WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 -- AeroX, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) advocating for a comprehensive regulatory framework to promote the safe integration of uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) and advanced air mobility (AAM) into the National Airspace System (NAS). The comment supports the FAA's performance-based Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM), which establishes new operational rules under Parts 108 and 146 specificall  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 -- Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corp., Blue Ridge Energies LLC and Ridgelink LLC, all of Lenoir, North Carolina, have sent a public comment letter to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) addressing the integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the National Airspace System (NAS). The organization expresses strong support for the FAA's objectives of facilitating safe UAS operations across various mission types, particularly Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) op  more

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, Oct. 9 [Category: Sports] -- The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association issued the following news: * * * CIAA Announces Student Recipients of The McLendon Experience Scholarship * CHARLOTTE, N.C. (October 9, 2025) - The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) proudly announces the selection of twelve exceptional students as CIAA Scholarship Recipients for The McLendon Experience, taking place October 9-10, 2025, in Durham, North Carolina. Throug  more

DURHAM, North Carolina, Oct. 10 -- Duke University Pratt School of Engineering issued the following news: * * * Duke Engineers Awarded 19 Major Externally Funded Graduate Fellowships Highly competitive national awards will help new and returning graduate students conduct impactful research * Incoming and current graduate students and researchers at Duke Engineering had a successful summer 2025, garnering prestigious national awards and funding opportunities to support their impactful resear  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: * * * Foxx Praises Significant Peace Agreement Between the State of Israel and Hamas * WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Representative Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on phase one of the historic peace agreement - brokered by President Trump - that was agreed to by the State of Israel and Hamas. "Blessed are the peacemakers. This new agreement has undeniably opened the door for peace within t  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release on Oct. 9, 2025: * * * Judiciary Committee Advances Judicial Nominations for Seventh Circuit and Four District Courts, Along with Nominations for the Director of National Drug Control Policy and Five U.S. Attorneys The Senate Judiciary Committee today advanced the following nominations: * Rebecca L. Taibleson, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh  more

ITHACA, New York, Oct. 9 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * Kim named inaugural William L. Maxwell Postdoctoral Fellow * Younghoon Kim has been named the inaugural William L. Maxwell '56 Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell's Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society. The Maxwell Fellowship was established through a gift from Dev Joneja, Ph.D. '89, in support of Cornell Engineering's Innovations in Medicine initiative. Kim earned his Ph.D. in statistics and operation  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Oct. 8 (TNSjou) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: * * * Designing Polymers for Use in Next-Generation Bioelectronics Engineered polymers hold promise for use in next generation technologies such as light-harvesting devices and implantable electronics that interact with the nervous system - but creating polymers with the right combination of chemical, physical and electronic properties poses a significant challenge. New research offe  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Oct. 8 (TNSjou) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: * * * Hardware Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Hack AI Training Data Researchers from NC State University have identified the first hardware vulnerability that allows attackers to compromise the data privacy of artificial intelligence (AI) users by exploiting the physical hardware on which AI is run. "What we've discovered is an AI privacy attack," says Joshua Kalyanapu, first aut  more

BOONE, North Carolina, Oct. 9 [Category: Sociological] -- Appalachian Voices posted the following news release: * * * New grant program to improve community buildings in Southwest Virginia NORTON, Va. -- This October, Appalachian Voices announced a new funding opportunity to improve energy efficiency and reduce energy bills for community-serving organizations in Southwest Virginia. Grants of up to $15,000 will be provided to organizations in Buchanan, Dickenson, Lee, Russell, Scott, Tazewell   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following opening statement on Oct. 9, 2025, at an executive business meeting on judicial and executive nominees: * * * On today's agenda, we have seventeen nominations listed; we'll vote on eleven of them. We'll vote on Rebecca Taibleson to be a circuit judge and on David Bragdon, Lindsey Ann Freeman, Matthew Orso and Susan Courtwright Rodriguez to be district judges in North Caroli  more

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, Oct. 9 -- Wake Forest University posted the following news: * * * WFU to host dedication ceremony for Hopkins Residence Hall * On Saturday, Oct. 25, Wake Forest will celebrate the renaming of South Residence Hall to Hopkins Residence Hall in honor of Larry and Beth Hopkins, two trailblazing alumni with deep ties to the University and Winston-Salem. The program begins at 10 a.m. The announcement of the renaming of South Hall was shared at the University's Foun  more