NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 23 -- Tulane University issued the following news release: Anneliese A. Singh, a professor and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the College of Education at the University of Georgia, has accepted the appointment as Tulane's first Associate Provost for Diversity and Faculty Development, effective July 20. Singh will serve as the university's chief diversity officer, leading efforts to coordinate and ensure that the university's campus-wide dive  more

FORT COLLINS, Colorado, April 23 -- Colorado State University issued the following news: A citizen science movement based at Colorado State University hit a major milestone Sunday. The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow network, known as CoCoRaHS, collected its 50 millionth daily precipitation report, a record 22 years and more than 48,000 volunteers in the making. Kelby Ouchley, a retired wildlife biologist from Union Parish, Louisiana, logged the 50 millionth report. Ouchley has mea  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 22 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards announced two co-chairs and appointed members to the Louisiana COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force and several subcommittees. "It is an honor to serve the citizens of Louisiana on the COVID-19 Health Equity Taskforce," said Co-Chair Dr. Sandra C. Brown, Dean of Southern University's College of Nursing and Allied Health. "I look forward to working with a distinguished diverse g  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 25 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards announced that he is making $500,000 from the Governor's COVID-19 Response Fund available to the Louisiana COVID-19 Health Equity Taskforce to examine the causes and possible solutions to the high rate of deaths from the coronavirus within Louisiana's African-American community and other impacted populations. "The disparity in deaths is especially worrisome, and we need to d  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 21 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: The Louisiana Department of Health issued a revised order for medical and surgical procedures. This guidance is necessary during a public health emergency to preserve personal protective equipment, to properly utilize hospital staffing and to ensure adequate hospital bed capacity. "Health care facilities play a critical role in responding to COVID-19 and helping people be their healthiest," Gov.   more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 23 -- Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry issued the following news release: Attorney General Landry is announcing another major donation by a good corporate citizen to help personnel on the frontline in Louisiana's battle against COVID-19. The Home Depot has donated tens of thousands of N95 respirator masks and other Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to emergency workers and healthcare providers in Louisiana. "On behalf of Louisiana, I want to offer The Home  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 22 -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news release: Cool, damp conditions are affecting some seedlings that are trying to develop a stand. Damping-off results when seedlings die soon after they emerge. This type of disease is caused by a variety of soil-inhabiting fungi, such as Fusarium and Rhizoctonia, and water molds, such as Phytophthora and Pythium. LSU AgCenter plant doctor Raj Singh said the disease caused by Fusarium and Rhiz  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 22 -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news release: Blueberries in Louisiana don't typically ripen until about a month or so from now. But researchers with the LSU AgCenter are exploring the unique possibilities of Southern highbush varieties for both producers and consumers. "What's special about these blueberries is that they're different from the normal rabbiteyes that most growers in Louisiana grow," said LSU AgCenter horticulturi  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 21 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Six LSU faculty members, who are leaders in their respective fields, have been selected to receive the Rainmaker Award for Research and Creative Activity from the LSU Office of Research & Economic Development, or ORED. Rainmakers are faculty members who balance their teaching and research responsibilities while extending the impact of their work to the world beyond academia. "The definition of a R  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 21 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: A new study will examine how COVID-19 is affecting the health behaviors of people worldwide, and the research could help influence local and national public health policies. Part of the study is a 15-minute online survey that includes questions about how COVID-19 has affected participants' physical activity, diet, sleep and well-being. With enough responses from individual cities in Louisiana, suc  more

CROWLEY, Louisiana, April 22 -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news release: Results from a survey of crawfish producers show that decreased demand for their product is resulting in lost income of about $500 an acre and a season that could end about 40 days sooner than usual in some cases. "When you look at all those things, it's a pretty impactful scenario for producers," said LSU AgCenter economist Kurt Guidry, who compiled the survey results. A total of 67 pr  more

ALBANY, New York, April 23 -- The New York State Public Service Commission issued the text of the following letter: To: Ms. Christina Moore, Clearway Community Solar, LLC, 1100 Louisiana, Suite 5150, Houston, TX 77002 RE: 2020 Annual Compliance - Clearway Community Solar LLC Dear Ms. Moore, Thank you for your recent submittal pursuant to Section 3F of the New York State DPS's Uniform Business Practices for Distributed Energy Resource Suppliers (UBP-DERS). This letter is to inform you that th  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 23 [TNSgrants] -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: The National Science Foundation, or NSF, has awarded more than $427,000 to LSU and the Center for Computation & Technology to improve the cyberinfrastructure framework used by the Einstein Toolkit, an accessible community-driven open source ecosystem that provides computational tools to advance research in relativistic astrophysics and gravitational physics. At LSU, the project is led b  more

ROCHESTER, New York, April 23 -- Rochester Institute of Technology issued the following news release: The National Science Foundation recently awarded researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Louisiana State University, Georgia Tech and West Virginia University grants totaling more than $2.3 million to support further development of the Einstein Toolkit. The Einstein Toolkit is a community-developed code for simulating the collisions of   more

HAMMOND, Louisiana, April 23 [TNSgrants] -- Southeastern Louisiana University issued the following news release: Southeastern Louisiana University Professor of Organic Chemistry Jean Fotie was awarded a $265,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. The purpose of the grant is to develop greener and sustainable catalytic methods for the reductive functionalization of carbon dioxide (CO2). "Reducing the emission of carbon dioxide, one of the most significant long-lived greenhouse gases, i  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 21 -- Tulane University issued the following news release: Tulane National Primate Research Center Director, Dr. Jay Rappaport, will serve as a member of a newly formed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public-private collaboration to rapidly respond to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and prepare for future pandemics. Members of the group include leaders from academia, private industry, the NIH and the Food and Drug Administration. This collaborative effort wil  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 25 [TNSgrants] -- Tulane University issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences has awarded the National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice (REACH) at Tulane University a $100,000 contract to collect data from approximately 150,000 school websites across the country to see how the nation's education system is responding to the coronavirus pandemic. The project, which will track traditional p  more

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana, April 24 -- The University of Louisiana's Lafayette Campus issued the following news story: UL Lafayette's Dr. Gary Wagner is a devoted economics professor. And a reluctant media star. Wagner is the B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration's Acadiana Business Economist/BORSF Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Economics. In addition to teaching, his primary role is to conduct research and analysis about regional economics that's disseminated to the local business co  more

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana, April 22 [TNSgrants] -- The University of Louisiana's Lafayette Campus issued the following news story: A pair of University of Louisiana at Lafayette mathematicians has received nearly $200,000 from the National Science Foundation to examine the effectiveness of social distancing and other measures that aim to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Dr. Cameron Browne and Dr. Hayriye Gulbudak are assistant professors in the Department of Mathematics at UL Lafayette. Both use mat  more