NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 25 (TNSawa) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Amber Childs, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, has been selected as an awardee for a Yale New Haven Health (YNHHS) Innovation Award. Childs who was selected as a finalist among a group of competitive applications, delivered a five-minute focused pitch to a panel of investors and strategists for M-Select, a digital tool that assists providers with standardized behavioral health measurements to  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 27 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2022: Attorney General William Tong announced today that Connecticut has joined 34 other states in settling allegations of kickbacks paid to referring providers against Essilor International, Essilor of America Inc., Essilor Laboratories of America Inc., and Essilor Instruments USA (Essilor), headquartered in Dallas. Essilor manufactures, markets, and distributes optical len more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 26 -- The Connecticut Department of Education issued the following news release: The Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) is releasing results from the 2021-22 state assessments/i. They show that there are some signs of learning acceleration and recovery, however, overall student achievement still lags pre-pandemic levels. The Performance Index/ii - the best measure of overall average achievement in a content area - shows that while achievement was incre more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 26 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Aug. 25, 2022: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that the Connecticut Department of Revenue Services this week began issuing rebates to qualified households as part of the 2022 Connecticut Child Tax Rebate program. The state agency anticipates that most of the rebates will be mailed by the end of this week, and recipients should begin receiving them over the next several days. Created as pa more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 27 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2022: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he has received notification from U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Thomas J. Vilsack that New London and Windham counties have been designed by the federal agency as primary natural disaster areas due to the recent drought. Additionally, Hartford, Middlesex, and Tolland counties have been designated as contiguous counties under the declarati more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- The Democratic Governors Association issued the following news: 11 weeks out from Election Day, Bob Stefanowski's campaign is in shambles, with the Connecticut Mirror reporting that in just a three-week span, Stefanowski's campaign manager, senior advisor, and TV consultant have all left his campaign. In a statement, Stefanowski's senior advisor cited "strategic differences" as her reason for leaving -- but "neither candidate nor consultant cared to articulate those diff more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 16 (TNSper) -- Yale University issued the following news: Rachel Fine, the executive director and CEO of the Los Angeles-based Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (The Wallis), has been named executive director at Yale Schwarzman Center (YSC), Yale University's first-ever center for student life and the arts. The Yale Schwarzman Center, which opened its doors in September 2021, is dedicated to cultural programming and student life at the center of the u more PR

BLOOMINGTON, Indiana, Aug. 25 (TNSjou) -- Indiana University issued the following news release: Do you have a secret stash of chocolates that you keep from your partner, or do you intentionally keep your spouse from knowing about something you bought on Amazon? New research indicates that small but commonly hidden actions such as these may be good for the relationship. In the first known study of the emotional, behavioral and relational aspects of secret consumer behavior, researchers at the I more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 25 -- The Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs issued the following news release: With the risk of wildland fires increasing due to below average precipitation across the state, Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Beth Card today declared that the Cape Cod Region will join the Connecticut River Valley, Southeast, Northeast, and Central Regions as a Level 3-Critical Drought. Additionally, the Islands and Western Regions will  more PR

ALBANY, New York, Aug. 26 -- Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-New York, issued the following news release on Aug. 25, 2022: Governor Kathy Hochul today announced Maine and Rhode Island have signed on to a New York-led multi-state agreement, joining with Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey to develop a proposal to become one of at least four regional clean hydrogen hubs designated through the federal Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs program included in the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 26 (TNSper) -- Trinity College issued the following news: Fourteen tenure-track faculty members began new appointments at Trinity College on July 1, 2022, bringing with them a variety of research interests and expertise. According to Dean of the Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs Sonia Cardenas, eight of these new faculty members were hired through the college's Special Opportunity Hiring (SOH) initiative, which was launched last year to help increase fa more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 23 (TNSres) -- Trinity College issued the following news: Two Trinity students conducted research with Trinity Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Sally Bernardina Seraphin this summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Shirin Dadina '24 and Anastasia Hanifin '23 assisted with projects including breeding red eyed tree frogs in a lab and extracting frog mRNA. Seraphin invited the students to join her at the MBL--a private, nonprofit ins more PR

WEST HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 23 (TNSres) -- The University of New Haven issued the following news: * * * Mackenzie Pavlik '23 and Abby Veeser '23 M.S. are working together on important research that focuses on drug testing, and they've already shared myriad exciting learning opportunities in the laboratory. * * * By Renee Chmiel Mackenzie Pavlik '23 has always been interested in science, and she enjoys learning why and how processes occur. She hopes to use her passion for science - forensi more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 26 (TNSjou) -- Yale University issued the following news on Aug. 25, 2022: What makes the human brain distinct from that of all other animals -- including even our closest primate relatives? In an analysis of cell types in the prefrontal cortex of four primate species, Yale researchers identified species-specific -- particularly human-specific -- features, they report Aug. 25 in the journal Science. And they found that what makes us human may also makes us suscepti more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 26 (TNSres) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: As the number of confirmed monkeypox cases in the United States climbs, the need to contain the virus is clear. But what will it take to bring the outbreak under control? A new study from the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) sets specific targets for containment and offers multiple strategies for limiting the spread of monkeypox using basic public-health tools of community detection, contact traci more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 23 (TNSres) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Dawn Chamberlaine had one reaction when she learned of the Legacy Tissue Donation Program that Harry Sanchez, MD, and Marcello DiStasio Jr., MD, PhD, are establishing through Yale Pathology for use by cancer researchers. "Let me be the first to sign up," said Dawn, a two-time lung cancer survivor and member of the Patient and Family Advisory Council at Smilow Cancer Hospital. "If you can learn more a more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 23 (TNSres) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: In recognition of his exceptional commitment to the field of transplantation and outstanding service to the American Society of Transplantation (AST), William Asch, MD/PhD, associate professor of medicine (nephrology) and surgery, and director of the Transplant Nephrology Fellowship at Yale School of Medicine (YSM), was recently selected as an AST fellow. "It is an honor to be recognized as a fellow  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 25 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: An experimental cancer drug with a favorable safety profile shows promise as a treatment for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), according to a study published on August 23, 2022 in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine by Yale School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, and National Jewish researchers. The drug, saracatinib, works as well or better than current FDA-approved treatments  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 27 (TNSawa) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: How do you provide care for a nearly unreachable population? Sandra A. Springer, MD has always known addiction and HIV care need to be integrated to provide the best care. Unfortunately, those facing the most barriers are "always forgotten," according to Springer. Poverty, housing instability, justice involvement, racial stigmatization, and lack of transportation make it difficult for providers to re more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 24 (TNSper) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Stephanie Yarnell-Mac Grory, MD, PhD, assistant clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, has joined global healthcare company Sanofi's accelerated leadership program, the Future Leader in Motion Program, in Medical/Research and Development within the Vaccines Division. Yarnell-Mac Grory said the role is the "perfect culmination" of her PhD in immunology and micro more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 25 (TNSjou) -- Yale University issued the following news: Machine learning has helped scientists understand how the brain gives rise to complex human characteristics, uncovering patterns of brain activity that are related to behaviors like working memory, traits like impulsivity, and disorders like depression. And with these tools, scientists can create models of these relationships that can then be used, in theory, to make predictions about the behavior and health  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 26 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Environment issued the following news: * * * A multi-scale lifecycle assessment conducted by Prof. Yuan Yao and researchers from the Center for Industrial Ecology explains how eco-friendly uses for urban tree waste could substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions in U.S. cities. * * * Cities are defined, by most, by their built environment: towering buildings, miles of roads and sidewalks, modes of transportation, and public utili more PR