NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 2 (TNSPer) -- Yale University issued the following news on March 1, 2022: Alison Gilchrest, who for over a decade has led national and international initiatives to promote collaboration in the field of cultural heritage conservation, has been appointed as the new director of Yale's Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH), effective today. The appointment was announced by Susan Gibbons, vice provost for collections & scholarly communication and ch more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 5 (TNSPer) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Noah Capurso, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, has been appointed to a new role as director of didactic education for the Yale Psychiatry Residency Program. Capurso will oversee the design, integration, coordination, and implementation of the didactic curriculum across the four years of the residency. This includes ensuring that the goals and objectives, content, pedagogy, and balance of topics more PR

NEW BRITAIN, Connecticut, March 3 (TNSPer) -- Central Connecticut State University issued the following news release: Two CCSU alumni, Christopher Griffin '07 and Ramona Mercado-Espinoza '83, are among Governor Ned Lamont's latest nominees to the Connecticut Superior Court. This is the second class of Superior Court nominations made by Lamont since he took office in 2019, and they have been forwarded to the Connecticut General Assembly for consideration. Griffin is currently the deputy assista more PR

WORCESTER, Massachusetts, March 4 (TNSOps) -- College of the Holy Cross issued the following news on March 3, 2022: Longtime Holy Cross supporters Elizabeth "Liz" and Robert J. "Bob" McKay '55 are donating $11 million to the College -- including one of the largest estate bequest commitments in its history -- to support financial aid-endowed scholarships, emergency funding for students in financial distress and access to experiential learning. The couple is furthering their support for the exis more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 3 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on March 2, 2022: Attorney General William Tong today announced a nationwide investigation into TikTok for providing and promoting its social media platform to children and young adults while use is associated with physical and mental health harms. Attorneys general nationwide are examining whether the company violated state consumer protection laws that put the public at risk. Attorne more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 4 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on March 3, 2022: Attorney General William Tong announced today Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family will pay $6 billion to victims, survivors, and states for their role in the opioid epidemic--40 percent more than the previously vacated settlement appealed by Connecticut. As part of the agreement, the Sackler family must apologize and allow institutions to remove the Sackler name from more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 3 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General Tong urges all Connecticut residents who believe they were impacted by the data breach announced by T-Mobile in August 2021 to take appropriate steps to protect their information from identity theft. On August 17th, T-Mobile reported a massive data breach compromising the sensitive personal information of millions of current, former, and prospective T-Mobile customers more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 1 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong as part of a bipartisan coalition of 43 attorneys general has called on the Federal Trade Commission to adopt a national rule to target impersonation scams. A comment letter from the attorneys general raises concerns about the plethora of impersonation scams targeting consumers and the current lack of a national rule to outlaw these fraudulent acts and pr more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 3 -- The Connecticut Department of Education issued the following statement: * * * Commissioner Charlene M. Russell-Tucker released the following statement in response to the Connecticut General Assembly's vote to confirm her nomination to serve as Commissioner of Education: "After many years in the Connecticut State Department of Education, it is an honor to continue to serve Connecticut's beautifully diverse student body, school staff and families. "From my st more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 1 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Feb. 28, 2022: Governor Ned Lamont today held a news conference in New Haven to highlight his recent economic development mission to Israel that he participated in with representatives from Connecticut's public and private sectors. The visit focused on building and strengthening connections between the state and members of Israel's innovation ecosystem, which included key meetings with venture more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 28 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following statement: * * * Governor Ned Lamont released the following statement regarding today's announcement that President Joe Biden is nominating Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court: "In nominating Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court, President Biden has selected an outstanding jurist to succeed Justice Steven Breyer. "As a current federal appellate j more PR

WILLIMANTIC, Connecticut, March 5 (TNSOps) -- Eastern Connecticut State University issued the following news: Two faculty members from the Department of History at Eastern Connecticut State University provided historical context on the war in Ukraine in a flash talk presentation on March 2. Professor Scott Moore specializes in European History and Professor Caitlin Carenen specializes in American foreign policy --two areas directly connected to the developing conflict between Russia and Ukraine more PR

GREENWICH, Connecticut, March 4 -- Holland and Knight, a law firm, issued the following news release: Holland & Knight is advising global investment firm Alinda Capital Partners on its acquisition of the Kansas City assets of Consolidated Communications Enterprise Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNSL), a nationwide internet service provider and telecommunications company. The all-cash transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2022. Alinda is among the world's most successful investors  more PR

MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut, March 3 (TNSPro) -- Middlesex Community College issued the following news: Middlesex Community College acquired a synthetic human anatomy model to enhance laboratory and online educational experiences for students enrolled in forensic sciences, anatomy and biological sciences courses. "The college is excited to offer state-of-the-art technology to our students, allowing them to attain a unique understanding of human anatomy during online course sections and videos, as  more PR

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, March 3 -- The Pennsylvania Democratic Party issued the following news on March 2, 2022: Last night President Joe Biden received a standing ovation during his State of the Union address for his promise to buy American, providing a boon to hard working Americans. This contrasts starkly with Connecticut hedge fund manager David McCormick, who has spent his career opposing buy American provisions. While McCormick opposed provisions aimed at helping American workers, his  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 4 -- Trinity College issued the following news: Visiting Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Law Matthew A. Weiner has been nominated by Governor Ned Lamont to become a judge on the Connecticut Superior Court. Weiner currently serves as a prosecutor in the Chief State's Attorney's Office, where he has spent the last nine years in the Appellate Bureau. He represents the State of Connecticut in criminal appeals before the Connecticut Supreme Court, the Connectic more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 2 (TNSRep) -- Yale School of Environment issued the following news: The Yale Center for Business and the Environment's just-released study of 2,035 global business students found students increasingly believe that business leaders and the private sector should play a vital role in addressing environmental sustainability and social issues. The survey, Rising Leaders on Social and Environmental Sustainability (https://cbey.yale.edu/research/rising-leaders-on-social- more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 3 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Environment issued the following news: Considerable research has been conducted on the growth of urban population, but very little is known about why urban land areas expand. In a recent paper, a YSE-led research team investigated how population and economic growth in 300 cities affects urban land expansion. Global urban populations are rapidly rising and will continue to rise in the coming decades -- 2.5 billion more people in the nex more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 4 (TNSJou) (TNSPer) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Yale School of Public Health and Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS) faculty member Dr. Fan Li has been invited to serve on the editorial boards for the journal Implementation Science and its companion journal, Implementation Science Communications. Dr. Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health and is th more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 1 (TNSRes) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: The Office of Health Equity Research (OHER) at Yale School of Medicine has announced the five winners of its first annual OHER Award for Yale Research Excellence. OHER was established in 2020 to promote health equity research efforts within the Yale community, at a time when COVID-19 has laid bare many health inequities that still exist in the United States. OHER is dedicated to having long-overdue co more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 2 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: * * * Metformin has a long record of being safe and effective, but nobody knew how it works. * * * Physicians have used the drug metformin to treat type 2 diabetes for more than half a century, but despite its prevalence, researchers have lacked a clear understanding of how it works. Now, Yale researchers have elucidated the mechanism behind metformin and related type 2 diabetes drugs, and debunked more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 4 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Maintaining independence is one of the top priorities that older patients have after major surgeries. But while geriatricians often assist surgeons in managing surgical patients, there is a current lack of evidence supporting co-management models that improve outcomes post-procedure. To help develop effective, evidence-based co-management strategies, a team of Yale researchers including Thomas Gill,  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 26 (TNSRes) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: The Yale Translational Research Imaging Center (Y-TRIC) is upgrading to a novel interventional cardiology ultrasound system. The Epiq CVxi by Philips -- which includes 2D and 3D transthoracic, transesophageal, and high frequency vascular imaging probes, an abdominal probe, and non-imaging Doppler probes -- will support several R01-funded research projects and a T32 training program. Albert J. Sinusas more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 3 (TNSRes) -- Yale University issued the following news: Researchers at Yale and Caltech have a bold new theory to explain how Earth transformed itself from a fiery, carbon-clouded ball of rocks into a planet capable of sustaining life. The theory covers Earth's earliest years and involves "weird" rocks that interacted with seawater in just the right way to nudge biological matter into existence. "This period is the most enigmatic time in Earth history," said Jun more PR