NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 26 (TNSres) -- Yale University issued the following news: Three current Yale students and three recent graduates have received Soros fellowships, which support graduate study for immigrants or children of immigrants. Two Yale Law School students -- one born to Somalian immigrants and the other to parents from India -- and a Ph.D. student at the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (GSAS) who was born in Egypt are among those receiving 2023 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, April 25 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Following a recent earnings report showing Connecticut Natural Gas Corporation over-collected $8 million from Connecticut families and businesses, Attorney General William Tong, Consumer Counsel Claire E. Coleman, Connecticut Industrial Energy Consumers, and the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement submitted a joint petition to the Publi more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, April 27 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on April 26, 2023: Attorney General William Tong today announced the State of Connecticut has received its annual payment - this year totaling more than $124.6 million - pursuant to the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement. He also called on the state to increase its spending to prevent youth smoking and vaping, and to assist Connecticut residents of any age in their efforts to stop smo more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, April 28 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong today called on the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority to reject a "bloated, unsupported" $130.7 million rate hike sought by United Illuminating, and to further impose a $2 million annual penalty for the company's ongoing failure to remediate the former English Station power plant in New Haven. United Illuminating is requesting to raise electric rates more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, April 25 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on April 24, 2023: Attorney General William Tong released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in Suncor Energy v. Boulder and several similar cases involving state law claims against energy companies and their role in exacerbating climate change. "The Supreme Court was correct to deny certiorari in Suncor Energy v. Boulder and several other similar c more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, April 28 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on April 27, 2023: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has reached an important milestone as it has surpassed more than one million online customer transactions served since 2020, when it embarked on a modernization journey in an effort to provide more convenience to customers. During his time in office, Governor Lamont has made it a prior more PR

EAST LYME, Connecticut, April 27 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on April 26, 2023: Governor Ned Lamont and Transportation Commissioner Garrett Eucalitto today announced that the Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) is starting construction on a major infrastructure project in East Lyme. The project includes major improvements on a 1.3-mile stretch of I-95, including reconfiguring the Exit 74 interchange, adding full length acceleration lanes, a more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, April 27 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on April 26, 2023: Governor Ned Lamont and the co-chairs of the legislature's Energy and Technology Committee, State Senator Norm Needleman (D-Essex) and State Representative Jonathan Steinberg (D-Westport), are applauding the commissioners of the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) for voting today to approve a final decision as part of its development of a performance-base more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, April 25 -- Connecticut State Colleges and Universities issued the following news release on April 24, 2023: Speaking at a news conference at the Legislative Office Building, Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) President Terrence Cheng today outlined the steps CSCU would be forced to take if the state budget as it is currently proposed is enacted. In recent weeks, CSCU and individual colleges and universities have been working on identifying actions they wo more PR

WILLIMANTIC, Connecticut, April 27 (TNSres) -- Eastern Connecticut State University issued the following news: The global search for new antibiotics is getting a boost from Eastern Connecticut State University through an effort known as "Tiny Earth," a network of researchers uniting against antibiotic resistance. On April 19, a dozen Norwich Free Academy juniors visited campus and had their soil samples analyzed for the Tiny Earth Day Symposium. Students in biology Professor Jonathan Hulvey's more PR

WILLIMANTIC, Connecticut, April 27 (TNSjou) -- Eastern Connecticut State University issued the following news: A new method for parents of autistic toddlers to encourage their children to take turns in social situations is the focus of an Eastern Connecticut State University research team in the Center for Early Childhood Education. Their study was published online on March 30 in the Early Childhood Education Journal. Learning to take turns in social exchanges is difficult for some autistic ch more PR

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 26 -- Eckert Seamans Cherin and Mellott, a law firm, issued the following news release: A Boston-based team of attorneys from national law firm Eckert Seamans recently secured a victory in the Connecticut Appellate Court for client A/F Protein Inc. The Eckert Seamans team included Associate Trevin Schmidt and Member Gabriel Dym. Eckert Seamans was retained by A/F Protein, Inc., a biotechnology company, shortly after the company was awarded money damages at arbit more PR

BERLIN, Connecticut, April 26 -- Eversource Energy, a provider of electricity and natural gas, issued the following news: As part of its year-round commitment to providing reliable power to its customers, Eversource is investing $12 million in electric system upgrades across the northside of Waterbury. The enhancement project will happen in phases through 2025. This year, the work includes installing nearly 150 stronger, thicker utility poles, stringing more than three miles of overhead electri more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, April 27 -- Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, issued the following news release: Global semiconductor revenue is projected to decline 11.2% in 2023, according to the latest forecast from Gartner, Inc. In 2022, the market totaled $599.6 billion, which was marginal growth of 0.2% from 2021. The short-term outlook for the semiconductor market has deteriorated further. Global semiconductor revenue is forecast to total $532 billion in 2023 (see more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, April 25 -- Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, issued the following news release: The legal operations technology market landscape is highly volatile as large technology platform vendors vie with more traditional siloed specialist legal solutions to address the needs of legal leaders, according to Gartner, Inc. With increasing workloads and thinly spread resources impacting department productivity, legal leaders are turning to technology to  more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, April 25 (TNSres) -- Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, issued the following news release: * * * 58% of Software Engineering Leaders Report that Developer Experience is Critical to Organization's C-Suite * * * High-quality developer experience has become a critical priority in software delivery, with 58% of software engineering leaders reporting that developer experience is "very" or "extremely" critical to the C-suite at their organizati more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, April 26 (TNSper) -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on April 25, 2023: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he is nominating Sandra Slack Glover of Guilford to serve as an Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court. Glover, 52, joined the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut in 2004 and quickly distinguished herself as an outstanding appellate attorney and public servant. She currently serves as Chief of th more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, April 26 -- Greenwich Associates, a division of CRISIL, issued the following news release: Financial market firms globally are speaking out against a rule proposal by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that would require more U.S. Treasury and repo market trades to be centrally cleared. On September 14, 2022, the SEC proposed a set of rule amendments that would effectively require direct market participants to clear all eligible secondary market transactions (ES more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, April 26 -- Greenwich Associates, a division of CRISIL, issued the following news release: Increasingly complex and challenging market conditions are causing U.S. asset owners to seek higher levels of support from their external partners. In response, U.S. investment consultants are transforming themselves from curators of recommended asset manager lists into centralized sources of expertise, knowledge transfer and market information. Soaring inflation and rates hikes b more PR

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, April 27 (TNSper) -- Rutgers University issued the following news: Rutgers University-New Brunswick Chancellor-Provost Francine Conway has announced new deans to lead the School of Arts and Sciences, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, School of Engineering and Douglass Residential College. * * * Juli Wade, Executive Dean, School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) Wade currently works at the University of Connecticut as dean for the College of Liberal more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, April 25 (TNSpro) -- Trinity College issued the following news: Trinity College will begin offering Connecticut's first Master of Arts Degree in Urban Planning in fall 2023. "There isn't another program like this in the state of Connecticut," said Garth A. Myers, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Urban International Studies and director of Trinity's Center for Urban and Global Studies (CUGS). Trinity faculty members identified a need to better equip in-state ca more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 27 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Environment issued the following news: As temperatures across the globe reach record-level highs, urban areas are facing increased heat stress. Cities are generally warmer and dryer than adjacent rural land. But in the Global South, there is an additional complicating factor -- urban humid heat. A new study, led by Yale School of the Environment scientists and published in Nature, investigated the combined effect of temperature and hu more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 26 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Each month there are approximately 2,400 internet searches for information related to heart bypass surgery. While there is a wealth of information on this common cardiovascular procedure, scientists are still seeking the answer to one critical question - why do women have a higher risk than men for post-surgery complications? Intent on uncovering where cardiac care for women required attention, a Wo more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 28 (TNSres) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: A group of Yale Psychiatry researchers and clinicians recently traveled to Ukraine to ensure that their colleagues have the tools they need to care for both themselves and their patients in the wake of widespread wartime trauma. Ilan Harpaz-Rotem, PhD, ABPP, professor of psychiatry and of psychology and a leading expert on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and Shelley Amen, MD, PhD, assistant cli more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 29 (TNStalk) -- Yale University issued the following Q&A on April 27, 2023, with physicist Helen Caines: * * * In an interview, Yale physicist Helen Caines marvels at the search for a better understanding of subatomic phenomena. Yale physicist Helen Caines has arrived at a key juncture in her long campaign to understand the "critical point" and the "strong force" of nuclear matter. In the subatomic realm, the universe's tiniest particles, called quarks, combine  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 28 (TNSfund) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Somaia Mohamed, MD, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, is lead co-investigator of a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) study that has been awarded $40 million to evaluate the effectiveness of a novel antidepressant medicine, esketamine, for veterans and others with treatment resistant depression (TRD). The VA Aripiprazole vs. Esketamine for Treatment Resistant Depression (VAST-D II) is a mult more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 28 (TNSjou) -- Yale University issued the following news: The loss of about 10,000 bits of DNA over the course of our evolutionary history helped differentiate us from other mammals, a team of Yale researchers found. What the human genome is lacking compared with the genomes of other primates might have been as crucial to the development of humankind as what has been added during our evolutionary history, according to a new study led by researchers at Yale and the more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 27 (TNSjou) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * Around 40% of colorectal cancer patients have a particular gene mutation. A new study shows it's linked to reduced cell death and worse survival rates in men. * * * Colorectal tumors found in men with a certain genetic mutation display different metabolism than those found in other patients, according to a new Yale study. One key difference in these tumors, the researchers discovered, is a reduced t more PR