READING, Pennsylvania, April 11 -- Alvernia University issued the following news: * * * Alvernia, Total Experience Learning(R) partner to educate the educators The partnership will bring the award-winning classroom management methodology to more teachers. By Lini S. Kadaba While she was a Conrad Weiser High School science teacher several years ago, Adelle Schade, Ph.D., increasingly saw students disengage from the day's lessons. "I knew something needed to change in education," said the recently appointed vice president of innovation and  more PR

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 11 -- Carnegie Mellon University issued the following news: * * * A Buzz-Worthy Engineering Design Course By Maya Westcott Building habitats to protect pollinators changed the way a group of Carnegie Mellon University students viewed mason bees. "They started seeing the bees as their clients," said Katherine Flanigan, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering. In CMU's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, students in Flanigan's sophomore-year project course took on an assign more PR

BRYN MAWR, Pennsylvania, April 10 -- Bryn Mawr College posted the following news: * * * Exploring Persianate Worlds: Scholars Gather at Bryn Mawr Bryn Mawr Assistant Professor of English Pardis Dabashi is bringing together a host of scholars for "Persianate Worlds," a two-day symposium that will feature new work by scholars within and adjacent to Persianate studies. The symposium takes place at Bryn Mawr on April 18-19. It grew out of a special feature of the journal Publication of the Modern Language Association of America edited by Dabas more PR

EASTON, Pennsylvania, April 10 -- Lafayette College issued the following news: * * * New endowed professorship advances 'Democracy and Its Technologies' strategic initiative Anonymous $3M alumni donation elevates academic excellence through one of the priorities in the College's new strategic plan Lafayette College today announced an anonymous $3 million alumni donation to create a new endowed professorship that will support the "Democracy and Its Technologies" priority of the recently approved strategic plan. One of the five priorities o more PR

RADNOR, Pennsylvania, April 11 -- The Lincoln Financial Corp. issued the following news release on April 10, 2025: * * * Lincoln Financial to Report 2025 First Quarter Results on May 8 Lincoln Financial (NYSE:LNC) announced today that it will report its results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2025 at 6:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, May 8, 2025. A conference call is scheduled for 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time on the same day. Earnings materials, including the 2025 first quarter Earnings Release, Earnings Supplement, and Statistical Supplem more PR

DALLAS, Pennsylvania, April 11 -- Misericordia University issued the following news: * * * Misericordia University to Honor Visionary Leaders at Spring 2025 Commencement DALLAS, PA - Misericordia University is proud to announce that it will honor three outstanding women whose lives and work exemplify the mission of mercy, justice, and service at its Spring 2025 Commencement ceremonies on May 10. The University will confer honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees upon Mary Scullion, RSM, and Ana Maria Pineda, RSM, STD, and present its highe more PR

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, April 11 -- The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture issued the following news on April 10, 2025: * * * Pennsylvania Invests Nearly $12 Million to Ensure That 29 Farms, 3,187 Prime Farmland Acres in 17 Counties Stay Farms Forever Farms were permanently preserved in Adams, Beaver, Butler, Cambria, Carbon, Chester, Cumberland, Fayette, Franklin, Lawrence, Lebanon, Mercer, Montgomery, Northampton, Potter, Schuylkill, and York counties. Harrisburg, PA - The Shapiro Administration announced today that Pennsylvania is  more PR

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, April 11 -- Pennsylvania Auditor General Timothy DeFoor issued the following news release on April 10, 2025: * * * Auditor General DeFoor Presents Bodine High School with a 'Be Money $mart' Financial Literacy Commendation PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Auditor General Timothy L. DeFoor today presented Bodine High School for International Affairs and teacher Aaron Greberman with a 'Be Money $mart' commendation for their work to integrate financial literacy education into its curriculum. "One of the keys to Pennsylvania's futur more PR

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, April 11 -- Pennsylvania Auditor General Timothy DeFoor issued the following news release on April 10, 2025: * * * Auditor General DeFoor: Free Library of Philadelphia Offers Resources, Programs to Help Philadelphians 'Be Money $mart' PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Auditor General Timothy L. DeFoor today highlighted the Free Library of Philadelphia's efforts to provide financial literacy education and other developmental programs to the community as part of his statewide 'Be Money $mart' tour for Financial Literacy Month. "Fi more PR

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, April 11 -- Gov. Josh Shapiro, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release on April 10, 2025: * * * Governor Shapiro at the Port of Philadelphia: New Tariffs Causing Chaos, Uncertainty, and Higher Prices for Pennsylvania Consumers and Businesses Governor Shapiro visited the Port of Philadelphia -- the largest port in the U.S. for imported fruit and a major gateway for goods entering the country, supporting 12,000 jobs locally and 66,000 maritime jobs statewide -- to highlight his Administration's commitment to more PR

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, April 11 -- Gov. Josh Shapiro, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: * * * Governor Shapiro Challenges Trump Administration's Unlawful Decision to Revoke $185 Million Owed to 116 Pennsylvania School Districts and Education Entities The Trump Administration abruptly revoked $185 million in Congressionally-appropriated federal funding for the Pennsylvania Department of Education Cuts threaten critical initiatives to help students learn, including funding for school ventilation systems, additional classro more PR

VALLEY FORGE, Pennsylvania, April 11 -- PJM Interconnection, a regional transmission organization that coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity, issued the following news release on April 10, 2025: * * * PJM, Google & Tapestry Join Forces To Apply AI To Enhance Regional Planning, Generation Interconnection Collaboration Aims To Reduce Wait Times for New Generation (Valley Forge, PA - April 10, 2025) - PJM today announced a multiyear collaboration with Google and Tapestry to deploy AI-enhanced tools to further streamline PJM's pla more PR

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, April 11 -- The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission issued the following news release on April 10, 2025: * * * PUC Approves Aqua PA's Lead Service Line Replacement Plan Aqua Replacing up to 1,500 Customer-Owned Lead Service Lines per Year HARRISBURG - The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) today approved a Joint Petition of Settlement (Settlement) for the Lead Service Line Replacement (LSLR) Program of Aqua Pennsylvania Inc. (Aqua). The Commission voted 5-0 to adopt the recommended decision issued Mar more PR

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, April 11 -- The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission issued the following news release on April 10, 2025: * * * PUC Approves Expansion of Duquesne Light "Time of Use" Rate Action Advances Broader Statewide Strategy to Manage Energy Demand, Support Grid Reliability and Help Consumers Control Energy Costs HARRISBURG - The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) today approved an updated proposal from Duquesne Light Company that significantly expands the utility's "Time of Use" (TOU) rate pilot program -- makin more PR

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 9 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * The Medical Minute: Sexual violence against older adults: How to find help and healing HERSHEY, Pa. -- An estimated nine million older adults around the world experience sexual violence or abuse, including rape or other unwanted sexual contact, each year, according to the journal Trauma, Violence, & Abuse. The actual number is likely higher. Many older survivors of sexual violence, especially men, don't report it. They might fear no one more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 11 -- The University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication issued the following news: * * * University of Texas at Austin Professor Simone Browne To Give 2025 Transit Talk Transit Talks is a partnership between the Annenberg School, Villanova University's Waterhouse Family Institute, and Temple University's Lew Klein College of Media and Communications. On Thursday, April 24, Simone Browne, associate professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and director of the Center for Women's and Ge more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 10 -- The University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication issued the following news: * * * What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change A new book by Vice Dean Emily Falk reveals the hidden calculations that shape our daily decisions -- and how to make more fulfilling, impactful choices in our work, relationships, and lives. As director of the Communication Neuroscience Lab at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, Vice Dean Emily Falk spends a lot of more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 11 -- The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School issued the following news: * * * Teaching crisis negotiation Each spring, the U.S. Army War College holds an International Strategic Crisis Negotiation Exercise at Penn Carey Law, designed to engage and educate law students in the process of crisis negotiation at the strategic level. Since 2019, in partnership with the U.S. Army War College's Center for Strategic Leadership, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School has hosted an International Str more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 11 -- The University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences issued the following news: * * * For a better cup of coffee, look to physics Researchers from Penn have found new cost-effective ways to make a great cup of pour-over coffee using fewer beans. Their findings could potentially provide insights into similar systems such as waterfalls and surface erosion. he cost of raw arabica beans, the core component of most coffee, has spiked in recent years due to four consecutive seasons of adverse weather more PR