READING, Pennsylvania, Sept. 7 -- Alvernia University issued the following news: * * * Girls will be eligible for merit awards up to $27,000/year * * * Alvernia University and Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania (GSEP) are proud to announce a new partnership to expand educational opportunities for Girl Scouts across the region. The partnership includes up to $27,000 per year in merit scholarships for Girl Scouts in Eastern PA's nine-county footprint, renewable for four years. "Alvernia Univ more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Sept. 6 -- Fox Rothschild, a law firm, issued the following news release: Fox Rothschild is pleased to welcome David Ashley to the New York office as counsel in the Entertainment & Sports Law Department. Ashley provides strategic legal counsel to clients in the entertainment industry, particularly those in television, film and digital media. His clients include digital streaming platforms, cable networks, production companies, financiers, directors, producers, scre more PR

EAST STROUDSBURG, Pennsylvania, Sept. 7 -- East Stroudsburg University issued the following news release: Faculty members from East Stroudsburg University's political science and economics department and education department will host The US Presidential Election: A Panel Discussion on Monday, September 16 from 5 - 7 p.m. in Beers Lecture Hall. The panel discussion, which is open to the public at no cost, can also be streamed on the ESU Live Events webpage (https://www.esu.edu/live-events/index more PR

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 6 (TNSres) -- The University of Pittsburgh School of Education issued the following news: Higher education institutions use faculty cluster hiring to hire multiple scholars based on shared interdisciplinary research interests. While the practice is widely considered to boost racial equity and diversity in faculty hiring, there's limited research on its effectiveness. "We don't have research in the field to help us understand how this practice is being taken up a more PR

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Sept. 7 -- Gov. Josh Shapiro, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release on Sept. 6, 2024: * * * As students across the Commonwealth return to school, the 2024-25 budget signed by Governor Shapiro this summer includes a historic $1.1 billion increase for K-12 education -- marking the largest single-year investment in the Commonwealth's history East Penn School District will benefit directly from the new adequacy formula, receiving nearly $1.1 million through t more PR

KUTZTOWN, Pennsylvania, Sept. 6 -- Kutztown University issued the following news release: Kutztown University's Teacher Leadership Academy launched in January as a transformative initiative dedicated to nurturing and empowering the next generation of education leaders. The Academy is set to expand this fall with new agreements with Methacton and Reading School Districts. The KU Teacher Leadership Academy is the university's latest commitment to advancing educational practices and fostering the more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Sept. 6 -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following news release: Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced that New Jersey, California, and Pennsylvania co-led two amicus briefs on behalf of a multistate coalition in federal appellate courts to further defend Title IX's protections of all students, including LGBTQ+ students, from gender-based harassment and sex discrimination, and to reverse a preliminary injunction that could affect certain  more PR

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Sept. 7 -- Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry issued the following news: Attorney General Michelle Henry announced an amendment to the Pennsylvania Automotive Industry Trade Practices regulations that provides new protections to Pennsylvanians when shopping for and purchasing motor vehicles. This amendment was published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin in August. "These sensible updates to Pennsylvania's Automotive Regulations will make the process of purchasing more PR

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Sept. 6 -- Pennsylvania Auditor General Timothy DeFoor issued the following news release on Sept. 5, 2024: NANTICOKE, Pa. - Auditor General Timothy L. DeFoor today highlighted his department's expanded career pathways for graduates of accredited associate degree programs in the areas of accounting, business, data analytics, finance, economics, math or another closely related field at Luzerne County Community College. "Our goal is to create pathways to careers and expa more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Sept. 7 -- The Pennsylvania Senate Democrats issued the following news release: WYNNEFIELD HEIGHTS, September 5, 2024 - Amidst the joyful tears and applause from remaining residents, Sen. Hughes joined Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker and other officials yesterday to announce that the Philadelphia Housing Authority has reached an agreement with a negligent landlord to purchase the dilapidated Brith Sholom apartment building in Wynnefield Heights. Facing the potent more PR

WILLIAMSPORT, Pennsylvania, Sept. 6 -- The Pennsylvania College of Technology issued the following news: Capturing the "arcs and sparks" of Pennsylvania College of Technology's largest major, "Welding & Beyond" taps the knowledge and expertise of Michael R. Allen, welding instructor and co-department head. The second guest of the second season of the Tomorrow Makers podcast, Allen shares his journey from welding on the family farm to teaching in Penn College's cutting-edge, industry-infused w more PR

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 7 (TNSres) -- The University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering issued the following news: * * * A paper recently published by a Pitt professor and his son studies how the flexibility of containers affect how fast they drain * * * As Rohit Velankar, now a senior at Fox Chapel Area High School, poured juice into a glass, he could feel that the rhythmic glug, glug, glug was flexing the walls of the carton. Rohit pondered the sound, and wondered if a co more PR

GROVE CITY, Pennsylvania, Sept. 7 -- The Grove City College issued the following news release: Mike Pence has had some important titles over the years, from congressman to governor to vice president. Now he has another one: Professor. Pence made his first foray into the classroom Thursday at Grove City College, where he and College President Paul J. McNulty '80 are team-teaching Political Science classes this fall. The former vice president said he was excited about his new role. "I just have more PR

GREENVILLE, Pennsylvania, Sept. 6 -- Thiel College issued the following news release: Visions Attire, co-founded by Thiel College alumnus Devyn Giovengo '22 and business partner Mikel Battles, recently held its second annual Youth Summer Jam at Highland Park in Pittsburgh, where they gave away backpacks and school supplies to local elementary students. Giovengo's event in late July was profiled in the Pittsburgh City Paper. The event, which was co-hosted with DTL Apparel, was a fun-filled day  more PR

UNIVERSITY CITY, Pennsylvania, Sept. 6 (TNSres) -- The University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine issued the following news release: * * * Patients with a rare inherited disease affecting their sight experienced quick vision improvements that sustained for the full year-long study * * * PHILADELPHIA-- The vision of people with a rare inherited condition that causes them to lose much of their sight early in childhood was 100 times better after they received gene therapy to addre more PR

WILKES-BARRE, Pennsylvania, Sept. 6 -- Wilkes University issued the following news release: When members of the Wilkes University community gathered in the Marts Center as Scott Musa, athletics director, announced the addition of women's wrestling, the moment bridged the rich history of wrestling on campus and the growing potential of the sport for women. Women's wrestling is one of the fastest-growing sports in the country and has been designated as an emerging sport by the National Collegiat more PR