IRVING, Texas, Nov. 8 -- The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame issued the following news release: Arizona State had won only 15 games across Jake Plummer's first three seasons, and as his senior campaign approached in 1996, he made sure that such mediocrity would not be tolerated. When the Sun Devils players gathered ahead of the summer of Plummer's finale, they found their quarterback dreaming bigger than any of them could have imagined. "I came in and I had a rose in my   more

DURHAM, North Carolina, Nov. 6 -- The American Association of Independent Professional Baseball issued the following news release: While everyone would like to be David Peralta, the 2012-13 American Association standout and current Arizona Diamondbacks star who this week added a Gold Glove to his sparkling major league resume, onetime Gary SouthShore RailCats relief ace Adam Quintana (pictured) and fellow pitcher Mike Kickham of the Kansas City T-Bones are keeping their professional careers ver  more

WACO, Texas, Nov. 5 -- The American Football Coaches Association issued the following news: Former University of Arizona, University of Hawaii, and San Jose State University head coach Dick Tomey will receive the AFCA's 2020 Amos Alonzo Stagg Award. The award is given to those "whose services have been outstanding in the advancement of the best interests in football," and will be presented, posthumously, during the 2020 AFCA Convention in Nashville, Tennessee. Tomey passed away in May of 2019   more

NEW YORK, Nov. 7 -- The American Institute of Chemical Engineers issued the following news release, dated Nov. 11: The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) announced today that Monty M. Alger, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of the Institute for Natural Gas Research at Pennsylvania State University, will become President of AIChE in 2020. Alger succeeds 2019 President Kimberly Ogden, Interim Vice President for Research and Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engin  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 -- The American Society of Interior Designers issued the following news release: The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), in collaboration with the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) and Emerald Expositions (Emerald), one of North America's leading event and media companies, today announced that The WELL Conference will be held Sunday, March 29 through Wednesday, April 1, 2020, at the Fairmont Princess Hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. The WELL Conferenc  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Nov. 4 -- The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons issued the following news release: In her $52 trillion Medicare for All proposal, Elizabeth Warren would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Medicaid, and all state laws and regulations on private insurance, observes the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). Instead, everyone would purportedly receive all necessary care, courtesy of the federal government, without worrying about th  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, Nov. 5 -- The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives issued the following news release: The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) today named two healthcare IT executives the winners of the 2019 CHIME-AHA Transformational Leadership Award. Aviv Gladman, MD, CIO and CMIO at Mackenzie Health in Ontario, Canada, and Amanda Hammel, senior vice president and CIO at Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston, Texas, tied for the award, which  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, Nov. 5 -- The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives issued the following news release: The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and Digital Health Canada announced today that they have launched an international chapter in Canada. The announcement was made today at the CHIME Fall CIO Forum in Phoenix. Canada's Health Informatics Executive Forum (CHIEF) will operate the chapter. "This is a great opportunity to collaborate with our fr  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, Nov. 4 -- The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives issued the following news release: When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published a 1,000-page-plus proposed rule in 2019, there was one healthcare IT leader who gleefully rubbed her hands before diving into the murky prose. Her goal: to help her colleagues assess the policy's impact and provide a clear and insightful response to then submit to the agency. And when the College of Healthcare In  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 -- Common Cause issued the following news release: Today Wake County Superior Court Judge Vince Rozier lifted a confidentiality designation on more than one hundred thousand documents created by the late Thomas Hofeller, the Republican operative responsible for many of the most controversial GOP gerrymanders of the last decade. The order lifts a confidentiality designation on documents pertaining to Arizona, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virgin  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 -- Consumer Reports issued the following news release: * * * - NTSB reveals company's reckless approach; CR urges strong safety rules for self-driving cars * * * New documents released from an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board include alarming details about major problems with an Uber self-driving car that struck and killed an Arizona woman while the vehicle was being tested in 2018. The documents describe how the Uber vehicle could not anticipate   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 -- EMILY's List issued the following statement: Today, EMILY's List, the nation's largest resource for women in politics, congratulated 2018 Gabrielle Giffords Rising Star Award nominee Regina Romero on being elected mayor of Tucson, Arizona. Mayor-elect Romero is the first woman and the first Latina to be elected mayor of Tucson. EMILY's List President Stephanie Schriock released the following statement: "Congratulations to Regina Romero on her historic victory. "She is   more

PHOENIX, Arizona, Nov. 5 -- The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives issued the following news release: Imagine the letdown patients who have been released to a post-acute care facility experience when they must unexpectedly return to the hospital. Unplanned transfers from inpatient rehabilitation facilities to acute-care settings are not only inconvenient for patients, but also may be costly to post-acute care organizations, especially if they prompt a readmissions penalty f  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, Nov. 5 -- The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives issued the following news release: When the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives' (CHIME) affiliated security association needed experts to help develop a new credential, key members on the leadership team at First Health Advisory Solutions stepped up to the plate. And when CHIME members advocated for security-related policies, First was there offering support and resources. Whether puttin  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, Nov. 5 -- The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives issued the following news release: After a career that spanned more than two decades in defense, Mac McMillan decided to transfer his knowledge and skills as a security leader to the healthcare sector. What he discovered when he co-founded CynergisTek in 2004 was an industry that was woefully unprepared for the cyberthreats that were lurking. Undeterred, he made it his mission to raise awareness and educate   more

IRVING, Texas, Nov. 5 -- The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame issued the following news release: * * * - Arizona State and the National Football Foundation will jointly honor Plummer, a 2019 College Football Hall of Fame inductee, when the Sun Devils host USC. * * * Arizona State University and The National Football Foundation (NFF) & College Hall of Fame announced today that they will jointly honor 2019 electee Jake Plummer with an NFF Hall of Fame On-Campus Salute, pre  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, Nov. 7 -- The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws issued the following news release: The use of either cannabis or cannabis-related products is associated with subjective benefits in women with endometriosis, according to survey data published in the Journal of Minimally Invasive Oncology. Investigators affiliated with St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona surveyed the attitudes in 364 patients with endometriosis. Authors reported: "  more

TEMPE, Arizona, Nov. 7 -- The Institute for Supply Management issued the following news release: Economic activity in the non-manufacturing sector grew in October for the 117th consecutive month, say the nation's purchasing and supply executives in the latest Non-Manufacturing ISM(R) Report On Business(R). INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE The report was issued today by Anthony Nieves, CPSM, C.P.M., A.P.P., CFPM, Chair of the Institute for Supply Management(R) (ISM(R)) Non-Manufacturing Business Survey Co  more

KINGMAN, Arizona, Nov. 8 -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals issued the following news release: * * * - PETA Ad Follows Video Expose, Eyewitness Accounts of Horse Deaths, Neglect, and Suffering * * * PETA has placed a giant billboard en route to the Havasupai Trail that shows an overloaded horse collapsed under the weight of tourist gear--and urges tourists not to use animals to carry their equipment up and down the grueling 2,450-foot trail. This is the first of a series of bill  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following news release: Activists will gather Saturday to protest construction of President Donald Trump's border wall at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. The new 30-foot-tall barrier will block the migration of wildlife, destroy archeological sites, and imperil endangered species and wilderness lands. "Trump's wall is being rammed through one of the most beautiful, sacred and biologically diverse places in Arizona," said  more