PORTLAND, Oregon, Sept. 30 -- Oregon Health and Science University issued the following news: * * * Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at OHSU earns $22.8 million renewal Federal award supports only Alzheimer's Disease Research Center in Oregon, funded to study dementia, other late life cognitive disorders By Erik Robinson A center dedicated to improving research and care for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias at Oregon Health & Science University has earned $22.8 million in continu  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 -- Rep. Janelle Bynum, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Bynum Joins Oregon Delegation in Demanding Trump Keep Federal Troops Out of Portland * Washington, D.C. - Today, Congresswoman Janelle Bynum (OR-05) joined Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and U.S. Representatives Suzanne Bonamici, Andrea Salinas, Val Hoyle, and Maxine Dexter in demanding the Trump administration keep federal agents and troops out of Portland, following Donald Trump's declaratio  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 [Category: Sociological] -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted the following news release: * * * CAIR Condemns White Supremacist Propaganda in Oregon * The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned flyers promoting white supremacy posted in Lane County, Oregon. "This type of hate propaganda is designed to spread fear in minority communities," said CAIR National Communi  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 -- Rep. Maxine Dexter, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Dexter: "Authoritarians rely on fear to divide us. Portland will not give them that. We will not be intimidated." * PORTLAND, OR -- Today, Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. (OR-03) released the following statement condemning the deployment of militarized federal agents to Portland: (link is external) "The President of the United States is directing his self-proclaimed 'Secretary of War' to unleas  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 [Category: Political] -- The League of Women Voters issued the following news release: * * * League of Women Voters Condemns Unjustified National Guard Deployment to Portland * PORTLAND AND WASHINGTON, DC -- The League of Women Voters of Oregon and the League of Women Voters of the US issued the following joint statement in response to the deployment of the National Guard in Portland. "Portland -- a city recognized nationally for its civic activism, creativity, and com  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- Rep. Maxine Dexter, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * Oregon Delegation Demands Trump Keep Federal Troops out Of Portland * Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and U.S. Representatives Suzanne Bonamici, Andrea Salinas, Val Hoyle, Maxine Dexter and Janelle Bynum today demanded the Trump administration keep federal agents and troops out of Portland, following Donald Trump's declaration that he is directing the Department of Defen  more

CORVALLIS, Oregon, Sept. 30 (TNSjou) -- Oregon State University issued the following news release: * * * Peptide study paves path toward new weapon against antibiotic-resistant bacteria New research into antimicrobial peptides, small chains of amino acids able to damage bacterial cells, shows why some peptides are more effective at doing that and also why some cells are more vulnerable. The findings open the door to designing novel compounds for killing disease-causing organisms that have be  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following news release: * * * GAO Finds Trump Administration Again Violated the Impoundment Control Act by Withholding Funding Merkley Has Called on GAO to Investigate the Trump Administration's Violations of the Impoundment Control Act * The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) published additional findings that the Trump Administration again violated the Impoundment  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 [Category: ThinkTank] -- The Center for American Progress issued the following news release: * * * STATEMENT: Trump's Expansion of Domestic Military Deployments Threatens Our Democracy * After President Donald Trump announced that he had federalized Oregon National Guard troops over the objections of the governor to support immigration enforcement, Damian Murphy, senior vice president for National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress, iss  more