NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Dec. 18 (TNSPer) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Tariq Ahmad, MD, MPH, has been appointed director of the Yale Heart Failure Program. Ahmad is an associate professor of medicine who joined the Yale faculty in 2015. He completed his internal medicine training at Brigham and Women's Hospital during which he also received an MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He trained in general cardiology, advanced heart failure, and clinical  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Dec. 15 (TNSPer) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Rajesh R. Tampi, MD, professor adjunct of psychiatry, has been named chair of psychiatry at Creighton University School of Medicine and CHI Behavioral Health Services in Omaha, Neb. Tampi had been chief of geriatric psychiatry and chair of psychiatry at Cleveland Clinic Akron General Hospital. His first day in his new position will be Jan. 1, 2022. He is past-president of the American Association fo more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Dec. 18 (TNSAwa) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) has awarded Maria Crouch, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry, with its 2021 Underrepresented Scholars Membership Award. The award is intended to provide an avenue for membership and organizational involvement for talented scholars from around the world who identify as Black and/or Indigenous professionals. Five awar more PR

OAKLAND, California, Dec. 18 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on Dec. 16, 2021: California Attorney General Rob Bonta today applauded a district court decision to reverse a New York bankruptcy court's confirmation of Purdue Pharma's bankruptcy reorganization plan. Today's decision was the result of appeals filed by California, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, the District of Columbia, the United States Trustee, more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Dec. 17 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Dec. 16, 2021: Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 23 attorneys general, led by California and New York, in an amicus brief in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in Texas v. United States. In the amicus brief filed before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the coalition highlights the critical contributions of hundreds of tho more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Dec. 17 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement: * * * Attorney General William Tong released the following statement in response to the U.S. District Court ruling this evening vacating the Purdue bankruptcy order that granted unprecedented lifetime legal immunity to the Sackler family. "This is a seismic victory for justice and accountability that will re-open the deeply flawed Purdue bankruptcy and force the Sackler family to confro more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Dec. 18 -- The Connecticut Department of Education issued the following news release: The Connecticut State Department of Education, East Hartford Public Schools, and the University of Saint Joseph gathered to celebrate their collective efforts to recruit and train the next generation of educators in the state under the Educators Rising and NextGen programs. These efforts assisted Connecticut in exceeding the State Board of Education's 5-year goal for increasing diversity more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Dec. 15 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Dec. 14, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that a multi-faceted proposal to strengthen Connecticut's offshore wind industry has been awarded $500,000 in round one planning funds from the American Rescue Plan Act's Build Back Better Regional Challenge through the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA). A coalition - led by Southeastern Connecticut Enter more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Dec. 15 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Dec. 14, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont today marked the one-year anniversary of the introduction of the COVID-19 vaccine by thanking the thousands of dedicated healthcare workers across Connecticut. The State of Connecticut administered its first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine at Hartford Hospital one year ago today on December 14, 2020. Since that time, more than 5.8 million doses of the vaccine  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Dec. 14 -- Connecticut State Colleges and Universities issued the following news release: Students, faculty, and staff at the four Connecticut State Universities can now have more of their interlibrary loan (ILL) requests for articles fulfilled with a significantly decreased processing time. The libraries of Central Connecticut State University, Eastern Connecticut State University, Southern Connecticut State University, and Western Connecticut State University have part more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Dec. 15 -- Connecticut State Colleges and Universities issued the following joint news release on Dec. 14, 2021: The Connecticut State Colleges & Universities (CSCU) and the Connecticut Department of Aging and Disability Services today announced the launch of the Digital Accessibility Specialist training program at Western Connecticut State University (WCSU). The innovative program is designed to provide career opportunities for individuals with disabilities who are eithe more PR

WILLIMANTIC, Connecticut, Dec. 15 (TNSOps) -- Eastern Connecticut State University issued the following news: Terrence Cheng, president of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) system, came to Eastern Connecticut State University on Dec. 2 for a series of meetings with campus stakeholders. The five groups he met with included students, faculty, staff, executive administrators and members of the ECSU Foundation Board of Directors. Cheng began his presidency in July 2021, immedi more PR

ALBANY, New York, Dec. 16 -- Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-New York, issued the following news release on Dec. 15, 2021: Governor Kathy Hochul today announced that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has approved a design-build contract for the Penn Station Access Project, which will provide direct Metro-North service from the Bronx, Westchester and Connecticut to Penn Station and Manhattan's west side. Penn Station Access will drastically reduce travel times for people who live and work in  more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 14 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: Governor Dan McKee last Friday met with health professionals from Rhode Island's medical community, representatives of the state's small business community, our large employers and members of his whole of government COVID response team. Additionally, Governor McKee and members of his staff spoke with their counterparts in New York and Connecticut. Early this week, Governor McKee will b more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Dec. 16 -- Trinity College issued the following Q&A with Sally Bernardina Seraphin, assistant professor of neuroscience: Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Sally Bernardina Seraphin is a primate behavioral neuroscientist who joined the Trinity faculty in 2020 and was appointed to a tenure-track position in 2021. "I am also a Haitian-American, and I immigrated here as a child," she said. "The combination of being a primate behavioral neuroscientist and a Haitian-American  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Dec. 17 (TNSOps) -- Trinity College issued the following news: Members of the Trinity College community recently attended the Connecticut Forum's "Creative Minds" program, which launched the 30th anniversary season of the Forum. The panelists for the talk included: Nick Offerman, actor, writer, humorist, and woodworker; Jeff Tweedy, Grammy Award-winning musician, frontman of the band Wilco, and author; and Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U.S. Poet L more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Dec. 15 (TNSOps) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a $3 million grant to the University of Rhode Island and the University of Connecticut to build on the successes of their joint Naval Science and Technology (Navy STEM) coalition to address engineering workforce needs in the naval sector. Established in 2017 with a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research, the UConn and URI Navy STEM  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Dec. 14 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Yale researchers, led by Gustavo A. Angarita, MD, assistant professor of clinical psychiatry, have published a paper in Addiction Biology that explores whether synaptic density in the brain is altered in cocaine use disorder. "We believe that our findings of altered synaptic density are exciting and provide intriguing suggestive translational support for a compelling preclinical hypothesis of cocaine more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Dec. 18 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Why do 80 to 90% of people infected with COVID-19 experience only mild cases while 10 to 20% face more severe or life-threatening symptoms? Researchers in the lab of Yale's Richard Flavell decided to pose this question to a mouse, or rather to mice they have engineered to possess human-like immune systems. These "humanized mice" revealed that the causes of severe COVID may lie in our own antiviral i more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Dec. 9 (TNSRes) -- Yale University issued the following news: In the past decade, immunotherapy has helped save the lives of many cancer patients, many with lung cancer, who might have otherwise faced almost certain death sentences. However, only about 20% of patients who received immune therapies, designed to enhance or override natural limitations on immune system response, saw sustained benefits from the treatment. In a new study, Yale scientists identify crucial way more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Dec. 15 (TNSJou) -- Yale University issued the following news on Dec. 13, 2021: Yale scientists say Earth's ancient oceans likely were much saltier than they are today -- a finding that may spice up our understanding of how life, atmosphere, and climate evolved on the planet. In a new study, Yale professor of Earth & planetary sciences Jun Korenaga and graduate student Meng Guo suggest that for the first 500 million years of Earth's existence, its oceans may have contai more PR