JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, June 22 -- Missouri Secretary of State John R. Ashcroft issued the following news release: Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft recently awarded over $381,000 in grants to assist local governments with records management and preservation projects for the coming fiscal year. As specified in statute, 109.221.6 RSMo, the Local Records Grant Program issues reimbursements grants, up to $20,000, for approved projects that can include: digitization of records, shelving for record  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, June 22 -- Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, a law firm, issued the following news: International law firm BCLP has announced that Partners Sunita Chawla and Shelley Goto have been named the new co-chairs of the firm's Global I&D Action Board. The Global I&D Advisory Board, established in 2018, underwent a significant transformation in 2020, becoming the current Global I&D Action Board. Partners Meridyth Andresen and Segun Osuntokun have led the Board for four years. They are n  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, June 21 -- Bismark State College issued the following news: BSC student-athletes and student government representatives, the BSC community, and the Frank Bavendick family will break ground on the brand new BSC Bavendick Center on Thursday, June 27, at 10:30 a.m. The new facility is the future home for collegiate sports, recreation and campus events. The 80,000-square-foot Bavendick Center will be located at 1511 Canary Ave., where the former BSC Library was situated on   more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, June 22 (TNSres) -- The Washington University St. Louis School of Medicine issued the following news release on June 21, 2024: * * * Similar to smokers, cannabis users nearly twice as likely to need hospitalization, intensive care when infected with the virus * * * Nurse Megan Roberts cares for a COVID-19 patient in an intensive care unit at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in 2020. A study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that people w  more

WEST PLAINS, Missouri, June 22 -- Missouri State University's West Plains Campus issued the following news release: Crews with Robinson Construction in Perryville, Mo., continue to work hard on the Autism and Neurodiversity Center at Missouri State University-West Plains (MSU-WP). University officials said construction currently is on schedule for the January 2025 completion date. Construction of the steel infrastructure is nearly complete. Next, they will begin working on the exterior framin  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, June 22 -- Husch Blackwell, a law firm, issued the following news release: National law firm Husch Blackwell is pleased to announce that Kansas City-based partner John Cruciani has been named to the 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers guide. Cruciani, leader of the firm's Insolvency & Commercial Bankruptcy team, counsels clients on bankruptcy, insolvency, creditors' rights and commercial litigation matters. He regularly represents debtors  more

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, June 22 -- The Missouri Department of Conservation issued the following news: By Joe Jerek The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) announces the appointments of Laura Conlee of Ashland as Deputy Director of Resource Management and Andrew Bond of Jefferson City as Deputy Director of Business and Operations, both effective July 1. They join MDC Deputy Director of Engagement Aaron Jeffries in assisting new MDC Director Jason Sumners in leading the state's conservat  more

COLUMBIA, Missouri, June 22 -- The University of Missouri's School of Journalism issued the following news release: AdZou, the full-service marketing and advertising agency operated by strategic communication students from the Missouri School of Journalism, took fourth place in the nation during the American Advertising Federation's National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC) in Salt Lake City from May 31 to June 1. The AdZou team has made it to the national finals in five of the last seve  more

WEST PLAINS, Missouri, June 22 -- Missouri State University's West Plains Campus issued the following news release: Officials at Missouri State University-West Plains (MSU-WP) announce the addition of a new healthcare supply chain management certificate option to its Associate of Applied Science in Health Information Technology degree program. The certificate has been approved by the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education (CBHE) and the Higher Learning Commission, MSU-WP's accreditin  more

WEST PLAINS, Missouri, June 22 -- Missouri State University's West Plains Campus issued the following news release: Tresa Ryan, director of the health information technology program at Missouri State University-West Plains (MSU-WP), recently received the 2024 Outstanding Health Information Management (HIM) Educator Award from the Missouri Health Information Management Association MoHIMA. The award honors those who demonstrate excellence in preparing the next generation of professionals for HIM  more

CLARKSVILLE, Arkansas, June 21 (TNSres) -- The University of the Ozarks issued the following news: A group of University of the Ozarks faculty and students are taking part in a coordinated, multi-year research project that is examining the effects of an event that hasn't occurred since Thomas Jefferson was president of the United States. The event is being called the Great Southern Cicada Emergence. The research project is examining the impacts of two broods of periodical cicadas -- brood XIII  more