IRVINE, California, July 28 (TNSPer) -- The University of California Irvine campus issued the following news release on July 27, 2021: Mark Lazenby, advanced practice nurse and philosopher, has been appointed dean of the Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing at the University of California, Irvine, following a nationwide search. He will assume his new role on Jan. 1, 2022. Lazenby is currently a professor of nursing and associate dean for faculty and student affairs in the School of Nursing at th more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 27 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on July 26, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he is nominating Dr. Manisha Juthani to serve as commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health. Dr. Juthani is an infectious diseases physician at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, where she specializes in the diagnosis, management, and prevention of infections in older adults. Her most recent area of interest is at the more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 30 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Following an unnerving increase in the frequency and scale of ransomware attacks across the globe--underscored by the massive attack on software company Kaseya on the brink of the July 4th holiday weekend--Attorney General William Tong is leading a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general in urging businesses and government entities to immediately assess their current data security pr more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 30 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong joined a coalition of five states and the City of New York announcing an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that would commit the federal government to addressing pollution that blows into Connecticut and creates unhealthy ground-level ozone (commonly known as smog). Under the agreement, which requires court approval, the EPA mus more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 29 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement: * * * Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement regarding the decision by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Connecticut Citizen's Defense League vs. Lamont. "Our Constitution is clear, the Governor has broad authority to protect Connecticut families during a public health emergency," Attorney General Tong said. "The Second Circuit Court of Appeals got this decisi more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 26 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: At 10 a.m. on Wednesday, July 28 before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law, Attorney General William Tong will testify in support of reforms to bankruptcy laws. Attorney General Tong will address how reform is needed to close a loophole currently being exploited by the Sackler family to seek to escape accountability and justice for their r more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 27 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on July 26, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont today announced the launch of the Governor's Summer STEM Challenge. The statewide initiative presents elementary, middle, and high school students with a series of hands-on design projects to keep them engaged in learning during the summer months while growing skills for the future. Developed in partnership with the Connecticut Office of Workforce Strategy a more PR

MANCHESTER, Connecticut, July 30 (TNSGra) -- Manchester Community College Foundation issued the following news release: Manchester Community College Foundation has received a $40,000 grant from the Paul L. Jones Trust to support the college's Health Careers programs. The grant, to be managed by MCC Foundation, supports activities within the Health Careers programs such as background checks and CPR training, national credentialing reviews and study guides, licensure exams and even support for s more PR

FARMINGTON, Connecticut, July 24 (TNSEve) -- Tunxis Community College issued the following news release: Tunxis Community College will hold a Saturday Enrollment Day walk-in event on August 7 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m., for new and continuing students to get help with admissions, advising, course registration, and financial aid for fall semester. Prior to attending the event, prospective students who have not yet applied for admission should complete an application and placement form online. Required  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 26 (TNSMon) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Yale University has received a $15 million, five-year U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) award to advance research utilization in Liberia's health sector. This award will fund the continuation of Yale's strong partnership with the University of Liberia and Vanderbilt University. The funded project, Applying Research for a Healthy Liberia, will establish a Center for Teaching, Learning, more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 28 (TNSPer) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Lakshmanan Krishnamurti, MD, has been named Chief of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, and Bone Marrow Transplant at Yale New Haven Children's Hospital and Leader of the Smilow Cancer Hospital Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Program. Krishnamurti is an accomplished pediatric hematologist oncologist and an international leader in bone marrow transplant and the treatment of hemoglobinopathies. "We're very  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 29 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Stroke, a devastating condition that causes damage to the brain due to interruption of blood supply, is often considered an adult disease. But children can experience strokes as well. Sadly, pediatric stroke affects one in every 4,000 newborns and an additional 2,000 older children each year. The most common cause of stroke in children is moyamoya disease (MMD), a rare condition where the brain's art more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 30 (TNSRes) -- Yale University issued the following news release: A new Yale study suggests that aerosols in the atmosphere may be temporarily holding down ocean temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific. The findings, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, are an indication that the surprisingly modest warming observed in the tropical Pacific in recent decades may be short-lived, with more dramatic changes yet to come. The results also may help clima more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 28 (TNSRes) -- Yale University issued the following news release: The COVID-19 pandemic increased our feelings of paranoia, particularly in states where wearing masks was mandated, a new Yale study has shown. That heightened paranoia was particularly acute in states where adherence to mask mandates was low, the researchers report July 27 in the journal Nature Behavior. Increased feelings of paranoia were also associated with greater acceptance of conspiracy theorie more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 29 (TNSJou) -- Yale University issued the following news release: When communicating in mostly white settings, politically conservative Black and Latinx Americans use words associated with competence more often than their liberal counterparts, distancing themselves from negative racial stereotypes, according to a new study by Yale social psychologist Cydney Dupree. The study, published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, combined several experiments to show that  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 30 (TNSRes) -- Yale University issued the following news release: For the first time, astronomers have observed a cosmic boomerang effect -- streams of heavy, molecular gas that are stripped away from a distant galaxy only to circle back and return later. Astronomers at Yale and Arizona State University led the research team that made the discovery, which had been theorized in simulations but not observed in detail. Their findings are published in The Astrophysical more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 30 (TNSJou) -- Yale University issued the following news release: Yale researchers have discovered the underlying genetic cause of a rare childhood disorder that mimics inflammatory bowel disease, a finding that may help researchers uncover the roots of a host of other inflammatory and autoimmune disorders. For the study, a team of Yale researchers investigated a mysterious case of a young boy who was treated at Yale New Haven Hospital for abdominal pain, intermitt more PR