HUNTINGTON, West Virginia, Jan. 19 (TNSres) -- Marshall University issued the following news release: Marshall University will host a presentation by sociologist Dr. William H. Turner, in recognition of Black History Month and in conjunction with the Great Voices Speaker's Series and the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) Quality Initiative. The presentation will be at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 31, in the Drinko Library Atrium, located on the third floor. Turner, who is based near Houston, Texas, w  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 -- Sen. Robert Casey Jr., D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: Casey secures $387,500 for Pennsylvania Wilds Center for Entrepreneurship, an economic development organization Appalachian Regional Commission grant made possible by Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will help spur new investment in communities in North Central Pennsylvania Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) secured a $387,500 grant for the Pennsylvania Wilds Center for   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 19 -- Ceres, a non-profit organization that is mobilizing many of the world's largest companies and investors to take stronger action on climate change, water scarcity and other global sustainability challenges, issued the following news release: A new benchmark analysis of 12 of the largest U.S. electric utility companies finds significant inconsistencies between utilities' public climate commitments and their direct and indirect climate lobbying practices. The ass  more

DURHAM, North Carolina, Jan. 19 -- Duke University Pratt School of Engineering issued the following news: Duke Engineering is working toward the launch of a new "Center for Engineering in the Global Community," which will span across and support all disciplines within the school. The brainchild of David Schaad, professor of the practice of civil and environmental engineering, and Ann Saterbak, professor of the practice of biomedical engineering, and featuring more than a dozen other research an  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 -- Energy and Fuels, a peer-reviewed scientific journal from the American Chemical Society that says it publishes research in the intersection of chemistry and chemical engineering and non-nuclear energy and fuels, published research articles on the following topics in its Jan. 18, 2024, edition (Vol. 38, Issue 2): Reviews: * Mini-Review on Water-Oil Emulsions through Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation * Progress and Perspectives of Solar Cells: A Critical Review * Min  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -- Rep. Jared Huffman, D-California, issued the following news release: The House Natural Resources Committee approved legislation Wednesday to address Republican concerns about energy poverty, in addition to a major outdoor recreation package and a bipartisan geothermal permitting bill. Wyoming Republican Rep. Harriet Hageman's "Energy Poverty Prevention and Accountability Act," H.R. 5482, would require federal agencies to publish studies on potential increases in home he  more

BLOOMINGTON, Indiana, Jan. 19 -- Indiana University issued the following news release: The IUPUI 2023 Charles R. Bantz Community Fellowship will support a traveling exhibition and series of public conversations that explore the history of environmental injustice in Indianapolis. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, Chancellor's Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies in the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI, and Laura Holzman, professor and public scholar of curatorial practices and visual art in the   more

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, Jan. 19 (TNSres) -- Indiana University-Purdue University's Indianapolis Campus issued the following news: The IUPUI 2023 Charles R. Bantz Community Fellowship will support a traveling exhibition and series of public conversations that explore the history of environmental injustice in Indianapolis. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, Chancellor's Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies in the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI, and Laura Holzman, professor and public scholar of c  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Jan. 18 -- The University of Wisconsin Madison campus issued the following news: Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have taken a novel approach to assessing canine vision. Their recent study uses a dog's interest in a variety of video content to better measure the quality of its vision. iStock / damedeeso Ever wonder what kind of TV shows your dog might choose if they could work the remote control? New research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Scho  more

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan. 19 (TNSres) -- KTH Royal Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * The climate tax works. Without it, emissions from industry would be much higher. But there is more to be done to further reduce emissions, according to a study from KTH. * * * Without a carbon tax, greenhouse gas emissions from Swedish manufacturing companies would have been about 30 per cent higher in 2015, according to calculations in a study led by Christian Thomann, a researcher in i  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 19 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * At the MIT Energy Initiative Fall Colloquium, Shell's chief technology officer laid out two very different potential paths for the decades ahead. * * * By Calvin Hennick, MIT Energy Initiative Yuri Sebregts, chief technology officer at Shell, succinctly laid out the energy dilemma facing the world over the rest of this century. On one hand, demand for energy is quickly   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 -- Science, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Association for the Advancement of Science that says it features human genome, martian surface and studies tying AIDS to human immunodeficiency virus, published research articles on the following topics in its Jan. 19, 2024, edition (Vol. 383, Issue 6680): News: - In Depth * Uprooted Ukrainian academics reboot in exile * Bacteria stitch exotic building blocks into novel proteins * EPA scraps plan to end all testing i  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 -- Science, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, published research articles on the following topics in its Jan. 19, 2024, edition (Vol. 383, Issue 6680): News: - In Depth * Uprooted Ukrainian academics reboot in exile * Bacteria stitch exotic building blocks into novel proteins * EPA scraps plan to end all testing in mammals by 2035 * A mammoth's life story, written in tusk * Wisconsin bill would restrict pathogen stud  more

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, Jan. 19 -- The University of Virginia issued the following news release: Historic restorations often leave a building looking much the same when they are finished, but the University of Virginia's newly restored University Chapel will look the same and also very different. "I think this one is going to have a 'wow' factor, where people are going to say it really does look a lot different than when we started," said James Zehmer, a senior historic preservation project  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Click here or on the image above to watch Senator Capito's floor speech. WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Vice Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference and Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, delivered remarks on the Senate Floor regarding the failed energy and environment policies of the Biden administration. D  more