ENFIELD, Connecticut, March 2 (TNSGra) -- Asnuntuck Community College issued the following news: Asnuntuck Community College has been awarded scholarship dollars for Advanced Manufacturing Technology students through a 3M grant. Through the generosity of 3M Gives, and in support of the 3M MAP program and Plant Engineering Global Excellence, 3M has awarded two (2) $2,500 Scholarship grants totaling $5,000 to Asnuntuck Community College students. These scholarships are for students entering or c more PR

WACO, Texas, March 5 -- Baylor University issued the following news on March 4, 2021: Baylor University today announced a $1.5 million gift from Stephen and Lori Angel of Connecticut, and their children, Logan Angel (B.A. '13) of Dallas, and Mason Angel of Venice Beach, California, through the Angel Family Foundation to support student scholarships within the Diana R. Garland School of Social Work's Global Mission Leadership (GML) Program. The gift, given as part of Baylor's Give Light campaig more PR

BRUNSWICK, Maine, March 4 -- Bowdoin College issued the following news on March 3, 2021: A new center dedicated to the broad multidisciplinary study of the Arctic at Bowdoin College will be named the John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies in recognition of Bowdoin trustee emeritus John A. Gibbons Jr. '64 and his wife, Lile R. Gibbons, of Old Greenwich, Connecticut, who have made a significant gift in support of the project. Designed by HGA Architects, the new 16,426-square-foot center more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 5 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong along with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 46 agencies from 38 states and the District of Columbia, has stopped a massive telefunding operation that bombarded 67 million consumers with 1.3 billion deceptive fundraising calls--most of them illegal robocalls. The defendants deceptively collected more than $110 million falsely claiming to support veter more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 5 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong submitted testimony in support of SB 906, An Act Concerning Non-Compete Agreements. "Connecticut's economy is still recovering from the effects of the COVID pandemic, and too many of our workers are still unemployed or underemployed. Legislation such as SB 906 can help us respond by maximizing worker flexibility, mobility, competition, and entrepreneurshi more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 5 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong submitted written testimony in support of H.B. 6526, An Act Concerning Electric Suppliers, to provide critical consumer protections in the retail electric supply market. "This bill provides critical consumer protections in the retail electric supply market, the necessity of which is readily apparent in numerous Public Utilities Regulatory Authority ("PURA more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 2 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong and Department of Consumer Protection Commissioner Michelle Seagull are urging consumers to be vigilant when using "peer to peer" apps like CashApp, Venmo, PayPal and Zelle to avoid losing money, giving out valuable personal information, or being victimized by scammers. Like any product, consumers must make informed decisions with regard to use of financi more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 2 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on March 1, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he is directing Connecticut's Severe Cold Weather Protocol to be activated beginning at noon on Monday, March 1, and remaining in effect through noon on Tuesday, March 2, 2021, as brutally frigid temperatures are expected to impact the state overnight and into the morning. Forecasts are currently showing the state will experience a sever more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 3 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on March 2, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont and Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz today announced a series of legislative proposals they are introducing during the 2021 regular session that were developed by the Governor's Council on Women and Girls and are aimed at helping to uplift women and families across the state and creating more opportunities for women and girls to succeed in school and in the workp more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 3 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Governor Ned Lamont and Mohegan Tribe Chairman James Gessner Jr. today announced an agreement that would allow the State of Connecticut to modernize gaming options available to state residents, including allowing for sports wagering and online gaming. The agreement would generate tens of millions of dollars in new revenue for the state, while keeping Connecticut competitive with gaming changes c more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 3 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on March 2, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has launched a revitalized web portal for the agency that also increases the number of transactions customers are able to complete online. New online services added during this launch include the ability to request a duplicate driver's license, a duplicate non-driver ID, and driving histo more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 6 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on March 4, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that in the coming days he plans to revise some requirements that were implemented in Connecticut in the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly when it comes to those relating to capacity levels and travel restrictions. The governor stressed that while some of these restrictions are being eased, all of the protocols that relate to face  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 2 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following statement on March 1, 2021: * * * Governor Ned Lamont released the following statement congratulating Connecticut Education Commissioner Dr. Miguel Cardona on the vote in the U.S. Senate today confirming him to serve as secretary of the U.S. Department of Education: "This is an incredible moment for Connecticut, as someone who was educated in our public schools and went on to lead a successful teaching care more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 2 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on March 1, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he is appointing Nora R. Dannehy to serve as General Counsel in the Office of the Governor. Dannehy is an experienced lawyer with a professional record that spans both the public and private sector. Her commitment to public service started in 1991 when she joined the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut as an Assistant  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 5 -- The Connecticut Department of Education issued the following news release on March 4, 2021: The Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) today notified the state's non-public schools that they can begin applying for funding through the federal Emergency Assistance for Non-Public Schools (EANS) program, which is part of the Governor's Emergency Education Relief (GEER II) Fund. CSDE is contracting with the State Education Resource Center (SERC) to adminis more PR

MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut, March 5 (TNSJou) -- Connecticut Wesleyan University issued the following news: The following faculty were conferred tenure, effective July 1, 2021 by the Board of Trustees at its most recent meeting: David Kuenzel, associate professor of economics; Michelle Personick, associate professor of chemistry; and Olga Sendra Ferrer, associate professor of Spanish. In addition, one faculty member was promoted, effective July 1, 2020: Valerie Nazzaro, associate professor of the more PR

MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut, March 4 -- Connecticut Wesleyan University issued the following news: Do political views and anxiety play a functional role in combating COVID-19? According to a recent study by Ori Cantwell '22, the answer is yes. Cantwell, a psychology major, presented his recent study "Yes We (Anxiously) Can: Liberal Ideology and Anxiety Predict Social Distancing during the COVID-19 Pandemic" during the virtual 22nd Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psycho more PR

MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut, March 2 (TNSJou) -- Connecticut Wesleyan University issued the following news: The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) honored Nataliya Karageorgos, assistant professor of the practice in Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies, with the Best 2020 Slavic and East European Journal Article (SEEJ) award. Karageorgos' article, titled "'A List of Some Observations': The Theory and Practice of Depersonalization in T.S. Eliot  more PR

MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut, March 2 (TNSRes) -- Connecticut Wesleyan University issued the following news: Joseph Siry, Kenan Professor of the Humanities, professor of art history, is the author of Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890-1970 (Penn State University Press, February 2021). According to the book's abstract, Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890-1970 documents how architects made environmental technologies into resources that helped shape their spatial more PR

MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut, March 2 (TNSJou) -- Connecticut Wesleyan University issued the following news: Gabe Snashall '21 and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Helen Poulos are the co-authors of "Oreos Versus Orangutans: The Need for Sustainability Transformations and Nonhierarchical Polycentric Governance in the Global Palm Oil Industry," published in the Feb. 22 issue of Forests. According to the paper's abstract, "While the myriad benefits of palm oil as a food, makeup, a more PR

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- The Democratic Governors Association issued the following news: A new Sacred Heart University poll shows Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont continues to receive high job performance ratings for his handling of the pandemic - 73.6% of respondents approve of Gov. Lamont's communication with the public, and 70.7% approve of his overall response to the COVID-19 crisis. The governor continues to be popular among Connecticut residents, seeing an increase in his already high approval ra more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 5 (TNSPer) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Fifteen faculty members affiliated with Yale School of Medicine are among the newest group elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE). Among the 17 others elected are three additional faculty from Yale University. CASE will introduce its new members at its 46th Annual Meeting, which will be held virtually on May 27. From Yale School of Medicine: * Daniel A. Colon-Ramos, PhD more PR

STORRS, Connecticut, March 5 (TNSRes) -- The University of Connecticut issued the following news: As a promising new therapy for certain brain tumors reaches the second phase of clinical trials, UConn Health will be one of the select few locations in the United States to make this treatment available to patients during the further evaluation of its safety and efficacy. The therapy combines what researchers are calling PVSRIPO, a viral immunotherapy based on the polio vaccine, with pembrolizuma more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 4 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news on March 3, 2021: For Namrata Krishnan, MBBS, the key to enhancing academic interest in nephrology and addressing the notable decline in internal medicine residents applying to the specialty lies in developing innovative ways of delivering nephrology education. In the last three years, Krishnan has focused on 'E-learning' and developed two online, interactive learning modules in Hemodialysis. Krishnan  more PR

STORRS, Connecticut, March 5 (TNSRes) -- The University of Connecticut issued the following news: Jolaade Kalinowski comes from what she calls a long line of strong Black women - women who have experienced adversity and life challenges, and who passed down to her the value and beauty of Black feminism, she says. But with adversity comes stress, and Kalinowski's family experienced emotional and economic hardship with the loss of her father when she was a child. She watched her mother struggle  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 6 (TNSGra) -- Trinity College issued the following news release: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently awarded Trinity College with a grant for $180,200 to support the planning of a convening of women of color (WOC) leaders in higher education and other sectors. This is the second grant awarded by the Mellon Foundation for this project; the first of the two grants was announced in the fall of 2019. The funding will be used over approximately 16 months, culminatin more PR

STORRS, Connecticut, March 2 -- The University of Connecticut issued the following news on March 1, 2021: More than 38,000 students have applied so far to join UConn's Class of 2025, a record-high level of interest despite the unpredictability that the COVID-19 pandemic has created in higher education worldwide. The University will start formally notifying applicants today by mail who have been offered acceptance as first-year students at UConn Storrs, for which the University received a recor more PR

STORRS, Connecticut, March 3 -- The University of Connecticut issued the following news: Bacteria tend to get a bad rap. But oftentimes it's one bad apple that ruins the reputation of the bunch. For example, E. coli, commonly known as bacteria that cause sickness, also has beneficial strains that can help protect us from pathogens. Being able to differentiate between bacterial strains is critical for researchers working to understand the microbiome - the complex environment of bacteria living  more PR

STORRS, Connecticut, March 3 (TNSJou) -- The University of Connecticut issued the following news: The Deepwater Horizon disaster began on April 20, 2010 with an explosion on a BP-operated oil drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 workers. Almost immediately, oil began spilling into the waters of the gulf, an environmental calamity that took months to bring under control, but not before it became the largest oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. Nearly 10 years have pa more PR

STORRS, Connecticut, March 5 (TNSJou) -- The University of Connecticut issued the following news: Water is constantly on the move: through the air, through waterways, and underground. Life depends on a consistent supply of water and details about its journey are necessary for understanding and managing this dynamic resource. However, those details are often difficult to measure. UConn Ph.D. candidate Danielle Hare, in the lab of associate professor of Natural Resources and the Environment Ashl more PR

STORRS, Connecticut, March 2 (TNSRes) -- The University of Connecticut issued the following news: Millions of people live with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a mental health condition that develops in the aftermath of traumatic events. People with PTSD have difficulty in many aspects of their daily lives due to reacting to everyday stressors with extreme emotional distress or a lack of any emotion, which neither they nor people in their lives understand or know how to cope with. To hel more PR

STORRS, Connecticut, March 5 -- The University of Connecticut issued the following news: Shortly after Christmas Melissa Vicchitto was not feeling well and attributed her lethargy and loss of appetite to her pregnancy. Her symptoms progressed over the next several days and she had a hard time going up the stairs and developed a fever of 105 degrees. Her husband called 911 and took her to the nearest hospital emergency room where she was given a rapid test for COVID-19 that came back negative.  more PR

STORRS, Connecticut, March 5 -- The University of Connecticut issued the following news: It takes plenty of practice to become a skilled science communicator--and "skilled communication" is more subjective than researchers have assumed, a team of researchers found out when they tried measuring the success of their own graduate science communication course. Despite the fact that most of us learn to talk around age three, effectively conveying information to another person so they act on it can  more PR

MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut, March 5 -- Connecticut Wesleyan University issued the following news: Wesleyan has announced the speaker and honorary degree recipients for its 189th Commencement. The date of Commencement was previously announced as May 30th; however, given current pandemic conditions, the University is reviewing other options for the last week of May. The University is currently planning to hold the ceremony in-person on Wesleyan's Middletown campus, though off-campus guests will be  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 3 (TNSPer) -- Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science issued the following news: Two faculty members of the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science - Rong Fan and Anjelica Gonzalez - have been elected to membership in the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE). In addition to the two SEAS representatives, 19 other new CASE members are affiliated with Yale University. Rong Fan, professor of biomedical engineering, was cited for his pionee more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 6 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science issued the following news: In response to brain injury, neural stem cells cluster and migrate to the site of injury. The clustering is key - without it, the cells don't travel. But what causes it? To investigate, Yale researchers created a 3-D model of the brain's workings. The results of the study, led by the lab of Anjelica Gonzalez, associate professor of biomedical engineering, show for the first tim more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 3 -- Yale Law School issued the following news release: After the Trump administration took control of the government in 2017, changes large and small came quickly to U.S. immigration policy. Based on his experience working in government and as one of the nation's leading immigration law experts, Martin R. Flug Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Scholar in Law Lucas Guttentag thought it would be critical to keep track of policies as they were issued by the admini more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 5 (TNSRep) -- Yale Law School issued the following news release: Two former fellows from the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law, Tiffany Bailey '17 and Adrienna Wong '10, have filed a lawsuit against the city of Lancaster in Los Angeles County for allegedly treating unhoused people like criminals by ticketing them and charging them steep fines, according to the lawsuit. The ACLU of Southern California (ACLU SoCal), joined by the University of California,  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 5 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Cervical cancer is a serious global health threat which kills more than 300,000 women every year. It's a disease that disproportionately affects women in low- and middle-income countries in equatorial Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia, yet it is a preventable disease and decades of research have produced the tools needed to eliminate it. Recognizing this urgent public health issue, the editori more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 6 (TNSGra) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: After six years of innovative research in the field of implementation science, Donna Spiegelman, ScD, Director of the Yale School of Public Health's Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS ), has recently completed the National Institute of Health's (NIH) Director's Pioneer Award. Awarded to Dr. Spiegelman in 2014, this grant supports "innovative researchers of exceptional  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 6 (TNSPer) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: The Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) is pleased to announce that DEM faculty, Pooja Agrawal MD, MPH, was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). We are also excited that Wendy Sun, MD was elected as President of the SAEM Residents and Medical Students (RAMS). An Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of Global Health Educ more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 4 -- Yale School of Public Health issued the following news: In 1992, top public health researchers published a landmark study about global pandemic preparedness. The paper, which included detailed strategies on everything from recognizing potential outbreaks to bolstering a national stockpile of protective equipment, helped stem subsequent plagues and encouraged sweeping changes in public health policy for the next two decades. Now, nearly a year after the United more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 3 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news on March 2, 2021: According to a new study led by Yale Cancer Center and Department of Neurology researchers, a simple blood draw may be the first step in helping to discover tumor reactive immune or T cells to treat advanced melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer. The findings were published today in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. "These results are important because they lay the foundation fo more PR