HUNTERSVILLE, North Carolina, March 22 -- American Tire Distributors issued the following agency statement on March 21, 2024: * * * No matter what you may want to call it, climate change is real and we're experiencing the effects of it all over the world in many ways. We get that and we understand the role tires play in impacting the environment. That's why we're a persistent catalyst, intent on accelerating the circular tire economy. Sustainability is fully integrated with our corporate pur  more

SALISBURY, North Carolina, March 22 (TNSres) -- Catawba College issued the following news: * * * Catawba College faculty member, Dr. Diana Riser, had a book chapter and journal article accepted for publication. * * * The journal article was accepted to the Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma and is entitled "Electrocortical correlates of emotion processing in resilient and non-resilient individuals." The article, co-authored with a former student and a former colleague examines how childhoo  more

HIGH POINT, North Carolina, March 22 -- High Point University issued the following news release: The North Carolina Court of Appeals recently held oral arguments on High Point University's campus, marking the appellate court's first visit to HPU since the university started the Kenneth F. Kahn School of Law. Two panels, each consisting of three judges from the North Carolina Court of Appeals, convened inside the Callicutt Life Skills Theater on March 14. The judges listened and asked question  more

BANNER ELK, North Carolina, March 22 -- Lees-McRae College issued the following news on March 20, 2024: On Saturday, March 16, Lees-McRae College hosted the Daniel Boone Council of Boy Scouts of America for their 2024 Merit Badge College event. Each year the Merit Badge College event is held as a day of advancement within the Scouts, focusing on Scout spirit, fun, and the earning of Scout merit badges. Scouts who signed up were able to camp overnight on the college's South Campus property, exp  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 22 -- The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality issued the following news release: The open burning of trash, metal, plastic and all other man-made materials not only harms the environment and poses a public health risk, it's against state law. The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality's Division of Air Quality is reminding North Carolinians: If it doesn't grow, don't burn it. Open burning is only allowed in limited circumstances and onl  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 22 -- Gov. Roy Cooper, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on March 20, 2024: Today, Governor Roy Cooper hosted a Women's History Month celebration at the Executive Mansion and honored women in state government. This year's theme is "Celebrating Women in State Government who have worked tirelessly to ensure North Carolina works for all." "This month, we recognize the dedicated women state employees who work to improve the lives of all North Caroli  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 22 (TNSres) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: A gene associated with courtship behavior in fruit flies does not operate the same way in two different fruit fly species, a new study finds. The work demonstrates that conserved genes - the same genes found across species - do not necessarily have the same function across species. Fruitless (fru) is a gene common to fruit flies and many other insect species. The gene is associated   more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 21 -- North Carolina State Treasurer Dale R. Folwell issued the following news release on March 20, 2024: Packaged goods giant Unilever, PLC announced Tuesday, March 19, that it was giving the cold shoulder to the ice cream business that it started in 1922. In a press release (https://www.unilever.com/news/press-and-media/press-releases/2024/unilever-to-accelerate-growth-action-plan-through-separation-of-ice-cream-and-launch-of-productivity-programme/), the U.K.-b  more

GREENSBORO, North Carolina, March 22 -- North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University issued the following news: A student from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has been chosen as a scholar for the 2023-24 All of Us Research Scholar Program. Denise Dawson, a fifth-year doctoral student in social work from Hope Mills, North Carolina, will receive a stipend to participate in an eight-month program focused on professional development, hands-on health researc  more

MORRISVILLE, North Carolina, March 22 -- Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority issued the following news release on March 21, 2024: The Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority Board passed a $419 million budget Thursday for the fiscal year beginning April 1. The Fiscal Year 2024-2025 budget is based on projected record traffic totaling more than 15.5 million passengers, a 1.1 million passenger increase compared to Fiscal Year 2023-2024. The budget spends $133 million on operating expenses and invests $226   more

HOUSTON, Texas, March 21 -- Rice University issued the following news release: Rice University and collaborators at The Texas Heart Institute, the Georgia Institute of Technology and North Carolina State University have received two grants from the United States Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health to develop and optimize left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) -- circulatory support pumps implanted as an alternative to heart transplantation for patients with end-stage   more

CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, March 22 (TNSres) -- The University of North Carolina School of Medicine issued the following news release: * * * A new study, led by Ana T. Nogueira, PhD, Rebekah Layton, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine and collaborators from the NIH Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (NIH BEST) consortium, examined career confidence in graduate and postdoctoral trainees and explored how to better support international trainees across a diverse array of career paths.  more