NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, May 21 -- Delgado Community College issued the following news: Delgado Community College's Adult Education Program has received a one-year, $10,000 grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation. The funding will be used to better support students enrolling in adult education classes for the first time. Student Services Coordinator Nia Davis says the goal is to adapt program resources to meet the unique needs of each adult learner: "Our program serves a diverse grou  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 19 -- Entergy issued the following news release: Entergy Louisiana has developed several new flexible payment options for customers who are having difficulty paying their utility bills due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The company will work with customers on a case-by-case basis to provide relief options that are tailored to their needs. For example, customers will now have the ability to extend payments of their past due amounts over a longer period. Residential custom  more

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, May 20 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: Five University of Rhode Island students have been recognized by the National Science Foundation as Graduate Research Fellows, a distinction that includes funding to cover three years of their graduate education plus an annual $34,000 stipend. Selected for the honor are Megan Guidry of Luling, Louisiana, who will enroll as a doctoral student at URI in the fall; Michelle Hauer, a doctoral student from Ch  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 23 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following statement: Gov. John Bel Edwards issued a statement on the state's latest unemployment rate of 14.5 percent for April, which is slightly lower than the national rate of 14.7 percent. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Louisiana had generally seen decreasing unemployment for several years. The unemployment rate for March was 6.7 percent. "As Louisiana, like the rest of the nation, works to rebuild our econom  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 23 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news on May 20: Gov. John Bel Edwards issued the following statement on the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education's selection of Dr. Cade Brumley as the new superintendent of Louisiana's K-12 schools which serve 720,000 students statewide. "The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education made an important decision today with the selection of the new state superintendent of education," said Gov. Edw  more

BEAUMONT, Texas, May 21 -- Lamar University issued the following news: Drs. Reda Amer, assistant professor of geology and Director of Lamar University's Geospatial Center and Christopher Potter, a senior research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, recently published research that documents changes in coastal land area and vegetation green. The paper, "Mapping 30 Years of Change in the Marshlands of Breton Sound Basin, southeastern Louisiana" is a culmination of more than three years of met  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 22 -- Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry issued the following news release: Attorney General Jeff Landry has released the quarterly list of children's products that have recently been recalled, and he is encouraging Louisiana parents, guardians, and caregivers to take precautions to protect their little ones. "As your Attorney General, I am committed to making our State a safer place for families," said Attorney General Jeff Landry. "By taking just a brief momen  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 21 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU Computer Science and Engineering Assistant Professor Mingxuan Sun recently received the NSF CAREER Award for a project she is working on called "Privacy-aware Predictive Modeling of Dynamic Human Events," which is supported by the NSF Information & Intelligent Systems Division. The grant, which runs from June 2020 to May 2025, is worth $422,815 Over this course of time, Sun is expected to develo  more

RUSTON, Louisiana, May 21 -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Dr. Mary Caldorera-Moore, an associate professor in Biomedical Engineering, is one of seven researchers to win a grant from the Southeast XLerator Network (XLN) to continue development on an innovative hydrogel biomaterial designed to aid in wound healing. Hydrogels are "like Jell-O," Caldorera-Moore said, and this particular project is focused on promoting cell regeneration for quicker healing in chronic wounds,  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 19 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Your project mentions "pandemic fire" and "locative fear." What do these terms mean? The term "locative fear" comes from Latin. I don't know Latin, and I don't understand it, but I found the word in the Oxford English Dictionary as a speech reference to place, as in, "He was to the right of me," or, "I looked behind me." Those are locative expressions. Something is being described in a place relativ  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, May 23 -- Tulane University issued the following news release: Given the present-day rate of global sea-level rise, remaining marshes in the Mississippi Delta are likely to drown, according to a new Tulane University study. A key finding of the study, published in Science Advances is that coastal marshes experience tipping points, where a small increase in the rate of sea-level rise leads to widespread submergence. The loss of 2,000 square miles (5,000 km2) of wetland  more

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, May 21 -- Nicholls State University's Small Business Development Center issued the following news release: The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Nicholls State University and Chevron partnered to create a virtual pitch competition to help with COVID-19 recovery in Lafourche, St. Mary, Assumption and Terrebonne parishes. As part of the competition, each small business submitted a statement on how COVID-19 has affected them and how the funds will be utilized if sel  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, May 19 -- Saint Xavier University issued the following news: Saint Xavier University (SXU) proudly welcomes Gwendolyn George, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, as new dean of the School of Nursing and Health Sciences (SONHS). George comes to SXU from Loyola University New Orleans, where she initially began her career as an instructor, eventually progressing to assistant professor and program coordinator of the Graduate Nurse Practitioner program. As program coordinator, she led the developm  more

RUSTON, Louisiana, May 22 -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Louisiana Tech, the Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance (LOSFA) and Discovery Education have joined forces to provide personalized digital learning services for students across the state. With this collaboration, students and teachers statewide will gain access to high-quality, flexible learning experiences through Louisiana GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs).   more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, May 19 -- Tulane University issued the following news release: The Tulane University School of Social Work will soon offer a dual degree program that will enable online master of social work students to also earn a master of science degree in Disaster Resilience Leadership. The five-semester program will begin in the fall of 2020, with online MSW students learning about disaster preparedness, disaster management, assessment of psychosocial and health factors and infrast  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, May 21 -- Tulane University issued the following news release: The cost of cancer care is rapidly increasing. The National Institutes of Health estimates the yearly cost of treating the disease is more than $158 billion. A new study led by a Tulane University researcher recently analyzed a payment and delivery model for Medicare patients undergoing cancer treatment to see if the pilot program changed care management decisions and reduced costs in some cancers. The result  more

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, May 22 -- The University of Virginia's School of Law issued the following news: Thomas Frampton, an expert in criminal law and constitutional procedure, will join the University of Virginia School of Law faculty as an associate professor of law this summer. Frampton is currently a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School and lecturer on law who split his time between Harvard, where he taught legal research and writing, and pro bono practice in Louisiana. He began his  more