Wednesday - December 4, 2024
*Public Policy Tipoffs Involving North Carolina Newsletter for Saturday November 02, 2024 ( 7 items )  

College of The Albemarle - Dare Hosts the 2024 PRIMA NC Conference
ELIZABETH CITY, North Carolina, Nov. 2 -- College of the Albemarle issued the following news release: Dare County, NC - College of The Albemarle (COA) - Dare proudly hosted the 2024 Public Relations, Information, and Marketing Association of North Carolina (PRIMA NC) Conference from October 2-4, 2024. The conference brought together communications and marketing professionals from North Carolina's 58 community colleges, providing a platform for networking, sharing best practices, and celebrating  more

Community Groups Ask Judge to Halt Mining and Hold A&G Coal in Contempt for Violating Court-Ordered Mine Clean-Up Deadlines
BOONE, North Carolina, Nov. 1 -- Appalachian Voices issued the following news release on Oct. 31, 2024: BIG STONE GAP, Va. -- Today, three community groups -- Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards, Appalachian Voices and the Sierra Club -- filed a motion to hold A&G Coal Company in contempt of court for failure to comply with a prior consent decree. That January 2023 consent decree between A&G and the community groups, entered by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, s  more

Fulbright Fellow Gains Inspiration From UNCG Educators
GREENSBORO, North Carolina, Nov. 2 (TNSres) -- The University of North Carolina Greensboro campus issued the following news: Irina Mutruc, a 47-year-old Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement (FTEA) fellow from Moldova, recently signed up for her first Instagram account. Her six-week experience at UNC Greensboro yielded too many experiences, too many connections, too many epiphanies, to keep it all to herself. "I have so many things to share!" One of Mutruc's first posts is a photo dep  more

MEMA Proposal Granting Access to Right to-Repair Data Approved by U.S. Copyright Office
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina, Nov. 1 [Category: Industrial Materials] -- MEMA, The Vehicle Suppliers Association issued the following news release: RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. MEMA Aftermarket Suppliers' petition for a new exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)'s anti-circumvention provisions--which prohibit bypassing copyright protection systems--was officially accepted by the Register of Copyrights in the Ninth Triennial Rulemaking Proceeding under the DMCA. The  more

N.C. State: Satellite Imagery May Help Protect Coastal Forests From Climate Change
RALEIGH, North Carolina, Nov. 1 (TNSres) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: Sea-level rise caused by climate change poses a serious and often unpredictable threat to coastal forests, and new tools are needed to help mitigate damage and allocate conservation resources. A new study from North Carolina State University and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) details how satellite imagery may help identify forested areas that are being transformed into ma  more

Nash Community College Signs Transfer Agreement With WGU
ROCKY MOUNT, North Carolina, Nov. 2 -- Nash Community College issued the following news release: On Oct. 30, leaders from Nash Community College and Western Governors University participated in a signing ceremony to formalize a new transfer agreement between the two institutions. NCC graduates and employees will now have access to flexible, personalized learning pathways to higher education and professional development through WGU. The agreement formalizes the transfer of applicable academic cr  more

Uncovering History Among the Headstones: WPU Students Explore Life Through Cemetery Tours
RALEIGH, North Carolina, Nov. 2 -- William Peace University issued the following news: Cemeteries traditionally aren't places you go for leisure. A cemetery represents the final resting place for a loved one. It is occasionally visited by a family member or friend who returns to a gravesite for an anniversary or birthday. But William Peace University's Dr. Vincent Melomo has been taking his classes on casual strolls amongst the dead for 10 years. Melomo's Anthropology of Death class took thr  more