reached a $61,000 settlement with Patrick Shawn Murphy, a behavioral health provider in Burlington, to resolve allegations that Murphy submitted false claims to the North Carolina Medicaid program. The settlement funds will be returned to the program. "I'm pleased that my office's Medicaid Investigations Division has been able to w  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Jan. 11 -- The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources' Natural Heritage Program issued the following news release: North Carolina's Natural Heritage Program proudly announces the completion of the "Classification of the Natural Communities of North Carolina," a comprehensive guidebook that serves as a definitive resource for ecologists, researchers, and conservationists. Available for free online, the PDF version can be accessed at: https://www.ncn  more

NEW YORK, Jan. 11 (TNSres) -- City College of New York issued the following news: Sanjoy Banerjee, Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at The City College of New York, and Director of the City University of New York (CUNY) Energy Institute, has been elected to the National Academy of Inventors' (NAI) Class of 2023 Fellows. Election as an Academy Fellow is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors. Banerjee and 161 other academic inventors will be inducted as   more

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, Jan. 11 (TNSres) -- Discovery Education, a division of Discovery Communications, issued the following news release: Discovery Education, with support from Discover Financial Services, released a new whitepaper - It's Time to Prioritize Financial Literacy in K-12 - highlighting the urgent need for financial literacy for school-aged children in the United States. The paper is the latest content from the Pathway to Financial Success in School program created by Discovery  more

DURHAM, North Carolina, Jan. 11 (TNSres) -- Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment issued the following news: The Vengosh Lab, led by Avner Vengosh, Nicholas Distinguished Professor of Environmental Quality, studies how natural and anthropogenic activities affect soil and water quality. Research areas include lead in soils and home dust, searching for alternative resources, fossil fuels (unconventional shale gas and oil; coal ash), renewables, environmental impacts of lithium mini  more

CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, Jan. 11 (TNSres) -- The University of North Carolina School of Medicine issued the following news release: * * * A research team led by Gaorav Gupta, MD, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the UNC School of Medicine and member of UNC Lineberger Cancer Center, discovered the inner workings of an immune response pathway that could aid in cancer prevention and treatment. * * * Every time a cancer cell divides, it sustains damage to i  more

CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, Jan. 11 (TNSres) -- The University of North Carolina School of Medicine issued the following news release: * * * In a new study, UNC School of Medicine's Brian Conlon, PhD, Duke's Josh Parsons, MD, PhD, and colleagues provide the best evidence to date for the significance of bacterial persister cells in the failure of antibiotics in the clinic. * * * Antibiotic overuse can lead to antibiotic resistance, but classic antibiotic resistance might not completely expla  more