TULSA, Oklahoma, March 15 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Tulsa District issued the following news: * * * DSPC engineers visit Keystone to perform site surveys for dam safety project Story by Brannen Parrish, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District Dam Safety Production Center engineers from the Southwestern Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, performed onsite assessments for the Keystone Dam Safety Modification project, March 6. The KDSM project is in the Pre-construction, Eng  more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- NASA issued the following news release: * * * Finalists Selected in NASA Aeronautics Agriculture-Themed Competition Eight finalist teams participating in the 2025 NASA Gateways to Blue Skies Competition have been selected to present to a panel of judges their design concepts for aviation solutions that can help the agriculture industry. Sponsored by NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, this year's competition asked teams of university students to research  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- The House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emergency Management and Technology released the following written testimony by Daniel Kaniewski, managing director of public sector at Marsh McLennan, from a March 4, 2025, hearing entitled "Future of FEMA: Perspectives from the Emergency Management Community": * * * Marsh McLennan Marsh McLennan is the world's leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy, and people. Our more than 90,000 colleagues advi  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- The U.S. Department of Education issued the following news release: * * * Office for Civil Rights Initiates Title VI Investigations into Institutions of Higher Education WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened investigations into 45 universities under Title VI following OCR's February 14 Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) that reiterated schools' civil rights obligations to end the use of racial preferences and stereotypes in educa  more

NORMAN, Oklahoma, March 15 -- The University of Oklahoma issued the following news release: * * * Mother's High-Fat Diet Can Cause Liver Stress in Fetus, Study Shows OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. - When mothers eat a diet high in fat and sugars, their unborn babies can develop liver stress that continues into early life. A new study published in the journal Liver International sheds light on changes to the fetus's bile acid, which affects how liver disease develops and progresses. Bile acids typicall  more

NORMAN, Oklahoma, March 15 -- The University of Oklahoma issued the following news release: * * * Unraveling the Mysteries of Cystic Kidney Disease New $2 million grant will fuel fresh insights into the mechanisms of one of the world's most common genetic disorders OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. - Polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a family of genetic disorders that causes clusters of cysts to form on the kidney, is among the most common genetic disorders, affecting some 500,000 people in the United Sta  more