WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, March 24 -- Wake Forest University posted the following news: * * * Claudia Vega named 2025 TED Fellow for work on mercury pollution in the Amazon Claudia Vega, a Fellow at Wake Forest University's Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability, has been selected as a 2025 TED Fellow for her groundbreaking work on the environmental and human health impacts of mercury pollution from illegal gold mining in the Amazon. Vega spearheads research on mercury'  more

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, March 24 [Category: Sports] -- The National Junior College Athletic Association posted the following news release: * * * Cowley moves into the DI Baseball Top-5 * * * 2025 NJCAA DI Baseball Poll - Week 5 - 03-24-25 Place Name Region Record Points 1st Place Prev. 1 Weatherford College 5 24-5 195 5 1 2 Louisiana State University Eunice 23 30-1 194 4 2 3 Northwest Florida State College 8 24-7 187 1 3 4 Blinn College 14 24-6 176 0 4 5 Cowley County Comm  more

CARY, North Carolina, March 25 -- INDA, Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry issued the following statement: * * * INDA Calls on White House to Permanently Exclude USMCA Products from Canada, Mexico Tariffs Cary, NC, March 24, 2025 - INDA, the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry issued the following statement on executive orders imposing significant tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico: Last month, President Trump instituted significant tariffs on products from Canada   more

WASHINGTON, March 24 -- George Washington University posted the following news: * * * Media Tip Sheet: Wildfires Rage in the Carolinas, State of Emergency Declared At least three wildfires have broken out in a rural North Carolina county, leading to evacuations and emergency declarations and destroying at least three homes and other buildings. These fires come as much of western North Carolina is still recovering from flooding driven by Hurricane Helene six months ago. In recent weeks, se  more

IRVING, Texas, March 25 -- The American Association for Respiratory Care issued the following news: * * * Members in the News | Presentations, Awards , and Pulmonary Rehab Program Anniversaries AARC member Donny Bellomy, RRT, was featured in an article on the KVOE radio website about the first anniversary of his hospital's pulmonary rehabilitation program. Read and Listen to it Here (https://kvoe.com/2025/03/14/first-year-of-pulmonary-rehab-successful-according-to-nrh-department-heads/) AARC  more

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, March 24 [Category: Sports] -- The National Junior College Athletic Association posted the following news release: * * * Nassau Checks In at No. 3 in Men's Lacrosse Poll 2025 NJCAA Men's Lacrosse Poll - Week 3 - 3/24/25 Place Name Region Record Points 1st Place Prev. 1 Harford Community College 20 4-0 15 5 1 2 CCBC Essex 20 5-0 12 0 2 3 Nassau Community College 15 4-1 9 0 3 4 Onondaga Community College 3 5-1 6 0 5 5 Genesee Community College 3 4-3 3   more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 24 -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: * * * Novel Material Holds Promise for Tech to Convert CO2 Into Fuel Researchers have developed a novel combination of materials that have organic and inorganic properties, with the goal of using them in technologies that convert carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into a liquid fuel. "Fundamentally, the goal of this project was to engineer a surface that would allow us to efficiently conve  more