MANCHESTER, Connecticut, Jan. 20 (TNSPer) -- Manchester Community College issued the following news release: Manchester Community College Foundation has named three new members to its board of directors. Shay Smith '15, of West Hartford, and Steven Hernandez, Esq., of Manchester, have been elected to serve terms effective December 1, 2021, through June 30, 2023. Adam Webb, of Harford, is the MCC student representative on the board and will serve until he graduates. Smith is employed by the Br more PR

MANCHESTER, Connecticut, Jan. 20 (TNSPer) -- Manchester Community College issued the following news release: Manchester Community College has named Trent "T.J." Barber associate dean of student development and Andrew "Drew" Fraser associate dean of campus operations. Barber, a resident of Manchester, is a graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington and Central Connecticut State University, and he is currently a doctoral student at the University of Dayton. He has spent the past 20 years a more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Jan. 19 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Jan. 18, 2022: Attorney General William Tong today joined a bipartisan coalition of 42 states and territories urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to preserve state authority to enforce their consumer protection laws in connection to the sale of over-the-counter hearing aids. The FDA is currently considering a proposal that would establish for the first time a new category o more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Jan. 20 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Jan. 19, 2022: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that Access Health CT, Connecticut's health insurance exchange, is launching its Broker Academy, a first-of-its-kind program aiming to reduce health disparities and the number of uninsured people in the state. The program will create a pathway to license health insurance brokers by recruiting and building the skillsets of people who live and w more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 22 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Jan. 21, 2022: Governor Ned Lamont and Connecticut Transportation Commissioner Joseph Giulietti today met in New Haven with the newly appointed president and CEO of Amtrak, Stephen Gardner, to discuss the partnership between the state and Amtrak and opportunities to advance rail infrastructure in Connecticut. During the meeting, Governor Lamont reinforced that now is the time to invest in rai more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 -- The Democratic Governors Association issued the following statement on Jan. 19, 2022: * * * Bob Stefanowski announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor of Connecticut, opening up what is likely to be a nasty GOP primary that runs to the far-right. DGA Executive Director Noam Lee released the following statement: "Bob Stefanowski ran his first campaign on a harmful, right-wing agenda that would have bankrupted Connecticut families, and his announc more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 19 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news on Jan. 18, 2022: Two scientists who are pioneering innovators of the imaging technology known as enhanced Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscopy (FIB-SEM) will be coming to Yale School of Medicine. C. Shan Xu, PhD, will join the faculty in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and Song Pang, MS, will lead collaborations using this technology via a FIB-SEM Collaboration Core. "The  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Jan. 20 -- The Connecticut Democratic Party issued the following statement: * * * With Bob Stefanowski entering the race for Governor, Connecticut Democratic Party Chair Nancy DiNardo released the following statement. "Bob Stefanowski is too extreme for Connecticut. His economic plan for our state would have devastated schools, rolled back health care, and laid off health care workers. He has an 'A' rating from the NRA and opposed common sense legislation passed in the  more PR

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, Jan. 19 (TNSRes) -- The University of Tennessee's Institute of Agriculture issued the following news release: * * * Effort To Include Refining the App 'WildType' for Engaging Citizen Scientists * * * The research team of Irene Cobo-Simon and Jill Wegrzyn, of the University of Connecticut, and Margaret Staton, with the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, has been awarded a grant from the Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative (AG2PI) to increase communit more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 21 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Older patients who receive electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for treatment of mood disorders have lower risk of mortality and greater protection against short-term risk of suicide, according to a Yale study. The observational study, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, involved 41,620 inpatients whose average age was 75. Approximately one-quarter of the patients were treated with ECT. Compa more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 21 (TNSRes) -- Yale School of Medicine will host Dean Nancy J. Brown Workshop entitled "Microbiome Research at Yale" on Feb. 1: This workshop will introduce microbiome research across our university. The keynote address will be presented by Wendy Garrett, MD '02, PhD '01, the Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases in the Departments of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and of Molecular Metabolism at the Harvard Chan School of Public Healt more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 20 (TNSJou) -- Yale University issued the following news on Jan. 19, 2021: It took a global pandemic, but the critical role of messenger RNA in all of life's functions has taken center stage in the past year with the successful rollout of mRNA vaccines to combat the SARS-Cov-2 virus. In two new papers published the week of Jan. 17, the lab of Yale's Wendy Gilbert sheds light on how mRNAs are born and how they regulate production of proteins inside of our cells once more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 20 (TNSOps) -- Yale University School of Public Health issued the following news on Jan. 18, 2022: A new COVID-19 community testing program created by the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) SalivaDirect project and the New Haven-based nonprofit Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (IRIS) is providing no-cost testing to Afghan evacuees and other IRIS clients arriving in the city. The "New Home, New Haven" COVID-19 Testing Program was made possible with support fr more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 20 (TNSJou) -- Yale University issued the following news on Jan. 19, 2022: Consolidating farms in low-income countries like India, where the average farm is less than three acres, would significantly boost economic growth and reduce poverty, according to a study coauthored by Yale economist Mark Rosenzweig. The study, forthcoming in the Journal of Political Economy, found that if India consolidated its farms to an average size of 24.5 acres, and used the agricultur more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 20 (TNSJou) -- Yale University School of Public Health issued the following news on Jan. 18, 2022: Masks, physical distancing, good hygiene, and ventilation can help reduce the transmission of COVID-19 in public places. But even when these measures are taken, scientists have sometimes detected SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in indoor settings. Now, Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) researchers have developed a passive air sampler clip that can help a more PR