UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, May 9 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: Amara Solari, professor of art history and anthropology, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for an ambitious, cross-disciplinary research project to explore how artistic production served as a mode of resistance for Puebloan communities during the Catholic evangelical campaigns of the 17th century. As part of the Guggenheim's 2024 class, Solari joins a distinguished and diverse group from 52   more

TORONTO, Ontario, May 10 -- Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts issued the following news release: Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado Santa Fe welcomes Melissa Sims as General Manager, following her most recent appointment as Hotel Manager at Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel. Sims brings a diversity of management experience to her new role at the helm of the brand's Santa Fe property, recently ranked the #1 Best Resort in New Mexico by U.S. News & World Report. "I fell in love with Santa F  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, May 9 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: Christina Snyder, McCabe Greer Professor of the American Civil War Era in Penn State's Department of History, has been named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Snyder was among 188 scholars and artists from 52 fields chosen for their "prior career achievement and exceptional promise," according to the foundation, which was established in 1925 by Sen. Simon Gu  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, May 10 -- The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission issued the following news release on May 9, 2024: The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (NMPRC) on Wednesday, May 15, will hold a third workshop to further discuss Grid Modernization and Integrated Distribution Planning (IDP) with the state's three investor-owned utilities (IOUs). Last month, Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM), Southwestern Public Service Company (SPS), and El Paso Electric Company (EPE)   more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, May 10 (TNSres) -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following news release: When Claude Shannon wrote "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" in 1948, he was known as a mathematician and an electrical engineer. From this extraordinarily influential paper -- cited more than 155,000 times -- he would come to be called the "father of information theory." Today, we see in him the hallmarks of an early complexity scientist. Shannon's article is one of 88 groundbreaking papers re  more

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee released the following written testimony by James C. Kenney, secretary of the New Mexico Environment Department, from a hearing dated March 20, 2024, entitled "Examining PFAS as Hazardous Substances." PFAS stands for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. * * * PFAS and Federal Laws Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Capito, members of the Committee, my name is James Kenney and I currently serve as the Secretary of the New Mexico  more