ARCATA, California, Nov. 9 (TNSres) -- The California State Polytechnic University-Humboldt issued the following news: Together with NASA collaborator and Cal Poly Humboldt alum Holly Leopardi ('14, Physics), C.D. Hoyle of the Department of Physics & Astronomy was awarded a $243,627 grant from NASA's MOSAICS program. The MOSAICS program's mission is to improve diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the science and engineering communities as well as throughout NASA's workforce, acco  more

OAKLAND, California, Nov. 9 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on Nov. 7, 2024: California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a consumer alert following the Governor's declaration of a state of emergency in response to the Mountain Fire in Ventura County. The fire has burned at least 19,643 acres, forcing the evacuation of residents and threatening homes, transportation, and critical infrastructure. In today's alert, Attorney General Bonta reminds al  more

OAKLAND, California, Nov. 9 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on Nov. 8, 2024: * * * Affirms the protection of market competition on high traffic routes that include the cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Long Beach, Burbank, Ontario, Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose, and Santa Ana * * * California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a statement in response to a Court of Appeals decision affirming the lower court's decision to end the a  more

OAKLAND, California, Nov. 9 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on Nov. 8, 2024: California Attorney General Bonta today, as part of a coalition of 22 attorneys general, filed a brief with an en banc panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in support of the U.S. government's defense of a federal law, 18 U.S.C. Sec. 922(g)(1), which prohibits felons from possessing firearms. The case, United States v. Duarte, presents the question of whethe  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Nov. 9 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on Nov. 8, 2024: Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the following appointments: Scott Wyckoff, of Sacramento, has been appointed Executive Officer of the Board of Parole Hearings. Wyckoff has been Deputy Legal Affairs Secretary in the Office of the Governor since 2022. He was General Counsel at the California State Transportation Agency from 2019 to 2022. Wyckoff was General Counsel at the C  more

OAKLAND, California, Nov. 9 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on Nov. 8, 2024: To maintain the state's progress in helping to address high levels of crime in the East Bay, Governor Newsom is directing the California Highway Patrol (CHP) to extend its presence in Oakland through the end of the year. The operation, first announced in February and increased in July, was scheduled to end this week. The operation has resulted in the arrest of nearly 1,200 suspect  more

FOLSOM, California, Nov. 9 -- The California Independent System Operator issued the following news release: * * * Revisions to implement Pathways Step 1 approved by Board, Governing Body * * * In a sign of continued support and momentum for advancing western energy markets, the California ISO Board of Governors and the Western Energy Markets (WEM) Governing Body yesterday approved the next legal steps to implement the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative Step 1, once the trigger based on  more

IRVINE, California, Nov. 9 (TNSres) -- CoreLogic, a property, mortgage and consumer information provider, issued the following news release: * * * CoreLogic recognized for Most Innovative Use of AI for Image Analytics * * * CoreLogic, a leader in global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions, has won an inaugural Inman AI Award for the Most Innovative Use of AI for Image Analytics. The award recognizes companies demonstrating the immense potential of AI to "revolutionize  more

NORTH BILLERICA, Massachusetts, Nov. 9 -- Curriculum Associates issued the following news release on Nov. 8, 2024: * * * The program will support implementation of the Mathematics Framework for California Public Schools * * * Curriculum Associates today announced its Classroom Mathematics California (CMC) program for Transitional Kindergarten through Algebra I--a meticulously crafted curriculum that embodies the new Mathematics Framework for California Public Schools (MFCPS). Authored by a t  more

PASADENA, California, Nov. 8 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: Jonathan N. Katz, Caltech's Kay Sugahara Professor of Social Sciences and Statistics, has won the Society for Political Methodology's Career Achievement Award for his research into modeling election dynamics. The Society for Political Methodology, founded in 1983 as a section of the American Political Science Association, is, according to its website, "the world's premier academic organization for   more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Nov. 9 -- Jones Lang LaSalle, a real estate and investment management company, issued the following news release: * * * JLL Capital Markets arranges acquisition financing for 225-bed community near UC Berkeley, in Northern California * * * LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8, 2024 - JLL Capital Markets announced today that it has secured a $45 million acquisition financing for Garden Village, a 77-unit student housing community in Berkeley, California. JLL represented the borrower, Hawki  more

CLAREMONT, California, Nov. 9 (TNSres) -- Pomona College issued the following news: Pamela Prickett, associate professor of sociology, coauthored a recently published book, The Unclaimed, telling the stories of people who were abandoned after death in Los Angeles County. Through narrative nonfiction, the book shares the poignancy of the subjects' lives and deaths, and the heartwarming ways strangers stepped in to provide dignity. In this interview, she shares perspectives on societal alienation  more

RIVERSIDE, California, Nov. 9 (TNSres) -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: * * * Ethnic studies professor Jennifer R. Najera captures narratives of UC Riverside students in "Learning to Lead: Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education" * * * When Jennifer R. Najera found herself teaching courses on immigration and education at UC Riverside, she realized the books listed in her syllabus did not fully capture the realities faced by many of her undocument  more

SANTA CRUZ, California, Nov. 9 (TNSres) -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news: * * * Discovery by UC Santa Cruz researchers could accelerate biofuel's adoption * * * By Jasmin Galvan UC Santa Cruz chemists have discovered a new way to produce biodiesel from waste oil that both simplifies the process and requires relatively mild heat. This discovery has the potential to make the alternative fuel source much more appealing to the massive industrial sector  more

BERKELEY, California, Nov. 9 -- The University of California issued the following agency statement on Nov. 8, 2024: * * * We fundamentally disagree with AFSCME's claims of bad faith bargaining and characterization of unacceptable bargaining proposals. From January to May, University of California and AFSCME bargaining teams met 22 times and worked collaboratively on proposals for the UC AFSCME-represented employees. UC offered AFSCME 26 proposals and 36 counterproposals, while AFSCME presented  more