BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 2 -- Albertsons Companies, food and drug retailers, issued the following news: Albertsons Companies announced today that Gineal Davidson has been named President of the company's Portland division, which operates over 140 stores in Oregon and Washington. Davidson started with Albertsons 30 years ago as a Courtesy Clerk in Boulder, CO, and was quickly promoted to the Service Deli department. Since that time, she has held positions of increasing responsibility including Servic  more

BELLEVUE, Washington, July 29 -- Bellevue College issued the following news release: Radiation therapy educators from Washington, Nebraska, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oregon converged on Bellevue College for a workshop held July 15-19, in part because the campus has a cutting-edge virtual simulator called Virtual Environment Radiation Therapy (VERT). Like a flight simulator used to train pilots, VERT allows radiation therapy students to practice their skills on virtual patients in a safe (and rad  more

PITTSFORD, New York, July 27 -- GateHouse Media, a subsidiary of New Media Investment Group, issued the following announcement: RJ Benner has been named as the group publisher in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Benner will help oversee publications including the Fort Smith Southwest Times Record, the Booneville Democrat, the Charleston Express and the Greenwood Democrat. Prior to his relocation, Benner held multiple sales leadership positions with Lee Enterprises, including most recently as general man  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Aug. 1 -- Burns and McDonnell, a full-service engineering, architecture, construction, environmental and consulting solutions firm, issued the following news release: Burns & McDonnell has hired industry veteran Stephen Malmros to help grow the firm's presence in the Pacific Northwest and expand its integrated design-build delivery offering across the U.S. Malmros will support a range of markets including electronics, food and consumer products, related specialty materials, ga  more

HICKORY, North Carolina, July 29 -- CommScope Holding issued the following news release: * * * - Solution Delivers Efficient IP Video with Familiar App-Based Consumer Interface; ARRIS's First North American Android Set-Top Marks Important Milestone * * * ARRIS (now part of CommScope) and TDS Telecom (TDS(R)) today announced plans to deploy an Android TV(TM) set-top solution for the TDS Cloud TV Platform called TDS TV+. TDS plans to launch the cloud-based, IP video delivery solution later thi  more

BEND, Oregon, July 31 -- Dirks, Van Essen, Murray and April, a merger and acquisition firm, issued the following news release: A federal bankruptcy judge in Oregon has approved the sale of the Bend (OR) Bulletin and Redmond (OR) Spokesman to EO Media Group. EO Media also acquired two other newspapers from Western Communications earlier this month, the La Grande (OR) Observer and the Baker City (OR) Herald. Dirks, Van Essen, Murray & April, a media merger and acquisition firm based in Santa Fe,  more

SONORA, California, July 31 -- Dirks, Van Essen, Murray and April, a merger and acquisition firm, issued the following news release: A federal bankruptcy judge in Oregon has approved the sale of The Union Democrat and its downtown Sonora building to Rhode Island Suburban Newspapers for $1.15 million. Rhode Island Suburban Newspapers, known as RISN, will take ownership today. Dirks, Van Essen, Murray & April, a media merger and acquisition firm based in Santa Fe, New Mexico represented Western   more

LA GRANDE, Oregon, July 23 -- Eastern Oregon University issued the following news: Mayors, business leaders, local representatives, educators and regional stakeholders will gather with Eastern Oregon University's Board of Trustees on July 31 for a community reception in Ontario. Governing board members will interact with attendees from 5 to 6:30 p.m., in the museum lobby at Four Rivers Cultural Center. All alumni and community members are invited to the reception. Light refreshments will be p  more

LOS ANGELES, California, July 31 -- Greenberg Traurig, a law firm, issued the following news release: Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP represented an affiliate of Mosaic Real Estate Investors, a commercial real estate debt platform and investor, in connection with a $460 million construction loan to affiliates of BDC Development and Walter C. Bowen for the development of the Ritz-Carlton Project in downtown Portland, Oregon. According to Mosaic, once completed, the project is expected to  more

BEAVERTON, Oregon, Aug. 1 -- HID Global, a provider of trusted identity solutions, issued the following news release: * * * - FiRa Consortium Ensures an Interoperable UWB Ecosystem Across Chipset, Device and Service Infrastructure Through Standards and Certifications * * * Recognizing the need for emerging applications to build on a strong foundation that supports interoperability among all categories of devices, four sponsor members - The ASSA ABLOY Group which includes HID Global, and NXP   more

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, Aug. 2 -- The Missouri Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: * * * - Public meeting scheduled for Aug. 27 * * * The Missouri Department of Natural Resources invites the public to review and offer written comments on a draft hazardous waste permit for Exide Technologies Inc. until Sept. 9, 2019. The department will hold a public meeting and public hearing about the draft permit Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019, at the T.J. Hall building, located   more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Aug. 1 -- Gov. Kate Brown, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * - Representative Bonamici, Senators Merkley and Wyden will join to discuss Oregon voting reforms nationally * * * Governor Kate Brown will sign new defending democracy bills at 2 p.m. tomorrow, August 2 at the Bus Project in Portland. SB 861 was a priority the Governor set during her proposed budget with support from then-Secretary of State Dennis Richardson and the Bus Project. The legislation re  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Aug. 1 -- Oregon Health and Science University issued the following news release: * * * - Newly funded projects in Hood River, Wasco, Crook, Benton, Multnomah counties to raise awareness of cancer prevention through HPV vaccination * * * The OHSU Knight Cancer Institute's Community Partnership Program is advancing its goal to reduce cancer risk for all Oregonians by funding four human papilloma virus, or HPV, vaccination-focused projects statewide: - In Multnomah County, A  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, July 31 [TNSmedicalresearch] -- Oregon Health and Science University issued the following news release: * * * - Study reveals crucial role of alpha-synuclein protein in DNA repair * * * A small protein previously associated with cell dysfunction and death in fact serves a critical function in repairing breaks in DNA, according to new research led by scientists at Oregon Health & Science University. The discovery, published today in the journal Scientific Reports, marks the  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Aug. 2 [TNSmedicalresearch] -- Oregon Health and Science University issued the following news release: * * * - Technique could help diagnose, rectify a genetic defect with gene-editing tools such as CRISPR * * * Scientists have devised a new computational method that reveals genetic patterns in the massive jumble of individual cells in the body. The discovery, published in the journal eLife, will be useful in discerning patterns of gene expression across many kinds of dise  more

CORVALLIS, Oregon, Aug. 2 -- Oregon State University issued the following news: Oregon State University's College of Engineering is accelerating its work in artificial intelligence, robotics, driverless vehicles and other areas by acquiring six advanced NVIDIA systems that give the college some of the most powerful computing resources among universities worldwide. "The computing power we now possess will accelerate our research in artificial intelligence and machine learning, while exposing ou  more

CORVALLIS, Oregon, Aug. 1 -- Oregon State University issued the following news: Oregon State University's College of Education will host a free, day-long curriculum symposium for K-12 educators who will soon be required to teach about the Holocaust and other acts of mass violence under a new Oregon law. The symposium is believed to be the first of its kind in Oregon. It will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 15 at the OSU Portland Center, 555 SW Morrison St. Earlier this month, Gov. Kate Br  more

CORVALLIS, Oregon, July 31 [TNSscienceresearch] -- Oregon State University issued the following news: West Coast forest landowners are expected to adapt to climate change by gradually switching from Douglas-fir to other types of trees such as hardwoods and ponderosa pine, according to a new Oregon State University study. The study, the first to estimate an economic model of forest-planting choices by landowners as a function of climate, is published in the Journal of the Association of Environ  more

CORVALLIS, Oregon, Aug. 3 [TNSscienceresearch] -- Oregon State University issued the following news: Even though we've had a mild summer, conifers in Oregon are still getting hit hard by several years of drought, to the point that many are dying. "Beginning in 2013-14, we started to see significant impact on Doug-firs in western Oregon," said Dave Shaw, a forest health specialist with Oregon State University Extension Service. "Since evidence of drought often doesn't show up until the followin  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, July 29 -- Thomas Built Buses Inc, a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America, issued the following news release: Available only through Thomas Built Buses Inc, the Minotrek is a new Narrow Body Type A school and activity bus, made possible through a joint partnership between Thomas Built Buses and Trans Tech. "As one of the leaders in Type A school bus manufacturing, we are delighted to partner with Trans Tech on this new Type A option for the industry," said Caley Edgerly  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, July 30 -- Oregon Health and Science University issued the following news release: * * * - Six of the hospital's adult specialties are ranked among best in the nation, based on survival and discharge-to-home rates, volume, nursing quality * * * OHSU Hospital ranks among the best in the country and No. 1 in Oregon, according to U.S. News & World Report's "Best Hospitals 2019-20," and six of its adult specialties are ranked among the top 50 nationwide. "These rankings are re  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Aug. 1 [TNSscienceresearch] -- The University of California's Los Angeles Campus (UCLA) issued the following news release: * * * - UCLA study reveals how the U.S. can maximize benefits of waste-derived fuels * * * The United States could produce enough energy each year by harnessing waste -- from landfill refuse to cow manure -- to power the states of Oregon and Washington, all while cutting the equivalent of 37 million cars' worth of carbon. That's according to res  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, July 30 -- Wyndham Destinations, a hospitality company, issued the following news release: * * * - $162 million deal expands Vacasa's portfolio to more than 23,000 vacation homes around the globe * * * PORTLAND, Ore. and ORLANDO, Fla. - Vacasa, North America's largest vacation rental management platform, and Wyndham Destinations (NYSE:WYND), the global leader in vacation ownership and exchange, announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which V  more