YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio, May 29 -- Antioch University issued the following news: Cherice Bock, a 2024 graduate of Antioch's PhD in Environmental Studies, recently published her dissertation titled Ecotheology in Context: A Critical Phenomenological Study of Graduates of Environmentally Focused Seminary Programs in the United States of America. Ecotheology is the study of religion and how humans have exploited the resources given to them through their environment, specifically through the lens of   more

ATLANTA, Georgia, May 29 -- The Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau issued the following news release: Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau (ACVB) announces the hiring of Emma Elder as National Sales Manager. Elder joins ACVB to sell and market Atlanta as a premier destination for group meetings with 251 to 1,200 rooms on peak night. Additionally, she will represent ACVB at trade shows while coordinating the participation of the organization's partners. Before joining ACVB, Elder owned a N  more

HOUSTON, Texas, May 29 (TNSres) -- The Baylor College of Medicine issued the following news: Research led by Baylor College of Medicine has shown that a new therapy significantly reduces triglyceride levels in individuals with mixed hyperlipidemia - elevations of triglycerides and cholesterol. The results, published in the latest edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, demonstrate how the drug plozasiran works by targeting ApoC3, which is a key regulator of the lipoprotein particles th  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, May 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on May 28, 2024: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Stephen Belleau, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, and Stamford Police Chief Timothy Shaw today announced that the following 11 individuals have been charged with federal offenses stemming from their alleged involvemen  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 29 -- GBH, a multiplatform creator for public media, issued the following news release on May 28, 2024: Boston public media producer GBH has named Dan Lothian to the newly created role of Editor in Chief, GBH News and The World. An award-winning journalist with deep roots in both domestic and international news, Lothian is currently the executive producer of The World, public radio's longest-running daily global news program, produced in Boston by GBH and PRX, a leadi  more

AUGUSTA, Maine, May 29 -- The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry issued the following news: The Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry's (DACF) Maine Forest Service (MFS) has been awarded two Community Wildfire Defense Grants (CWDG) to support at-risk communities in Northern and Downeast Maine. These grants, totaling $258,000 ($141,000 and $117,000, respectively), will safeguard homes, businesses, forestland, and infrastructure from catastrophic wildfires.   more

WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts, May 29 (TNSres) -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Northeast Fisheries Science Center issued the following feature story on May 28, 2024: * * * The reports synthesize changes and trends in New England and Mid-Atlantic ecosystem conditions. * * * NOAA's Northeast Integrated Ecosystem Assessment team released their annual Mid-Atlantic and New England State of the Ecosystem Reports. These reports synthesize the ecological, oceanographic, and soci  more

NEW YORK, May 29 -- The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation issued the following news release on May 28, 2024: NYC Parks and the NYC Department of Design and Construction (DDC) joined Queens Borough President Donovan Richards and other local officials today to break ground on a $41 million project that will renovate Tide Gate Bridge in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, also known as Porpoise Bridge. The project, which is being managed by DDC for Parks, is anticipated to be completed in  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island issued the following news release on May 28, 2024: The leader of a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy that distributed and possessed enough fentanyl to create more than two million potentially lethal doses of the drugs has been sentenced to ten years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha. Jonathan King, 33, of Johnston, who previously admitted to a federal judge that  more