NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Oct. 26 (TNSPer) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: The Yale Department of Neurosurgery is thrilled to announce that Ehud Mendel, MD, MBA, joined our team in September 2021. In addition to joining us as a professor of neurosurgery at Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Mendel will also serve as the Disease Center Director of the Spine Oncology Program at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven Hospital. He will also serve as the division chief of the Spine S more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Oct. 28 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general led by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul in defending a Florida law prohibiting the sale of firearms to people under the age of 21. In an amicus brief filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, the coalition argues that states have the right to enact reasonable, age-based firearm regulations that more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Oct. 28 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Following a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that it will hear two challenges to Texas' unconstitutional six-week abortion ban, Senate Bill 8 (S.B. 8), Attorney General William Tong joined a coalition of 24 attorneys general asking the Court to block the ban from going into effect and allow challenges to the ban to proceed. The amicus brief, filed with the Supreme Court in United St more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Oct. 27 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong is warning the public about the dangers of cannabis edibles and hemp derivatives in packaging designed to look like well-known snack foods and candy. These products are unregulated, illegal, and may be extremely dangerous. Examples of some of these products, which were confiscated by law enforcement, are pictured below: These products may contain high con more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Oct. 26 -- The Connecticut Department of Education issued the following news release on Oct. 25, 2021: The Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) today announced that Attorney Michael McKeon has joined the agency as Director of Legal and Governmental Affairs. This position had been left vacant when former Director Jessa Mirtle accepted a position at the United States Department of Education (USED) in July 2021. Attorney McKeon graduated from the University of C more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Oct. 26 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following statement on Oct. 25, 2021: * * * Governor Ned Lamont released the following statement regarding the resignation today of State Representative Michael DiMassa from his seat in the Connecticut General Assembly: "The allegations against Mike DiMassa are serious and very troubling. "If the allegations are true, he has not only broken the law but also betrayed the public trust. "He had no choice but to resign more PR

WILLIMANTIC, Connecticut, Oct. 28 (TNSOps) -- Eastern Connecticut State University issued the following news on Oct. 27, 2021: Three English Professors at Eastern Connecticut State University -- Raouf Mama, Chris Torockio and Daniel Donaghy -- have been published in the new edition of the "Connecticut Literary Anthology." More than 400 authors submitted their work for the annual publication of poetry, fiction and non-fiction. On Oct. 22, at Real Art Ways in Hartford, the three authors delighte more PR

WILLIMANTIC, Connecticut, Oct. 28 (TNSGra) -- Eastern Connecticut State University issued the following news: Three Eastern Connecticut State University students have been hired as peer mentors for the "Beyond the Curriculum: A Learning Community for Success" program. Funded with a $650,000 grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the "Success Scholars" program is designed to support lower-income students who are pursuing science-related careers. The peer mentors are working closely with more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Oct. 28 (TNSMon) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: The Food and Drug Administration's Office of Minority Health and Health Equity (OMHHE) has awarded a $3 million contract to Yale School of Medicine (YSM) to promote clinical trial education, awareness, and access for underrepresented minorities. Yale made great strides in this area at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the work now being funded will build on that work by further refining approac more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Oct. 30 -- Connecticut State Colleges and Universities issued the following news release: Governor Ned Lamont, Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) President Terrence Cheng, and Alphabet's Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat today announced that Connecticut has become the first state in the nation to offer the full suite of Google Career Certificates across its state colleges and universities system, and that the program is now available to all community coll more PR

FARMINGTON, Connecticut, Oct. 30 (TNSPro) -- Tunxis Community College issued the following news release on Oct. 29, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont, Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) President Terrence Cheng, and Alphabet's Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat today announced that Connecticut has become the first state in the nation to offer the full suite of Google Career Certificates across its state colleges and universities system, and that the program is now available to all commu more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Oct. 28 (TNSOps) -- Trinity College issued the following news: In their classrooms, offices, labs, and studios, members of the Trinity College faculty work to advance their fields and educate their students. The Office of the Dean of the Faculty recently shared highlights of the exceptional work by faculty that has been honored by academic and professional organizations. "This is just a small sample of the breadth of our faculty's engaged scholarship, which has been reco more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Oct. 29 (TNSAwa) -- Yale School of Environment issued the following news: * * * Paul Anastas Wins the 2021 Volvo Environment Prize If you know what you're looking for -- examples of green chemistry are everywhere. They can be found on our walls where modern paints reduce toxic chemicals that are released when paint dries, and reduce toxins when paint is removed. They can be found in our medicine cabinets when processes used to make pharmaceutical products are streamlin more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Oct. 29 (TNSAwa) -- Trinity College issued the following news: * * * Tech Writer Kara Swisher Receives 2021 Moses Berkman Memorial Journalism Award Kara Swisher--who Newsweek has called "Silicon Valley's most powerful tech journalist"--recently presented a lecture called "Tech Is So Poor, All It Has Is Money" to the Trinity College community. Swisher was honored as the recipient of the college's 2021 Moses Berkman Memorial Journalism Award, which recognizes the careers  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Oct. 27 (TNSPol) -- Trinity College issued the following news: Trinity College's Women and Gender Resource Action Center (WGRAC) recently hosted a panel discussion on Black girlhood and womanhood as part of the "Breaking the Silence: Amplifying Our Voices" series. Panelists Shanta Lee Gander '01, Taniqua Huguley '15, M'17, Micaela Rufus '23, and Associate Professor of Philosophy Donna-Dale Marcano addressed the idea of "trying to speak woman in woke tongues" and shared th more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Oct. 27 (TNSOps) -- Yale School of Environment issued the following news: The Yale School of the Environment and Yale University are prepared to make a major impact at the upcoming COP26, the annual "conference of the parties" hosted by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, with dozens of Yale students, faculty, and staff taking part in critical decision-making and discussions centered on reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. COP26, taking place in Glasgow, more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Oct. 29 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Environment issued the following news: * * * YSE-led study finds that Indigenous nations across the United States have lost 98.9% of their historical land base; historical land dispossession is associated with current and future climate risk. * * * In a first-of-its-kind study, a team of researchers -- led by Yale School of the Environment Professor Justin Farrell -- attempted to quantify the massive loss of historical lands by Indig more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Oct. 27 (TNSGra) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: A team of researchers--including Yale School of Medicine's Thomas Biederer, PhD, associate professor of neurology, who is the coordinating lead investigator; Elena Gracheva, PhD, associate professor of cellular and molecular physiology and of neuroscience; and Michael Higley, MD, PhD, associate professor of neuroscience--has been awarded funding through the Aligning Science Across Parkinson's (ASAP) i more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Oct. 26 (TNSRes) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Siyuan (Steven) Wang, PhD, assistant professor of genetics and of cell biology, is one of three principal investigators (PIs) who will share a program award that is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund's newly announced Cellular Senescence Network (SenNet) program. The purpose of the effort is to study a rare type of cells, called "senescent" cells, which may have major effects  more PR