PASADENA, California, June 12 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: Alumna Doris Tsao (BS '96), now professor at UC Berkeley, is a recipient of the 2024 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience. She shares the prize with longtime collaborators Nancy Kanwisher of MIT and Winrich Freiwald of The Rockefeller University for their discovery of a specialized system within the brain to recognize faces. As an undergraduate at Caltech, Tsao majored in math and biology. "The two blocks  more

HOUSTON, Texas, June 12 (TNSres) -- The Baylor College of Medicine issued the following news on June 11, 2024: In a new paper published today in Nature, the Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH), a consortium led by Baylor College of Medicine's Center for Space Medicine with partners California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and its collaborators present spaceflight health data captured from the first all-civilian orbital spaceflight missi  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 12 -- The California Public Utilities Commission issued the following decision granting petition for modification (Case No. 24-05-040) on June 11, 2024: * * * BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA Application of Pacific Gas and Electric Company for Approval of 2024-2031 Energy Efficiency Business Plan and 2024-2027 Portfolio Plan (U39M). And Related Matters. DECISION GRANTING SAN DIEGO GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY'S PETITION FOR MODIFIC  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 12 -- The California Public Utilities Commission issued the following order (Case No. 24-05-022) on June 10, 2024: * * * BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA Order Instituting Rulemaking to Modify General Order 66-D. ORDER INSTITUTING RULEMAKING TO MODIFY GENERAL ORDER 66-D Summary This rulemaking is opened to examine and modify General Order (GO) 66-D, specifically as it relates to the California Public Utilities Commission's pr  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, June 13 -- Constangy, Brooks, Smith and Prophete, a law firm, issued the following news release: Constangy partners Ken Sulzer and Steve Katz recently spoke at the California Employment Law Council's Summer Educational Training Program. The California Employment Law Council is a non-profit organization that focuses on improving the legal climate for California employers. Ken and Steve presented an educational session on Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) litigation, which   more

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee issued the following news release: Spanish newspaper La Opinion reported exclusively on two new Spanish language ads from the Will Rollins campaign, 'Red To Blue' candidate in CA's 41st district. Both ads, "Cambio" and "Amigos", feature Rollins speaking in Spanish directly to Spanish speaking voters. La Opinion: Latino Vote Key in The Race For California District 41 June 11, 2024 | La Opinion Staff * Heading into the Nove  more

LOS ANGELES, California, June 13 -- Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, a law firm, issued the following news release on June 12, 2024: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that partner Daniel Abercromby today joins the firm's Hong Kong office as a member of its Global Finance Practice Group. Commenting on the arrival, Doug Horowitz, Co-Chair of the Global Finance Practice Group, said: "Our group is expanding to meet the needs of clients internationally. Dan is a great addition to our Glo  more

SACRAMENTO, California, June 12 -- The Judicial Council of California issued the following opinion (No. G063462) on June 11, 2024. Here are excerpts: * * * In the Court of Appeal of the State of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three In re ANDREW M., a Person Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law. ORANGE COUNTY SOCIAL SERVICES AGENCY, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. S.M. et al., Defendants and Respondents; ANDREW M., a Minor, etc., Appellant. OPINION Appeal from an order of the   more

SACRAMENTO, California, June 12 -- The Judicial Council of California issued the following opinion (No. 30-2022-01298571) on June 10, 2024: * * * THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ADAM T. FOSTER, Defendant and Appellant. OPINION Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Orange County, Kevin Haskins, Judge. Affirmed. Law Offices of Paul Taylor Smith and Paul Taylor Smith, under appointment by the Appellate Division of the Orange County Superior Court, for Defendant and Appellant  more

LOS ANGELES, California, June 12 -- Loyola Marymount University issued the following news release: The Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation has set the pace of fundraising for LMU's new Engineering Innovation Complex (EIC), a planned capital expansion for the LMU Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering, with a $25 million matching gift. The gift is the largest capital gift in university history, as well as the largest gift from a living donor. "The LMU of today would not be possibl  more

WASHINGTON, June 12 -- The National Republican Congressional Committee issued the following news: Gas prices are set to skyrocket up to 47 cents per gallon MORE because of a 2017 vote by self-serving Sacramento politician Rudy Salas, a new investigation exposed. "Even after Central Valley voters threw self-serving Sacramento politician Rudy Salas out of office, Salas is still hurting them with his zombie gas tax hike. When Sacramento Newsom bureaucrats force Valley drivers to pay 47 cents per   more

LOS ANGELES, California, June 13 -- Paul Hastings, a law firm, issued the following news: Paul Hastings LLP advised Jefferies, J.P. Morgan, and Guggenheim Securities, as joint book-running managers, in connection with the pricing of ProKidney Corp.'s (Nasdaq: PROK) upsized public offering and concurrent registered direct offering. The public offering and the concurrent registered direct offering are each expected to close on or about June 13, 2024, subject to customary closing conditions. Co-  more

CLAREMONT, California, June 12 (TNSres) -- Pomona College issued the following news: Seven Pomona College alumni have won 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awards. This fellowship supports superlative students who are pursuing or planning to pursue full-time research-based master's and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) or in STEM education. The NSF fellowship provides each student an annual $37,000 stipe  more

STANFORD, California, June 13 (TNSres) -- Stanford University issued the following news release: * * * In the largest study yet of working-from-home professionals, Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom reveals that employees who work from home two days a week are just as productive, likely to get promoted, and far less prone to quit. In brief * Research led by Nicholas Bloom shows that employees who work from home for two days a week are just as productive and as likely to be promoted as their f  more

RIVERSIDE, California, June 12 (TNSres) -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: * * * A UC Riverside-led team of physicists offers an explanation * * * Crater 2, located approximately 380,000 light years from Earth, is one of the largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. Extremely cold and with slow-moving stars, Crater 2 has low surface brightness. How this galaxy originated remains unclear. "Since its discovery in 2016, there have been many attempts   more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 12 -- The University of California San Francisco campus issued the following news release: UCSF Health and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals celebrated the signing of a Community Workforce Agreement (CWA) on June 11, agreeing to prioritize local union workers for the construction of a proposed landmark hospital building and related site improvements on its Oakland site. The agreement, signed by the Building and Construction Trades Council of Alameda County (BTCA  more

LOS ANGELES, California, June 13 -- The University of California Los Angeles School of Law issued the following news: UCLA Professor of Law Anna Spain Bradley was appointed by President Joseph R. Biden as one of four U.S. delegate members to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) Panel of Conciliators at the World Bank. Established in 1966 and based in Washington, D.C., ICSID is the world's leading institution devoted to the settlement, through arbitration and c  more

LOS ANGELES, California, June 12 (TNSres) -- The University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering issued the following news: * * * USC ISI researchers team up with Kaiser Permanente to improve healthcare search by 20%. * * * By Stephanie Lee For many, frustration with the American healthcare system begins with the very first step: finding doctors. Although most health plans offer online directories to search for in-network providers, these tools often fall short in connecti  more

PASADENA, California, June 12 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: William A. Goddard, III (PhD '65), the Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics at Caltech, is part of a team that is being honored with the 2024 Faraday Horizon Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), a prize that recognizes "significant recent novel discoveries or advances made in the area of physical chemistry." The team, led by Xiangfeng   more