NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 31 (TNSAwa) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Made possible by a generous gift from the Obstler Family Fund, the first Yale Child Study Center (YCSC) Trainee Pilot Research Awards were announced on March 16, 2022. YCSC trainees in the Albert J. Solnit integrated training program and psychology, social work, and postdoctoral fellowships were invited to apply for the first round of these awards in late 2021. Recipients and their proposal titles ar more PR

MANCHESTER, Connecticut, March 29 (TNSPer) -- Manchester Community College Foundation issued the following news release: Manchester Community College Foundation has named two new members to its board of directors. Peter Schauster, of Manchester, and Marlon Taffe, of Collinsville, were elected as directors serving through June 30, 2023. Schauster is president of Empire Industries, Inc., a family-owned pipe hanger and support manufacturer. Previously he served as the company's national sales ma more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 30 (TNSAwa) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Philip Corlett, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, has been named recipient of the 2022 Outstanding Translational Research Award by the Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS). The award will be presented at the 2022 SIRS Congress in Florence, Italy, on April 6-10. It honors a scientist for an outstanding translational research contribution to schizophrenia research. The contributi more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 30 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on March 29, 2022: Attorney General William Tong and U.S. Attorney Leonard C. Boyle today announced a $601,759 civil settlement with American Medical Response of Connecticut resolving allegations that the ambulance service overbilled the Connecticut Medicaid program. A joint state and federal investigation found that between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2019 AMR-CT billed the stat more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 29 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on March 28, 2022: Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 19 attorneys general urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to ensure that buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) lenders are not engaging in practices that trap consumers in a cycle of debt. BNPL loans are a form of point-of-sale financing that allow consumers to divide the cost of purchases into multiple i more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 31 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on March 30, 2022: Attorney General William Tong today joined a bipartisan coalition of 44 attorneys general urging TikTok and Snapchat to give parents the ability to monitor their children's social media usage and protect their children from online threats using parental control apps. "Our kids are spending hours a day on these platforms, and as parents we cannot be looking over our  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 30 -- Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection issued the following news release: The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), is resuming its remote non-resident parking fee system at some state parks beginning Friday, April 1st, and will resume in-person non-resident parking fee collection at several state parks beginning Memorial Day Weekend. The remote non-resident parking fee system, piloted at a small number o more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, April 2 (TNStalk) -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following statement on March 31, 2022: * * * Governor Ned Lamont today released the following statement regarding the decision by Connecticut Supreme Court Associate Justice Christine E. Keller to take senior status effective April 1, 2022: "Justice Keller has served Connecticut's courts with dignity and professionalism for more than three decades. "Throughout her career, she has authored hundreds of opin more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, April 2 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on April 1, 2022: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that pursuant to the ratification of the agreement his administration reached on the 35 collectively bargained contracts with the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC), his administration has transmitted the contracts and accompanying details to the Connecticut General Assembly for its consideration. "I want to thank our partners more PR

WASHINGTON, March 31 (TNSAwa) -- George Washington University issued the following news on March 30, 2022: United States Senator Chris Murphy, Connecticut's junior senator, on Wednesday received the George Washington University's Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication's (IPDGC) annual Walter Roberts Award for Congressional Leadership in Public Diplomacy. William Youmans, director of GW's Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication, also announced a $5000 grant from  more PR

NEW BRITAIN, Connecticut, March 29 (TNSfund) -- Central Connecticut State University issued the following news release: A recent grant award received by Central Connecticut State University will help to preserve some of the university's most colorful history in the Connecticut Digital Archive The Elihu Burritt Library at CCSU received a $10,000 grant from CT Humanities to create a digital collection of artwork and murals by Professor Emeritus Mike Alewitz and his students. The collection will more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 1 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: When pathogens invade a human host, they need maximum ability to move through the body as they navigate adverse environments and cause infection. Their ability to drill themselves through gel-like surroundings is often made possible through the rotation of a squiggly, tail-like machine known as the flagellum. How bacteria move around, survive, and cause infection in the body has fascinated scientists more PR

HAMDEN, Connecticut, April 1 (TNSRes) -- Quinnipiac University Poll has issued the following news release on March 30, 2022: More than a month after Russia invaded Ukraine, inflation eclipses the war in Ukraine as the nation's most urgent issue. Americans say inflation (30 percent) is the most urgent issue facing the country today, followed by Russia's invasion of Ukraine (14 percent), and then immigration (9 percent), according to a Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pea-ack) University national poll of adul more PR

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, March 31 -- The Pennsylvania Democratic Party issued the following news on March 30, 2022: During this morning's GOP forum in Erie, Connecticut hedge fund executive David McCormick voiced his support for making the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent, which disproportionately benefit the uber wealthy (aka McCormick) and large corporations while threatening cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Pennsylvania Democratic Party spokesperson Jack Doyle issues the following statem more PR

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, March 30 -- The Pennsylvania Democratic Party issued the following news on March 29, 2022: Tomorrow at 9 AM the GOP Senate field, including New Jersey daytime TV host Mehmet Oz and Connecticut hedge fund executive David McCormick, will participate in a forum sponsored by the Manufacturer and Business Association in Erie. The forum will be aired on PCN. This will be the first time the two carpetbagger candidates have shared a stage in public, despite spending the prima more PR

MAHWAH, New Jersey, March 31 (TNSconf) -- Ramapo College issued the following news release: On April 25 at 7 p.m., Avinoam Patt, the Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies and Director, Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at the University of Connecticut, will discuss his new book, The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw: The Afterlife of the Revolt, published last year by Wayne State University Press. He will be in conversation with Mia Serban, Ph.D., professor of Law and Soc more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 29 (TNSconf) -- Trinity College issued the following news: Trinity College Professor of English Sheila Fisher will deliver the annual Shirley G. Wassong Memorial Lecture in European and American Art, Culture, and History at Trinity College on Monday, April 25. Titled "Within Opposing Cells: Questions of Women, Confinement, and Self-Expression," Fisher's lecture will take place in McCook Auditorium at 4:30 p.m. and also will be live-streamed here (https://vimeo.com more PR

FARMINGTON, Connecticut, April 1 -- Tunxis Community College issued the following news release: Tunxis Community College has donated $4,300 to International Rescue Committee to aid in Ukraine relief efforts in Poland, supporting the many refugees forced to leave the country following Russia's invasion. "I am grateful to our community for their generous donations, which will make a big difference in supporting the many individuals who have been affected by this crisis," said Tunxis Campus CEO D more PR

WEST HAVEN, Connecticut, April 1 -- The University of New Haven issued the following news: Prof. Anthony Goodfellow is a DJ, composer, and producer who enjoys creating and discovering new electronic music. He hopes his show on WNHU, the University's award-winning radio station, will introduce his audience to new music and inspire them to share their own mixes. Anthony Goodfellow became interested in music when he was 14 years old. At the time, he says, "something just clicked." He is now shari more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 31 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Overlooked in the U.S., the bacterial infection Leptospirosis is emerging as a global public health threat in temperate and tropical regions impacted by heavy rains and hurricanes. The most prevalent zoonotic disease in the world, Leptospirosis causes a wide range of symptoms that can be mistaken for other diseases. As with another zoonotic disease, Sars-CoV-2, some people with the infection may have more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 29 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Yale researchers have further elucidated the mechanism of metformin, a widely used type 2 diabetes medication that, despite its long history of being safe and effective, works in a way that has remained elusive to scientists. On March 1, Gerald Shulman, MD, PhD, George R. Cowgill Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology) and professor of cellular and molecular physiology, published his lab's findings on more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 31 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Efforts to mitigate the potentially harmful effects of fracking have traditionally been divided along two fronts - those that primarily focus on protecting the environment and wildlife, and those that focus on protecting humans and domestic animals. But it doesn't have to be that way. In a March 30 commentary in Bioscience, a trio of public health experts, ecologists and environmental scientists urg more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 1 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: A multi-institutional team including Yale School of Medicine (YSM) has demonstrated the ability to use ultrasound to stimulate specific neurometabolic pathways in the body to prevent or reverse the onset of type 2 diabetes in three different preclinical models. The team, which includes the lab of Raimund Herzog, MD, MHS, at YSM, reported its findings in Nature Biomedical Engineering. The team of inve more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 1 (TNSfund) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Eunice Yuen, MD, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, was recently awarded a grant from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). Dr. Yuen is a recipient of the 2022 AACAP Advocacy and Collaboration Grant, in collaboration with Afifa Adiba, MD, associate service chief of the adolescent mood disorder unit at Sheppard Pratt, along with the New Haven more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 24 (TNSJou) -- Yale University West campus issued the following news: Scientists at Yale's Microbial Sciences Institute have taken an important step in our understanding of how infection alters proteins in a way that promotes tumor growth. A hallmark of cancer-causing infections is oxidative stress, which occurs when our cells come into contact with oxygen-containing molecules called reactive oxygen species (or ROS) that can damage DNA and proteins inside cells.  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 29 (TNSBook) -- Yale University issued the following news: Consciousness, the distinctive quality that allows humans to perceive the world, sometimes gets in the way of people trying to comprehend the ecosystems in which they live -- a paradox that hinders our ability to live sustainably, argues Michael Dove, the Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology in the Yale School of the Environment (YSE). Overcoming the "curse of consciousness" requires escaping con more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 31 (TNSJou) -- Yale University issued the following news: This month, Insights & Outcomes launches into spring with a penetrating look at the evolution of arm muscles, the regulation of the body's T cell receptors, attitudes about alcoholism among problem drinkers, and the possible path forward with COVID-19. As always, you can find more science and medicine research news on Yale News' Science & Technology and Health & Medicine pages. A little T cell TLC The abi more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 31 (TNSRes) -- Yale University issued the following news: Yale's Wu Tsai Institute (WTI) will welcome this spring its first cohort of postdoctoral fellows, six scholars chosen carefully for their interest in interdisciplinary research into the mind and brain and their commitment to inclusive research environments. The postdoc program embodies everything the new institute aims to do: bring together researchers from different fields and perspectives to develop a dee more PR