HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 31 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on March 29, 2023: Attorney General William Tong congratulated Deputy Associate Attorney General Matthew Larock and Assistant Attorney General Water A. Menjivar on their nominations today to the Connecticut Superior Court bench, as well as Assistant Attorney General Charlene W. Spencer on her nomination to serve as a Family Court Magistrate. "On behalf of the entire Office of the Atto more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 31 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on March 30, 2023: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that his administration is awarding state grants to 41 municipalities across Connecticut for the purposes of providing maintenance to neglected burial grounds and cemeteries. "Cemeteries are sacred places, and maintaining them is essential out of respect for the dead and preserving our local heritage," Governor Lamont said. "Particularly he more PR

WILLIMANTIC, Connecticut, March 31 (TNSres) -- Eastern Connecticut State University issued the following news: Several psychology students and faculty from Eastern Connecticut State University presented at the Eastern Psychological Association's (EPA) annual meeting on March 2-4 in Boston, MA. T. Caitlin Vasquez-O'Brien, assistant professor of psychological science, presented at the conference with several of her research assistants. "Submissions are reviewed by experts in the field before bei more PR

HAMDEN, Connecticut, March 31 (TNSres) -- Quinnipiac University Poll has issued the following news release on March 30, 2023: Food costs rank as the most pressing financial worry, with 22 percent of Americans naming it as their biggest personal financial concern right now, followed by retirement savings (18 percent), healthcare costs (17 percent), mortgage or rent payments (13 percent), college tuition (8 percent), energy bills (7 percent), credit card or loan payments (5 percent), and loss of  more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, March 31 -- Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, issued the following news release: Employees are dealing with an unprecedented amount of change since COVID, and they are fatigued of change. To decrease employee fatigue, CIOs should perform four steps, according to Gartner, Inc. "Any employee is dealing with digital acceleration, staff departures, having to adjust to various working models, and many more workplace disruptions, and they are ex more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, March 28 (TNSres) -- Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, issued the following news release: * * * CMOs Who Overlook Digital Commerce Ethical Pitfalls in Favor of Innovation are at Risk for Eroded Customer Trust and Damaged CX * * * By 2027, fines from government and other regulatory bodies focused on commerce ethics will exceed $5 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. "Aggressive digital commerce practices are innovative, but they often in more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, March 31 (TNSres) -- Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, issued the following news release: * * * Experts to Discuss Key Supply Chain Technology Trends at the 2023 Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo in Orlando, May 8-10 * * * By 2025, 60% of supply chain organizations will use cybersecurity risk as a significant determinant in conducting third-party transactions and business engagements, according to Gartner, Inc. As the surface area of di more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, March 30 (TNSres) -- Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, issued the following news release on March 29, 2023: * * * Experts Predict Widening Gap Between Finance Staff and Management's Digital Competency Levels Will Drive Turnover, Disrupt Progress * * * A lack of digital skills in senior finance leaders will drive half of unwanted staff turnover by 2026, according to Gartner, Inc. CFOs will need to accelerate their digital knowledge and be more PR

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, March 28 -- General Electric, a manufacturer of appliances, lighting, power systems and other products, issued the following news release on March 27, 2023: GE Renewable Energy announced today that they have selected Eastgate Engineering, based in Billingham, Teesside, to provide mechanical and electrical activities for the pre-assembly of the towers and nacelles for the Haliade-X turbines to be used at Dogger Bank Offshore Wind Farm. The contract is expected to support  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 29 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on March 28, 2023: Governor Ned Lamont is applauding the Connecticut General Assembly's Judiciary Committee for voting this afternoon to approve a comprehensive legislative proposal he introduced that seeks to prevent acts of gun violence, including mass shootings, community violence, domestic violence, suicides, and accidental shootings. "As elected leaders, it is our responsibility to impleme more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 30 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on March 29, 2023: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he is nominating 20 jurists to serve as judges of the Connecticut Superior Court. The court currently has 40 judicial vacancies. Additionally, Governor Lamont is nominating two jurists to become family support magistrates. "Selecting nominees to become judges is one of the most important duties that I have as governor because these ind more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 28 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on March 27, 2023: Governor Ned Lamont today said that the findings of Connecticut's first-ever healthcare cost growth benchmark report underscore the need to enact legislative reforms that will make healthcare more affordable for Connecticut residents and employers. The Connecticut Healthcare Cost Growth Benchmark Report for 2021, which will be released by the Connecticut Office of Health Stra more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, March 28 (TNSres) -- Greenwich Associates, a division of CRISIL, issued the following news release: * * * New Report from Coalition Greenwich Advises Institutions to Press Asset Managers for Knowledge Transfer and Advisory Support * * * Japanese institutions are embarking on an ambitious plan to remake their investment portfolios by significantly expanding allocations to alternative asset classes. This transformation is introducing a new level of complexity that will e more PR

HAMDEN, Connecticut, March 30 (TNSres) -- Quinnipiac University Poll has issued the following news release on March 29, 2023: Americans 57 - 38 percent think criminal charges should disqualify former President Donald Trump from running for president again, if charges are filed against him as a result of multiple state and federal criminal investigations, according to a Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pea-ack) University national poll released today. Democrats (88 - 9 percent) and independents (55 - 36 per more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 30 (TNSres) -- Trinity College issued the following news on March 29, 2023: Three prominent members of the media addressed the challenges of modern journalism during a recent Connecticut Forum discussion that was attended by members of the Trinity College community. The conversation, "Misinformation and Finding the Truth: Reckoning with Today's Media Landscape," was held March 23 at The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts. Trinity is an education partner of the more PR

WEST HAVEN, Connecticut, March 31 (TNSfund) -- The University of New Haven issued the following news: * * * U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal recently visited campus to announce funding for the University's Lee College and School of Health Sciences that will support the use of data analytics in helping to prevent gun violence. The grant will also create learning experiences for students - and the announcement itself has already led to a unique opportunity for one criminal justice major. * * * For more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 28 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Environment issued the following news: * * * Solving the climate crisis and biodiversity crisis are not separate issues. Animals remove billions of tons of carbon dioxide each year. Restoring species will help limit global warming, new science reveals. * * * Protecting wildlife across the world could significantly enhance natural carbon capture and storage by supercharging ecosystem carbon sinks, a new study led by Yale School of th more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 28 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Pulmonary hypertension, or high blood pressure in the lungs, is a common complication of interstitial lung disease, an array of conditions that cause scarring of the lungs. Without treatment, it can be life-threatening. But currently, the only way to diagnose pulmonary hypertension definitively is through an invasive outpatient procedure called right heart catheterization, which measures pressures in more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 29 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Over the past 25 years, the surgeon-scientist workforce has made significant strides in closing the gender equality gap. But glaring disparities still exist, a new Yale study finds. Women only account for 19% of surgeon-scientists, and they are 25% less likely to be "super principal investigators" (SPIs)--investigators who hold multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and therefor more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 31 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is the most common potentially lethal genetic disease--about a half million people in the United States alone suffer from the condition. There is no cure, but new research could open the door to new gene therapies for treating most cases of the disease. For several decades, researchers have known that mutations in the PKD1 gene, which encodes the  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 31 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Each person has about 4 million sequence differences in their genome relative to the reference human genome. These differences are known as variants. A central goal in precision medicine is understanding which of these variants contribute to disease in a particular patient. Therefore, much of the human genome annotation effort is devoted to developing resources to help interpret the relative contribu more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 31 (TNSper) -- Yale University issued the following news: D. S. Fahmeed Hyder, a professor of biomedical engineering at the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science and professor of radiology and biomedical imaging at the Yale School of Medicine, has been appointed the next Head of Trumbull College, Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis announced at an event in the college last night. Hyder will succeed Margaret Clark, the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology, wh more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 30 (TNSper) -- Yale University issued the following news: Crystal Feimster, an associate professor in the departments of African American Studies and History and the programs of American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, has been appointed the next Head of Pierson College, Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis announced at an event in the college last night. Feimster will succeed Stephen Davis, the Woolsey Professor of Religious Studies and a professo more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 1 (TNSper) -- Yale University issued the following news on March 31, 2023: Jordan Peccia, the Thomas E. Golden Jr. Professor of Environmental Engineering and chair of the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department at Yale, has been appointed the next Head of Benjamin Franklin College, Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis announced at an event in the college last night. Peccia will succeed Charles Bailyn, the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Astronomy and Physi more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 1 (TNSjou) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * A new Yale-led study finds evidence that social media activity on hard-right platforms contributes to political unrest offline. * * * An increase in social media activity on "hard-right" platforms -- those that purport to represent viewpoints not welcome on "mainstream" platforms -- contributes to rightwing civil unrest in the United States, according to a new study led by Yale sociologist Daniel Kar more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 28 (TNSres) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Half of the U.S. population will be obese by 2030, according to the latest data. To address this growing epidemic, Yale School of Medicine is establishing the Yale Obesity Research Center (Y-Weight), announced Nancy J. Brown, MD, Jean and David W. Wallace Dean of Medicine and C.N.H. Long Professor of Internal Medicine. The center will be led by Ania Jastreboff, MD, PhD, associate professor of medici more PR