PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Aug. 21 -- Carnegie Mellon University issued the following news: * * * Laurie Heller Is Changing How We Understand, and Potentially Treat, Misophonia By Caroline Sheedy Throughout her career, Laurie Heller has listened closely -- not just to words, but to sound itself. In the Auditory Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, the psychology professor explores how the brain interprets everything from environmental clatter to the subtle noises that can spark deep feelings of  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Aug. 21 -- Carnegie Mellon University issued the following news: * * * What Happens in the Brain When it Learns Something New By Lucy Perkins Memories of significant learning experiences -- like the first time a driver gets a speeding ticket -- are sharp, compared to the recollection of everyday events -- like what someone ate for dinner two weeks ago. That's because the human brain is primed to learn from helpful associations. Carnegie Mellon University research  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Aug. 21 [Category: BizInsurance] -- Highmark, a health insurance company, issued the following news release: * * * Highmark invests $4 million in 24 initiatives to enhance community health in Western New York * Buffalo, N.Y. (August 21, 2025) -- Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, through the Highmark Bright Blue Futures charitable giving and community involvement program, is reinforcing its commitment to Western New York with a $4 million investment in 24 vital healt  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Aug. 21 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * If aliens explore space like us, we should look for their calls to other planets * UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa -- If an extraterrestrial intelligence were looking for signs of human communications, when and where should they look? In a new study, researchers at Penn State and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California analyzed when and where human deep space transmissions would be mo  more

GREENVILLE, Pennsylvania, Aug. 21 -- Thiel College issued the following news release: * * * Mercer County doctor to address Thiel College Physician Assistant commencement Sept. 6 Robert B. Morgenstern, M.D. will be the commencement speaker for Thiel College's Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies Commencement at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, in the William A. Passavant Memorial Center.. * Read more about Physician Assistant Commencement (https://www.thiel.edu/academics/departments/ph  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Aug. 21 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Penn State Homecoming to launch new, refreshed overall logo * UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State Homecoming aims to honor its 105-year legacy with a modern look when it unveils a new overall logo at a celebration event on Aug. 26. The new logo featuring a modern font was inspired by a pennant -- an object that represents a longstanding and timeless piece of collegiate imagery. It replac  more

CAMDEN, New Jersey, Aug. 21 [Category: BizWater] -- American Water, a water and wastewater company, posted the following news release: * * * Pennsylvania American Water Announces $1.1 Million Additional Water Line Upgrades in Scranton * SCRANTON, Pa. (August 21, 2025) - Pennsylvania American Water today announced the start of a $1.1 million project to replace more than one mile of water main in the City of Scranton to improve reliability for customers, reduce service disruptions and increase  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Aug. 22 (TNSrep) -- The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission issued the following news release: * * * Pennsylvania Power Grid Challenged by Record Number of Outage Events in 2024, PUC Report Finds Severe Storms and Vegetation Continue to Disrupt Electric Reliability; Infrastructure and Vegetation Management Enhancements Needed * In 2024, Pennsylvania experienced 71 "reportable outage events" - the highest number recorded in more than 30 years - disrupting electri  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Aug. 21 -- The University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering issued the following news: * * * Saving Lives Through Simulation Pitt industrial engineers help develop first-of-its-kind discrete event simulation model of the blood continuum in Kenya * On a University of Pittsburgh-sponsored trip to Bogota, Colombia, in 2017, an unlikely collaboration took root that today is saving lives. Pitt industrial engineering professor Dr. Bopaya Bidanda, Pitt trauma su  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Aug. 22 -- Point Park University issued the following news: * * * Communication Professor Attends National Convention Thursday, August 21, 2025 School of Communication Professor Tatyana Dumova, Ph.D., took part in the national convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) held in San Francisco, Calif., Aug. 7-10, 2025. As a co-chair of AEJMC's History, Legacy and Impact Task Force, Dumova participated in the business meetin  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release: * * * Rob Bresnahan Dumped Up to $250,000 in Pennsylvania Hospital Bonds Before Voting to Gut Medicaid and Jeopardize Rural Hospitals * NYT : Bresnahan "has traded stocks that could be affected by his work in Congress, raising questions about potential conflicts of interest" Rob Bresnahan may have hit a new low. The stock-trading congressman is facing scrutiny after reporting from e  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (TNSdok) -- The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission has denied a petition from ConnectDER, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a manufacturer of meter socket adapters, to modify a state rule to standardize the adoption of its products. ConnectDER's petition, filed in June, sought to change Washington Administrative Code 480-108-040 to create a statewide process for device model approval. In its filing, ConnectDER asserted that the absence of a standardized process for  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Aug. 21 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * What traits matter when predicting disease emergence in new populations? * UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- When a disease-causing virus or other organism is transmitted from one species to another, most of the time the infection sputters and dies out. On rare occasions, the infection can perpetuate transmission in the new host species and cause a pandemic. For example, scientists are keeping a cl  more