PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Jan. 17 -- Dechert, a law firm, issued the following news: Dechert advised SCOR Investment Partners on the financing of the acquisition and renovation of an office building located at 7 rue de la Pierre-Levee, in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. The asset, approximately 1,800 m(2), was acquired by Picture Asset Management on behalf of the PictO+ fund in partnership with Demathieu Bard Immobilier. The project, financed by the new Scor Real Estate Loans V debt fund,  more PR

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Jan. 17 -- Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Delaware, a subsidiary of Highmark, issued the following news release: Wilmington, Del. (January 16, 2025) -- Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Delaware (Highmark Delaware) and the Delaware Community Foundation (DCF) today announced significant enhancements to the BluePrints for the Community grant program, designed to further its mission of ensuring equitable access to healthcare and improving the well-being of Delawareans. Si more PR

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Jan. 17 -- Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry issued the following news on Jan. 16, 2025: Attorney General Michelle Henry announced charges against Tina Bell, owner and manager of Superior Health, Inc. -- an Erie County home care agency -- for Medicaid fraud and endangering vulnerable individuals under her care. While licensed as a home care agency providing non-medical care, Bell operated shared-care homes in which Medicaid consumers resided. She billed for  more PR

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Jan. 15 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: * * * Penn State industrial engineering grad student named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Industrial engineering doctoral candidate Kevin Mekulu has been named to the 2025 Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the category of health care. He was selected for his work in improving screening for cognitive impairment with his artificial intelligence (AI)-based technology, which he develope more PR

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Jan. 15 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: * * * Q&A: $2.5M grant to help reduce emissions, inefficiencies in industrial systems UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A team led by researchers at Penn State recently received a $2,491,443 grant from the Department of Energy's (DOE) Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO) to reduce emissions and increase thermal efficiency in industrial systems. The team, which includes researchers at Sa more PR

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Jan. 15 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: * * * Q&A: Solving problems in big data with Serhat Aybat UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Big data has enabled numerous benefits for industries like health care, finance, consumer technology, insurance and cybersecurity. However, working with larger and larger datasets also increases numerical issues within the algorithms. To better understand these machine learning problems and design more efficient so more PR

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Jan. 17 -- Reed Smith, a law firm, issued the following news release: MUNICH - International law firm Reed Smith has advised Family Trust Investor FTI GmbH (FTI) and its portfolio company Novia Group on the acquisition of tcam GmbH. The complete integration of tcam GmbH into Novia Group as the future novia Engineering GmbH took place on 1 January 2025. This move allows Novia Group to expand its portfolio and strengthen its position as a leading provider in the global  more PR

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Jan. 17 -- Reed Smith, a law firm, issued the following news release on Jan. 16, 2025: NEW YORK - Global law firm Reed Smith announced today that a cross-office private equity team led by Mark Pedretti, global chair of Reed Smith's private equity group, and partner Seth Merl advised Bioventus Inc., a global leader in innovations for active healing, on the sale of the Advanced Rehabilitation business of its subsidiary, Bioness, to Accelmed Partners. The transaction incl more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Jan. 16 -- Ballard Spahr, a law firm, issued the following news release: Colleen E. McCarty--an experienced trial lawyer who represents individuals and organizations in complex civil litigation cases, labor and employment matters, and media and entertainment law issues--has joined Ballard Spahr's Litigation Department and Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice as of counsel, firm Chair Peter Michaud announced today. Colleen is resident in the firm's La more PR

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Jan. 15 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: * * * WATCH: Astronomer gives wayfaring in 'Moana' 5 stars UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Polynesian explorers reached the Hawaiian Islands nearly 1,000 years ago in part by following the stars across thousands of miles of open ocean. How accurately do Disney's "Moana" movies depict this stellar wayfaring? In this video, Christopher Palma, teaching professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn Stat more PR

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania, Jan. 17 -- Westinghouse Electric issued the following news release: Westinghouse Electric Company announced a global settlement agreement with Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Company (KHNP) to resolve its outstanding intellectual property dispute. This agreement allows both parties to move forward with certainty in the pursuit and deployment of new nuclear reactors. The agreement also sets the stage for future cooperati more PR