MONTEREY, California, March 22 -- The Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security issued the following story: Kelsey Nielsen (Emergence 2301) needed more space. Working in a room meant for two with five other people was already crowded, and too often they would have to move if other departments needed to use the conference room. Kelsey Nielsen After joining the Coconino County Emergency Management (CCEM) team in 2021, their emergency operations center (EOC) was activa  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, March 22 -- The Goldwater Institute issued the following commentary on March 21, 2023: * * * Tucson Teachers Union Threats Illegal Strike-Goldwater Demands Answers By Adam Shelton The largest teachers union in Tucson, Ariz., seems confused about whom schools exist to serve: teachers or students. Recently, the Tucson Education Association adopted a "strike-ready" resolution that leverages schoolchildren to demand more money-or else. But Arizona law prohibits government empl  more

ITHACA, New York, March 21 -- Cornell University issued the following news: Nicholas M. Kiefer, an economist whose deep curiosity and sharp insights into statistics and economic theory enabled him to parse an impressive range of financial and banking systems, died at home in Ithaca on March 12. He was 73. As the Ta-Chung Liu Professor in the Department of Economics in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Department of Statistics and Data Science in Cornell Bowers CIS, Kiefer's work touched on  more

TUCSON, Arizona, March 22 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: * * * The discovery, led by Haijiang Cai, an associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience, was observed in mice, but the findings could lead to human drug treatments. * * * Anorexia nervosa, a mental health disorder in which people dangerously restrict their eating or purge their stomachs soon after a meal, is one of the deadliest psychological diseases. Yet, what exactly happens biol  more