NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Nov. 19 (TNSPer) -- Yale School of Environment issued the following news: Robert Javonillo has been named the new assistant dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion starting Nov. 22. He wanted to come to Yale, he says, because of his environmental roots and a keen interest in diversity work. Growing up on near the ocean, Robert Javonillo decided early on what he was going to be. His father was in the Navy and his family moved many times but always near a shore. Growing  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Nov. 19 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Nov. 18, 2021: Attorney General William Tong today announced a nationwide investigation into Meta Platforms, Inc., formerly known as Facebook, for providing and promoting its social media platform - Instagram - to children and young adults despite knowing that such use is associated with physical and mental health harms. Attorneys general across the country are examining whether the  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Nov. 16 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Nov. 15, 2021: Attorney General William Tong today joined a bipartisan coalition of 29 attorneys general led by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson, calling on Congress to pass the Military Justice Improvement and Increasing Prevention Act of 2021. The legislation, which has strong bipartisan support, would reshape the manner in which the more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Nov. 17 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong this week wrote the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in support of its efforts to reduce illegal robocallers' access to legitimate phone numbers to make unending robocalls that scam people out of their hard-earned money. "Caller ID technology has successfully blocked billions of spam robocalls, but billions more are still making it through undetect more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Nov. 18 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Nov. 17, 2021: Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 19 attorneys general from around the nation in urging the U.S. Senate's Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee to strengthen public health and environmental protections against "forever chemicals." These chemicals -- a class of highly toxic chemical compounds known as poly- and per-fluoroalkyl substances ( more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Nov. 17 (TNSRep) -- The Connecticut Department of Education issued the following news release: Code.org, the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance, released the 2021 State of Computer Science Education: Accelerating Action Through Advocacy. Published annually, the report provides the most comprehensive analysis of national progress in computer science education, featuring national and state-level policy and i more PR

MANSFIELD, Pennsylvania, Nov. 16 (TNSOps) -- Mansfield University issued the following news: Mansfield, Bloomsburg, and Lock Haven Universities of Pennsylvania were among 15 institutions selected by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) to participate in the newly launched Transformation Accelerator Cohort (TAC). The program, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is designed to help institutions eliminate race, ethnicity, and income as predictors of studen more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 -- McDermott Will and Emery, a law firm, issued the following news release on Nov. 15, 2021: International law firm McDermott Will & Emery represented Gemspring Capital Management, LLC, a Connecticut-based private equity firm, in its majority interest acquisition of AINS, a leading global provider of cloud-based, adaptive case management platforms and solutions for government and commercial markets. * The transaction was announced on November 8, 2021. * McDermott acted as  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Nov. 17 (TNSGra) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Two Yale Department of Psychiatry researchers have been awarded a $2 million grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research to conduct the first clinical trial of ketamine to treat depression in people with Parkinson's disease. Sophie E. Holmes, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, and Gerard Sanacora, MD, PhD, George D. and Esther S. Gross Professor of Psychiatry, more PR

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, Nov. 20 -- Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minnesota, issued the following news on Nov. 18, 2021: Governor Tim Walz today joined U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, White House American Rescue Plan Coordinator and Senior Advisor to the President Gene Sperling, Governor Janet Mills of Maine, Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Governor Ned Lamont of Connecticut, and other senior White House officials to discuss plans to more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Nov. 17 (TNSGra) -- Trinity College issued the following news: Two Trinity College faculty members from different academic disciplines are teaming up to work on a new research project studying cell signaling, thanks to a three-year grant of $293,514 awarded by the National Science Foundation. Associate Professor of Chemistry Michelle Kovarik is the principal investigator (PI) for the project, titled "RUI: Microelectrophoretic and Statistical Tools for Studies of Kinase-  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Nov. 19 (TNSPer) -- Trinity College issued the following news: Representing some of Trinity's most accomplished students, this year's cohort of President's Fellows is a diverse group of 32 scholars, each of whom has compiled an exemplary academic record in their years at the college. In the fall semester, each department or program is invited to nominate a senior who demonstrates outstanding achievement within their major, along with evidence of wide-ranging intellectual more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Nov. 17 (TNSGra) -- Trinity College issued the following news: Trinity College students Suzanne Carpe Elias '22 and Kathryn Russell '22 have each been awarded a grant from the TriBeta National Biological Honor Society that will support laboratory research work for their senior honors theses in biology. Research Associate Professor Terri A. Williams said, "TriBeta is a national honor society for biology with more than 625 chapters throughout the country. It has an annual  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Nov. 20 (TNSPer) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Julie Goodwin, MD has been named section chief of pediatric nephrology effective November 16, 2021. Dr. Goodwin is associate professor of pediatric nephrology, fellowship program director, and has served as the interim section chief of pediatric nephrology since 2019. Dr. Goodwin is chosen after completing an extensive national search for the next leader of the program. Dr. Goodwin received her medic more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Nov. 20 (TNSJou) -- Yale University issued the following news on Nov. 17, 2021: Yale University researchers have developed a novel vaccine that in guinea pigs offers protection against infection by the bacterium that causes Lyme disease and may also combat other tick-borne diseases, they report Nov. 17 in the journal Science Translational Medicine. Instead of triggering an immune response against a particular pathogen, the new vaccine prompts a quick response in the ski more PR