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PROPEL and Southern Company Announce Launch of Inaugural HBCU-Focused Cybersecurity Consortium

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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ATLANTA, April 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- PROPEL, a first-of-its-kind innovation hub for 2-year and 4-year Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), announces the launch of a pioneering cybersecurity consortium. The PROPEL HBCU Cybersecurity Consortium (HCC), created in partnership with Southern Company, was founded on the principles of collaboration, leadership, innovation and foresight.  

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  • Consortium advances future-focused workforce opportunities, unlocks cyber career pathways
    ATLANTA, April 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- PROPEL, a first-of-its-kind innovation hub for 2-year and 4-year Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), announces the launch of a pioneering cybersecurity consortium.
  • The PROPEL HBCU Cybersecurity Consortium (HCC), created in partnership with Southern Company, was founded on the principles of collaboration, leadership, innovation and foresight.
  • "PROPEL's consortium will set a benchmark for developing a future workforce that is well equipped to address and solve the cybersecurity needs of today and tomorrow," said chairman, president and CEO of Southern Company Chris Womack.
  • PROPEL is proud to launch HCC's first two programs both aimed at elevating HBCU faculty and student expertise and skills in cybersecurity.

Inheritance, Dreams, Future - The Successful Holding of the 2nd HUAPOP Creative Festival in Shenzhen in 2024

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Sunday, March 31, 2024
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Shenzhen, China--(Newsfile Corp. - March 31, 2024) - The 2nd HUAPOP Creative Festival with the theme of "Inheritance, Dreams, Future" was held in the forefront city of Shenzhen, a hub of reform, openness, and fashion, on March 26, 2024.

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  • Shenzhen, China--(Newsfile Corp. - March 31, 2024) - The 2nd HUAPOP Creative Festival with the theme of "Inheritance, Dreams, Future" was held in the forefront city of Shenzhen, a hub of reform, openness, and fashion, on March 26, 2024.
  • The festival, organized by the HUAPOP Creative Festival Organizing Committee, aims to promote and showcase the creative achievements of the "HUA" culture from 2022-2023, and to promote and lead the new trend of global "HUAPOP."
  • The 2nd HUAPOP Creative Festival, jointly organized by the HUAPOP Creative Festival Organizing Committee, HUAPOP Industrial Economic Research Institute, National Base For International Cultural Trade (Shenzhen), and 36Kr, has been planned and prepared for nearly 10 months.
  • The 2nd HUAPOP Creative Festival continues the format of "rankings" and selects the HUAPOP Creative Ranking, HUAPOP Popularity Ranking, HUAPOP Institutional Ranking, and HUAPOP City Index.

Academy Sports + Outdoors Appoints Monique Picou to its Board of Directors

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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KATY, Texas, March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Academy Sports and Outdoors, Inc. ("Academy") (Nasdaq: ASO) today announced that Monique Picou has been appointed to the Board of Directors (the "Board"), effective immediately.

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  • KATY, Texas, March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Academy Sports and Outdoors, Inc. ("Academy") (Nasdaq: ASO) today announced that Monique Picou has been appointed to the Board of Directors (the "Board"), effective immediately.
  • "We are pleased to have Monique join our Board," said Ken Hicks, Executive Chairman of Academy.
  • "Monique brings extensive experience in supply chain, logistics, and strategic planning at large technology, retail and manufacturing companies.
  • Since November 2021, Mrs. Picou has served on the board of directors of Ryan Companies US, Inc., a commercial real estate services company.

Air Force's Trey Taylor Named 2023 Paycom Jim Thorpe Award Winner

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Saturday, December 9, 2023
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Trey Taylor of the United States Air Force Academy Falcons has been named the 2023 Paycom Jim Thorpe Award Winner.

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  • Trey Taylor of the United States Air Force Academy Falcons has been named the 2023 Paycom Jim Thorpe Award Winner.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231208569547/en/
    Trey Taylor of the United States Air Force Academy Falcons has been named the 2023 Paycom Jim Thorpe Award Winner.
  • Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame and Paycom will honor Taylor at the 38th Anniversary of the Paycom Jim Thorpe Award Banquet and recognize the 2nd Annual Aeneas Williams Award Winner in Oklahoma City on Feb. 6, 2024.
  • For more information on the Paycom Jim Thorpe Award and past award recipients, please visit oklahomasportshalloffame.org.

American Flag Football League Reveals Core Players

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Tuesday, November 21, 2023
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The American Flag Football League (AFFL), today announced the core players for its four teams as the League prepares for its inaugural season launching on Saturday, April 27, 2024.

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  • The American Flag Football League (AFFL), today announced the core players for its four teams as the League prepares for its inaugural season launching on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231121872317/en/
    Many of the core players have competed for USA Football’s U.S. Men’s National Team.
  • The National Team has won gold at five IFAF Flag Football World Championships, The 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Ala., and the 2023 IFAF Americas Continental Flag Football Championship in Charlotte, N.C.
  • “Our players are the most elite in the game, as many are either past or current members of the USA Football’s world champion U.S. Men’s Flag National Team and are potential members of the 2028 U.S. Olympic Team.

This Week in Finance News: 10 Stories You Need to See

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Friday, November 17, 2023
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NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the finance industry stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.

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  • That's compared to 39% of all homebuyers, which is up eight percentage points in the past two years.
  • These are just a few of the recent press releases that consumers and the media should know about.
  • To be notified of releases relevant to their coverage area, journalists can set up a custom newsfeed with PR Newswire for Journalists .
  • Subject Matter Experts: Access ProfNet , a database of industry experts to connect with as sources or for quotes in your articles.

Entergy announces new partnership to address the racial wealth gap, empower HBCU students for future success

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Wednesday, November 15, 2023
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NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- At a press conference today, Entergy launched a new initiative – The Power of Prosperity – a partnership with Single Stop and Stackwell to support Historically Black College and University, or HBCU, students to ensure their success and position them to build generational wealth. The Power of Prosperity initiative will be offered free of charge to 1,500 freshmen and first-year transfer students at Dillard University, Southern University at New Orleans and Xavier University of Louisiana through a $700,000 donation provided by Entergy shareholders to the university partners. The program is being launched as a one-year pilot for HBCUs in Orleans parish, with plans to expand to other HBCUs in Entergy's service territory in the future.

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  • "Entergy is committed to fostering the success of our region's HBCUs.
  • This partnership with Single Stop and Stackwell will help close the racial wealth gap by connecting scholars with the resources to succeed academically and begin building generational wealth.
  • The Power of Prosperity program will help remove barriers to students' academic success by providing students and their families with free access to financial support and resources through Single Stop.
  • The second component of The Power of Prosperity is designed to equip students with the knowledge and tools to begin building generational wealth.

Labroots' CRISPR Conference Marks 6 years of CRISPR Engineering and Beyond - November 1, 2023

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Thursday, October 26, 2023
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YORBA LINDA, Calif., Oct. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Labroots, the leading scientific social networking website offering premier, interactive virtual and hybrid events and webinars, today announced its 6th annual event in the CRISPR Virtual Event Series, hosted on November 1, 2023. The free event runs the gamut of cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs and current research that promises to uncover the ever-evolving innovative approaches in sessions devoted to CRISPR Biology and Biotechnology, CRISPR in Diagnostics, and CRISPR in Disease Therapy.

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  • The free event runs the gamut of cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs and current research that promises to uncover the ever-evolving innovative approaches in sessions devoted to CRISPR Biology and Biotechnology, CRISPR in Diagnostics, and CRISPR in Disease Therapy.
  • CRISPR 2023 will bring together bioengineers, top scientists, research scholars, and key stakeholders who will deliver academic and industry perspectives on the accomplishments and promise of CRISPR-based techniques while sharing the latest intelligence in the field.
  • Dr. Xingyu Jiang, Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Southern University of Science and Technology, discusses microfluidics and CRISPR-Diagnostics/Therapy with a live Q&A session.
  • Now, you can also join our professional community on LinkedIn by being a part of the Genetics & Genomics group!

First Physicist of Chinese Nationality Honored with 2024 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize

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Thursday, October 26, 2023
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BEIJING, Oct. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Professor Qikun Xue, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, professor at Tsinghua University, and president of Southern University of Science and Technology, has been awarded the 2024 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize, the first physicist of Chinese nationality to win this honor. Together with Professor Ashvin Vishwanath from Harvard University, they were recognized "for groundbreaking theoretical and experimental studies on the collective electronic properties of materials that reflect topological aspects of their band structure."

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  • BEIJING, Oct. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Professor Qikun Xue, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, professor at Tsinghua University, and president of Southern University of Science and Technology, has been awarded the 2024 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize, the first physicist of Chinese nationality to win this honor.
  • This honor belongs to every researcher of the team, and to all Chinese scientists."
  • Professor Xue's groundbreaking discoveries have significantly advanced the field of physics, pioneering new pathways for global condensed matter research.
  • This discovery, published in a paper released in 2012, challenged the common understanding on high temperature superconductivity and proposed a unique and innovative perspective, manifesting the exploratory spirit of Chinese scientists.

First Physicist of Chinese Nationality Honored with 2024 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize

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Thursday, October 26, 2023
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BEIJING, Oct. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Professor Qikun Xue, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, professor at Tsinghua University, and president of Southern University of Science and Technology, has been awarded the 2024 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize, the first physicist of Chinese nationality to win this honor. Together with Professor Ashvin Vishwanath from Harvard University, they were recognized "for groundbreaking theoretical and experimental studies on the collective electronic properties of materials that reflect topological aspects of their band structure."

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  • Professor Qikun Xue from Tsinghua University and Professor Ashvin Vishwanath from Harvard University won the prize for their innovative breakthroughs in the research in topological quantum materials.
  • BEIJING, Oct. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Professor Qikun Xue, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, professor at Tsinghua University, and president of Southern University of Science and Technology, has been awarded the 2024 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize, the first physicist of Chinese nationality to win this honor.
  • This honor belongs to every researcher of the team, and to all Chinese scientists."
  • Professor Xue's groundbreaking discoveries have significantly advanced the field of physics, pioneering new pathways for global condensed matter research.