IRVINE, California, June 6 (TNSres) -- The University of California Irvine campus issued the following news release: Ten assistant professors at the University of California, Irvine will receive Hellman Fellowships, which are bestowed annually to support research by junior faculty. They join an elite group of 85 UCI Society of Hellman Fellows since 2013, when the Hellman Fellows Fund was established here. The program began in 1995 at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego and has since expanded organica  more

IRVINE, California, June 5 -- Allied Universal, a security and facility services company that provides smart technology to deliver solutions to businesses, issued the following news release: Allied Universal(R) today announced that Loretta Cecil will join the organization as global general counsel, effective June 17, 2024. In this role, Cecil will serve as the company's chief legal officer, providing strategic legal guidance and overseeing the company's global legal function. She will report di  more

OAKLAND, California, June 6 (TNSres) -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on June 4, 2024: California Attorney General Rob Bonta and San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, who were assisted by volunteer counsel from Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, and Keker, Van Nest & Peters, LLP, today announced that final judgments were entered against Blackhawk Manufacturing (Blackhawk), GS Performance LLC (Glockstore), and MDX Corporation (MDX) as  more

SACRAMENTO, California, June 6 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on June 5, 2024: Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the following appointments: Jenny Cho, of Carlsbad, has been appointed Deputy Director, Division of Financial Assistance, Federal Programs, in the California Department of Housing and Community Development. Cho has been Assistant Deputy Director of Federal Relief and Recovery at the California Department of Housing and Community Development  more

SACRAMENTO, California, June 6 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release: On the anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut, which protected the right to use contraception, Republicans in the U.S. Senate killed the Right to Contraception Act. In the wake of the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, the so-called "Freedom Party" broke with the majority of Americans and blocked a bill that would have protected access to birth control across the country. "Republicans  more

SACRAMENTO, California, June 6 -- California State University in Sacramento issued the following news: By Daniel Wilson With grease under their fingernails and determination on their faces, some Sacramento State students spend hundreds of hours each year in a space more like a garage than a classroom, as they design, build, test and tweak the University's Formula 1-style race car, preparing it for annual competition. The most recent test for Hornet Racing, a student-run club in the College of  more

ARCATA, California, June 5 (TNSres) -- The California State Polytechnic University-Humboldt issued the following news: A new study by researchers at Cal Poly Humboldt and the University of Southern California sheds light on an unexpected benefit of leaning forward moderately while running. The paper will be published online in PLOS ONE journal on May 29. The study looked at recreational runners who ran with different levels of forward lean, from a nearly upright posture to a maximum forward le  more

PASADENA, California, June 5 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: During its annual Celebration of Excellence, held on May 17, the Caltech Center for Inclusion and Diversity (CCID) recognized members of the community for leadership and excellence in advancing inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility. Eleven Caltech students, staff, and faculty were honored along with community award recipient Sheldon Epps, artistic director emeritus of the Pasadena Playho  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 5 -- The Center for Gender and Refugee Studies issued the following news release on June 4, 2024: Today the Biden administration announced a series of sweeping executive actions that would effectively close the border to many people seeking asylum. Under a new interim final rule, those seeking protection between ports of entry along the U.S. southern border would be deemed ineligible for asylum, allowing the government to summarily deport them with no legal proce  more

SAN JOSE, California, June 5 -- Cisco Systems issued the following news release: * * * News Summary: * Cisco is launching a $1B global investment fund to expand and develop secure, reliable and trustworthy AI solutions * Cisco is making strategic investments with world-class start-ups across software and infrastructure that build upon Cisco's strategy to connect and protect the AI era * Cohere, Mistral AI and Scale AI among the initial GenAI startups joining the Cisco Investments portfolio   more

SAN JOSE, California, June 5 -- Cisco Systems issued the following news release: * * * News Summary: * AI-powered innovations build customers' digital resilience by uniquely combining the power of the network with industry-leading security, observability, and data, simplifying adoption, and offering visibility and insight across the entire digital footprint. * Cisco Investments has launched a $1 Billion Global AI Investment Fund to advance industry innovation and customer readiness, and supp  more

SAN JOSE, California, June 5 -- Cisco Systems issued the following news release: * * * News Summary: * New Cisco ThousandEyes capabilities and AI-native workflows in Cisco Networking Cloud will deliver Digital Experience Assurance, transforming IT operations. * Customers can now access data across owned and unowned environments in a unified view, explore and unlock proactive insights, and activate automated actions across the global area network. * Extended visibility and assurance for on-p  more

LONG BEACH, California, June 6 -- California State University issued the following news release: The California State University (CSU) has announced a recommendation to integrate California State University Maritime Academy and California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and preserve Cal Maritime's nearly 100-year history and reputation as a vital maritime institution. CSU Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Financial Officer Steve Relyea and Deputy Vice Chancellor of Academic an  more

SAN DIEGO, California, June 6 -- National University issued the following news: Cyber Center of Excellence (CCOE), California State University San Marcos (CSUSM), National University and San Diego State University (SDSU) have been selected to receive $1 million in grant funding and wraparound support from Google's Cybersecurity Clinics Fund to establish the San Diego Cyber Clinic. The funding from Google.org, the company's philanthropic arm, is part of a $25 million collaboration with the Conso  more

SAN JOSE, California, June 6 -- eBay Inc., a company that says it creates ecommerce experiences for buyers, sellers and developers, issued the following news release: Official eBay Statement: "After careful consideration, eBay has decided to no longer accept American Express globally effective August 17 due to the unacceptably high fees American Express charges for processing credit card transactions. At a time when payment processing costs should be declining because of technological advancem  more

SAN DIEGO, California, June 6 -- GlobalFoundries, a manufacturer of semiconductors, issued the following news release on June 5, 2024: SAN DIEGO and ESSEX JUNCTION, VT. -- ElevATE Semiconductor and GlobalFoundries (Nasdaq: GFS) (GF) today announced a manufacturing partnership for high-voltage chips produced at GF's facility in Essex Junction, Vermont. Designed by ElevATE and manufactured at scale by GF on its proven and power-efficient 7HV technology platform, the chips are vital to both commer  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 6 -- The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development issued the following news: Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Stuart C. McWhorter and TSM Metal Works (TSM) officials announced today the company will expand by locating new operations in the Upper Cumberland. TSM will invest $500,000 and create 20 new jobs in Cumberland County through the project. TSM is owned by a fourth-generation California fab  more

LA JOLLA, California, June 6 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news: Story by: Triveni Sheshadri Frank Kensaku Saragosa knows the isolation, uncertainty and averted gaze of strangers that come with life on the streets of downtown San Diego. He has slept on sidewalks, weathered rainstorms without a roof over his head and relied on soup kitchens for sustenance. Saragosa is now a HEART (Homelessness Experienced Action Researcher Training) Fellow, one  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, June 6 -- Mayer Brown, a law firm, issued the following news: Mayer Brown's global Intellectual Property practice and its lawyers were recognized in the 2024 edition of the Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Patent 1000. The annual guide "shines a spotlight on the firms and individuals deemed outstanding in the pivotal field of patent law." The guide ranked the firm in seven jurisdictions: * Germany * Hong Kong * International * United States: California * United State  more

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- George Washington University issued the following news: The first heat wave of the season is hitting California, Nevada and Arizona. The dangerous heat is bringing temperatures to over a 100 degrees to the western U.S. Parts of the Pacific Northwest could experience these temperatures next, with the official start of summer still a few weeks away The George Washington University has experts who can talk about various topics related to climate change science, the health i  more

SAN DIEGO, California, June 5 -- National University issued the following news: National University (NU), one of the largest Minority Serving universities in the United States, committed to innovating around access and success for non-traditional, working and military learners, recognized Dr. Edward J. Leach, executive director of the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD), with the National University Pathways to Possibility Partnership Award in honor of his outsta  more

LOS GATOS, California, June 6 -- Netflix, an Internet television network provider, issued the following news: Kickass women dominated the film lists this week. #TheMother of the Most Popular List (ahem, J.Lo), had all eyes on Atlas, which topped the English Film List for the second week in a row, with 31.6M views. The epic sci-fi thriller was also the most-watched title of the week. Millie Bobby Brown proved she is a Damsel who requires no saving, slaying her way onto the Most Popular English F  more

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- George Washington University issued the following news: WASHINGTON (June 5, 2024)- When Twitter banned more than 70,000 traffickers of false information from its platform in the wake of the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the impact went beyond the silencing of those users. A new study co-authored by public policy and political science scholars from the George Washington University, University of California, Riverside, Duke University and Northeastern Univer  more

SANTA BARBARA, California, June 6 (TNSres) -- Yardi Matrix, a part of Yardi Systems, issued the following news release: The U.S. multifamily market's performance in May reflected a balancing act between steady demand and robust supply growth, according to the latest Yardi(R) Matrix National Multifamily Report (https://www.yardimatrix.com/publications/download/file/5654-MatrixMultifamilyNationalReport-May2024?signup=false&__hstc=78826315.6485650fd40910ac486671e25bd9b0a5.1711527285713.1717245380  more

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico, June 5 -- The New Mexico State University Foundation issued the following news release: The New Mexico State University Foundation has named Patrick E. Stewart as its new vice president of philanthropy and alumni relations. He will assume his role July 29. Previously, Stewart was executive director of development for the University of California San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering. There, he served the academic goals of nearly 300 faculty and more than 9,000 under  more

LOS ANGELES, California, June 6 -- Paul Hastings, a law firm, issued the following news: Paul Hastings LLP represented CABEI (Banco Centroamericano de Integracion Economica - BCIE) on the successful issuance of a social bond. This bond issuance will help drive impactful social projects, fostering sustainable development and improving lives across the region. This marks the bank's fifth consecutive social bond issuance, reinforcing its leadership as an ESG issuer after a year in which nearly al  more

LOS ANGELES, California, June 6 -- Platinum Equity, an investment firm, issued the following news release on June 5, 2024: Platinum Equity announced today the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Sunrise Medical, a world leader in advanced assistive mobility solutions, from Nordic Capital. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition is expected to be completed in Q3 2024, subject to customary regulatory approvals. Sunrise Medical, a global market leader for assistive mobility   more

SAN JOSE, California, June 5 -- NetApp, a provider of software, systems and services to manage and store data, issued the following news release on June 4, 2024: NetApp(R) (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, today announced that it has expanded its relationship with Porsche Motorsport to become the exclusive Intelligent Data Infrastructure partner, accelerating access to Porsche Motorsport's data to drive strategic decision-making on the track. This expansion also creat  more

PASADENA, California, June 5 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: A Q&A with physicist David Politzer about solving the mystery of the strong force more than 50 years ago When David Politzer, Caltech's Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics, was a fourth-year graduate student at Harvard in 1973, he made an astounding discovery that would forever reshape the field of particle physics. He had been mulling over a physics problem and decided to do a l  more

LA JOLLA, California, June 6 (TNSres) -- The Salk Institute for Biological Studies issued the following news release: * * * Salk scientists determine how three variants of a protein complex coordinate pathogen-specific immune responses in mice; findings may lead to new therapeutics for inflammation * * * Bacteria, parasites, viruses--the immune system tackles them all. At the front line of the human immune response are cells called macrophages, which are responsible for correctly identifying  more

LA JOLLA, California, June 5 (TNSres) -- The Salk Institute for Biological Studies issued the following news release: * * * Salk scientists find higher temperatures drain plants of important dietary nutrients; findings will be used to engineer crops that are more resilient to climate change * * * Global temperatures are on the rise, with experts projecting an increase of 2.7 F by 2050. Because plants cannot regulate their own temperatures, they are especially sensitive to these temperature c  more

SAN DIEGO, California, June 6 (TNSres) -- San Diego State University issued the following news: * * * Joint study finds increased particulate air pollution following 2011 diversion of water to San Diego. * * * When desert winds stir up dust from the Salton Sea's exposed lakebed, nearby communities suffer from increased air pollution. The deterioration coincides with reduced flows into California's largest lake, according to a new study in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics by San  more

SANTA CLARA, California, June 6 -- Santa Clara University issued the following news release: Santa Clara University is one of four winners of the 2024 Institutional Challenge Grant, awarded by the William T. Grant Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Doris Duke Foundation, and the Bezos Family Foundation. The grant encourages research institutions to build long-term research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. The th  more

ROCKLIN, California, June 5 (TNSres) -- Sierra College issued the following news release: Placer County's major employers and education providers are coming together Tuesday, June 18 at the Sierra College Rocklin Campus to advance breakthrough strategies for preparing youth and working-age adults now for good-paying jobs. Sierra College and local partners are convening this first-ever Sierra Workforce Summit to address the needs of employers faced with a growing economy, changing skill demand  more

STANFORD, California, June 6 (TNSres) -- Stanford University School of Medicine issued the following news: * * * New research in mice by Stanford Medicine scientists has found that the process of adaptive myelination, which helps the brain learn new skills, can also promote addiction to opioids. * * * By Nina Bai Our brains, even in adulthood, continually adapt to what we do, strengthening or weakening neural pathways as we practice new skills or abandon old habits. Now, research by Stanfor  more

PASADENA, California, June 5 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: Three Techers were selected from a large pool of candidates to attend the Future Leaders in Aerospace Symposium hosted by Stanford University in May. Graduate student Sorina Lupu (MS '21), postdoctoral scholar research associate in chemistry Marlini Simoes, and postdoctoral scholar research associate in aerospace Xinyi Huang attended the two-day symposium, which offers professional development expe  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, June 5 (TNSres) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: A comprehensive new study by Tulane University's Newcomb Institute and University of California San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy has quantified the staggering economic impact of intimate partner violence in California, revealing billions in costs that deeply affect survivors, communities and taxpayers across the state. The report, "The Costs of Intimate Partner Violence in California,"  more

LA JOLLA, California, June 6 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news: Story by: Leslie Aquinde UC San Diego Health is the first hospital system in the region to offer a new immunotherapy treatment for metastatic melanoma. The personalized cellular therapy derived from tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL), is the first solid tumor therapy on the market approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). "This one-time cellular immunotherapy is   more

LA JOLLA, California, June 6 -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news on June 5, 2024: Story by: Stephanie Healey In 2020, the California Health Care Foundation estimated that nearly 688,000 people in San Diego and Imperial Counties lived in an area with a shortage of primary care physicians, and the situation is expected to worsen. To help address this critical health care issue in the community, University of California San Diego School of Medicine has launc  more

SANTA CRUZ, California, June 6 -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news: UC Santa Cruz is breaking ground in the coming weeks on a project to provide a new child care center that expands services for faculty and staff, and build new housing for students with families. At the intersection of Hagar and Coolidge drives and adjacent to existing employee housing, the long-awaited child care center will support faculty and staff recruitment and retention efforts by  more

BERKELEY, California, June 6 -- The University of California issued the following news release on June 5, 2024: In order to ensure that it can meet its commitments to its students, patients and campus community, the University of California filed a lawsuit today against UAW, the labor union striking across UC campuses in violation of their contract. The suit asks the state to issue a temporary restraining order to UAW to immediately end a strike on UC campuses. "The blatant breach of the parti  more

RIVERSIDE, California, June 6 (TNSres) -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: * * * Twitter's Jan. 6 crackdown also reduced false information posts by those who stayed on the platform * * * When Twitter banned more than 70,000 traffickers of false information from its platform in the wake of the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the impact went beyond the silencing of those users. A study co-authored by UC Riverside public policy and politica  more

LA JOLLA, California, June 6 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news: * * * Team of researchers at UC San Diego identifies cause of cellular miscommunication implicated in the origin of many human diseases * * * Story by: Joseph McClain A group of researchers at University of California San Diego has identified the cause of a "short-circuit" in cellular pathways, a discovery that sheds new light on the genesis of a number of human diseases. The r  more

LA JOLLA, California, June 6 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news: Story by: Christine Clark A comprehensive new study by Tulane University's Newcomb Institute and the University of California San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy has quantified the staggering economic impact of intimate partner violence in California, revealing billions in costs that deeply affect survivors, communities and taxpayers across the state. The report, "The C  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 6 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Francisco campus issued the following news release: * * * Restricting use in bedrooms and at mealtimes have the biggest impact, but modeling good behavior is also important. * * * For many parents, it can feel like curbing kids' screen use is a losing battle. But new research from UC San Francisco (UCSF) has found the parenting practices that work best to curb screen time and addictive screen behavior: restricting  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 6 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Francisco campus issued the following news release: * * * UCSF Study finds that changes in daily salt intake may explain eczema flares. * * * A high sodium diet may increase the risk of eczema, according to researchers at UC San Francisco, who found that eating just one extra gram of sodium per day - the amount in a Big Mac - increases the likelihood of flares by 22%. Eczema, also known as atopic dermatitis, is a  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 5 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Francisco campus issued the following news release: * * * Findings could help guide public health resources to prevent unwanted pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections. * * * Teens who come from close-knit neighborhoods and families are less likely to have sex at a young age, while teens' schools have less influence on their sexual behavior, a new study led by UC San Francisco found. The findings could help ed  more

MERCED, California, June 6 (TNSres) -- The University of California Merced issued the following news: By Patty Guerra, UC Merced National Parks are magnificent landscapes where the public can go for sightseeing and recreation. They also are research labs - gorgeous, awe-inspiring and wild research labs, to be sure. And the science conducted there can help ensure that the parks' natural beauty will be available for generations of people to come and enjoy, and also support local and national iss  more

LOS ANGELES, California, June 6 (TNSres) -- The University of California issued the following news release: * * * Study could help make lifesaving stem cell transplants more available * * * Key takeaways * Blood stem cells - key to transplants that are used as lifesaving treatments for blood cancers and blood and immune disorders - have the capacity to self-renew, but quickly lose their ability to do so in a lab dish. * UCLA scientists have identified a protein that not only enables blood   more

LOS ANGELES, California, June 5 (TNSres) -- The University of Southern California's Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics issued the following news release: Patients face administrative barriers to get financial help information from hospitals - including 1 in 5 hospitals that were unreachable by phone - according to a USC "secret shopper" study. Researchers from the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics called a random sample of 249 hospitals, posing as underinsured pa  more

LOS ANGELES, California, June 5 (TNSres) -- The University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering issued the following news: * * * USC researchers develop AI technique to identify seizure types, including rare forms of epilepsy, increasing opportunity for early intervention * * * More than 3.4 million people in the US and 65 million people worldwide have epilepsy, a neurological disorder that affects the nervous system and causes seizures. One in 26 people will develop epilep  more

LOS ANGELES, California, June 6 -- The University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering issued the following news: By Remy LeMaire Jose P. Ferreira, a doctoral candidate in astronautical engineering, has received the prestigious Space for Sustainability Award from the European Space Agency (ESA). When spacecraft re-enter Earth's atmosphere at the end of their mission, their fiery demise contributes to an often-overlooked environmental problem: atmospheric pollution. But one y  more

LOS ANGELES, California, June 6 (TNSres) -- The University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering issued the following news: * * * The next-generation of USC ISI's semiconductor fabrication service is taking shape. * * * By Stephanie Lee Established at USC Viterbi's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) in 1981, MOSIS revolutionized the world of silicon-based semiconductor manufacturing. At the time, most high-performance chips were made in large-scale manufacturing efforts.   more

RICHMOND, Virginia, June 6 -- Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R-Virginia, issued the following news release on June 5, 2024: Governor Youngkin today announced the end of the California electric vehicle mandate in Virginia, effective at the end of 2024 when California's current regulations expire. An official opinion from Attorney General Jason Miyares in response to a request by the Governor and Senate Republican Leader Ryan McDougle confirms that Virginia is not required to comply with expansive new mand  more