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Education: MSU, USDA offers high school students, undergrads notable research experiences
The Dispatch - Mississippi
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July 29, 2025
STARKVILLE – Mississippi State University is providing hands-on research experiences to both high school and undergraduate students through an integrated project supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and...
WVSOM’s Drema Hill appointed to West Virginia Health Care Authority board
Lootpress - West Virginia
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July 15, 2025
LEWISBURG, WV (LOOTPRESS) – West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey has appointed Drema Hill, Ph.D., vice president for community engagement and chief operations officer of the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (WVSOM), to the West Virginia...
Sensient Technologies Corporation (NYSE:SXT) Q2 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Insider Monkey
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July 29, 2025
Sensient Technologies Corporation (NYSE:SXT) Q2 2025 Earnings Call Transcript July 25, 2025 Sensient Technologies Corporation beats earnings expectations. Reported EPS is $0.94, expectations were $0.88. Operator: Good morning, and welcome to the...
Vandalia Health responds to Randolph EMS ending transfers from Davis Medical Center
The Inter-Mountain - West Virginia
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August 12, 2025
ELKINS – Vandalia Health has responded to Monday’s announcement that the Randolph County Emergency Squad will stop making hospital-to-hospital transports from Davis Medical Center as of Friday morning. The following is the contents of a Vandalia...
Health crisis as many rural emergency rooms now have no doctors
Raw Story
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August 12, 2025
EKALAKA, Mont. — There was no doctor on-site when a patient arrived in early June at the emergency room in the small hospital at the intersection of two dirt roads in this town of 400 residents. There never is. Dahl Memorial’s three-bed emergency...
Amid changes in West Virginia business recruitment, top economic development official is departing
MetroNews - West Virginia
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July 15, 2025
Mike Graney, whose tenure as a leader of the state’s economic development efforts has spanned two administrations, is departing the role. Mike Graney Graney was the Economic Development secretary toward the end of then-Gov. Jim Justice’s second...
North Central West Virginia Man Talks How Vision was Saved Thanks to Doctors at WVU Eye Institute
Connect Bridgeport - West Virginia
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July 15, 2025
Bob Burdette hoped it wasn’t too late. As he rushed to the WVU Eye Institute, the vision in one corner of his left eye slowly faded away. “It was like looking at a photograph and watching a corner of it burn off,” Burdette, 79, of Morgantown,...
Digging In: Why a West Virginia factory’s pollution could trouble Louisville’s drinking water
WFPL - Kentucky
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July 15, 2025
About 400 miles upstream from Louisville, the Chemours Co.’s Washington Works operation has been releasing higher-than-permitted amounts of a forever chemical into the Ohio River. In recent court filings, Louisville Water Co. – the utility that...
Federal cuts put Washington workplace safety research at risk
Cascade PBS - Washington
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July 29, 2025
As part of creating a new pesticide sprayer with a more targeted spray, designers tested its effectiveness of application, but not for the potential impact that smaller droplets might have on farmworkers’ health. The University of Washington...
Fifth Third continues Southeast push with move into Alabama
American Banker - New York
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August 12, 2025
Cincinnati, Ohio-based Fifth Third Bancorp opened its first branch in Alabama on Tuesday, checking off another box in its Southeast expansion. The Huntsville location expands the $210 billion-asset bank's retail footprint to 12 states. It's the...
Classification of 50 states (Barna study)
BGospel Magazine
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August 11, 2025
The AWVI 2025 study: State analysis by state of the biblical vision of the world in America The American WorldView Inventory 2025, led by Dr. George Barna of the Christian University of Arizona, presents the seventh report of an annual series...
Trump’s D.C. takeover: Not distraction. Dictatorship. | Will Bunch Newsletter
The Philadelphia Inquirer - Pennsylvania
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Violent repression of the free press is a slippery slope. On Sunday, just a few hours after I’d posted a column about police in Los Angeles assaulting journalists with batons and detaining some of them with zip ties at an immigration protest came...
Sen. Britt leads letter advocating for NIH research funding
Alabama Political Reporter
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July 28, 2025
Last Friday, Senator Katie Britt, R-Alabama, a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, led 13 of her Senate Republican colleagues sending a letter to Russell Vought,...
Judge: Chemical plant 'boldly' violating pollution permit, putting Ohio River at risk
Courier-Journal - Kentucky
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A Chemours chemical plant on the Ohio River is "boldly" and unlawfully exceeding its pollution permit, a federal judge found, and must reduce PFAS emissions under a court order. The plant's emissions have been linked to PFAS spikes in the Ohio...
‘Farm babe’ versus ‘food babe’ influencer rivalry is a lopsided contest
Marianas Variety
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Michelle Miller, a social media-based influencer known as The Farm Babe, poses at Walker Farms in North Fort Myers, Florida, July 9, 2025. REUTERS Influencer Vani Hari speaks during a press conference announcing the U.S. Food and Drug...
Verano Holdings Corp. (OTC:VRNOF) Q2 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Insider Monkey
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Verano Holdings Corp. (OTC:VRNOF) Q2 2025 Earnings Call Transcript August 8, 2025 Operator: Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Verano Second Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that...
Researchers unveil game-changing safety tool after 1,000-year flood event rocks community: 'We're ahead of the curve'
The Cool Down - Oregon
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July 18, 2025
Photo Credit: Getty Images When flash floods ripped through Ohio and Marion counties in West Virginia this June, it was a sobering reminder of just how vulnerable many Appalachian communities are to extreme weather. But in the wake of these...
Research key to understanding wild turkey numbers
The Citizens' Voice - Pennsylvania
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July 19, 2025
Whether you enjoy hunting the wild turkey, or just going for a ride along an old county road and coming upon a small flock of hens or gobblers, almost everyone relishes the opportunity to see turkeys in the wild. Understanding how and why turkey...
Rural Emergency Rooms Are Increasingly Run Without Doctors
HealthLeaders - Tennessee
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By Arielle Zionts EKALAKA, Mont. — There was no doctor on-site when a patient arrived in early June at the emergency room in the small hospital at the intersection of two dirt roads in this town of 400 residents. There never is. Dahl Memorial's...
A 'Farm Babe' fights for GMOs and Big Ag, pushing back on MAHA influencers
The Malaysian Star
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August 12, 2025
(Reuters) -Michelle Miller stands in a field of corn, stalks stretching above her perfectly styled hair, holding a tiny microphone and addressing an audience online. She was farming genetically-modified corn in Iowa in 2017, she says, when a...