PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 4 -- The American Friends Service Committee issued the following news release on May 3, 2024: Over the last two weeks, students across the United States have initiated protests and campus occupations demanding that their colleges and universities divest from companies profiting from Israel's brutal war on Gaza. The American Friends Service Committee - a Quaker organization that has worked in Gaza for decades - voiced support for the students and provides a divest  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, May 4 -- The Pennsylvania Bar Association issued the following news release on May 3, 2024: Carol A. Shelly, owner, Shelly Law Offices LLC, Doylestown, will begin a three-year term on the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) Board of Governors at the conclusion of the association's Annual Meeting on May 10 in Hershey. Shelly will serve as the PBA Zone 9 governor, representing lawyers in Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties. A PBA member for more than 30 yea  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, May 4 -- The Pennsylvania Bar Association issued the following news release on May 3, 2024: Jeffrey S. DuBois, owner, Law Office of Jeffrey S. DuBois in Clearfield County, will begin a three-year term on the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) Board of Governors at the conclusion of the association's Annual Meeting on May 10 in Hershey. DuBois will serve as the PBA Zone 11 governor, representing lawyers in Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk and Potter counties.   more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, May 4 -- The Pennsylvania Bar Association issued the following news release on May 3, 2024: Paul D. Edger, senior deputy attorney general in charge of the Harrisburg region of the Bureau of Consumer Protection with the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, will begin a three-year term on the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) Board of Governors at the conclusion of the association's Annual Meeting on May 10 in Hershey. Edger will serve as the PBA Zone 3 governor, r  more

BETHLEHEM, Pennsylvania, May 4 (TNSres) -- The National Association of Colleges and Employers issued the following news release: Faculty are a key source of career advice for students--with more than nine out of 10 saying students asked them for guidance in the past year, according to a new study of 6,800 college and university faculty members conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) in collaboration with the American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U)   more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, May 4 -- The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office, a bureau within the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, issued the following news: The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) recently announced its Community Initiative Awards for 2023. The four recipients and their projects showcase a variety of preservation success stories, demonstrating the importance of preserving those places at the heart of Pennsylvania's communities that  more

WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pennsylvania, May 3 [Category: Materials Management] -- ASTM International, formerly the American Society for Testing and Materials, which develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical standards for materials, products, systems and services, issued the following news release: Papers are invited for ASTM International's 21st International Symposium on Zirconium in the Nuclear Industry, to be held April 14-17, 2025, in Aix-en-Provence, France. The event is sponsored by A  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, May 4 -- The Pennsylvania Bar Association issued the following news release on May 3, 2024: Pittsburgh lawyer Rodney R. Akers, retired deputy general counsel in the Governor's Office of General Counsel (OGC), will begin a three-year term on the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) Board of Governors at the conclusion of the association's Annual Meeting on May 10 in Hershey. Akers will serve as the PBA Zone 12 governor, representing Allegheny County lawyers. He is curren  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on May 3, 2024: Today, Senators Bob Casey and John Fetterman jointly announced that the US Air Force and National Guard Bureau canceled their plans to create the Duke Low Military Operations Area (MOA), where pilots were expected to train with fighter jets as low as 100 feet above the ground, up to two hours daily, for as many as 170 days per year, including nights and weekends. The Duke MOA was slated to take place over a l  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, May 4 -- The Pennsylvania Bar Association issued the following news release on May 3, 2024: Maureen S. Kroll, a private-practice lawyer in North Huntingdon, Westmoreland County, will begin a three-year term on the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) Board of Governors at the conclusion of the association's Annual Meeting on May 10 in Hershey. Kroll will serve as the PBA Zone 6 governor, representing lawyers in Fayette, Greene, Washington and Westmoreland counties. Wit  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 4 (TNSres) -- The Wistar Institute issued the following news release: * * * Wistar's Veglia lab identified how glioblastoma evades the immune system by inducing pro-tumor macrophages via a glucose based epigenetic modification. * * * The Wistar Institute assistant professor Filippo Veglia, Ph.D., and team, have discovered a key mechanism of how glioblastoma -- a serious and often fatal brain cancer -- suppresses the immune system so that the tumor can grow uni  more