BOWLING GREEN, Kentucky, May 25 -- Western Kentucky University issued the following news: Two Western Kentucky University students will compete for national championships in the 2023-2024 Hearst Journalism Awards Program and four other WKU students were honored in the year's final multimedia competition. Brett Phelps of Bardstown is one of six finalists for the National Photojournalism Championship, while Rhiannon Johnston of Louisville is one of five finalists for the National Multimedia Cham  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, May 25 -- The Center for Gender and Refugee Studies issued the following news release on May 24, 2024: This week the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking information on new government guidance which would seemingly permit asylum officers to consider, during the applicant's initial credible fear interview, their ability to relocate within their home country. While the Biden administration has not yet made   more

PASADENA, California, May 24 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: Fred C. Anson (BS '54), the Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, who served as chair of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from 1984 to 1994, passed away on May 22. He was 91. Anson was born and raised in South San Gabriel, California, where he had a paper route for the Los Angeles Times. He first came to Caltech as an undergraduate, studying chemistry on a schola  more

LA JOLLA, California, May 25 -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news: Story by: Christine Clark A new application developed by Kyle Handley, associate professor of economics at the University of California San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS), allows users to see what products will be impacted the most from the recent tariffs the Biden administration will introduce on items imported from China. It also shows whether the same good could be impo  more

REDWOOD CITY, California, May 25 (TNSres) -- Dell'Oro Group, a provider of market information about the networking and telecommunications industries, issued the following news release: According to a recently published report from Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, security, networks, and data center industries, the Optical Transport equipment market declined 13 percent year-over-year in 1Q 2024 and is now predicted to decline for the full ye  more

CLAREMONT, California, May 25 -- Pomona College issued the following news: Three members of the Pomona College faculty were named in May to endowed professorships by vote of the College's Board of Trustees. Each of them is a past winner of Pomona's highest faculty honor, the Wig Distinguished Professor Award for excellence in teaching and service. "Endowed professorships are where the vision and value of the College meet the generosity of donors who care deeply about higher education and Pomona  more

CLAREMONT, California, May 25 (TNSres) -- Pomona College issued the following news: Sixteen recent Pomona alumni have been awarded Fulbright grants for the 2024-2025 cycle, matching last year's number of awardees which made Pomona a top producer of Fulbright students. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is the flagship international educational program sponsored by the U.S. government and funds American citizens to study, conduct research or teach English abroad. "Pomona students have long bee  more

LA JOLLA, California, May 25 -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following Q&A on May 23, 2024, with Ph.D. student Etienne Palos: * * * Story by: Amanda Rubalcava Etienne Palos is a fourth year UC San Diego Ph.D. student specializing in theoretical and computational chemistry in the lab of Francesco Paesani. Palos--whose passion and perspective is shaped by his upbringing on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border--will soon take his academic journey abroad to Germany an  more

LA JOLLA, California, May 25 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news: Story by: Mario Aguilera Although the Human Genome Project announced the completed sequencing of 20,000 human genes more than 20 years ago, scientists are still working to grasp how fully formed beings emerge from basic genetic instructions. Biomedical efforts to learn how disorders can take hold in the earliest stages of development would benefit from knowing specifically how com  more

LA JOLLA, California, May 25 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news: Story by: Leslie Aquinde Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that using an innovative surgical approach to remove an acoustic neuroma, a slow-growing, benign brain tumor, improved hearing preservation and quality of life for patients while also presenting excellent facial nerve outcomes. The results, published in the May 21, 2024 online editi  more

SANTA CRUZ, California, May 25 (TNSres) -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news: * * * Paper details high-throughput process for rapid screening, identification of mysterious 'long non-coding RNA' * * * By Mike Pena UC Santa Cruz researchers have discovered a peptide in human RNA that regulates inflammation and may provide a new path for treating diseases such as arthritis and lupus. The team used a screening process based on the powerful gene-editing too  more