BURBANK, California, April 13 -- ABC, a division of Walt Disney, issued the following news release on April 12, 2024: * * * WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17 9:00-9:32 p.m. EDT - Abbott Elementary: "2 Ava 2 Fest" (310) Logline: Ava Fest is back, and with the help of the teachers, Ava's set on outdoing last year by any means necessary. After Janine accepts the offer for a full-time position at the district, she just has to check off one last thing to make it official. (TV-14, L) Watch episodes next day on  more

BURBANK, California, April 13 -- ABC, a division of Walt Disney, issued the following news release on April 12, 2024: * * * WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24 8:30-9:32 p.m. EDT - Not Dead Yet: "Not The End Yet/Not A Ghost Yet" (209/210) (Season Finale) Logline: Nell finds out that Duncan is selling the SoCal Independent, so she takes matters into her own hands to save her job when Lexi seems unwilling to help. Then, Nell navigates an unexpected incident that leaves the sale of the newspaper on hold. Watc  more

SACRAMENTO, California, April 12 (TNSres) -- Advanced Energy United issued the following news release on April 11, 2024: * * * Virtual power plants can provide opportunities for Californians to deliver power back into the grid * * * A new study from Brattle Group evaluates the potential of five different consumer technologies that could improve California's electricity grid. Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) are systems of distributed energy resources (DERs)--such as solar panels, smart thermosta  more

ITHACA, New York, April 12 -- Cornell University issued the following news: Apologies to Lana Del Rey and Doja Cat, but attendees at this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival - which kicks off today - will be forgiven if their eyes stray from the stage. Standing in the middle of the Empire Polo Club grounds in Indio, California, and reaching 72 feet in height, is "Monarchs: A House in Six Parts," a towering architectural-art installation designed by Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic, ass  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, April 13 -- Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes issued the following news release on April 12, 2024: Attorney General Kris Mayes today announced that California resident Donald Franklin Huegel was convicted and sentenced for his part in a romance scam that defrauded two elderly Arizonans. Huegel participated in the criminal enterprise for two years by funneling money from victims to his co-conspirators in Africa. The victims were each contacted by someone posing as a romantic   more

SACRAMENTO, California, April 13 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following statement on April 12, 2024: * * * Governor Gavin Newsom issued the following statement on the Biden-Harris Administration's announcement of grant funding to address humanitarian and security efforts at the southern border: "Let's be clear: President Biden is doing all he can to fund border security and humanitarian efforts while Republicans in Congress are choosing border chaos for political gain. "As   more

PASADENA, California, April 12 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: David Goodstein, the Frank J. Gilloon Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor, Emeritus, and professor of physics and applied physics, emeritus, passed away on April 10. He served as a professor at Caltech for more than four decades, and as the Institute's vice provost from 1987 to 2007. His research focused on condensed matter physics, in particular on phases and phase transitions in two- a  more

SAN JOSE, California, April 13 -- Cisco Systems issued the following news release on April 12, 2024: * * * News Summary: * Cisco has completed the acquisition of Isovalent, Inc., a leader in open source cloud native networking and security * Together, Cisco and Isovalent will build leading edge protection for every workload on every cloud * Cisco is committed to nurturing and supporting eBPF, Cilium, Tetragon, and cloud native open source communities * * * Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today annou  more

EL SEGUNDO, California, April 13 -- The Los Angeles Times issued the following news release: The Los Angeles Times has earned three awards and five finalist nods in the Sacramento Press Club's fourth annual Journalism Awards contest. The awards, honoring exceptional politics and policy journalism published in 2023, were presented at a dinner in Sacramento on April 11. Among the top honors: Columnist Sammy Roth was named Journalist of the Year, which recognizes a California journalist whose wor  more

HUNTINGTON, West Virginia, April 13 -- Marshall University issued the following news release: Aaron Blankenship, West Virginia Collegiate Recovery Network (WVCRN) team member and peer recovery support specialist at Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College will be honored with the ARHE Cornerstone Award for Student Support at the 2024 Association of Recovery in Higher Education (ARHE) National Collegiate Recovery Conference in San Diego, California, this summer. The award honors an  more

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- George Washington University issued the following news: Harvard College and the California Institute of Technology announced this week that they will require prospective students to submit standardized test scores again, joining several other institutions that have recently made SAT and ACT scores a requirement for undergraduate admission. According to The Washington Post, colleges and universities like Dartmouth, Yale, and Brown have cited data suggesting that SAT and A  more

WACO, Texas, April 13 (TNScapv) -- Baylor University issued the following news: Baylor University is the host site of the 2024 National Bioethics Bowl, an intercollegiate academic competition in which students from U.S. colleges and universities debate a wide variety of bioethics topics - from ethical issues arising in current events in healthcare and clinical scenarios to those that would arise in fictional scenarios with futuristic health technologies. The National Bioethics Bowl will take p  more

REDWOOD SHORES, California, April 8 -- Oracle, a developer of hardware and software products, issued the following news release: ACAMS The Assembly Hollywood, Hollywood, FL - April 8, 2024 With $5.05 trillion expected to be laundered this year alone, banks are struggling to keep up with the cost and complexity of compliance. To help address this massive challenge, Oracle Financial Services today introduced Oracle Financial Services Compliance Agent. The AI-powered cloud service enables banks t  more

BURBANK, California, April 13 -- ABC, a division of Walt Disney, issued the following news release on April 12, 2024: * * * ABC's Emmy(R) Award-winning late-night talk show, "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," airs every weeknight at 11:35 p.m. EDT and features a diverse lineup of guests that includes celebrities, athletes, musical acts, comedians and human-interest subjects, along with comedy bits and a house band. The following episodes are scheduled to air the week of April 15-19 (subject to change): M  more

RIVERSIDE, California, April 13 (TNSres) -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: AI applications often involve lots of computations. Zizhong Chen is finding ways to speed up AI applications using high performance computing technologies. https://www.cs.ucr.edu/~chen/index.html zizhong.chen@ucr.edu Vagelis Hristidis, Professor, Computer Science & Engineering His work correlating Twitter and financial data in 2012 was featured by The New York Times, Forbes an  more

RIVERSIDE, California, April 13 (TNSres) -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: For fast access to experts, email news@ucr.edu * * * Jinyong Liu, associate professor of chemical and environmental engineering Associate Professor Jinyong Liu has studied more than 100 PFAS compounds and discovered chemical processes that destroy most of these compounds by multiple technologies, including a combination of ultraviolet light and common chemicals such as sulfite  more

RIVERSIDE, California, April 13 (TNSres) -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: * * * UC Riverside study offers an explanation for dark matter distribution in a massive quiescent galaxy * * * Last September, the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, discovered JWST-ER1g, a massive ancient galaxy that formed when the universe was just a quarter of its current age. Surprisingly, an Einstein ring is associated with this galaxy. That's because JWST-ER1g acts a  more

MERCED, California, April 13 (TNSres) -- The University of California Merced issued the following news: The world of energy is changing so quickly that the processes used for planning can't keep up. UC Merced electrical engineering Professor Sarah Kurtz took part in a study that showed how swiftly the needs and resources for electricity are shifting. The study, "How Demand-Side Management Can Shape Electricity Generation Capacity Planning," was published last week. It makes sense that when we  more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 13 -- The University of California issued the following news release: UCLA Chancellor Gene Block and Vice Provost Cindy Fan participated in the April 11-12 meeting of the U7+ Alliance of World Universities at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, where the alliance continued its work to collaboratively address global challenges. Attended by more than 80 university leaders from 18 countries, the meeting adopted the 2024 U7+ Statement on Global Access to Higher Educat  more