HARTFORD, Connecticut, Jan. 24 (TNSPer) -- The Connecticut Democratic Party issued the following news release: Sarah Locke, who has served as U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro's campaign manager, has been named Executive Director of the Connecticut Democrats, helping steer the state party through upcoming election season, Chairman Nancy DiNardo announced today. Locke, who has worked for more than a decade in campaign managing and community organizing, will run the day-to-day operations of the party and a more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 26 (TNSPer) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Mark A. Lemmon, PhD, FRS, David A. Sackler Professor of Pharmacology, professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, and co-director of the Cancer Biology Institute, has been appointed deputy director of Yale Cancer Center, effective February 1. Lemmon joined Yale Cancer Center in 2015 to bring the concept of the Cancer Biology Institute on Yale West Campus to reality. He has assembled a team of more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 29 (TNSAwa) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Susan Crowley, MD, MBA, was awarded the National Kidney Foundation's (NKF) highest honor, the David M. Hume Memorial Award. This award is given to the scientist-clinician whose work in kidney and urologic diseases exemplifies the highest ideals of both scholarship and humanism. "I was completely humbled by this announcement, and was, quite frankly, at a loss for words. Dr. Hume was a world renown sur more PR

FRESNO, California, Jan. 27 (TNSOps) -- California State University's Fresno Campus issued the following news release: The American Association of State Colleges and Universities selected 15 institutions, including Fresno State, to participate in the recently launched Transformation Accelerator Cohort. The program, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is designed to help institutions eliminate race, ethnicity and income as predictors of student success. The inaugural cohort - selecte more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Jan. 27 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong praised the nomination today of Vanessa Avery to serve as United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut. Vanessa Avery currently serves as the Associate Attorney General for Enforcement, Litigation and Investigations in the Connecticut Office of the Attorney General. The nomination is subject to confirmation by the United States Senate. "Vanessa  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Jan. 28 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Jan. 27, 2022: Attorney General William Tong today marked a key milestone in bringing billions of dollars in much-needed resources to communities across the country via the $26 billion opioid agreement with the nation's three major pharmaceutical distributors - Cardinal, McKesson, and AmerisourceBergen - and Johnson & Johnson over the companies' role in creating and fueling the natio more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Jan. 27 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement on Jan. 26, 2022: * * * Attorney General William Tong released the following statement today after the U.S. District Court of Minnesota dismissed WinRed's lawsuit trying to prevent Connecticut and three other states from investigating WinRed's business practices. "We initiated our investigation into WinRed to protect consumers, regardless of their political affiliation, from deceptive an more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Jan. 26 -- The Connecticut Democratic Party issued the following statement: * * * Connecticut Democratic Party Chair Nancy DiNardo on Bob Stefanowski's first ad of the Republican primary campaign. "Here's what Bob Stefanowski left out of his first ad. He's a candidate who is against the existence of the minimum wage altogether, has an "A" rating from the NRA and opposed commonsense gun legislation passed in the wake of Sandy Hook, and opposes legislation like paid famil more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Jan. 28 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Jan. 27, 2022: Governor Ned Lamont and Attorney General William Tong today announced that they will seek legislative approval for a historic investment in educational opportunities for Hartford students that will end more than 30 years of litigation and court oversight in the Sheff v. O'Neill case. The agreement will require presentation first to the Connecticut Superior Court for preliminary more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Jan. 29 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Jan. 28, 2022: Governor Ned Lamont today announced the launch of a website for the recently formed Connecticut Hate Crimes Advisory Council. Located at portal.ct.gov/hatecrimes, the website provides state residents with information regarding the group, which was created as a result of legislation that Governor Lamont signed into law last year. "This recently formed council consists of a diver more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Jan. 25 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Governor Ned Lamont, Waterbury Mayor Neil O'Leary, and Naugatuck Mayor N. Warren "Pete" Hess today announced that Bluewater Property Group has been selected as part of a joint collaboration between the state and local governments to develop a plan that will turn the Waterbury/Naugatuck Industrial Park into a state-of-the-art distribution facility with the potential to create up to a thousand new more PR

WILLIMANTIC, Connecticut, Jan. 29 (TNSOps) -- Eastern Connecticut State University issued the following news: Eastern Connecticut State University's Health Sciences Department has received a $75,000 John M. Biancamano Client Grant from the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority (CHEFA) to purchase medical simulation equipment. The state-of-the-art equipment will enhance the department's Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Program and the development of the new Paramedic Science  more PR

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Jan. 28 -- The Pennsylvania Democratic Party issued the following news on Jan. 28, 2022: Today President Joe Biden is coming to Pittsburgh to tout the benefits of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, including the recently announced Bridge Formula Program, which will bring $327M for bridge funding in Pennsylvania in FY2022 alone and $1.6B over the next five years. Despite the important benefits the program brings to Pennsylvania, the GOP Senate field, including Connecti more PR

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Jan. 26 -- The Pennsylvania Democratic Party issued the following news: Connecticut hedge fund executive David McCormick's campaign has been defined by attacks from members of his own party focused on his ties to China and record of outsourcing Pennsylvania jobs. That is sure to only get worse now that McCormick is holding an event with election conspiracy theorist Ted Cruz, who has spent his time in the Senate voting against measures that would hold China accountable more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 27 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Environment issued the following news: World leaders are taking new steps to advance restoration and conservation efforts around the world, such as the global call to action by the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration and the recent promise by100 nations at COP26 to end deforestation by 2030. But interventions that ignore underlying equity and justice issues fail to address root causes of degradation and decline, a new paper co-authored b more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 28 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Environment issued the following news: * * * In a paper published in the American Journal of Public Health, YSE authors Michelle Bell and Leo Goldsmith '20 MEM lay out the case for a more inclusive environmental justice movement for the LGBTQ+ community, who are disproportionately affected by environmental exposures. * * * Discrimination of the LGBTQ+ community in the United States is well documented, though the public discourse tend more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 28 (TNSRes) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: One in 44 children living in the United States is diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) --a condition that can present with a diverse range of challenges, especially relating to social communication. While ASD is well-studied, scientists' knowledge of the biology behind the disorder is still limited. To improve the scientific basis for understanding ASD, James McPartland, PhD, professor in  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 27 (TNSJou) -- Yale University School of Public Health issued the following news on Jan. 26, 2022: A five-day course of antibiotics for children with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is just as effective as, and actually better than, the standard 10-day treatment, as it could help reduce side effects and limit antibiotic resistance. That's according to a new study co-authored by a professor at the Yale School of Public Health. Published in JAMA Pediatrics, the st more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 28 (TNSJou) -- Yale University issued the following news on Jan. 27, 2022: A new Yale study found that child care programs in the United States that practiced child masking early in the COVID-19 pandemic (May-June 2020) experienced a 13% reduction in program closure within the following year, and continued child masking throughout the one-year study period was associated with a 14% reduction in program closure. The first-of-its-kind study of child masking, publishe more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 27 (TNSOps) -- Yale University issued the following news on Jan. 26, 2022: Two Yale faculty members, Donald Engelman and Debra Fischer, have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society. Engelman is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS); Fischer is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy in FAS. The  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 26 (TNSJou) -- Yale University issued the following news on Jan. 25, 2022: The brain has its own housekeeping service, a sophisticated mechanism that cleans up debris that is left over from cellular activity. But scientists have had a hard time figuring out exactly how the brain knows when to initiate this cellular "trash pickup." A Yale-led team of scientists has identified a protein that is key to this process, which is known as autophagy. That protein, ATG-9, cl more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 28 (TNSJou) -- Yale University issued the following news on Jan. 27, 2022: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, or COPD, is the third leading cause of death worldwide. Yet despite its prevalence, the disease is not well understood on a cellular level. New Yale research has provided an unprecedented atlas of the cells in the COPD-afflicted lung, identifying those cells and pathways that may contribute to the reduced lung function and inflammation characteristic of  more PR