OAKLAND, California, Oct. 16 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on Oct. 15, 2021: California Attorney General Rob Bonta today joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general in an amicus brief in Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools in support of the ability of transgender students to participate in school sports. In Soule, the plaintiffs incorrectly allege that Connecticut school policies that permit transgender student athlete participation in school  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Oct. 15 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Oct. 14, 2021: Attorney General William Tong today led a coalition of 14 attorneys general pushing Facebook to disclose whether members of the so-called "Disinformation Dozen" were granted "XCheck" protections to evade enforcement and spread COVID-19 falsehoods and anti-vaccine misinformation in violation of Facebook rules. Internal Facebook documents shared by whistleblower Frances more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Oct. 15 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Governor Ned Lamont and Connecticut Housing Commissioner Seila Mosquera-Bruno today announced that the State of Connecticut is awarding $9 million in grants to six municipalities for infrastructure upgrades that will modernize and rehabilitate housing for low and moderate-income individuals. Awarded through the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Small Cities program, which is administered more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Oct. 15 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Oct. 14, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that the Connecticut Manufacturing Innovation Fund Advisory Board has voted to approve the release of $8.3 million in funding to support a series of technology and workforce initiatives designed to strengthen the long-term competitiveness Connecticut's manufacturing sector, including several new programs. The funding was approved through the  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Oct. 15 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Oct. 14, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that the State of Connecticut is launching an 18-month pilot program offering Aira at no cost for individuals who are blind or have low vision. Aira is a service that enables persons who are blind or have low vision to connect with highly trained, live agents in real-time for assistance using the public transportation system and other essentia more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Oct. 15 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Oct. 13, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont today is applauding the teams that developed Connecticut's contact tracing platform, ContaCT, on winning a State IT Recognition Award last night by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers in acknowledgement of the system's development. The award was presented during the organization's annual conference. ContaCT was developed in the sprin more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Oct. 15 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Oct. 14, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont today visited Freeman Companies, LLC in Hartford to announce updates to the State of Connecticut's small and minority business program that have gone into effect as of October 1, and to encourage small and minority-owned businesses to participate in the program and do business with the state. A new law the governor signed this summer, Public Act 21-76, modif more PR

WATERBURY, Connecticut, Oct. 13 (TNSAwa) -- Post University issued the following news release: * * * Post University Provost Elizabeth Johnson Named a 'Female Executive of the Year' by the 2021 Stevie Awards Post University Provost Elizabeth Johnson, Ph.D., has been recognized by the 18th Annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business as a "Female Executive of the Year." She received a Bronze Stevie(R) Award. Dr. Johnson was recognized for leading academic affairs in spearheading 30 programs whi more PR

MANCHESTER, Connecticut, Oct. 14 (TNSGra) -- Manchester Community College issued the following news release: Manchester Community College has received $14,000 in grant funding for scholarships from the Gene Haas Foundation. This is the sixth year the Gene Haas Foundation has supported MCC manufacturing students with a grant. The scholarships, managed by MCC Foundation, are based on merit and will be awarded to precision manufacturing students to cover tuition, books and supplies that students  more PR

ALBANY, New York, Oct. 16 -- New York Attorney General Letitia James issued the following news release on Oct. 15, 2021: New York Attorney General Letitia James today took action to protect transgender students' rights. Leading a coalition of 20 attorneys general, Attorney General James filed an amicus brief in the case of Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools, opposing the plaintiffs' efforts to bar transgender students from participating in gender-segregated school sports. "Attacks on  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Oct. 13 -- Nexstar Media Group, a television broadcasting company, issued the following news release on Oct. 12, 2021: The future arrived today for Hartford area television viewers, as four local TV stations launched NEXTGEN TV, a revolutionary new digital broadcast technology based on the same fundamental technology as the internet and digital apps. NEXTGEN TV provides viewers with an enhanced live broadcast experience, delivering higher- quality audio, visual capabiliti more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Oct. 12 (TNSAwa) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: * * * Gender Advocacy Leads to Major Recognition for Yale Medicine School Oncologist Pamela Kunz, MD Pamela Kunz, MD, was recently recognized as the 2021 Woman Oncologist of the Year by Women Leaders in Oncology for her commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) through her research, committee leadership, and talks. "My advocacy is what is being recognized," Kunz said, "To have t more PR

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, Oct. 16 (TNSOps) -- The University of South Carolina issued the following news on Oct. 15, 2021: When Colleen Clark was in elementary school in Colchester, Connecticut, she decided to play drums in the school band. It was an easy choice, as she'd already been playing drums with her dad in a family rock band. But when the band director handed out instrument assignments, she was directed instead to play the flute. "Just because I was a girl, I was assigned the flute,"  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Oct. 15 (TNSGra) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: InnovateHealth Yale's Rita Wilson Seed Grant Fund in support of Innovation and Entrepreneurship will award seed grants to current Yale students in amounts of $1,000 to $2,500 for solutions to challenges that disproportionately impact low-income communities in the United States or low-resource countries. To apply, create a one-minute video discussing your solution and share to Twitter, LinkedIn, Faceb more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Oct. 14 (TNSGra) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: When starting a new grant application, early career and established scientists note that access to funded grants in the same category is critical to their success. Funded examples demonstrate how to communicate scientific approaches, how to write specific grant sections, and how reviewers evaluate proposals. Typically, funded grants were obtained from friends and colleagues, but access was uneven and  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Oct. 11 (TNSJou) -- Yale University issued the following news: An asteroid strike 66 million years ago wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs and devastated the Earth's forests, but tree-dwelling ancestors of primates may have survived it, according to a new study published in the journal Ecology and Evolution. Overall, the study supports the hypothesis that the widespread destruction of forests following the asteroid's impact favored ground-dwelling mammals over their arbor more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Oct. 11 (TNSJou) -- Yale University issued the following news: Two of the commonly used coronavirus vaccines provide protection against multiple variants of the virus that causes COVID-19, including the highly infectious Delta variant, a new Yale study has found. The findings, published Oct. 11 in the journal Nature, also show that those infected with the virus prior to vaccination exhibit a more robust immune response to all variants than those who were uninfected and  more PR