WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- UnidosUS issued the following news release on Jan. 13, 2025: * * * Food insecurity numbers reach an all-time high as the economic pressures of disaster recovery, housing costs and health care compound the issue. * * * MIAMI, FL -- Today, a coalition of advocacy organizations, community leaders and impacted families, including UnidosUS, No Kid Hungry, Florida Impact, Hispanic Services Council and Florida Policy Institute, called on the Florida legislature to take immed  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 [Category: Political] -- The Human Rights Campaign issued the following news release: WASHINGTON - In a deeply partisan vote, the House passed a bill today that would prohibit transgender students from participating on school sports teams aligning with their gender identity. While this legislation targets transgender youth specifically, these blanket bans have negative impacts on all girls. Just five days after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed an anti-transgender sports   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -- The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following news release: * * * Antillean Manatee in Puerto Rico Granted Endangered Status * * * ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.-- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today denied endangered status for the Florida manatee and proposed to protect the Antillean manatee of Puerto Rico as endangered. A 2022 petition submitted by Harvard Law School's Animal Law & Policy Clinic on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity, Save the Manat  more

SYRACUSE, New York, Jan. 15 -- Syracuse University issued the following news: Light Work will present "Mater si, magistra no," a solo exhibition by Nabil Harb, through April 25 in the Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery, 316 Waverly Ave. in Syracuse. An opening reception will take place in on Thursday, Jan. 23, from 5 to 7 p.m. in the gallery. "Mater si, magistra no," (a macaronic phrase that translates as "Mother yes, teacher no") presents a series of black-and-white photographs that describe and depi  more

LA JOLLA, California, Jan. 15 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news: * * * New OpenForest4D project will leverage AI and multi-source remote sensing data to facilitate transformative research in forest sciences and ecology * * * Researchers at the University of California San Diego, University of Florida and Arizona State University have been awarded $3.28 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to build OpenForest4D - a web-based  more

MIAMI, Florida, Jan. 15 (TNSres) -- The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine issued the following news: * * * A new program encourages undergraduates to work in labs at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. * * * By Janette Neuwahl Tannen When Daniel Rolin took a kinesiology course in fall 2023, he realized that there are more benefits to his daily workouts than simply looking fit and feeling great. He could also be fending off cancer, if he paired his exercise with eating right.  more

MIAMI, Florida, Jan. 15 (TNSjou) -- The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine issued the following news: * * * Method could provide critical data to pursue whole-eye transplants. * * * By Josh Baxt In a study published in Scientific Reports, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Ph.D. candidate Chloe Moulin, Daniel Pelaez, Ph.D., research associate professor of ophthalmology at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, and colleagues showed that precision laser micro-optics offer an effe  more