ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Feb. 4 -- The American Indian Science and Engineering Society issued the following news: The American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) has partnered with Intel to expand computer science education and career readiness in schools in Arizona, California, and Oregon serving Native American students. This project aims to increase the number of Native American students in the technology and engineering fields, in academia and professionally. The Intel Next Ge  more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Feb. 5 -- Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors issued the following news release: Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors today joined a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general from 25 states and the District of Columbia, co-led by Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, in renewing their request that U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos use her authority to discharge the federal student loans of all students w  more

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, Feb. 5 -- Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison issued the following news: * * * - Co-leads bipartisan coalition of 26 AGs in asking Education Secretary to extend federal student loan discharge to all former students of closed Dream Center schools, including Argosy University and Art institutes International * * * Minnesota Attorney General Ellison and Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum co-led a bipartisan coalition of 26 attorneys general from around the country  more

SALEM, Oregon, Feb. 4 -- Gov. Kate Brown, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * - Proposed legislation takes a comprehensive approach to wildfire preparation, mitigation, and adaptation * * * Governor Kate Brown detailed her support for Senate Bill 1536 , which outlines a wide-ranging plan to lessen future impacts of wildfire on Oregon's communities and landscape. The plan was informed by high-priority recommendations from the Governor's Council on Wildfire Response , which she   more

SALEM, Oregon, Feb. 6 -- Gov. Kate Brown, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: * * * - Proposed $12.7 million investment to prepare Oregon for natural disaster * * * Governor Kate Brown detailed her support for Senate Bill 1537 , which proposes a $12.7 million investment to build infrastructure, improve citizen awareness and education, and ultimately ensure that more Oregon families are supplied for an eventual Cascadia subduction earthquake and other large-scale natural disasters.   more

SALEM, Oregon, Feb. 8 -- Gov. Kate Brown, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Governor Kate Brown declared a state of emergency in three Oregon counties due to severe flooding, increased snowmelt, landslides, and erosion. This declaration comes at the request of local legislators and is based on the recommendations of the Oregon Office of Emergency Management (OEM). "Fast-moving, severe floods have required the evacuation of residences and shut down critical roads in northeastern Oreg  more

SALEM, Oregon, Feb. 6 -- The Oregon Democratic Party issued the following statement by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, on Feb. 5 regarding the Senate's vote to acquit President Trump on two articles of impeachment: "Today I voted to remove Donald Trump, for his abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. His whole defense amounted to a fiction. The president was not fighting corruption in Ukraine, he was causing it. "There is no doubt in my mind that Donald Trump misused his office to extort a forei  more

SALEM, Ore., Feb. 5 -- The Oregon Department of Administrative Services issued the following news release: The State Interoperability Executive Council (SIEC) will meet Tuesday, Feb. 11, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. The meeting will take place in the Hall of Heroes (Room A) at the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training, located at 1490 Aumsville Hwy SE in Salem. The meeting is open to the public and comments will be taken from those attending in person and via audioconference. The SIEC was cre  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Feb. 6 [TNSmedicalresearch] -- Oregon Health and Science University issued the following news release: * * * - New findings suggest that it will be possible to find and treat many cancers early * * * For cancers that can't currently be detected early, a new discovery suggests there may be a large window of time in which to look for smoldering cancer cells and eliminate them before they become life-threatening. Errors in DNA that trigger the start of some of these deadly can  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Feb. 5 -- Oregon Health and Science University issued the following news release: * * * - OHSU treats first participant in clinical trial for transcatheter tricuspid valve repair * * * About a year ago, cardiologists told Dennis Eggers the only option to repair his leaky tricuspid heart valve was open-heart surgery. Unfortunately, that surgery comes with serious risks that Eggers, who also had an unrelated lung tumor removed in May 2019, wasn't comfortable taking. But on D  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Feb. 8 -- Oregon Health and Science University issued the following news release: Tribal attorney and climate activist Tara Houska, J.D., broke down the urgency of restoring the health of our climate during her recent OHSU lecture "Climate, Identity, and Our Health: Indigenous Lessons and Voice from the Front Lines to Prevent Climate Collapse." "We drink water," she said. So why would we pollute it? Why would we waste it? Why would we not heed the messages of rising sea leve  more

SALEM, Oregon, Feb. 4 -- The Oregon House Democrats issued the following statement by House Majority Leader Barbara Smith Warner on the opening day of the legislative session: "Oregon House Democrats show up in Salem every day with a clear mission in mind - get the hard stuff done. We have led the way in tackling some of Oregon's biggest challenges. In the last year alone, we passed a paid family and medical leave insurance program with bipartisan support, we finally addressed Oregon's persiste  more

CORVALLIS, Oregon, Feb. 8 [TNSenvironmentresearch] -- Oregon State University issued the following news: An Oregon land use policy creates a large economic value for some private homeowners who are allowed to protect their shoreline against erosion, according to a new Oregon State University study. The research directly informs policy on a contentious issue on the Oregon coast - the tradeoff between a homeowner's ability to protect their private property and public access to Oregon's beaches,   more

CORVALLIS, Oregon, Feb. 6 [TNSsociologyresearch] -- Oregon State University issued the following news on Feb. 4: People tend to be irrationally optimistic about the future success of their sports team or political party, while supporters of their rivals hold similar overly positive views about the performance of their own group, a new study from Oregon State University has found. "People hold biases about their own groups that lead them to believe good things are more likely for their team or   more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Feb. 6 [TNSmedicalresearch] -- Oregon State University issued the following news on Feb. 5: A new study suggests that roughly half of the opioid prescriptions written by dentists in the United States exceed the three-day supply recommended by federal dental pain-management guidelines. The research also showed that during the five-year study period, a more powerful narcotic than necessary was prescribed almost 3 times of out 10. The findings, published today in the American J  more

CORVALLIS, Oregon, Feb. 6 [TNSbiologyresearch] -- Oregon State University issued the following news on Feb. 5: Proposed hydropower dams in Gabon pose a substantial threat to the African nation's most culturally and economically important fishes, according to a new study. The study, published today (https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecs2.3024) in the journal Ecosphere, is the first of its kind to predict the distribution of fishes throughout central African freshwater  more

NEWPORT, Oregon, Feb. 6 -- Oregon State University issued the following news: Nearly 10,000 Oregonians have purchased gray whale license plates since they went on sale a year ago, providing critical support for Oregon State University researchers studying gray whales that frequent Oregon's waters. The license plate, with the image of a gray whale mother and her calf, went on sale at Oregon Department of Motor Vehicle offices on Feb. 1, 2019. The plates cost $40 to order or renew, with approxim  more

LA JOLLA, California, Feb. 5 [TNSscientificresearch] -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news: * * * - Researchers use novel data assimilation methods to increase accuracy * * * Researchers at Oregon State University have been using the Comet supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) to test an algorithm that they believe will reduce errors in the widely used three-day forecasts for water temperature, salinity levels, sea heights, and curren  more