HOLLAND, Michigan, April 12 -- Hope College issued the following news: The words penned by the Rev. Albertus C. Van Raalte when establishing the Pioneer School from which Hope grew are among the college's most foundational: education as an "anchor of hope" for the future. Through all the decades since, that promise has been shepherded by generations of faculty mentors who have not only been at Hope, but in a real sense have been and are Hope. Across campus -- in the classroom, in the laboratory  more

WICHITA, Kansas, April 12 -- Friends University issued the following news: Friends University will honor the 2024 graduating class at this year's Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 11, 2024, at INTRUST Bank Arena at 2 p.m. The ceremony will recognize graduates from the university's Wichita and Overland Park sites as well as online graduates. Dr. James Bryan Smith, author, minister, and founder and executive Director of the Apprentice Institute for Christian Spiritual Formation will give t  more

MANHATTAN, Kansas, April 12 -- Kansas State University issued the following news release: Kansas State University Salina welcomes the Salina-area community to attend the next Civic Lecture Series discussion, "Homelessness to Housed," at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, April 18, at the campus's College Center Conference Room. The discussion will explore homelessness in central Kansas, exposing attendees to issues of home insecurity and providing them with tools to contribute to a solution. Admission is f  more

TOPEKA, Kansas, April 11 -- The Kansas Corporation Commission announced the following dockets on April 10, 2024: * * * 24-CONS-3282-CEXC Docket Type: CEXC - Exception To Rules And Regulations Docket Description: Application - Merit Energy Company, LLC Date Filed: 04/10/2024 * * * 24-TRAM-669-OOS Docket Type: OOS - Out of Service Docket Description: In the Matter of the Suspension of Operating Authority of Omar Trucking LLC Date Filed: 04/10/2024 * * * Original text here: https://esta  more

TOPEKA, Kansas, April 11 -- The Kansas Corporation Commission announced the following dockets on April 9, 2024: * * * 24-TRAM-5070-TRA Docket Type: TRA - Transportation Order Docket Description: Transportation Orders Date Filed: 04/09/2024 * * * 24-CONS-3287-CEXC Docket Type: CEXC - Exception To Rules And Regulations Docket Description: Application - Own Resources Operating LLC Date Filed: 04/09/2024 * * * 24-CONS-3288-CEXC Docket Type: CEXC - Exception To Rules And Regulations Doc  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, April 12 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: A record 52 students from 13 teams across the U.S. competed in the fourth annual KU Professional Selling Program/King's Hawaiian Sales Competition on April 5-6 at Capitol Federal Hall. This year's competition featured teams from the University of Kansas School of Business, as well as the University of Arizona, University of Central Missouri, Indiana State University, University of Iowa, University of Georgia, Mar  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 12 -- Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers issued the following news release: Attorney General Mike Hilgers joined a 13-state coalition in a lawsuit to stop the Biden Administration's hidden subsidy for electric vehicles and to defend ethanol. In his most recent assault on gas vehicles, President Biden is creating a rule that overstates the efficiency of electric cars by more than six times. This illegal bolstering of electric vehicles negatively affects car owners,  more

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico, April 12 (TNSres) -- New Mexico State University issued the following news release: Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend program, Jamie Bronstein, a New Mexico State University history professor, will be researching what was once known as New Mexico's "Territorial Insane Asylum." A transatlantic historian, usually focused on Britain and the United States, Bronstein in recent years has grown interested in less researched areas of New Mexico   more

NORMAN, Oklahoma, April 12 (TNSres) -- The University of Oklahoma issued the following news release: Hanping Ding, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, has been awarded a $3.1 million grant from the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office in the Department of Energy through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to further research in clean hydrogen production. The funding is part of a $750 million effort in President B  more

PARKVILLE, Missouri, April 12 -- Park University issued the following news: In celebration of the leadership achievements of Park University students, faculty and staff during the 2023-24 academic year, the Office of Student Life and the Park Student Government Association announced recipients of honors as part of the 29th annual Dr. Doris A. Howell Leadership Awards. The awards program, held on April 10, is named for Howell, a 1944 Park graduate who was an internationally renowned leader in pe  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, April 12 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: A survey of orchid bees in the Brazilian Amazon state of Rondonia, carried out in the 1990s, is shedding new light the impact of deforestation on the scent-collecting pollinators, which some view as bellwethers of biodiversity in the neotropics. The findings, from a researcher at the University of Kansas, are published today in the peer-reviewed journal Biological Conservation. "This study on orchid bee  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, April 12 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: Writer Hanif Abdurraqib will visit Lawrence as part of his current book tour for a talk at 7 p.m. April 16 at Liberty Hall. He will read from his latest book, "There's Always This Year" (Random House, 2024). Abdurraqib is from Columbus, Ohio, and has written on music, culture, identity, and as is the subject of his most recent book, basketball. In addition to "There's Always This Year," he has published three boo  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, April 12 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: The Center for Undergraduate Research is hosting online and in-person research presentations to celebrate Undergraduate Research Week. The 27th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium provides students a venue to share the results of their research and creative projects and the KU community the opportunity to learn from their discoveries. There are 149 presentations registered for the 2024 Online Undergr  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, April 12 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: A University of Kansas professor who teaches data storytelling has written new work about how embracing the idea that data is all around can be a new approach to teaching writing. Each semester, Christopher Etheridge, assistant professor of journalism & mass communications, hears students ask how much math will be involved in a class or suggest that they are not good with numbers. In a chapter for the ne  more