NEW PORT RICHEY, Florida, April 12 -- Pasco-Hernando State College issued the following news release: Daniel Powell, Ph.D., has been chosen to serve as Vice President of Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer for Pasco-Hernando State College beginning early June. "I am so excited to join the PHSC team because of its reputation as a high-quality, student-centered institution that is deeply committed to serving the needs of the almost 800,000 residents in Pasco and Hernando Counties. Servin  more

DAYTONA BEACH, Florida, April 12 -- Daytona State College issued the following news release: Daytona State College is launching a new apprenticeship program in Fall 2024 that will allow select school district employees in Volusia, Flagler and Brevard counties to pursue a career in teaching while continuing in their full-time positions. The program is supported through a $5 million statewide Pathways to Career Opportunities Grant aimed at designing a Grow Your Own Teacher Apprenticeship Progra  more

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, April 12 (TNSres) -- Eckerd College issued the following news: The 11th Annual Eckerd College Humanities Research Symposium, slated for April 26 in the Triton Room on the Eckerd campus, is a match made in academic heaven. The seminar provides students interested in conducting humanities research a supportive workshop environment to address questions about the craft of humanistic research and share findings as an interdisciplinary team. "Everyone is paired with a diffe  more

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, April 12 (TNSres) -- Eckerd College issued the following news: By Tom Zucco "I thought there was no way I was going to get in," recalls Eckerd College junior Julianna Kinser. "It was a one-in-a-million shot. But I hoped what would help was my interest in teaching, and in sharing what I know with underserved communities." She was right. It did. Julianna, an economics and mathematics student from Brentwood, Tennessee, recently received a full scholarship to attend the   more

MIAMI, Florida, April 12 (TNSres) -- Florida International University, a component of the public university system in Florida, issued the following news on April 11, 2024: Today, Logan Jenner is a healthy, happy 8-year-old who jumps tirelessly on his trampoline, dreams of visiting Hawaii and plans to tackle every sport imaginable -- from basketball and soccer to surfing and snowboarding. Once, he was Patient 13: a case of relapsed acute myeloid leukemia. Logan was part of a small, diverse gro  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, April 12 -- Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody issued the following news release on April 11, 2024: Attorney General Ashley Moody's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit today announced the arrest of Ira Roberts for financially exploiting an elderly Escambia resident. According to the MFCU investigation, Roberts systematically took more than $17,000 from the senior's bank account over an 18-month period, spending the funds on personal bills and purchases from DoorDash, Netflix, A  more

LAKELAND, Florida, April 12 (TNSres) -- Florida Polytechnic University issued the following news release: Dr. Sanna Siddiqui, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Florida Polytechnic University, has been awarded a prestigious CAREER award of $536,110 by the National Science Foundation. The five-year award is part of the NSF's Faculty Early Career Development Program. Siddiqui is researching the fatigue performance and failure of metal parts that are manufactured through a low-cost   more

BOCA RATON, Florida, April 12 -- Lynn University issued the following news: Lynn University's graduate education program has been recognized as one of the top programs in the nation by U.S. News & World Report in their 2024 Best Graduate Schools rankings. Lynn's Donald E. and Helen L. Ross College of Education offers two distinguished graduate degree tracks: educational leadership and exceptional student education (ESE). The master's in educational leadership is a one-year online program, wher  more

MIAMI, Florida, April 12 -- Miami-Dade County Public Schools issued the following news release: Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS), in partnership with Accelerate - The National Collaborative for Accelerated Learning and the University of Chicago Education Lab, announced a $9 million gift from Kenneth C. Griffin, founder and CEO of Citadel and founder of Griffin Catalyst, to support the expansion of high-dosage math tutoring for Miami-Dade students recovering from the education crisis ca  more

SENATOBIA, Mississippi, April 11 -- Northwest Mississippi Community College issued the following news release: Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society (PTK) will recognize 23 college administrators with Distinguished College Administrator Awards during PTK Catalyst 2024, the Society's annual convention in Orlando, Florida, April 4-6, 2024. The award recognizes college administrators working directly with student leaders to solve problems on campus and in their communities. They have taken an active inte  more

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, April 12 (TNSres) -- Palm Beach County issued the following news on April 10, 2024: On Monday, March 11, 2024, the Palm Beach County Public Safety Departments Division of Emergency Management's Community Rating System (CRS) and Local Mitigation Strategy (LMS) programs released the annual progress report for CRS Activity 510 - Floodplain Management Planning. This is an annual report summarizing activities implemented during 2023 by stakeholders to further flood mitigati  more

NEW PORT RICHEY, Florida, April 12 -- Pasco-Hernando State College issued the following news release: Pasco-Hernando State College has selected its recipients of the 2024 National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development Excellence Awards. Gina Rucavado, assistant professor, English; Ashley Cobb, program director, baccalaureate of supervision and management, and Douglas Perdue, emergency medical technician instructor, will join the ranks of past distinguished award recipients and be   more

MIAMI, Florida, April 11 -- The University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine issued the following Q&A on April 10, 2024, with Gilberto Lopes, associate director of global oncology at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center: * * * By Rachel Tompa When oncologist and cancer researcher Gilberto Lopes, M.D., tackles development of much-needed new drugs for lung cancer and other solid tumors, he doesn't consider his job done when a new treatment is approved for use in the clinic. The next st  more

MIAMI, Florida, April 12 (TNSres) -- The University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine issued the following news: By Charlotte Schubert Combining immunotherapy with a cancer-busting virus may provide a way forward to treat neuroendocrine tumors, a rare cancer that is growing in incidence. Data from an ongoing study, led by Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, was presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Meeting.   more

CORAL GABLES, Florida, April 12 (TNSres) -- The University of Miami issued the following news: * * * A Miami Herbert Business School student group is heading to Paris this summer to explore the marketing and branding aspects of the Summer Olympics. * * * The modern Olympic Games have evolved to become the largest multisport brand in the world, with unique viewership of the most recent games eclipsing three billion viewers. As the 10,500 best-in-the-world athletes fine-tune their performance   more

CORAL GABLES, Florida, April 11 (TNSres) -- The University of Miami issued the following news: * * * The latest round of U-LINK team research funding focuses on utilizing artificial intelligence tools to improve our world. * * * By Janette Neuwahl Tannen Concrete that would absorb carbon dioxide from the environment. A new technology to help quicken the pace of drug discovery, or to diagnose illnesses. Ten faculty teams studying a range of ways to harness artificial intelligence and machin  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 12 (TNSres) -- The University of Pittsburgh School of Education issued the following news: At the 2024 Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Conference, University of Pittsburgh School of Education students, faculty, and alumni presented research and engaged in rich discourse about advancing global learning and fostering cross-cultural dialogue. Held in Miami, Florida on March 10-14, the 2024 CIES Conference centered around the theme "The Power   more

SARASOTA, Florida, April 12 -- The University of South Florida's Sarasota-Manatee campus issued the following news on April 11, 2024: By Tina Meketa, University Communications and Marketing The last time Jason Hair's team built an automated process to improve the way help tickets are assigned at the IT Service Desk, it took months of development, required specialized technical expertise and was very expensive to maintain. Flash forward to today: This solution was recreated in just a couple of   more