PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Nov. 26 (TNSres) -- The American Mathematical Society issued the following news release: Federico Pasqualotto, Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, has been named the 2025-2026 AMS Stefan Bergman Fellow. "I am delighted and honored to be the recipient of the 2025-2026 AMS Stefan Bergman Fellowship," Pasqualotto said. "I would like to thank the AMS for the award and all the wonderful mentors I have had ov  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 -- The American Public Transportation Association issued the following news release on Nov. 25, 2024: * * * * APTA is advocating for at least $57.5 million of emergency appropriations to the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) Public Transportation Emergency Relief program to support public transit agencies recovering from recent natural disasters, including Hurricanes Helene and Milton. * This emergency funding would support disaster recovery for public transit agencie  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 -- The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following news release: A new Environmental Protection Agency evaluation finds rodenticides are pushing at least 78 endangered species toward extinction. The decision released Friday assessed 11 active ingredients found in the vast majority of rodenticide products used by pest control companies, residential consumers and agriculture. The agency also suggested measures to reduce unintentional wildlife poisonings and better pr  more

SANTA MONICA, California, Nov. 26 -- Rand issued the following news release on Nov. 25, 2024: RAND successfully completed its Tomorrow Demands Today fundraising campaign, raising $466 million to help expand the capacity of RAND and the Pardee RAND Graduate School to solve humanity's biggest problems. The campaign, which launched in March 2020, is the largest in the organization's history. The funds raised during the campaign are being used to advance RAND's research and analysis; expand progra  more

SANTA MONICA, California, Nov. 24 (TNSres) -- Rand issued the following commentary on Nov. 20, 2024, to Foreign Policy: * * * Trump 2.0 Could Give China a Headache in Southeast Asia By Derek Grossman U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House in January holds both promise and peril for Southeast Asia. On the one hand, the incoming administration appears poised to reinvigorate the Indo-Pacific strategy devised during Trump's first term, which focused on countering China and  more

SANTA MONICA, California, Nov. 26 (TNSres) -- Rand issued the following commentary on Nov. 25, 2024: * * * Don't Suffocate Truth: Evidence Shows Russia Violated the Chemical Weapons Treaty By John V. Parachini This week countries meet in The Hague to review the status of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), the global ban on chemical weapons. On Nov. 18 the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the watchdog organization charged with upholding the purpose of the treat  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 [Category: Energy] -- The Renewable Fuels Association issued the following news release: In comments submitted today in response to a request for information from the California Air Resources Board, the Renewable Fuels Association urged the state agency to do more to ensure the integrity of imported used cooking oil (UCO) and tallow for biomass-based diesel production under the state's Low Carbon Fuel Standard. According to CARB data on fuel consumption in California, usage  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Nov. 25 -- The Simon Wiesenthal Center issued the following news on Nov. 24, 2024: The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) denounces the kidnap and slaying of 28-year-old Chabad Shaliach Rabbi Zvi Kogan. "This anti-Semitic murder will not go unanswered. Today, there is a Jewish state of Israel which will track down the murderers and those who stand behind the attack. Those seeking to destroy our people and the State of Israel will fail", said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the Simon W  more