NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 8 -- The Country Music Association issued the following news release: The Country Music Association visited Charlotte Wednesday, Aug. 7 with Russell Dickerson, Lindsay Ell, Jordan Reynolds and Frank Rogers. During the trip, the songwriters met with band students from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools as part of U.S. Bank's Community Possible giving and engagement platform and its Places to Play partnership with the CMA Foundation, followed by a CMA Songwriters Series Pres  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 7 -- The American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture issued the following news release: The American Farm Bureau Federation, in partnership with Farm Credit, has opened online applications for the 2020 Farm Bureau Ag Innovation Challenge. In its sixth year, the Farm Bureau Ag Innovation Challenge is a national business competition for U.S. food and agriculture startups. Entrepreneurs will compete for $145,000 in startup funds. Launched in 2015 as the first natio  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Aug. 8 -- The American Staffing Association issued the following news release: Hamilton-Ryker, a staffing, recruiting, and workforce solutions company headquartered in Tennessee, recently renewed the Safety Standard of Excellence mark from the American Staffing Association. The program, developed by ASA and the National Safety Council, promotes staffing industry-wide safety standards through a uniform national program. By participating in the Safety Standard of Excellence  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 7 -- The Humane Society of the United States issued the following news release: The Humane Society of the United States applauds Nashville Metro Council members for passing Resolution 1868 to help stop the cruel practice of horse soring. This resolution puts Nashville on record in support of the Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act, H.R. 693/S. 1007 and urges Tennessee's U.S. Senators Lamar Alexander and Marsha Blackburn to cosponsor and pass the legislation that wil  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 5 -- The Nashville Symphony Association issued the following news release: The Nashville Symphony has selected five promising young composers from across the country to participate in the third edition of its Composer Lab & Workshop, a unique initiative designed to discover and cultivate the next generation of great American composers. The five composers - Jack Frerer, SiHyun Uhm, Brian Raphael Nabors, Niloufar Nourbakhsh and Jared Miller - will be in Nashville on Se  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 9 -- The Nashville Symphony Association issued the following news release: Six music students from the area have been selected for Accelerando, the Nashville Symphony's groundbreaking music education initiative designed to facilitate the studies of gifted young musicians from diverse backgrounds and to prepare them for careers in music. The six students were introduced during an event at Schermerhorn Symphony Center on Thursday, August 8, that was attended by current  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 -- The National Collegiate Athletic Association issued the following news: At the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Committee meeting July 15-17 in Indianapolis, veteran athletics administrators Diane Turnham and Nina King were picked to lead the committee over the next two years. Entering her fifth year on the committee, Turnham, senior associate athletics director and senior woman administrator at Middle Tennessee, will chair the committee in 2019-20, taking over on Sept.  more

BRENTWOOD, Tennessee, Aug. 10 -- Neuropsychopharmacology, a scientific journal from the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology that says it focuses on clinical and basic science that advance understanding of the brain and behaviour, published 17 research articles, including the following topics, in its July 2019 edition: * Alcohol withdrawal drives depressive behaviors by activating neurons in the rostromedial tegmental nucleus * Cannabis use in youth is associated with limited alteration  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 7 -- New Phytologist, a journal that says it features plant science and its applications, published 48 research articles on the following topics in its August 2019 edition: * A meta-analysis of plant responses to light intensity for 70 traits ranging from molecules to whole plant performance * A role for the auxin precursor anthranilic acid in root gravitropism via regulation of PIN-FORMED protein polarity and relocalisation in Arabidopsis * Abscisic acid signalling  more

VANCOUVER, Washington, Aug. 9 -- PeaceHealth issued the following news: * * * - PeaceHealth received the American Excess Insurance Exchange Risk Management Award, during the Premier Breakthroughs Conference and Exhibition in Nashville, Tennessee * * * PeaceHealth recently earned national recognition for its innovative efforts to bolster sedation safety across all 10 of its medical centers. PeaceHealth received the American Excess Insurance Exchange Risk Management Award, during the Premier   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 7 -- The Tennessee Electric Cooperative Association issued the following news: American Mainstreet Publications presented The Tennessee Magazine editor Robin Conover with the Lynne Christenson Award of Excellence at the organization's annual meeting this week in Alabama. American Mainstreet Publications is an advertising cooperative owned by electric co-op statewide publications. The Lynne Christenson Award of Excellence is presented to an AMP member who exemplifies   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 7 -- The Country Music Association issued the following news release: The Country Music Association has announced several promotions and hew hires. Ben Balch has been promoted to Director, Accounting & Financial Planning; Mary Overend to Director, Marketing & Consumer Engagement; Kris Kennedy to Live Events Producer; Chris Harrington to Senior Manager, Live Events; Brenden Oliver to Senior Manager, Awards & Industry Relations; Greg Pitman to Senior Manager, Productio  more