ATLANTA, Georgia, April 30 -- Alston and Bird, a law firm, issued the following news release: Alston & Bird represented Veritiv, a leading provider of packaging, print, and facility solutions, in its acquisition of substantially all the assets of Ameripac LLC and Ameripac Pennsylvania LLC, a leading provider of turnkey contract packaging and fulfillment services with annual revenues of approximately $60 million. Representing Veritiv was an Alston & Bird team led by partner Alison LeVasseur, se  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 30 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: Paul Nicklen, the award-winning nature photographer and conservationist, will be the keynote speaker for Penn State's Climate Solutions Symposium. His presentation is scheduled for 9 a.m. on Tuesday, May 14, at The Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center. Nicklen, a Canadian photographer, filmmaker, and marine biologist, has dedicated his career to using powerful imagery to advocate for nature c  more

BRYN MAWR, Pennsylvania, May 1 (TNSres) -- Bryn Mawr College issued the following news: Juan Suarez Ontaneda, assistant professor of Spanish, has received a Wolf Humanities Center Faculty Fellowship. Suarez Ontaneda's research analyzes how Latin American states produce discourses about race, and how people respond to those discourses both individually and collectively. His current book manuscript, Palimpsests of Blackness in Latin America: The Performative Lives of Nascimento, Zapata Olivella,  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 30 -- Dechert, a law firm, issued the following news: Dechert LLP announced today the addition of Neel Maitra as a partner in its financial services practice group, bolstering the firm's capabilities in fintech, cryptocurrency, broker-dealer and securities regulatory compliance. Mr. Maitra will join the firm's Washington D.C. office. "The arrival of Neel is testament to the growth and innovation of our financial services practice and the firm at large," said D  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 30 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: A project co-led by two Penn State professors has been selected to receive up to $815,959 from the Grid Deployment Office of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The team will evaluate prospective market design changes to efficiently integrate batteries and other unconventional resources into wholesale electricity markets, with the aim of improving electrical grid reliability. Mort Webster, prof  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 1 (TNSres) -- Drexel University issued the following news release: Racial disparities continue to exist in autism research, negatively impacting Black autistic children. They are misdiagnosed, receive access to inferior quality services, and are almost twice as likely as white autistic children to have a co-occurring intellectual disability. To examine this void, the National Institute of Mental Health funded the "Racism and Resilience among Black Autistic Child  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 30 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: Debarati Das, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $647,681 U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for a project titled, "A Theoretical Exploration of Efficient and Accurate Clustering Algorithms." Q: What do you want to understand or solve through this project?   more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 30 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: For as long as statistics about opioid overdose deaths have been collected in the United States, white individuals have been much more likely to die than Black individuals of the same age. With the rapidly increasing rate of fentanyl overdoses in the late 2010s, that trend began to reverse -- by the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, more Black Americans began to die of opioid overdoses and   more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- George Washington University issued the following news: Recent surveys show former President Trump holding narrow leads over President Biden in seven key battleground states, including Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania. While Biden has gained ground in some states, Trump maintains a slight edge overall with the race expected to be closely contested leading up to the 2024 presidential election. Faculty experts at the George Washington University are available to offer   more

WAYNESBURG, Pennsylvania, May 1 (TNSres) -- Waynesburg University issued the following news: Waynesburg University students taking the Jurisprudence course this semester met with University of Oxford Associate Professor of Law Dr. Paul Yowell via Microsoft Teams Thursday, April 25, to discuss his book on constitutionalism. Over the course of the semester, students studied Dr. Yowell's book, "Constitutional Rights and Constitutional Design: Moral and Empirical Reasoning in Judicial Review," lin  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, April 30 -- The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection issued the following news release: The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has announced the next step in efforts to modernize and improve its permitting process with a new 10-county pilot program to improve and accelerate the review process for construction stormwater discharge permits. The process improvements in this pilot will also better facilitate compliance with environment  more

CHAMBERSBURG, Pennsylvania, May 1 -- Gov. Josh Shapiro, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: Today, Governor Josh Shapiro joined leadership from Martin's Famous Potato Rolls and Bread (Martin's), maker of well-known bread and rolls sold around the country and in restaurants around the world, to announce the company will invest $123.2 million to expand its existing manufacturing facility in Franklin County. Headquartered in Chambersburg for nearly 70 years, the co  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, May 1 -- The Pennsylvania House Democrats issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: State Rep. Scott Conklin joined school sports officials and student athletes at the Pennsylvania Capitol today to urge support for his proposal that would better protect players in Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association competitions. Conklin - whose H.B. 1983 would allow the PIAA to establish alternative playoffs and championships for boundary and non-boundary sch  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, May 1 -- The Pennsylvania House Democrats issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: The PA House Labor and Industry Committee today approved a bill authored by state Rep. Jim Haddock that would help to protect workers at meat packing and food processing facilities. "My proposal would help strengthen protections at the federal level by ensuring workers at meat packing and food processing facilities in Pennsylvania are receiving proper training in the languag  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, May 1 -- The Pennsylvania House Democrats issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: State Rep. Lindsay Powell's bill that would ban tracking via a feature on devices manufactured by Apple Inc. passed the Pennsylvania House of Representatives today. The legislation, H.B. 416, would forbid the use of AirTags for any nefarious motive, with an emphasis on remote stalking. Bad actors have utilized AirTags to put trackers on vehicles and pinpoint the location of   more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, April 30 -- The Pennsylvania House Republicans issued the following news on April 29, 2024: Today, House Republican State Government Committee Chairman Brad Roae (R-Crawford/Erie) condemned the constant time-wasting efforts of Democrats in Harrisburg. During a meeting of the full House State Government Committee on Monday, April 29, the Democrat majority chair called up a vote on four separate resolutions. They were voted out of committee and will be considered by the  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, May 1 -- The Pennsylvania Senate Republicans issued the following news release: Legislation that would increase penalties on illegal street racing was approved today by the Senate, according to one of the bill's sponsors, Sen. Frank Farry (R-6). "During the last several years, we have seen illegal street racing events in Philadelphia and the region. These incidents have led to numerous law enforcement officers being struck by vehicles," Farry said. "These tragic incid  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, May 1 -- The Pennsylvania Senate Republicans issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: Two bills sponsored by Sen. Dave Argall (R-29) to update training procedures and remove employment barriers so more people can join the long-term care workforce were approved by the Senate Education Committee today. "Too many of our families, including mine, have faced the difficult decision of moving a parent or grandparent into a long-term care center," Argall said. "Th  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, May 1 -- The Pennsylvania Senate Republicans issued the following news release: The Senate Communications and Technology Committee approved legislation authored by Sen. Kristin Phillips-Hill (R-York) that would modernize the state's Public Utility Code to reflect the changing landscape of landline telephone companies in Pennsylvania. "The laws that our landline telephone companies are required to follow were written when virtually everyone had landline telephone servi  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, May 1 -- The Pennsylvania Senate Republicans issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: The Senate Education Committee approved an innovative package of bills today designed to help more young people in Pennsylvania pursue post-secondary education and career training. The "Grow PA" post-secondary education reform plan includes seven bills designed to help make Pennsylvania more competitive in attracting and retaining students to attend college and complete c  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 1 -- The University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science issued the following news: The University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science introduces its online Master of Science in Engineering (MSE) in Artificial Intelligence (AI) degree, the first graduate program of its kind among Ivy League universities. As a catalyst for disruptive innovation, artificial intelligence is upending nearly every field and transforming ho  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 1 -- The University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine issued the following news release: Mitchell Schnall, MD, PhD, has been appointed to a newly created role as Senior Vice President for Data and Technology Solutions for the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS), following two terms as Chair of Radiology in Penn's Perelman School of Medicine. In his new role, he will lead teams and projects that will pave a path for Penn Medicine to lead th  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, May 1 -- The University of Pittsburgh School of Education issued the following news: Maximilian T. Schuster, a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education, was honored with the 2024 American College Personnel Association (ACPA) Commission for Faculty and Graduate Programs' Teaching Excellence Award. The award celebrates faculty members who have demonstrated an exceptional ability to inspire and shape the next generation of college student educato  more

WILKES-BARRE, Pennsylvania, May 1 -- Wilkes University issued the following news release: Wilkes University has announced that it has earned business accreditation by AACSB International. Founded in 1916, AACSB is the longest-serving global accrediting body for business schools, and the largest business education network connecting learners, educators, and businesses worldwide. "AACSB accreditation recognizes institutions that have demonstrated a focus on excellence in all areas, including te  more