ROCK ISLAND, Illinois, Feb. 22 -- Augustana College issued the following news: Director of Athletics Mike Zapolski announced Jordan Delp as the 18th head coach of Augustana men's basketball at a press conference Wednesday afternoon at the Carver Center. "The servant leadership that Jordan has displayed the last nine-plus weeks while leading the Augustana men's basketball program is emblematic of who he is as a coach and a person -- analytical, focused, passionate and prepared," Zapolski said.  more PR

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Feb. 22 -- The Illinois State Treasurer issued the following news release: The State Treasurer's Office has made more than $3 billion in investment earnings from the state investment portfolio during Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs' tenure. An additional $1.75 billion in gross investment earnings has been earned for cities, villages, school districts, counties and other units of government that take part in the highly rated Illinois Funds local government investment  more PR

ROLLA, Missouri, Feb. 22 -- Missouri University of Science and Technology issued the following news: The future of construction engineering would benefit from more women - especially minority women - being inspired to join the field and share their perspectives, according to Remy Haire, a student at Missouri S&T. Haire, a civil engineering student from East St. Louis, Illinois, shared her insights as part of a Missouri S&T article series focusing on the 2024 National Engineers Week theme, whic more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, Feb. 22 -- Nexstar Media Group, a television broadcasting company, issued the following news release on Feb. 21, 2024: NewsNation, America's fastest-growing cable news network in primetime, today announced that Ashleigh Banfield has reached a new multi-year agreement with the network to continue hosting her primetime program, Banfield, weeknights at 10 p.m. ET. Each night, Banfield tackles the nation's biggest stories, including the top crime cases making headlines. During m more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, Feb. 22 -- Northwestern University issued the following news release on Feb. 21, 2024: Following the Alabama Supreme Court's ruling last Friday that frozen embryos are children, Northwestern Medicine infertility experts are available to discuss what this could mean for the future of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in Alabama and nationally. "Equating a fertilized egg in a lab with a child born at full term or a fetus gestating in a womb is nonsensical, dangerous and carries gra more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, Feb. 22 (TNres) -- Northwestern University issued the following news release: Women diagnosed with ovarian cancer may initially respond well to chemotherapy, but the majority of them will develop resistance to treatment and die from the disease. Now Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered the Achilles heel of chemotherapy-resistant ovarian cancer -- its hunger for cholesterol -- and how to sneakily use that to destroy it. In a new study, scientists first showed tha more PR

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Feb. 22 -- The Illinois National Guard issued the following news: The University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign's Army ROTC program will induct two Illinois National Guard officers into its Hall of Fame in May: Maj. Gen. Henry Dixon of Dixon, Illinois, and Col. (retired) Clayton Kuetemeyer of Champaign, Illinois. Although the university's Army ROTC program is more than 150 years old, its Hall of Fame was started about a decade ago. After this year's inductees, the Hall  more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, Feb. 22 -- The University of Chicago issued the following news: Nobel Prize laureates Andrea Ghez and Claudia Goldin are among the recipients of the 2024 Alumni Awards, announced Feb. 19 by the University of Chicago Alumni Association and the Alumni Board. Ghez, LAB'83, and Goldin, AM'69, PhD'72, will be presented the Alumni Medal--one of the highest alumni honors awarded by the University. Dating to 1941, the award recognizes exceptional career achievement, and Ghez and Gol more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, Feb. 22 (TNSres) -- The University of Chicago issued the following news: * * * Ultralight membrane can regulate heartbeats with the aid of an optic fiber * * * Sometimes our bodies need a boost. Millions of Americans rely on pacemakers--small devices that regulate the electrical impulses of the heart in order to keep it beating smoothly. But to reduce complications, researchers would like to make these devices even smaller and less intrusive. A team of researchers with th more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, Feb. 22 -- The University of Chicago issued the following news: Profs. John J. MacAloon and Martha C. Nussbaum are the recipients of this year's Norman Maclean Faculty Award, which honors their extraordinary contributions to teaching and student life within the University of Chicago community. Established in 1997, the awards are named in honor of Prof. Norman Maclean, PhD'40, the critically acclaimed author of A River Runs Through It, who taught at UChicago for 40 years. The more PR