DENVER, Colorado, March 27 -- The American Indian College Fund issued the following news: The 2023 winning Tribal College Blanket Design, Drum Keepers, is now available for purchase. The blanket is the latest addition to Pendleton Woolen Mills' American Indian College Fund collection. The acclaimed lifestyle brand from Portland, Oregon has created wool blankets in partnership with the College Fund for more than 20 years. A portion of the blanket line's sales provide approximately $50,000 in ann  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, March 28 -- Lewis and Clark College issued the following news: Lewis & Clark adds a dance concentration, which will be led by Tiffany Mills, the college's new director of dance. Choreographer Tiffany Mills has been hired as the new director of dance at Lewis & Clark College. She officially stepped into the role this spring, ready to lead the program into its next chapter, which includes a new theatre department concentration in dance. Mills, choreographer and artistic direct  more

SALEM, Oregon, March 27 (TNSres) -- The Oregon Department of Transportation issued the following news release on March 26, 2024: As spring arrives, it's time to remember studded tires must be removed by Sunday, March 31. Long-term weather forecasts this year do not support an extension of the studded tire season. "We encourage everyone to take off their studded tires before March 31, especially if you won't be driving in the mountains," advised Galen McGill, State Maintenance and Operations En  more

BEND, Oregon, March 26 -- The Oregon Department of Transportation issued the following agency statement on March 25, 2024: * * * As construction season ramps up, crews are setting their sights on McKenzie Pass. We will use funding from a Federal Lands Access Program grant to repave OR 242 from the junction with U.S. 20 in Sisters to the summit at Dee Wright Observatory. Improvement grants like this are critical to low-traffic volume roads like McKenzie Pass. Crews are already working on early  more

SALEM, Oregon, March 27 -- Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum issued the following news release: Speaking at an ACLU-organized rally on the steps of the United States Supreme Court this morning, Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum made an impassioned defense of abortion as essential healthcare, and of medication abortion as a key part of those healthcare rights. The rally coincided with arguments being presented inside the Supreme Court in the AHM (Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine) v. FDA (F  more

SALEM, Oregon, March 30 -- Gov. Tina Kotek, D-Oregon, issued the following news on March 29, 2024: Yesterday, Governor Tina Kotek and First Lady Aimee Kotek Wilson kicked off a commitment to visit Oregon's nine federally recognized sovereign Tribal nations in 2024 by spending the day with the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians (CTSI). "It was an honor to spend a day with the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, deepening our understanding of their history and rich heritage, and getting to  more

CORVALLIS, Oregon, March 30 (TNSres) -- Oregon State University issued the following news: By engaging regularly with their family dog and teaching it a series of tricks and commands, children with developmental disabilities experienced a significant increase in their daily physical activity, a new study from Oregon State University researchers found. Children in the experimental group increased their moderate to vigorous physical activity by 17 minutes per day, while simultaneously reducing t  more

SALEM, Oregon, March 28 -- The Oregon Senate Democrats issued the following news release on March 27, 2024: Today, Governor Tina Kotek signed Senate Bill 1596, Oregon's Right to Repair reforms, into law. "This is a huge win for Oregon consumers and the Right to Repair movement, as a whole," said Senator Janeen Sollman (D - Hillsboro), who has championed Right to Repair legislation for years in the State Capitol. "With Governor Kotek's signature, our new Right to Repair law is a reasonable, com  more

SALEM, Oregon, March 20 -- The Oregon Senate Democrats issued the following news release: Today, Rep. Ben Bowman (D - Tigard, Metzger, & S. Beaverton) was chosen to be the new Majority Leader for the Oregon House of Representatives, following Rep. Julie Fahey (D - Eugene)'s election as House Speaker. Senate Majority Leader Kate Lieber (D - Beaverton & SW Portland) released this statement congratulating House Majority Leader Bowman: "Rep. Bowman is a proven champion who knows how to bring peop  more

SALEM, Oregon, March 20 -- The Oregon House Democrats issued the following news release: Today, Oregon House Democrats convened to elect new leadership to build on the successes of the 2023 and 2024 legislative session and continue focusing on what matters most to Oregonians. Rep. Ben Bowman (D-Tigard, Metzger, & S. Beaverton), a first-term Democrat and education administrator, was elected House Majority Leader to guide the Democratic Caucus' agenda and efforts in Oregon's State House. "I am h  more

SALEM, Oregon, March 27 -- The Oregon House Democrats issued the following news release on March 26, 2024: Today, the Supreme Court of The United States heard arguments in a case that would drastically impair access to FDA-approved drugs that doctors use to assist patients seeking reproductive health care. While nationwide access to abortion could be curtailed again by hand-picked extremist judges, Oregon Democrats highlighted grants issued last week as a result of their work to ensure that acc  more

CORVALLIS, Oregon, March 27 (TNSres) -- Oregon State University issued the following news: Arachnophobia can make humans flee at the sight of a brown recluse, black widow or even a daddy long legs, but animal predators of spiders know no such fear. That's why, paleobiologist George Poinar Jr. explains, some spider species have developed the defense of deception. They masquerade as a much less desirable prey - ants - and Poinar's recent paper in Historical Biology presents an early record of an  more

ASHLAND, Oregon, March 30 -- Southern Oregon University issued the following news release: The Southern Oregon University Laboratory of Anthropology's Oregon Chinese Diaspora Project - an ongoing, collaborative effort to research and document the lives of Oregon's early Chinese immigrants - was awarded almost $500,000 in the spending bill approved by Congress this month. The federal allocation more than doubles the total funding that the archaeological project has received since it began in 201  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, March 27 -- The University of Portland issued the following news: UP Assistant Director of Institutional Research Adeya Powell, PhD, has been appointed to the State of Oregon's Sexual Misconduct Survey Council -- a 23-member body charged with developing a survey for college and university campuses to better understand campus climate and activities related to sexual misconduct. The Council, established in 2023 by the Oregon State Legislature through House Bill 3456, will devel  more

SOUTH ROYALTON, Vermont, March 28 -- The Vermont Law and Graduate School issued the following news release: A Vermont Law and Graduate School alum, who now works to advocate for environmental protection and justice out west, has been awarded the Kerry Rydberg-Jack Tuholske Award for Excellence in Public Interest Environmental Lawyering. Now in its 35th year, the award is presented annually to a lawyer exemplifying public interest in environmental advocacy. This year's award recipient is Travis  more