Carnival Cruise Line, Federal Maritime Commission, Galveston Officials Participate in Cruise Restart Rally at Port of Galveston
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GALVESTON, Texas, May 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ In a unified showing of support to encourage the resumption of cruising in the U.S., Carnival Cruise Line joined members of the Federal Maritime Commission, Galveston city and port officials and local businesses at the Port of Galveston to highlight the economic impact of cruising in Galveston and throughout Texas.
The Carnival Breeze and the the Carnival Vista return to the Port of Galveston on Sunday, May 2, 2021 with an escort by the Bay Houston Towing Company Tugboat Wesley A.
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Carnival sailed two ships to the Galveston port rally, the Carnival Breeze and Carnival Vista. Crew members from both ships were vaccinated by the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Photo Credit: Robert Mihovil
Texas became the latest state to host a protest against the CDC s cruise ban, with Carnival Cruise Line crew and executives joining members of the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), Galveston city and port officials and local businesses at the Port of Galveston to highlight cruising s economic impact.
Galveston, the fourth most popular cruise homeport in North America, according to Carnival, generates $1.6 billion in expenditures annually and 27,000 jobs statewide as the only cruise port in Texas.
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla., May 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Aesthetic Surgery Education and Research Foundation (ASERF) announced the election of Louis L. Strock, MD, a plastic surgeon practicing in Fort Worth, Texas as its new President. Dr. Strock is an aesthetic and reconstructive plastic surgeon certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. ASERF is the philanthropic research and education arm of
The Aesthetic Society. As President of ASERF, Dr. Strock plans to leverage research and technology advancements from the Aesthetic One app and Aesthetic Neural Network (ANN) to gain deeper insights for both doctors and patients.
Dr. Elisabeth A. Murray
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Dr. Murray received her B.S. in Biology from Bucknell University and her Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, where she studied the organization of corticospinal neurons. After postdoctoral work at the NIMH with Mort Mishkin studying the neural substrates of tactual learning and memory, she became a Staff Fellow and then a tenured faculty member within the Laboratory of Neuropsychology, NIMH. Dr. Murray was awarded the Demuth Swiss Medical Research Foundation Award for Young Investigators in the Neurosciences and a PHS Special Recognition Award.
In 1996, Dr. Murray was appointed Chief, Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, NIMH. In 2014, Dr. Murray became Chief of the Laboratory of Neuropsychology at NIMH. She is an elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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