May 5—Kit Standridge has a special skill. Inside her Spanish classroom at the Academy for Technology and the Classics, everyone is accepted and appreciated, said Jason Morgan, the school’s principal. “She’s at the top of teachers who are just welcoming and caring and considerate of every student who walks through the door — making sure […]
May 3—POTSDAM — The state Department of Environmental Conservation has awarded Clarkson University researchers a three-year $69,904 grant to work on the “Milfoil Monitoring and Control Project.” The main goal of the project will be to monitor two invasive aquatic watermilfoil species in upstate New York. The research team will study Eurasian watermilfoil in Goose […]
Former US president Donald Trump has secured an additional $1.8 billion (€1.68 billion) worth of shares in Trump Media, according to a regulatory filing this week. Based on the company’s stock hitting certain price benchmarks, Mr Trump was awarded an additional 36 million shares in the company that owns his social media platform Truth Social. […]
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a Texas Tech professor a $2 million grant to research how to recover minerals from produced water in oil and gas production. According to a release from the university, Mahdi Malmali, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, is leading the project titled “Strategic Management and […]
May 1—RED LAKE — The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency recently awarded the Red Lake Nation $249,000 in grant funding as part of its Greater Minnesota waste reduction, reuse, recycling and composting grants. Through this program, Red Lake Nation is set to receive $249,268 in funds to expand its Obaashiing Transfer Substation by constructing a building […]
Former US president Donald Trump has secured an additional $1.8 billion (€1.3 billion) worth of shares in Trump Media, according to a regulatory filing this week. Based on the company’s stock hitting certain price benchmarks, Mr Trump was awarded an additional 36 million shares in the company that owns his social media platform Truth Social. […]
Andrea Vidaurre, a 29-year-old Peruvian American organizer from Southern California, has won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her work protecting her predominantly Latino community from rampant air pollution. Vidaurre is one of six grassroots activists being awarded the $200,000 prize, which recognizes people from all six inhabited continents who are taking extraordinary actions to […]
Apr. 24—GRAND FORKS — The Energy and Environmental Research Center at the University of North Dakota has been awarded $11.6 million for research related to enhanced oil recovery and carbon capture. The funding was announced Wednesday, April 24 by the office of Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D. According to the release from Hoeven, the funds, made […]
TYLER, Texas (KETK) – Girls Invested in Volunteer Efforts (GIVE) awarded their $18,000 2024 grant to Bethesda Pediatrics during an event at The Venue at Cantina Laredo in Tyler on Sunday. Henderson community event serves children with disabilities “Being in GIVE has given me an opportunity to learn about a world I had no idea […]
The man who saved a Ponte Vedra Beach high school student from a brutal attack last June received an award from the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday night. Kennedy Armstrong was given the Abe Schneider Award. It’s an elite award given to people in the community who have displayed courage and helped law […]
Ralph Puckett Jr., a retired Army colonel awarded the Medal of Honor seven decades after he was wounded leading a company of outnumbered Army Rangers in battle during the Korean War, has died at age 97. Puckett died peacefully Monday at his home in Columbus, Georgia, according to the Striffler-Hamby Mortuary, which is handling funeral […]
The Rowan County Veterans Treatment Court project received $546,000 in funding through the FY24 appropriations legislation that passed in the United States Senate on March 8th and was signed into law by President Joe Biden. As one of many Congressionally Directed Spending projects funded across the State of North Carolina, the Rowan Veterans Treatment Court […]