MANCHESTER, Connecticut, Feb. 18 (TNSAwa) -- Manchester Community College issued the following news release: Manchester Community College bestowed its annual Excellence in Service Award on Information Technology Technician Clayton Church, of Mansfield, and the Excellence in Teaching Award went to Assistant Professor Burcin Calafiore, of Wethersfield. These MCC awards recognize and honor employees who demonstrate excellence as judged by their peers at the college. Nominations are solicited from more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 19 (TNSPer) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Stephen Strittmatter, MD, PhD, will assume the position of chair of the Department of Neuroscience and director of the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience at Yale School of Medicine, effective March 1, 2022. Strittmatter, Vincent Coates Professor of Neurology and professor of neuroscience, joined the faculty in 1993 and has served as interim chair since September 2021. Strittmatter received his MD and h more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 17 (TNSPer) -- Trinity College issued the following news on Feb. 16, 2022: George Suitor, Trinity College's head men's and women's cross country coach and men's and women's track and field coach for the last 30 years, has announced his retirement following the spring 2022 outdoor track and field season. Suitor, the 2008 NESCAC Men's Cross Country Coach of the Year, closes his career as one of the most highly-regarded high school and college coaches in cross country a more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 15 (TNSPer) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Lauren A. Baldassarre, MD, FSCMR, an associate professor of medicine and radiology & biomedical imaging, has been elected to the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) Board of Trustees. She is an executive member of the Women in CMR Section, previously served on the SCMR Education Committee, and is currently on the SCMR Scientific Sessions Program Committee. Additionally, in response to more PR

NEW BRITAIN, Connecticut, Feb. 17 (TNSOps) -- Central Connecticut State University issued the following news release: CCSU will receive nearly $200,000 in grant funds to expand and enhance mental health services and programs available to students. The funds will be awarded through the Connecticut Campus Mental Health Program, established late last year by Governor Ned Lamont's Emergency Education Relief Fund to address ongoing student mental health challenges driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. C more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 16 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Feb. 15, 2022: Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 15 attorneys general in encouraging the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to strengthen the standard for protecting workers from misclassification by their employers as independent contractors -- a designation that can deprive workers of wages earned, core workplace benefits, and the ability to organize. In more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 18 -- The Connecticut Democratic Party issued the following news release on Feb. 17, 2022: The Giffords Law Center's annual Gun Law Scorecard, released today, gives Connecticut an A- for its common-sense gun violence prevention laws, some of the smartest in the nation, many of which were passed in the wake of tragedy at Sandy Hook. While Connecticut made Gabby Giffords' Honor Roll, Bob Stefanowski has also has gotten an "A"...from the NRA. Why? Because Stefanoswki s more PR

WILLIMANTIC, Connecticut, Feb. 17 (TNSOps) -- Eastern Connecticut State University issued the following news: Connecticut icon and best-selling author Wally Lamb will visit Eastern Connecticut State University on March 9 for a lecture titled "Connecticut on My Mind," as well as a reception and book signing. The author of such books as "The Hour I First Believed," "She's Come Undone" and "I Know This Much Is True" will speak in the Concert Hall of the Fine Arts Instructional Center (FAIC) at 5:3 more PR

WILLIMANTIC, Connecticut, Feb. 17 (TNSRes) -- Eastern Connecticut State University issued the following news: Junior biology major Kate Arildsen has been selected as a research intern for the Fulbright Canada Mitacs Globalink Program. The program grants recipients up to $7,800 (Canadian) in funding and enables exceptional undergraduate students from the United States to spend 10-12 weeks at a Canadian university conducting research with a faculty mentor. Arildsen has been matched with Professor more PR

WILLIMANTIC, Connecticut, Feb. 17 (TNSBook) -- Eastern Connecticut State University issued the following news on Feb. 16, 2022: Niloufar Rezai, director of the Child and Family Development Resource Center (CFDRC) at Eastern Connecticut State University, has contributed a chapter in the book "Fast Fierce Women." Edited by Gina Barreca, the book is authored solely by women and tells stories that place women in empowering positions. The contributors of this book stem from a variety of occupations, more PR

MANCHESTER, Connecticut, Feb. 18 (TNSOps) -- Manchester Community College issued the following news release: As the recipient of a more than $145,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant, Manchester Community College will spearhead a project that will create a digital reader of art history essays authored largely by scholars who identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color). The essays will feature global historical perspectives, as well as the art and histories of trad more PR

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Feb. 11 -- The Pennsylvania Democratic Party issued the following news: This was definitely a week to forget for Connecticut hedge fund executive David McCormick, who continued to come under attack for his record on China and trade. See below for a review of McCormick's terrible week. * Philadelphia Inquirer, David McCormick's Longtime Praise For China And Trade Could Bite His PA. Senate Run: "As he courts Donald Trump's endorsement, McCormick's past statements and hi more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 16 -- The Connecticut Department of Education issued the following statement on Feb. 15, 2022: * * * The Connecticut Department of Public Health and the Connecticut State Department of Education today announced that they are in the process of providing public health guidance for Connecticut's schools in response to decreasing levels of COVID-19 in the state and in advance of the planned Feb. 28 elimination of the statewide school mask requirement. On Feb. 28, the d more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 17 (TNSJou) -- Trinity College issued the following news: A research paper about women of color in politics by Annika Davies '21, M'22, Blythe Young Hastings '23, and Professor of Political Science Stefanie Chambers is scheduled to be published this spring in 1619: Journal of African American Studies. The online peer-reviewed journal--a publication of the African American Studies Program at Central Connecticut State University, a part of the Connecticut State College more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 16 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Environment issued the following news: Shifting to electric vehicles in the future will reduce emissions due to less burning of gasoline in internal combustion engines. But a significant share of this benefit will continue to be offset without complementary policies designed to lower emissions from the sources of electricity that come online to meet additional demand. That's the finding of a new study co-authored by Yale School of the E more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 16 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Environment issued the following news: * * * With the origins of the COVID-19 spurring conversations around the consumption and trade of wild animals from the global South, Yale researchers are taking a closer look to understand the role of "bushmeat" to create a more balanced narrative. * * * As debates have raged on throughout the COVID-19 pandemic -- from lockdowns, to mask mandates, to vaccinations -- experts have sought to pinpo more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 19 (TNSOps) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Eric P. Winer, MD, Yale Cancer Center Director and Physician-in-Chief of Smilow Cancer Hospital, is pleased to announce further investment in our Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program with a $1.5 million commitment to the program. This will ensure an even steeper trajectory for the Fellowship Program with new programmatic development and individual support for our fellows to pursue educational opport more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 17 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Inflammation and autoimmune diseases - including multiple sclerosis (MS)--often go hand in hand. While this may be unsurprising, given that inflammation is an integral part of physiology that seeks to protect the body after deviations from its normal state, such as those created by injury or infection, excessive inflammation is problematic. For patients with MS and other autoimmune diseases, inflammat more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 14 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: A new study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine, McGill University, and New York University has found that people from racial and ethnic minoritized backgrounds have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic despite being more likely to engage in health and safety precautions than their white counterparts. The study, published February 9 in JAMA Psychiatry, was co-authored by Sa more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 14 (TNSRes) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: The origins and evolutionary path of SARS-CoV-2 and the lingering effects of long COVID-19 are two mysteries that have puzzled scientists since the onset of the pandemic. In an effort to shed light on COVID-19 and its complications, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has provided $10 million to HHMI Investigators at Yale, an HHMI host institution. The funding supports collaborative research pr more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 17 (TNSRes) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news on Feb. 16, 2022: Robin Masheb, PhD, professor of psychiatry and director of the Veterans Initiative for Eating and Weight (The VIEW), has received a medical research program award grant from the Department of Defense (DoD) for a new clinical trial, Building an Equitable and Accessible System of Eating Disorder Care for VA, DoD, and Underrepresented Americans with Eating Disorders (EASED Study). Parti more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 14 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: * * * COVID Booster Goes to the Nasal Cavity, Where It Will Be Most Effective * * * As the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 continues to mutate, it presents new roadblocks to efforts to contain its spread. A Yale research team led by Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, Waldemar von Zedtwitz Professor of Immunobiology and professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology and of epidemiology (microbial dis more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 14 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: A new study led by researchers at Yale Cancer Center and the University of Maryland Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center shows ixabepilone plus bevacizumab (IXA+BEV) is a well-tolerated, effective combination for treatment of platinum/taxane-resistant ovarian cancer compared to ixabepilone (IXA) alone. The data shows it also may significantly extend both progression-free survival and overall surviva more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 17 (TNSJou) -- Yale University issued the following news on Feb. 16, 2022: Tubulinopathies are a group of rare developmental and degenerative diseases that primarily affect the nervous system. While research has linked genetic mutations with these diseases, it's less clear how these mutations specifically affect cells and trigger dysfunctions. In a new study, Yale scientists identify one particular genetic mutation that impairs brain cells. They also reveal the cel more PR