COLUMBUS, Georgia, Jan. 11 -- Columbus State University issued the following news: Columbus State University's Hallock Endowment for Military Studies announces its Spring 2025 lecture series lineup. Spring lectures in February and March will conclude the program's World War II focus while also spotlighting local Civil War resources: * Feb. 20: "Making Sense of the Battlefield: The Infantry Sensescape in Europe, 1943-45," by Dr. Mary Louise Roberts, an American historian and author who is curre  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 -- EMILYs List issued the following news release on Jan. 9, 2025: Today EMILYs List, the nation's largest resource for women in politics, endorsed Judge Susan Crawford for the Wisconsin state Supreme Court. Since the fall of Roe v. Wade, the battle to protect abortion access across the nation has become an urgent priority in states now more than ever. Each day that passes with reproductive freedom hanging in the balance, women's lives remain at risk and state Supreme Courts   more

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, Jan. 10 -- Marquette University issued the following news release: * * * Neuropsychiatric conditions such as major depressive disorder feature inability to adapt behavior for a changing environment * * * Dr. Matthew Hearing, associate professor of biomedical sciences in the Marquette University College of Health Sciences, has been awarded an R01 grant worth $2.42 million from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Mental Health to develop more effecti  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Jan. 10 -- The University of Wisconsin Madison campus issued the following news: University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have discovered where an important photoreceptor acts within plant stems, and the finding could help growers improve the success rate of crops like soybeans. Published in the journal Current Biology, the research brings new understanding to how seedlings detect light in their environment and inform their growth strategy. Researchers have known that p  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Jan. 11 -- FFRF Action Fund, an organization that says it develops and advocates for legislation, regulations and government programs to preserve the constitutional principle of separation between state and church, issued the following news: FFRF Action Fund's "Theocrat of the Week" is a frequent adversary of our secular democracy and state-church separation -- unsurprisingly now a three-peat "Theocrat of the Week." Pastor and Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers recently pre  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Jan. 11 -- FFRF Action Fund, an organization that says it develops and advocates for legislation, regulations and government programs to preserve the constitutional principle of separation between state and church, issued the following news: FFRF Action Fund's "Secularist of the Week" is President Jimmy Carter for his lifetime dedication to state-church separation. Carter was a devout evangelical Christian and, earlier in life, a Southern Baptist but was also vastly commit  more

GREEN BAY, Wisconsin, Jan. 10 -- The University of Wisconsin Green Bay campus issued the following news release: * * * Good pay, leadership training and tuition reimbursement all part of new collaboration * * * Current and prospective UW-Green Bay students have a new option to earn a competitive wage while receiving tuition reimbursement and networking, training and experience in a key business sector in Wisconsin. Through the Future Leaders in Manufacturing program, regional mid-and-small-s  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Jan. 11 -- World Council of Credit Unions issued the following news release: * * * New $1.5 million distributed through USAID/WOCCU Liquidity Fund * * * KYIV, Ukraine--The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and World Council of Credit Unions' (WOCCU) GROW Project in Ukraine (2024-28) on December 26 made $1.5 million available to Ukrainian credit unions to boost lending to micro-, small- and medium-sized businesses (MSMEs) as they continue to naviga  more