HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 11 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on March 10, 2023: Attorney General William Tong today sued Connecticut service plaza operator Project Service, LLC on behalf of the Connecticut Department of Labor seeking to recover $2.7 million in unpaid wages owed to food service employees at the Connecticut's 23 service plazas. The complaint further seeks to collect an additional $2.7 million in damages as well as $722,000 in civi more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 9 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on March 8, 2023: Attorney General William Tong joined 46 states in asking a state court to order social media company TikTok, Inc. to fully comply with an ongoing investigation into whether the company violated consumer protection laws amid the ongoing youth mental health crisis. The coalition seeks to review internal TikTok communications to determine whether the company engaged in d more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 9 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong this week moved to revoke or reduce the pension of former West Haven housing specialist John F. Bernardo following his federal guilty plea to a conspiracy to commit wire fraud charge involving COVID relief funds. Bernardo was an employee of the City of West Haven in its Office of Community Development Administration. In 2021, Bernardo conspired with Micha more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 7 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on March 6, 2023: Attorney General William Tong announced today he is seeking expanded authority to fight fraud and abuse across Connecticut state government. In 2009, Gov. M. Jodi Rell signed into law Connecticut's False Claims Act, giving the Office of the Attorney General authority to investigate and civilly prosecute fraud and abuse of taxpayer funds. Since then, the Office of the  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 8 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on March 7, 2023: Attorney General William Tong today sued four out-of-state firearm dealers selling and advertising illegal, untraceable "ghost gun" parts in Connecticut. On October 1, 2019, Connecticut banned the sale and receipt of unfinished frame and lower receiver gun components lacking serial numbers or unique identification, which are used to build ghost guns. Despite that, def more PR

SHELTON, Connecticut, March 10 -- BPA Worldwide, an assurance provider, issued the following news release: BPA iCompli Sustainability, a division of global assurance provider BPA Worldwide, announced it served as technical writer to Singapore's national standards and accreditation body, Enterprise Singapore, which created a set of Waste Management guidelines and best practices for Singapore's MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) and events industry in the form of a Workshop  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 8 -- The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection issued the following news release on March 7, 2023: The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) announced today its intention to conduct two new procurements for grid-scale zero-carbon energy resources this year as the state continues making progress on Governor Lamont's Energy Action Plan to improve energy affordability and reliability and achieve state statutory man more PR

WILLIMANTIC, Connecticut, March 8 (TNSpp) -- Eastern Connecticut State University issued the following news: President Terrence Cheng of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) urged students, faculty and staff at Eastern Connecticut State University to talk to local legislators about Eastern's financial needs as the state considers new higher education budgets. "It's important for all of you to be in touch with your legislators by email and to visit their offices," he said. "Bu more PR

ATLANTA, Georgia, March 7 (TNSjou) -- Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health issued the following news release: A new Emory-led study, recently published and highlighted in theInternational Journal of Cancer in honor of World Cancer Day shed light on the disparities in survival rates for Black women diagnosed with epithelial ovarian cancer, compared to White women. The study, co-authored by Dr. Kristin Guertin, PhD (University of Connecticut) and Dr. Holly Harris, Sc.D. (Fred Hutchi more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, March 10 (TNSres) -- Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, issued the following news release: * * * Forty-six Percent of HR Leaders Report HR Technology is the Top Priority * * * Nearly half of HR leaders cited HR technology as their top investment priority, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. An October 2022 Gartner survey of 118 HR leaders revealed the other top investment areas for HR leaders in 2023 are: staffing and recruiting, tota more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, March 10 -- Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, issued the following news release: Several factors will make 2023 a true test to the resolve of governments and the automotive industry in driving battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) forward, according to Gartner, Inc. "2023 is the moment of truth to drive full electrification forward," said Pedro Pacheco, VP Analyst at Gartner. "The spike in electricity prices in Europe make BEV running costs les more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, March 8 (TNSres) -- Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, issued the following news release: * * * Sales Organizations that Prioritize Alignment with Marketing Are Nearly Three Times More Likely to Exceed New Customer Acquisition Targets * * * Sales leaders say that aligning commercial functions, such as sales and marketing strategies, is their top priority for 2023, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. Gartner surveyed over 200 sales lea more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 9 (TNSper) -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he is nominating Robert F. Shea, Jr. of West Hartford to serve as claims commissioner. Shea is being nominated to fill the remainder of the term of Christy L. Scott, who resigned from the position in January to pursue a new professional opportunity. The claims commissioner serves four-year terms, and the current term is set to expire on June 30, more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 10 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on March 9, 2023: * * * Governor Ned Lamont released the following statement regarding the vote today by the U.S. Senate confirming Connecticut Supreme Court Associate Justice Maria Araujo Kahn to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. "After spending the last 17 years sitting on the bench of Connecticut's courts, Justice Kahn has become one of our state's most respected an more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, March 9 -- Greenwich Associates, a division of CRISIL, issued the following news release: Corporate banks around the world are puzzled at the lack of demand for ESG advisory services. By now, the vast majority of companies have implemented ESG in at least some capacity. ESG adoption rates range from nearly 90% of large companies in Europe to about 70% in Asia, with U.S. companies in the middle at 80%. Those shares have increased significantly in all three regions over t more PR

MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut, March 7 (TNSjou) -- Middlesex Community College issued the following news: More than 25% of parents surveyed report that they were less than truthful about their children's COVID-19 status or that they didn't follow the disease's preventive guidelines during the pandemic for their offspring, according to a nationwide study led in part by University of Utah Health and Middlesex Community College (Connecticut) scientists. Among the most common reasons cited were an inabi more PR

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- The National Republican Congressional Committee issued the following news: When you are Jahana Hayes, being too extreme is a big problem. That's exactly where Jahana Hayes finds herself today -- not just too far-left for Connecticut voters, but also too far-left for fellow Democrats, including Chuck Schumer. 33 Senate Democrats rejected the reduced sentences for violent crime that Hayes supported just weeks prior. Read more here (https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-v more PR

WATERBURY, Connecticut, March 7 (TNSpro) -- Post University issued the following news release: Post University developed a specialized curriculum focused on state taxes for State of Connecticut employees and area tax professionals. The three-credit course, which is available to the public as well as state employees, covers topics including personal and corporate income taxes, as well as excise and sales taxes specific to Connecticut. With a proven record of accomplishment in online learning la more PR

WEST HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 9 (TNSeco) -- The University of Hartford issued the following news: * * * New track and field renderings at the University of Hartford portray a modern addition to the athletics complex with premier space for student-athletes, intramural teams, and the campus community as a whole. * * * Built to NCAA standards, the new facility will feature a 400-meter, eight-lane "full pour" track that will surround a new synthetic turf tailored to field hockey, while a set more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 8 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Environment issued the following news: * * * A new study focusing on 750,000 acres of U.S. coastal areas finds that mussels act as ecosystem engineers, helping sustain salt marshes in the face of climate change. * * * Faunal organisms such as the humble mussel often play an underappreciated yet important role in protecting and building coastal ecosystems, according to a new study led by the Carbon Containment Lab at the Yale School o more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 8 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Environment issued the following news: Biomass is widely considered a renewable alternative to fossil fuels, and many experts say it can play a critical role in combating climate change. Biomass stores carbon and can be turned into bio-based products and energy that can be used to improve soil, treat wastewater, and produce renewable feedstock. Yet large-scale production of it has been limited due to economic constraints and challenges more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 8 (TNSper) -- Yale School of Environment issued the following news: Karen Seto, Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science at the Yale School of the Environment, has been named a lifetime member of the United States Council on Foreign Relations. With her election, Seto becomes the third YSE faculty member selected to join the illustrious foreign policy organization, along with Daniel Etsy, Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 10 (TNSbook) (TNSawa) -- Yale University issued the following news: "G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century," a 2022 biography of the controversial FBI director by Yale historian Beverly Gage, is among three books to win this year's Bancroft Prize, one of the nation's top honors in the field of American history. The Bancroft Prizes are awarded annually by Columbia University for books published in the previous year, and judged by a panel of  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 11 (TNSper) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Biology and medicine are increasingly driven by data, says Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, MBA, PhD. The large amounts of data that academic medical centers now accumulate and generate have become essential to research and patient care. Organizing and interpreting these data, and using them to build predictive models, she says, requires a strong knowledge of biomedical informatics. Ohno-Machado recently jo more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 7 (TNSres) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: A team of Yale scientists seeks to determine which treatment sequences produce the best results for people with advanced cancer while examining the cost of these treatments. The investigators recently received a four-year, $792,000 grant from the American Cancer Society to fund their studies. Shi-Yi Wang, associate professor of epidemiology (chronic diseases) at Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) is more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 8 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: A team led by Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) researchers has found a significant connection between long-term exposure to common air pollutants and hospital readmissions among people who have had a stroke. The finding suggests the need to reevaluate air pollution regulations in the U.S. The study found a significant association between long-term exposure to common air pollutants, even at levels  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 8 (TNStalk) -- Yale University issued the following Q&A on March 6, 2023, with Cecile Fromont, associate professor in the history of art: * * * A new four-part Netflix docuseries, "African Queens: Njinga," tells the story of the 17th-century warrior Queen Njinga, who ruled over the territories of Ndongo and Matamba in present-day Angola. Cecile Fromont, a professor in the history of art in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is one of a handful of scholars featur more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 7 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: On Sunday, March 5 at 8:45 a.m. CT, John K. Forrest MD, associate professor of medicine and director of the Interventional Cardiology and the Structural Heart Disease Programs, will present the three-year results from the Evolut Low-Risk Trial during the late breaking clinical trials session at The American College of Cardiology (ACC) Annual Scientific Session. Forrest is the national co-principal inv more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 7 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: In the United States, managing hypertension or high blood pressure has proven to be challenging. Despite the availability of antihypertensive medications and the benefits of regular exercise, a significant number of patients continue to struggle with persistent hypertension. To tackle this issue, a new taxonomy is being developed that seeks to target the root causes of this condition. Led by Yuan Lu, more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 10 (TNSjou) -- Yale University issued the following news: Cells that become eggs or sperm don't fully separate when they divide. New Yale research uncovers how the bridges that keep them connected form. Most cells in the bodies of living things duplicate their contents and physically separate into new cells through the process of cell division. But across many species, germ cells, those that become eggs or sperm, don't fully separate. They remain interconnected th more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 9 (TNSper) -- Yale University issued the following news: Yuval Kluger, who works in the broad fields of bioinformatics, machine learning, and applied mathematics to develop new approaches for analyzing large biological data sets, was recently appointed the Anthony N. Brady Professor of Pathology, effective immediately. Kluger completed his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at Tel Aviv University and postdoctoral training in physics at the Los Alamos and Berkeley Nation more PR