NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, May 12 (TNSPer) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Nii Addy, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, has been appointed Yale School of Medicine's inaugural Director of Scientist Diversity and Inclusion. In his new role, Addy will work with YSM leadership and department chairs to guide faculty development for investigators in the basic sciences (including those in clinical departments) from underrepresented groups to ensure that they have equitable acc more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 8 -- Connecticut State Colleges and Universities issued the following news release on May 7, 2021: The Board of Regents for Higher Education (BOR) today appointed Terrence Cheng to serve as president of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) system. Cheng, who currently serves as campus director of the University of Connecticut (UConn) Stamford campus, where he also serves as a faculty member in the English department, will assume a role that oversees  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 11 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong and Special Counsel for Civil Rights and Deputy Solicitor General Joshua Perry authored an essay in the Connecticut Law Review urging state-level election reforms to protect voting rights in the wake of the 2020 elections. "Voting rights cannot depend on shared good-faith adherence to democratic norms. Instead, we need clear and detailed laws that will ent more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 11 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Citing serious concerns about the safety and well-being of children and the harm social media poses to young people, Attorney General William Tong has joined a coalition of 44 attorneys general urging Facebook to abandon its plans to launch a version of Instagram for children under the age of 13. In a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the coalition contends that social media can  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 12 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on May 11, 2021: Attorney General William Tong joined 19 state attorneys general today filing comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) supporting the agency's proposal to strengthen monitoring of public water systems for additional PFAS chemicals. The proposal would include 29 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, more commonly known as PFAS or "forever" chemicals, in t more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 14 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on May 13, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont and Connecticut Acting Commissioner of Education Charlene Russell-Tucker are congratulating two Connecticut residents who were named today as 2021 U.S. Presidential Scholars for their accomplishments in academics, the arts, and career and technical education fields. The recognition is one of the nation's highest honors for graduating high school seniors. The r more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 13 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on May 12, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer-BioNTech is available to residents in Connecticut between the ages of 12 to 15 at all clinics in the state that are offering that vaccine. The expansion of Connecticut's vaccine program follows on the heels of this afternoon's decision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and its Advisory Com more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 13 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on May 12, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont and the Town of Killingly today announced that Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo and a leading snack manufacturer, is embarking on a $235 million expansion project at its Killingly manufacturing site in a plan that includes the creation of 120 new jobs in the town. "As we emerge from this pandemic, we are seeing Connecticut companies of all sizes increase their more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 7 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that the Connecticut Office of Tourism is launching a new summer marketing campaign to promote safe travel and fuel the Connecticut tourism industry's recovery following the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. After a year of saying "no" to so many things due to the pandemic, the State of Connecticut is encouraging resident and visitors to "Say Yes to Connecticut"  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 13 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Governor Ned Lamont today is applauding the Connecticut House of Representatives for voting to approve the bipartisan agreement his administration helped reach that will restore the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund while also reducing taxes on the majority of Connecticut businesses. "I want to congratulate and thank the members of the Connecticut House of Representatives for the bipartisan pass more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 15 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Governor Ned Lamont is applauding the Connecticut State Senate for giving unanimous, final approval early this morning to legislation approving the Long Island Sound Blue Plan in concurrence with the House of Representatives, which approved the plan late last month. This vote formally places the Blue Plan into effect as a powerful new tool that establishes a framework for identifying and protect more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 14 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on May 13, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that his administration has received copies of strike postponement notices to 26 nursing homes from District 1199, SEIU, and New England Health Care Employees Union. The notices follow news of a tentative settlement agreement between the union and nursing home owners that was reached with the participation and support of Governor Lamont and his  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 15 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on May 14, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont and Office of Policy and Management Secretary Melissa McCaw today are applauding the announcements over the last two days from three independent credit rating agencies that they are each upgrading Connecticut's bond credit ratings. They include: * An announcement on Thursday from S&P Global that it is upgrading Connecticut's bonds to A+; * An announcement on  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 11 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on May 10, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he has signed into law legislation that extends for another two years the relaxed telehealth services provisions that he previously enacted through an emergency executive order due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth services are those that enable healthcare providers to interact with patients, including those with Medicaid coverage, by u more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 11 -- The Connecticut Department of Education issued the following news release on May 10, 2021: The Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) today announced, after a thorough procurement process, the Department is entering into two partnerships with Apex Learning and Defined Learning to support its goal of delivering equitable access to high-quality online curricula and courses at no cost to school districts. "Advancing equity and access requires us to think more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 15 -- The Connecticut Department of Education issued the following news release on May 14, 2021: The Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) today announced it is seeking input from its educational stakeholders to inform the development of the Department's plan for use of the $110 million state set-aside it received through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ARP ESSER) fund. The CSDE will partner with the St more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 8 -- Connecticut State Colleges and Universities issued the following news release: Twelve outstanding students from the four Connecticut State Universities were awarded the prestigious Henry Barnard Distinguished Student Award by the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) Foundation. The students -- enrolled in Central, Eastern, Southern and Western Connecticut State Universities -- received the award for their outstanding academic achievement, on-campus more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, May 14 (TNSPer) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Isaac Y. Kim, MD, PhD, MBA, has been appointed chair of the Department of Urology at Yale School of Medicine and chief of Urology at Yale New Haven Hospital, effective September 1, 2021. A surgeon-scientist with more than a decade of leadership experience, Kim is currently professor and chief of the Division of Urology in the Department of Surgery at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; chief o more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, May 14 -- NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast, issued the following news release: NBC Sports and Peacock announced today the media schedule for the 2021 Premier Lacrosse League season, featuring comprehensive coverage of 44 games this summer across NBC, NBCSN, and Peacock. Peacock will stream all 44 matchups, which sets an NBC Sports record for the most-ever professional lacrosse game coverage in a season. The 2021 Premier Lacrosse League season will feature 21 of the  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, May 14 (TNSRes) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: The Office of Physician-Scientist and Scientist Development is excited to announce the Janeway Society, which was recently developed to create infrastructure and oversight for career development and to shorten the time to independence at Yale. 139 Scholars from the School of Medicine, School of Public Health and School of Nursing who are supported by individual career development awards from the NIH, i more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, May 13 (TNSRes) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Goals of the Yale-SCORE Pilot Program: The Yale-SCORE Pilot Project Program will support promising new research that has the potential of advancing women's health with regards to alcohol use and generate feasibility data for external funding applications. The Pilot Project mechanism will fund projects focused on sex/gender differences and alcohol use that cross disciplines and may span across T1 to T more PR