NEWARK, New Jersey, Jan. 11 (TNSPer) -- Duane Morris, a law firm, issued the following news release on Jan. 10, 2022: Duane Morris LLP has appointed David A. Sussman managing partner of its Newark, New Jersey, office. Sussman succeeds Greg Haworth, who served in that role since 2017, and will be maintaining his practice with the firm. "As the firm continues on its exciting growth trajectory in the New York metro region, our Newark office is of strategic importance. We are excited that David wi more PR

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Jan. 13 (TNSPer) -- Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs issued the following news: Political scientist Layna Mosley joins Brett Ashley Leeds of Rice University to serve as co-editor-in-chief of International Organization (IO), a leading peer-reviewed journal covering the field of international affairs. They will begin their five-year term on July 1, 2022. Mosley is professor of politics and international affairs at the Princeton School of Pu more PR

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Jan. 12 (TNSPer) -- Princeton University issued the following news: Lianne Sullivan-Crowley, who has worked at Princeton since 2005, will step down as vice president for human resources at the end of this academic year. She will continue to serve in a special projects role for one year before retiring from the University. During her more than 15 years leading the Office of Human Resources, Sullivan-Crowley has fostered a work environment that enables staff to contribute more PR

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Jan. 13 (TNSPer) -- Rutgers University issued the following news: By Patti Verbanas Danielle Dick, an internationally recognized and award-winning expert on genetic and environmental influences on human behavior, has been appointed as the inaugural director of the Rutgers Addiction Research Center (RuARC) at the Rutgers Brain Health Institute. Dick also will be the Greg Brown Endowed Chair in Neuroscience and Cell Biology and a tenured professor in the department of more PR

FREEHOLD, New Jersey, Jan. 11 (TNSPer) -- CentraState Healthcare System issued the following news on Jan. 10, 2022: CentraState announced today its 2022-2023 Board of Trustee officers as well as the appointment of three new board members from Atlantic Health System, as part of the recent partnership between the two organizations. John M. Cantalupo will serve as chair, Kenneth J. Reilly as vice chair, and Nadia Batchelor as secretary/treasurer. As part of the newly formed partnership with Centr more PR

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Jan. 12 (TNSAwa) -- Princeton University issued the following news: Mathematical physicist Elliott Lieb has been selected to receive the 2022 APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research for "major contributions to theoretical physics through obtaining exact solutions to important physical problems, which have impacted condensed matter physics, quantum information, statistical mechanics and atomic physics." "Physics is a big enterprise with many people doing various more PR

LAWRENCEVILLE, New Jersey, Jan. 13 (TNSAwa) -- Rider University issued the following news release: Senior Anna Fredeen, a dance science major, was selected as the recipient of this year's Choreography Connection Award from Regional Dance America, a nonprofit dedicated to elevating the future of dance in America. The award will create an opportunity for Fredeen to have an original dance piece commissioned by a professional company. "I grew up going to dance competitions and conventions where more PR

LAWRENCEVILLE, New Jersey, Jan. 15 (TNSAwa) -- Rider University issued the following news release: Rider's student-run radio stations, 107.7 The Bronc and 107.7 The Bronc Retro, were nominated for six Intercollegiate Broadcast System Media Awards. The awards recognize outstanding programming from college and university radio stations throughout the U.S. Nominations included: * Best use of social media: Kayla May, senior marketing major and social media director for 107.7 The Bronc * Best spo more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Jan. 13 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following joint news release on Jan. 12, 2022: Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, alongside New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, New York Governor Kathy Hochul, and Liz Shuler, President of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, announced today that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold a wind auction next month for more than 480,000 acres offshore New York and New Jer more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Jan. 13 -- The New Jersey Department of Education issued the following news release on Jan. 12, 2022: The New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) today announced the release of resources to assist school districts with incorporating equity, diversity and inclusion in the curriculum. The NJDOE's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Educational Resources website provides a compilation of approximately 140 resources from national and state education organizations, government,  more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Jan. 13 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release: Governor Phil Murphy and State Treasurer Elizabeth Maher Muoio praised the decision by Kroll Bond Rating Agency to upgrade the outlook for New Jersey's general obligation bonds from stable to positive. In a report issued yesterday, Kroll stated its outlook upgrade "reflects the robust recovery of the State's financial picture since the early days of the pandemic and ample liquidity which have pos more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Jan. 12 (TNSPer) -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on Jan. 11, 2022: As the 220th New Jersey Legislature begins, Governor Phil Murphy today announced his intention to renominate Rachel Wainer Apter to the New Jersey Supreme Court to fill the vacant seat of Associate Justice Jaynee LaVecchia, who retired on December 31 of last year. "Since first nominating Rachel Wainer Apter to the New Jersey Supreme Court last year, I have only grown mo more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Jan. 12 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on Jan. 11, 2022: Governor Murphy today applauded the confirmation of seven Superior Court judges. The Senate yesterday confirmed Joanne Cocchiola, Lori Grifa, MeLinda Hawkins Taylor, Heather V. Taylor, Linda Hynes, Jill S. Mayer, and Aldo Russo to the Essex, Burlington, and Camden vicinages. "This highly-qualified group of judges will make substantial contributions to our state's judiciary for de more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Jan. 12 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on Jan. 11, 2022: Governor Phil Murphy today reinstated a Public Health Emergency, effective immediately, in order to ensure that the State is able to respond to the continued threat of COVID-19 and the rapidly spreading Omicron variant. Executive Order No. 280 declares a Public Health Emergency and restates the existing State of Emergency across all 21 counties in New Jersey, allowing state agenci more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Jan. 12 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on Jan. 11, 2022: Governor Phil Murphy today renominated current Secretary of State Tahesha Way to continue in her role for his second term. Per the New Jersey Constitution, the Secretary of State must be formally nominated each gubernatorial term. The Secretary's renomination will now go to the Senate for confirmation. "Tahesha has done an exemplary job as our Secretary of State since 2018, and I more PR

TEANECK, New Jersey, Jan. 14 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release: Governor Phil Murphy, alongside Lieutenant Governor Sheila Oliver, former Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg, Senate President Nicholas Scutari, former Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle, and Alexis McGill Johnson, President of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, and many other legislative sponsors and advocates, today signed the historic Freedom of Reproductive Choice Act (S49/A6260), whi more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Jan. 14 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on Jan. 13, 2022: Governor Murphy yesterday signed legislation (A-6258/S-4309) that appropriates a total of $5,150,531 from the "Securing Our Children's Future Bond Act" to provide grants for school security projects in New Jersey school districts. The funding will be allocated to the installation of silent panic alarms to alert law enforcement during an emergency as required by Alyssa's Law, as we more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Jan. 14 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on Jan. 12, 2022: Governor Phil Murphy today signed legislation (S-4094/A-6070) which bolsters the New Jersey Film & Digital Media Tax Credit Program through expanded digital media production tax credits and other improvements. The program, which was first signed into law by Governor Murphy in July 2018, and first expanded in January 2020, has made New Jersey a national film and television producti more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Jan. 11 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on Jan. 10, 2022: Governor Phil Murphy today signed legislation (A-5727/S-3726) which requires school security drills to be age-appropriate and to prevent unnecessary traumatization of schoolchildren. Among other requirements, the legislation prohibits the use of fake blood, real or prop firearms, or the simulations of gun shots or explosions in school security drills. The legislation, which Govern more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Jan. 11 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on Jan. 10, 2022: Governor Murphy today signed legislation (S-3319/A-5507) that eliminates certain juvenile justice fines, fees, costs, and other monetary penalties. The legislation acts to improve the juvenile justice system by eliminating unnecessary costs. "Eliminating these fees will contribute towards breaking the cycle of poverty that often stems from historically biased institutions," said  more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Jan. 11 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on Jan. 10, 2022: Governor Murphy today signed into law S3416, which codifies marriage equality in New Jersey law by providing that all laws concerning marriage and civil union are to be read with gender neutral intent. Marriage equality currently exists in New Jersey based on state and federal Court decisions. This new law demonstrates the Governor and Legislature's commitment to protecting marria more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Jan. 11 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on Jan. 10, 2022: Governor Murphy today signed the Motorbus and Passenger Rail Service Employee Violence Prevention Act (S4701) to create new tools for protecting transit workers throughout the state. In addition to upgrading the penalty for all assaults on a motorbus or autobus operator, an operator's supervisor, or a rail passenger employee, the bill enables NJ TRANSIT and other carriers to suspe more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Jan. 13 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release: Governor Murphy signed the following bills into law: S-4139/A-6155 (Vitale, Madden/Conaway, Stanley, Mukherji) - Extends temporary emergency licensure of certain health care professionals S-4161wGR/A-6113 (Beach/Stanley) - Removes requirement for promulgation by Governor of national census A-6148/S-4221 (Karabinchak, Mukherji, Swain/Beach, Greenstein, Gopal) - Appropriates $37,174,636.71 from " more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Jan. 15 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release: Governor Murphy signed the following bills into law: S-83/A-1580 (Bateman, Codey/Houghtaling, McKeon, Downey) - Establishes "Jersey Native Plants Program" S-523/A-1112 (Vitale, Cryan/Murphy, Dancer, Stanley) - Enters New Jersey into Interstate Medical Licensure Compact S-749/A-2464 (Gopal, Cruz-Perez/Benson, Murphy, Jimenez) - Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income ta more PR

HAMILTON, New Jersey, Jan. 10 (TNSPol) -- The New Jersey Charter Schools Association issued the following news release: The health and safety of our educators, students and families is our number one priority. We call on the Legislature and the Governor to extend the mask mandate in our public schools as an effective, preventive measure to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Since the pandemic began, public charter schools have led the way, providing in-person instruction to families and pivoting t more PR

ALBANY, New York, Jan. 14 -- Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-New York, issued the following news release on Jan. 13, 2022: Governor Kathy Hochul today announced that New York State is joining California and New Jersey in calling on the federal government to prioritize additional rental relief funding for high tenant states that have exhausted their initial federal allocation. Today, Governor Hochul, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, California Governor Gavin Newsom, and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker sent more PR

ALBANY, New York, Jan. 13 -- Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-New York, issued the following joint news release on Jan. 12, 2022: Governor Kathy Hochul today in conjunction with United States Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler announced that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will be holding a wind auction on February 23 for an area consisting of 488,000 acres located in the New York Bight, along with a plan for a coordinated of more PR

CAMDEN, New Jersey, Jan. 15 -- New Jersey American Water, a water and wastewater company, issued the following news release: New Jersey American Water has filed a petition with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) for new rates based on the significant investment the company has made or will make into its water and wastewater infrastructure since its last rate case. "Since our last rate case, we have invested or will invest more than $985 million in infrastructure upgrades, including more PR

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Jan. 12 (TNSRes) -- Princeton University issued the following news: * * * Green technology holds the promise of significantly reducing carbon emissions and helping humanity to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. But without buy-in from individuals and groups -- whether it's building new habits and routines to conserve energy or galvanizing support to enact policies that will enable the transition to cleaner tech -- progress is likely to occur far more slowly than  more PR

MAHWAH, New Jersey, Jan. 13 (TNSOps) -- Ramapo College issued the following news release: On February 2 at 7 p.m. Avraham Groll, executive director of JewishGen-The Global Home for Jewish Genealogy, will be in conversation about "Using JewishGen to Research Your Roots - Including Holocaust Related Information" with Jerry Zaks, a retired technology expert, who has done just that. The program will take place under the auspices of The Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and will be del more PR

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Jan. 12 (TNSJou) -- Rutgers University issued the following news on Jan. 11, 2022: By Emily Everson Layden Rutgers researchers have unearthed the earliest definitive evidence of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) in ancient Iraq, challenging our understanding of humanity's earliest agricultural practices. Their findings appear in the journal Scientific Reports. "Overall, the presence of millet in ancient Iraq during this earlier time period challenges the accepted more PR

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Jan. 12 (TNSJou) -- Rutgers University issued the following news: * * * The study was the first to examine the impact that phthalates have on the placental corticotropin releasing hormone, which plays an important role in labor * * * By Michelle Edelstein Exposure to phthalates--a group of chemicals found in everything from plastics to personal care products to electronics--may disrupt an important hormone needed to sustain a healthy pregnancy, according to a Rutg more PR

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Jan. 11 (TNSJou) -- Rutgers University issued the following news: LGBTQ+ individuals who are younger, Black non-Hispanic and white non-Hispanic, gay cisgender men, individuals with lower education levels, HIV-positive, and living with over two other individuals experienced higher rates of job loss. COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted employment for minority populations resulting in higher unemployment rates and healthcare concerns, according to a Rutgers study.  more PR

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Jan. 15 (TNSJou) -- Rutgers University issued the following news on Jan. 14, 2022: * * * By John Cramer Addressing one of the most profoundly unanswered questions in biology, a Rutgers-led team has discovered the structures of proteins that may be responsible for the origins of life in the primordial soup of ancient Earth. The study appears in the journal Science Advances. The researchers explored how primitive life may have originated on our planet from simple, n more PR

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Jan. 12 (TNSRep) -- Rutgers University issued the following news: * * * Men are overrepresented and portrayed in a more positive light than women in linguistics textbooks * * * Gender bias has not changed in more than 20 years even by language experts who are aware of the potential dangers of such prejudices, according to a study coauthored by Rutgers University-New Brunswick that examined textbooks used to teach undergraduates studying the scientific structure of  more PR

GALLOWAY, New Jersey, Jan. 12 (TNSOps) -- Stockton University issued the following news: A team of assessors from the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police (NJSACOP) will examine all aspects of the Stockton University Police Department policies and procedures on Tuesday and Wednesday Feb. 8 and 9. "Verification by the team that the Stockton University Police Department meets the Commission's "best practice" standards is part of a voluntary process to achieve accreditation, a highly  more PR

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Jan. 11 (TNSPar) -- Stevens Institute of Technology issued the following news release: In her lab at Stevens Institute of Technology, Weina Meng has no problem whipping up a small batch ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) in a mortar mixer. But thanks to a new partnership with the New Jersey Department of Transportation, Meng is going bigger. "The 'scale-up' step is essential," Meng said. "As researchers, we always want our research outcomes to be implemented on a grand more PR

GALLOWAY, New Jersey, Jan. 14 (TNSOps) -- Stockton University issued the following news: New Jersey undergraduate college students with at least 60 college credits have a new opportunity to earn an affordable bachelor's degree at Stockton University through the new Garden State Guarantee program. The Garden State Guarantee (GSG) builds on Gov. Phil Murphy's commitment to improving college affordability. New Jersey resident undergraduate students enrolled full-time with at least 60 college cred more PR

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Jan. 14 (TNSRes) -- Princeton University issued the following news: A major international project based at Princeton to digitize a "lost archive" from an 18th-century convent and two faculty book projects have received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in a round of grants to humanities projects nationwide announced on Jan. 11. Christina Lee, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton, and Cristina Martinez-Juan, researc more PR

WAYNE, New Jersey, Jan. 14 (TNSPar) -- William Paterson University issued the following news release: William Paterson University and the Hamilton Township High Schools have initiated a new dual enrollment program to offer eligible students access to intermediate-level courses in Spanish and give them a jump-start on earning college credits while in high school. Currently, 29 students from Hamilton Township's three high schools--Steinert, Nottingham, and Hamilton West--are enrolled in dual enr more PR