NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 16 (TNSres) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * Yale's Roy Lederman, Lidya Tarhan, and Jing Yan have received 2023 Sloan Research Fellowships, which recognize outstanding early-career scientists and scholars. * * * Three members of the Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences have received 2023 Sloan Research Fellowships, a prestigious award that recognizes early-career scientists and scholars who have potential to make important contributions to their f more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 17 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong responded today to a draft decision by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) rejecting Eversource-owned Aquarion's $36 million rate hike. The requested rate hike would have increased water rates by more than 30 percent over three years for 236,000 Aquarion customers across 72 cities and towns in Connecticut. PURA's draft decision instead orders more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 17 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Feb. 16, 2023: Attorney General William Tong today urged support for legislation empowering the Office of the Attorney General to recover state funds from seriously deficient long term care facilities causing harm to patients. While the Department of Public Health has enforcement authority over violations of state and federal law concerning care of residents in long term care facili more PR

NEW BRITAIN, Connecticut, Feb. 17 (TNSpar) -- Central Connecticut State University issued the following news release: CCSU recently joined the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU), an organization committed to serving and connecting urban and metropolitan universities and their partners. "At CCSU, we recognize that being centered in the urban environment of New Britain, we have a responsibility to engage with and continue to collaborate with our neighbors," said Beth Merenst more PR

NEW BRITAIN, Connecticut, Feb. 17 (TNSper) -- Central Connecticut State University issued the following news release: Former State Representative Edwin Vargas Jr. of Hartford will serve as the next Governor William A. O'Neill Endowed Chair in Public Policy and Practical Politics at CCSU. Vargas's appointment follows a national search by the University, and he will begin his tenure at CCSU on Friday, Feb. 24. He will succeed former State Senator and State Commissioner Donald J. DeFronzo, who he more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 14 -- Coalition Greenwich issued the following news release: Institutional investors are not letting the dramatic shift in interest rates and the macroeconomic environment dampen their enthusiasm for private credit. Driven by a combination of investor interest and companies' need to seek alternative funding, global private credit grew more than six fold since the global financial crisis, surpassing $1.3 trillion in 2022. However, soaring yields and worries about a d more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 18 -- The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection issued the following statement on Feb. 17, 2023: * * * The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection ("DEEP") has a statewide air quality monitoring network in place that constantly monitors the air we breathe and a practice of issuing air quality alerts if we have reason to believe our air quality will be impaired. We have been tracking potential air quality impacts to Conn more PR

WILLIMANTIC, Connecticut, Feb. 14 (TNSres) -- Eastern Connecticut State University issued the following news on Feb. 13, 2023: Two Eastern Connecticut State University professors of psychology contributed to an upcoming book, "Early Psychological Research Contributions from Women of Color, Volume 1," being published by Routledge. The text, which highlights 20 different women of color who served as pioneers of psychology, explores the contributions that are often erased and whitewashed from hist more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 14 -- Eversource Energy, a provider of electricity and natural gas, issued the following news: In recognition of its continued commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) in the workplace, Eversource now ranks as the top utility in both of As You Sow's most recent scorecards tracking the 1,000 largest publicly traded companies' steps to increase transparency and accountability on the path to justice. As the top utility in both the racial justice and workplac more PR

LOS ANGELES, California, Feb. 16 -- EVgo Services, a charging public network for electric vehicles, issued the following news release: EVgo Inc. (NASDAQ: EVGO), one of the nation's largest public fast charging networks for electric vehicles (EVs), today announced that EVgo Advantage(TM) is now available at select Cumberland Farms and Wawa locations in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and Florida. As a proprietary coupon technology, EVgo Advantage sends EV d more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 16 -- Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, issued the following news release on Feb. 15, 2023: Gartner, Inc. has announced the winners of its Power of the Profession Supply Chain Awards. The awards showcase powerful supply chain initiatives that enhance communities and the environment while delivering results that benefit businesses, communities, stakeholders and customers. Gartner presents awards in four categories: customer or patient  more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 16 (TNSres) -- Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, issued the following news release on Feb. 15, 2023: * * * CFOs Are Targeting Resources at Functions That Drive Top Line Growth * * * CFOs who are planning significant shifts in function budgets for 2023 have listed sales, corporate IT and supply chain as the most likely to get increases this year, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. "CFOs remain cautious about their 2023 outlook a more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 16 (TNSres) -- Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, issued the following news release on Feb. 15, 2023: * * * Facing Uncertainty, CSOs Will Invest in Sales Enablement to Adapt to Dynamic Buying Landscape * * * Sales enablement budgets will increase by 50% within the next five years as a way to address shifting buyer preferences, boost seller effectiveness and drive revenue growth, according to Gartner, Inc. "Sales enablement is the mo more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 15 -- Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, issued the following news release: CFOs have ambitious plans to reach a state of autonomous finance within the next three to six years that will require a significant reshaping of finance team structures to achieve, according to Gartner, Inc. "Most finance leaders, including many CFOs, are ill-equipped to identify and address the rapidly evolving digital skills needed in finance," said Shannon C more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 15 -- Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, issued the following news release: By 2026, Gartner, Inc. predicts customer service functions that implement the "connected rep" will improve contact center efficiency by 30%. The connected rep is a strategy that enables customer service reps (CSRs) to perform high-quality assisted service at scale. It bridges technology and talent, using context, guidance, and design to reduce rep effort and in more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 17 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Feb. 16, 2023: Governor Ned Lamont today held a news conference in Bridgeport to announce that the fiscal year 2024-2025 biennial budget proposal and his package of 2023 policy proposals that he presented to the General Assembly last week includes several areas of support to increase access to affordable and workforce housing throughout Connecticut. "Last year, we built more market rate and a more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 16 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Feb. 15, 2023: Governor Ned Lamont today held a news conference in Hartford to announce that the fiscal year 2024-2025 biennial budget proposal that he presented to the General Assembly last week includes several initiatives using a mix of state and federal resources to expand access to childcare services in Connecticut. The governor is proposing to increase funding for Care 4 Kids - the stat more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 16 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following statement on Feb. 15, 2023: * * * Governor Ned Lamont today released the following statement regarding the historic level of state funding for UConn that is included in his budget proposal: "Our budget proposal includes the largest block grant ever proposed for UConn in state history. I am a strong believer in UConn's contributions to the economic growth of Connecticut, and that is why I've proposed increas more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 16 -- Greenwich Associates, a provider of global market intelligence and advisory services, issued the following news release: Just as they start moving on from pandemic-era shutdowns, U.S. small businesses are now facing fears of a possible economic recession in 2023. At this challenging moment, small businesses are looking for banks with the right mix of digital innovation and traditional high-touch human service. To some extent, small businesses' disillusionment  more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 15 (TNSres) -- Greenwich Associates, a provider of global market intelligence and advisory services, issued the following news release: Financial advisors in the U.S. are ramping up their spending on technology with "digital natives" making up an increasing portion of their target customer base. More than half of financial advisors in a recent Coalition Greenwich study expect to invest in financial planning technology in the next 12 months and almost as many plan to more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 17 -- Greenwich Associates, a provider of global market intelligence and advisory services, issued the following news release: Concerns about an economic downturn have made middle market companies more conservative when managing their banking relationships. Over the past six months, perceptions of the biggest U.S. commercial banks have started to close the competitive gap to Super Regional and Community providers. These gains likely reflect two trends. First, in det more PR

GREENWICH, Connecticut, Feb. 17 (TNSper)-- Interactive Brokers Group, an automated global electronic broker, issued the following news release on Feb. 16, 2023: Interactive Brokers (Nasdaq: IBKR), an automated global electronic broker, announced its appointment as the primary international broker for Sinopac Securities today. Institutional and retail clients of Sinopac can trade US stocks, ETFs, and Fixed Income instruments while also accessing over 90 stock markets worldwide through Interactiv more PR

MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut, Feb. 16 (TNSsel) -- Middlesex Community College issued the following news: The Connecticut Open Educational Resources Coordinating Council released their 2022 legislative report which names Middlesex Community College among the top 10 state colleges with students enrolled in the OER state-funded grant program. According to the council's website, the program was implemented in 2019 "to strategically support Connecticut higher education institutions' efforts to increase  more PR

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Feb. 18 -- Polsinelli, a law firm, issued the following news release: Polsinelli congratulates its client Avridh Technologies, Inc. d/b/a Peer Robotics (https://www.peerrobotics.ai/), an exciting new mobile robotics solution transforming manufacturing, in its $2.3 million Series Seed financing. The financing was led by Kalaari Capital with participation from Connecticut Innovations, Axilor, Innopact VC, and angels such as Anuj Bihani and Manoj Yadav. More information ab more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 18 (TNSjou) -- Trinity College issued the following news on Feb. 17, 2023: Stunning images of bison and bears living among vacant concrete apartment buildings in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone a few years ago illustrated a wildlife response to the departure of humans. About a day's flight south, in Borneo, a Trinity College researcher studied the behavior of another prized animal in its habitat to illustrate the impact of humans and nature on wildlife. "It was exciti more PR

HAMDEN, Connecticut, Feb. 17 (TNSres) -- Quinnipiac University Poll has issued the following news release on Feb. 16, 2023: Given a list of 14 names of Republicans who either have said they are running for president in 2024 or are seen as potential candidates in a Republican primary, former President Donald Trump receives 42 percent of the vote among Republican and Republican leaning voters followed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis who receives 36 percent, according to a Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pea more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 15 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Delirium is a transient but serious condition that complicates as many as one in five hospitalizations, and those living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are especially at risk. Limiting the use of neurocognitively active medications (NCAMs) and consumption of alcohol can help mitigate this risk, new research shows. In the recently published study, a team led by Kathleen Akgun, MD, associate p more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 14 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: According to a national registry, half of Medicare patients who underwent a procedure for symptom relief as it relates to lower extremity peripheral vascular disease did not receive the recommended medical therapy for long-term cardiovascular risk management. First author Kim G. Smolderen, PhD, MSc, and senior author Carlos Mena-Hurtado, MD, co-directors of the vascular medicine outcomes group at Yal more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 17 (TNSres) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * An international research team that includes Yale scientists has released a stunning new image of the region of space known as Pandora's Cluster. * * * Say cheese, Pandora. An international team of astronomers, including researchers from Yale, has unveiled the latest deep field image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): an unprecedented look at the region of space known as Pandora's Cluste more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 15 (TNSjou) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * Black patients are less likely than other groups to receive early uterine cancer diagnoses. A new Yale study finds they experience delays in diagnostic tests. * * * Early diagnosis of uterine cancer is known to improve a patient's chances for survival, but previous research has found that Black patients are less likely to receive early diagnoses than people of other racial and ethnic groups. A new an more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 17 (TNSbook) -- Yale University issued the following news: Yale historian Denise Ho discusses her new co-edited volume on the power of consumer objects to reveal insights into Chinese culture during an era of scarcity. In today's world, there's an unspoken understanding that objects have a meaning, both to the individual and to society. No matter where you are in the world, people recognize that brands and other indicators of consumer culture inform perception. Ya more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 14 (TNSper) -- Yale University issued the following news: Cajetan Iheka, a professor of English in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and scholar of African and Caribbean literatures, has been appointed the next director of the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC), which supports student and faculty research and scholarship that crosses departmental boundaries. His three-year term will begin on July 1. Iheka succeeds Alice Kaplan, Sterling Professor of French in  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 17 (TNSjou) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * Yale researchers have identified a tsetse fly pheromone that reveals new insights into how the insects communicate -- and may help in reducing disease spread. * * * Yale scientists have for the first time identified a volatile pheromone emitted by the tsetse fly, a blood-sucking insect that spreads diseases in both humans and animals across much of sub-Saharan Africa. The discovery offers new insigh more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 14 (TNSjou) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * Yale researchers have found that the ability of fish in temperate and polar ecosystems to move between shallow and deep water triggers species diversification. * * * Fish, the most biodiverse vertebrates in the animal kingdom, present evolutionary biologists a conundrum: The greatest species richness is found in the world's tropical waters, yet the fish groups that generate new species most rapidly i more PR