NEW YORK, Nov. 17 [Category: Religion] -- The American Jewish Committee issued the following news release: American Jewish Committee (AJC), the global advocacy organization for the Jewish people, is today calling for immediate action from European government ministers in response to surging and increasingly violent antisemitism on the continent. To protect Jews in Europe and the European way of life AJC is calling for an emergency high-level meeting of relevant ministers from across Europe and   more

SYRACUSE, New York, Nov. 15 -- Syracuse University issued the following news: Bestselling author and Harvard professor Arthur C. Brooks began his talk at Syracuse University by asking the audience of hundreds a simple question: "What is happiness?" Then he shared that when he poses that question in his classes, hardly anyone raises their hand. When he calls on students, they inevitably describe the feeling they have when around family or when doing something they like, he said. Brooks tells t  more

ITHACA, New York, Nov. 17 -- Cornell University issued the following news: The newest episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Lloyd Robinson '87, president and owner of Awisco, a family-owned welding business started in 1952. With 10 locations across the New York metro area and a sales presence in South Florida, Lloyd has led the company through lots of changes and has hosted Cornell interns for more than 20 summers. Lloyd graduated from the ILR Sc  more

ITHACA, New York, Nov. 15 -- Cornell University issued the following news: Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have determined the full-length structure of a blood pressure-regulating hormone receptor for the first time, uncovering how it functions, which may enable better drug targeting of the receptor for diseases such as hypertension and heart failure. For the study, published Nov. 14 in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, the researchers used cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), computer   more

NEW YORK, Nov. 17 [Category: International] -- The International Rescue Committee issued the following news release: Bart Witteveen, the International Rescue Committee's (IRC) Country Director for the occupied Palestinian territory, said: "The situation in Northern Gaza is now beyond crisis point. The Famine Review Committee (FRC) is warning that famine is likely imminent, if not already underway, in parts of northern Gaza. This marks a sharp and alarming deterioration since last month's IPC r  more

SYRACUSE, New York, Nov. 15 -- Syracuse University issued the following news: The Martin J. Whitman School of Management moved up to No. 13 in the country for its undergraduate business program in The Princeton Review's Top 50 Undergraduate and Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship rankings. "This rise in the rankings is proof positive of the Whitman School's continuing commitment to providing innovative programs in entrepreneurship at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Our success has  more