HICKORY, North Carolina, May 21 -- Lenoir-Rhyne University issued the following news: Lenoir-Rhyne University is pleased to announce the appointment of Nelson Murphy as the new vice president of business and finance. Murphy is taking over for Senior Vice President for Administration Peter Kendall, who is retiring after 15 years of service to LR. Murphy begins his new role June 15. Murphy joins Lenoir-Rhyne with an impressive background in finance-related leadership across the globe, including  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, May 20 -- Gov. Roy Cooper, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release: Governor Roy Cooper announced appointments for boards and commissions throughout North Carolina. Gov. Cooper has nominated the following individual to the North Carolina Employment Security Board of Review: * The Honorable Carolyn J. Thompson of Oxford as representative of employers. Thompson has been a private practice attorney with the Law Offices of Carolyn J. Thompson, P.C. since 2019   more

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, May 19 -- The University of Alabama Birmingham campus issued the following news: Variants in a gene of the human immune system cause men and women to have different vulnerabilities to the autoimmune diseases lupus and Sjogren's syndrome, according to findings published in the journal Nature. This extends recent work that showed the gene variants could increase risk for schizophrenia. The gene variants are a member of the complement system, a cascade of proteins that help   more