MAHWAH, New Jersey, Sept. 3 -- Ramapo College issued the following news release: Author Camron Wright delivered the keynote address at the Opening Convocation on September 3 at Ramapo College of New Jersey before an audience of nearly 2,000. Wright discussed his award-winning book, The Rent Collector, which was chosen as the summer reading selection for Ramapo's first-year students. The book, based on true events following the Vietnam conflict in the mid-1970s, chronicles the story of a young m  more

LYNDHURST, New Jersey, Sept. 5 -- Barnes and Noble, a retailer of content, digital media and educational products, issued the following news release: Barnes & Noble, Inc., the world's largest retail bookseller, today announced The Testaments by Margaret Atwood as the September 2019 selection for the Barnes & Noble Book Club, a monthly book club designed to bring readers in communities across the country together to discuss the most compelling books. Barnes & Noble is selling a special, exclusiv  more

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, Sept. 3 -- Forbes Media, a global media, branding and technology company with a focus on news and information about business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership and affluent lifestyles, issued the following news release: The One Free Press Coalition, a united group of pre-eminent editors and publishers using their global reach and social platforms to spotlight journalists under attack worldwide, today issued the seventh monthly "10 Most Urgent" list of   more

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, Sept. 6 -- Forbes Media, a global media, branding and technology company with a focus on news and information about business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership and affluent lifestyles, issued the following news release: Founder and CEO of PFSbrands, Shawn Burcham, today announced the publication of Keeping Score with GRITT: Straight Talk Strategies for Success (available now). The book is published with ForbesBooks, the exclusive business book publishi  more

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, Sept. 6 -- Forbes Media, a global media, branding and technology company with a focus on news and information about business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership and affluent lifestyles, issued the following news release: Jack Whatley, Founder of DNA Hiring System, today announced that he has joined ForbesSpeakers, the exclusive service of Forbes for business speakers and thought leaders. Whatley is changing the way businesses attract and hire new talen  more

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, Sept. 6 -- Forbes Media, a global media, branding and technology company with a focus on news and information about business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership and affluent lifestyles, issued the following news release: Sal Tiano, co-head of Tiano, Armour & Smyth Wealth Managers at J.P. Morgan Securities, today announced the publication of Structural Alpha: Building and Maintaining an Elite Wealth Management Practice (available now). The book is publis  more

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, Sept. 4 -- Forbes Media, a global media, branding and technology company with a focus on news and information about business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership and affluent lifestyles, issued the following news release: The Dallas Cowboys top Forbes 22nd Annual NFL Team Valuations, maintaining the title of most valuable team for the 13th consecutive year. The Cowboys remain the only NFL team to reach a value of $5 billion, a record that was broken last  more

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, Sept. 5 -- Forbes Media, a global media, branding and technology company with a focus on news and information about business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership and affluent lifestyles, issued the following news release: Indiana Governor Eric J. Holcomb today joins an impressive lineup of speakers at Forbes' second Forbes AgTech Summit in Indianapolis, taking place Sept. 18-19. This event will convene global agriculture leaders and entrepreneurs who wil  more

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, Sept. 6 -- Forbes Media, a global media, branding and technology company with a focus on news and information about business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership and affluent lifestyles, issued the following news release: Indiana Governor Eric J. Holcomb today joins an impressive lineup of speakers at Forbes' second Forbes AgTech Summit in Indianapolis, taking place Sept. 18-19. This event will convene global agriculture leaders and entrepreneurs who wil  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Sept. 5 -- Princeton University issued the following news release: Jennifer Caputo has been appointed executive director of Alumni Engagement within Princeton University Advancement. "Jen has demonstrated exemplary leadership and creativity in our work with Princeton alumni, and I am delighted she will be applying her considerable talents as executive director," said Alexandra Day, Class of 2002, deputy vice president for Alumni Engagement. "Her commitment to Princeton's  more

LAKEWOOD, New Jersey, Sept. 3 -- Gaming Laboratories International, a provider of quality land-based, lottery and iGaming testing and assessment services, issued the following news release: Jose Carlos Figueroa, the former Deputy Gaming Director for the Puerto Rico Tourism Company (PRTC), has joined Gaming Laboratories International (GLI(R)) as Caribbean Government Relations and Business Development Representative. "We are extremely pleased to welcome Jose Carlos Figueroa to GLI," said Karen S  more

WALL, New Jersey, Sept. 5 -- New Jersey Resources, a natural gas provider, issued the following news release: NJR Midstream, a business of New Jersey Resources (NYSE: NJR), announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Leaf River Energy Center, LLC (Leaf River) from Macquarie Infrastructure Partners, which operates within the Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets division of the Macquarie Group. The agreement purchase price for Leaf River is $367.5 million subject to certain contract  more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Sept. 5 -- Rutgers University issued the following news: A comprehensive program to prepare biology students from underrepresented backgrounds to succeed in high-caliber graduate training to earn a Ph.D. or a dual-degree M.D./Ph.D. has debuted at Rutgers University-Camden. The new Maximizing Access to Research Careers - Undergraduate Student Training for Academic Research program (MARC U*STAR) at Rutgers-Camden is paving the way for students to succeed in the biomedi  more

SECAUCUS, New Jersey, Sept. 5 -- Panasonic issued the following news release: Panasonic Corporation, a worldwide Olympic and Paralympic partner, announced today that the company is launching a special photography project through its LUMIX S Series full-frame Digital Single Lens Mirrorless camera system for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. In accordance with the Olympic Games philosophy, Panasonic has supported the tournament for over a quarter of a century as the highest ranking sponsor in "The Ol  more

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, Sept. 4 -- PCS, a subsidiary of Verisk, issued the following news release: PCS(R), a Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK) business, has collaborated with Asociacion Mexicana de Instituciones de Seguros (AMIS) to deliver PCS Mexico, the latest loss aggregation solution for property-catastrophe events. PCS Mexico will provide full coverage for natural and man-made events across Mexico with total industry insured loss estimates of at least MX$300 million (approximately US$15 million). Me  more

NEW YORK, Sept. 3 -- The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey issued the following news release: Port of New York and New Jersey reports highest monthly cargo volume on record in July, surpassing previous all-time monthly record set in October 2018; Port maintains position of No. 2 in the nation over Long Beach; Port Authority airports report second busiest July on record,keeping airports on pace for record 2019; PATH achieves record breaking monthly ridership,carrying 7.18 million passe  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Aug. 26 -- Princeton University Press issued the following book description: Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America, by Nadia Nurhussein As the only African nation, with the exception of Liberia, to remain independent during the colonization of the continent, Ethiopia has long held significance for and captivated the imaginations of African Americans. In Black Land, Nadia Nurhussein delves into nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American artistic a  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Aug. 26 -- Princeton University Press issued the following book description: Citizenship 2.0: Dual Nationality as a Global Asset, by Yossi Harpaz Citizenship 2.0 focuses on an important yet overlooked dimension of globalization: the steady rise in the legitimacy and prevalence of dual citizenship. Demand for dual citizenship is particularly high in Latin America and Eastern Europe, where more than three million people have obtained a second citizenship from EU countries   more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Aug. 26 -- Princeton University Press issued the following book description: Efficiently Inefficient: How Smart Money Invests and Market Prices Are Determined, by Lasse Heje Pedersen Efficiently Inefficient describes the key trading strategies used by hedge funds and demystifies the secret world of active investing. Leading financial economist Lasse Heje Pedersen combines the latest research with real-world examples and interviews with top hedge fund managers to show how  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Aug. 26 -- Princeton University Press issued the following book description: Formations of Belief: Historical Approaches to Religion and the Secular, edited by Philip Nord, Katja Guenther and Max Weiss For decades, scholars and public intellectuals have been predicting the demise of religion in the face of secularization. Yet religion is undergoing an unprecedented resurgence in modern life--and secularization no longer appears so inevitable. Formations of Belief brings  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Aug. 26 -- Princeton University Press issued the following book description: Learning in the Fast Lane: The Past, Present, and Future of Advanced Placement, by Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Andrew E. Scanlan The Advanced Placement program stands as the foremost source of college-level academics for millions of high school students in the United States and beyond. More than 22,000 schools now participate in it, across nearly forty subjects, from Latin and art to calculus and c  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Aug. 26 -- Princeton University Press issued the following book description: Moving Up without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility, by Jennifer M. Morton Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromise  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Aug. 26 -- Princeton University Press issued the following book description: Our Great Purpose: Adam Smith on Living a Better Life, by Ryan Patrick Hanley Adam Smith is best known today as the founder of modern economics, but he was also an uncommonly brilliant philosopher who was especially interested in the perennial question of how to live a good life. Our Great Purpose is a short and illuminating guide to Smith's incomparable wisdom on how to live well, written by o  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Aug. 26 -- Princeton University Press issued the following book description: Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas, by Amy C. Offner In the years after 1945, a flood of U.S. advisors swept into Latin America with dreams of building a new economic order and lifting the Third World out of poverty. These businessmen, economists, community workers, and architects went south with the gospel of the New Deal on thei  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Aug. 26 -- Princeton University Press issued the following book description: This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth, by Jedediah Purdy Today, we are at a turning point as we face ecological and political crises that are rooted in conflicts over the land itself. But these problems can be solved if we draw on elements of our tradition that move us toward a new commonwealth--a community founded on the well-being of all people and the natural world. In t  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Sept. 5 -- Princeton University issued the following news release: Jo Dunkley, a professor of physics and astrophysical sciences at Princeton, will receive a 2020 New Horizons in Physics Prize. Dunkley studies the origins and evolution of the universe. She shares the prize with Samaya Nissanke of the University of Amsterdam and Kendrick Smith of the Perimeter Institute and a former Princeton postdoctoral fellow, for their "development of novel techniques to extract funda  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Sept. 6 [TNSscienceresearch] -- Princeton University issued the following news release: Low-temperature plasma, a rapidly expanding source of innovation in fields ranging from electronics to health care to space exploration, is a highly complex state of matter. So complex that the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has teamed with Princeton University to become home to a collaborative facility open to researchers from across the country to advance the understandin  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Sept. 5 [TNSscienceresearch] -- Princeton University issued the following news release: In summer heat, cities may swelter more than nearby suburbs and rural areas. And while the size of this urban heat island effect varies widely among the world's cities, heat island intensity can largely be explained by a city's population and precipitation level, researchers reported in a paper published Sept. 4 in the journal Nature. Understanding a city's heat island effect is criti  more

MAHWAH, New Jersey, Sept. 6 -- Ramapo College issued the following news release: Ramapo College is hosting the Personal Training Institute of America (PTIA) to begin preparing individuals for successful careers as Certified Personal Trainers. The course will be held at Ramapo College's Bill Bradley Sports and Recreation Center on Saturday and Sunday, November 2-3 from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. There are no prerequisites to participate in the program. The two-day, weekend intensive program on the Ramapo   more

GALLOWAY, New Jersey, Aug. 28 -- Richard Stockton College/Stockton University issued the following news: The William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy and Stockton University's Political Science Program are partnering with Atlantic County to create internships for Stockton students within county government. Internships will be available to undergraduate students in various county departments, including Administration, Public Safety, Law, Human Services and Family and Community Development. Ad  more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Sept. 5 [TNSscienceresearch] -- Rutgers University issued the following news: * * * - Duckweed genome discovery reveals how aquatic plants cope in challenging environments * * * Chinese and Rutgers scientists have discovered how aquatic plants cope with water pollution, a major ecological question that could help boost their use in wastewater treatment, biofuels, antibiotics and other applications. The study is in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Sept. 7 [TNSscienceresearch] -- Stevens Institute of Technology issued the following news release: * * * - A model helps researchers look at optimal ways to mine phosphate rock sustainably * * * If you wanted to really mess with the world's food production, a good place to start would be in Morocco. They don't grow much here, but it is home to mines containing most of the world's known reserves of phosphate rock, the main source of the nutrient phosphorus. Most of us acr  more

PARSIPPANY, New Jersey, Sept. 5 -- Sun Chemical, a member of DIC Group, issued the following news release: Sun Chemical today announced that its flagship food packaging offset inkset, SunPak(R) FSP, which is based on renewable bio-based materials, has achieved a new standard in eco-friendliness through a combination of compliance and sustainability. Not only is the hugely popular inkset, which has achieved double digit sales growth across Europe each year since its launch, fully compliant with   more

CHERRY HILL, New Jersey, Sept. 4 -- TD Bank, a financial services company, issued the following news release: TD Bank's Retail Card Services business today announced the launch of TD Complete, an innovative waterfall application and sales processing platform hosted by Versatile Credit. The platform revolutionizes applications, authorization and settlement for retailers by providing a single interface to finalize transactions across a select group of premier lending partners. TD Complete allows   more

CHERRY HILL, New Jersey, Sept. 4 -- TD Bank, a financial services company, issued the following news release: TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank(R), today announced that it is launching a new program to enable individuals to re-enter the financial services industry following a career break. Working with iRelaunch, a leader in creating successful career re-launch programs, TD's Commercial Bank will offer a career program for return-to-work professionals in the metro New York City area who h  more

CHERRY HILL, New Jersey, Sept. 5 -- TD Bank, a financial services company, issued the following news release: The TD Charitable Foundation, the charitable giving arm of TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank(R) today announced it is donating $100,000 to Hurricane Dorian relief efforts across the Bahamas. "The people of the Bahamas are struggling to recover from one of the most devastating hurricanes to ever hit the region," said Nick Miceli, TD's Regional President, Florida. "Many of our cust  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, Aug. 27 -- Thomas Edison State University issued the following news release: The Provident Bank Foundation (PBF) has announced Thomas Edison State University (TESU) in Trenton, NJ, as the recipient of the Foundation's $100,000 Signature Grant for 2019 in the Education funding priority area. TESU was selected to receive this Signature Grant for its distance-learning curriculum built on community engaged service learning and best practices. A first of its kind, the program p  more

PARSILLANY, New Jersey, Sept. 2 -- Travelport Worldwide, a travel commerce platform, issued the following news release: Travelport today agreed with Japan Airlines ("JAL") not to proceed with their proposed joint venture to form a global distribution system combining Travelport Japan K.K. with JAL's wholly owned subsidiary, Axess International Network Inc. ("Axess"). The announcement of the proposed joint venture between Travelport and JAL was made on 19 March 2019. Travelport remains committe  more

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, Sept. 3 -- Verisk, a data analytics provider, issued the following news release: Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide announced that Insurance Australia Group (IAG), the largest general insurance company in Australia and New Zealand, has licensed AIR's new Earthquake Model for New Zealand to help manage its catastrophe risk. AIR Worldwide is a Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK) business. "This model has been developed to help meet the wide spectrum of earthquake risk management n  more