GARDEN CITY, New York, May 5 (TNSper) -- Adelphi University issued the following news: Following an extensive national search, Joanne Corbin, PhD, has been selected as the next dean of the Adelphi University School of Social Work. She will begin in her new role on July 17. Dr. Corbin comes to Adelphi from the University of Connecticut, where since 2020 she has served as professor and associate dean for academic affairs in the School of Social Work. In this role, she served as a member of the D more PR

NEW BRITAIN, Connecticut, May 3 (TNSfund) -- Central Connecticut State University issued the following news release: The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $60,000 Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education grant that will fund a project proposal crafted by CCSU History professor Dr. Leah Glaser and her research team. Titled "Finding Your Place: Teaching the History of People of Color in Connecticut," the project's goal is to create curriculum and resources on communities of col more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, May 4 (TNSres) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news on May 3, 2023: The Yale Child Study Center (YCSC) was recently awarded a pilot vision grant from the Spencer Foundation for a project led by YCSC Assistant Professor Chin Reyes, titled "Transforming the Discourse for Equity in Early Childhood Education: Reimagining Curriculum and Pedagogies and Young Children as Capable." The Foundation supports transformative research projects designed to reimagine edu more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 5 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong today announced that consumers deceived by TurboTax owner Intuit into paying for free tax services will begin receiving checks from a $141 million multistate settlement announced in May 2022. Approximately 4.4 million consumers nationwide will receive checks in the mail from the multistate settlement. In Connecticut, 41,735 consumers will receive checks tot more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 6 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on May 5, 2023: Attorney General William Tong today announced that Integrity Admin Group, Inc. will pay $10,000 and end its misleading marketing practices following an investigation by the Office of the Attorney General into the company's home warranty notices. An investigation showed that Integrity Admin Group attempted to lure homeowners into paying for services through misleading, hig more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 3 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on May 2, 2023: Attorney General William Tong continued his efforts to protect access to medication abortion in an amicus brief filed in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Joining with a multistate coalition, Attorney General Tong argues that the decision issued by a district court judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas would do serious h more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 2 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on May 1, 2023: Attorney General William Tong today announced the State has reached a $150,000 settlement with Hope Home Health Agency, Inc. and its owner, Miledy Marmol, resolving allegations that the agency's billing practices violated the Connecticut False Claims Act. Specifically, an investigation by the Office of the Attorney General found that HHHA billed Medicaid for services deliv more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 4 (TNSrpt) -- The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it has selected a proposal submitted by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), in coordination with the University of Connecticut (UConn), Wallingford Housing Authority (WHA), Wallingford Electric Division, and Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships (NEEP), to design a more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 2 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on May 1, 2023: Governor Ned Lamont and Office of Policy and Management Secretary Jeffrey Beckham released the following statements in response to the May 2023 consensus revenue forecast, which was jointly issued today by the Office of Policy and Management and the Office of Fiscal Analysis: Governor Lamont said, "This consensus revenue forecast is good news for the state's general fund, shows the more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 6 (TNSper) -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on May 5, 2023: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he is nominating retired U.S. Army Brigadier General Ronald "Ron" P. Welch of Waterford to serve as commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Veterans Affairs. General Welch has nearly 40 years of military service. Since his retirement from the military in 2017, he has been working for a local nonprofit organization that connect more PR

WILLIMANTIC, Connecticut, May 4 (TNSjou) -- Eastern Connecticut State University issued the following news: A new method that shortens the germination time of an endangered New England wildflower is described in a paper to be published in the Native Plants Journal by Eastern Connecticut State University student Dylan Tillman '23 and biology Professor Bryan A. Connolly. The rare northern blazing star wildflower, Liatris novae-angliae, native to Connecticut, Massachusetts and other New England a more PR

WILLIMANTIC, Connecticut, May 4 (TNSres) -- Eastern Connecticut State University issued the following news: Undergraduate research and creativity were celebrated at the 2023 CREATE conference at Eastern Connecticut State University on April 21, where students presented posters, gave talks, exhibited artwork and videos, performed music and acted in the University's largest academic showcase of the year. Held in-person and on campus for the first time in four years, the conference featured more  more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, May 3 (TNSres) -- Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, issued the following news release: * * * 70% of Organizations Currently in Exploration Mode with Generative AI * * * In a recent Gartner, Inc. poll of more than 2,500 executive leaders, 45% reported that the publicity of ChatGPT has prompted them to increase artificial intelligence (AI) investments. Seventy percent of executives said that their organization is in investigation and explo more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, May 2 (TNSres) -- Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, issued the following news release: * * * Ad-Hoc Approach to Managing Incidents is Ineffective in an Era of Persistent Disruption * * * Corporate legal departments need to build a process for managing, and learning from, persistent disruption, according to Gartner, Inc. Persistent disruption has arisen from both macro shocks, such as the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine amid other geo more PR

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, May 6 -- General Electric, a manufacturer of appliances, lighting, power systems and other products, issued the following news release: This week, GE Power Conversion convened with the world's leading navies and industry at IMDEX Asia, to showcase its electric ship power and propulsion solutions. IMDEX represents a respected platform within the large Asia Pacific maritime sector in Singapore, where GE Power Conversion showcased electrification technologies that are help more PR

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, May 5 -- General Electric, a manufacturer of appliances, lighting, power systems and other products, issued the following news release on May 4, 2023: GE announced today that it has been selected - in consortium with Cobra Infrastructuras Hidraulicas - by Red Electrica, the sole transmission agent and operator of the national electricity System in Spain, to deliver six Pumped Storage turbines for the 200 MW Chira Soria project in Gran Canaria, Spain. The scope of work in more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, May 3 (TNSres) -- Greenwich Associates, a division of CRISIL, issued the following news release: More than a quarter of the world's commercial payments and almost 30% of receivables now flow through nonbank or fintech alternative payment platforms. Alternative payment "rails" like Venmo, Zelle, and Paypal, are gaining popularity among large and small companies around the globe as executives become more accustomed to using convenient digital platforms in their daily lives more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 2 (TNSres) -- Trinity College issued the following news: Kendra Keelan '23 recently completed her senior thesis as one of the first Trinity students to receive the Rosemary and Stan Marcuss '63 Fellowship for Research in Urban Studies. Her research project focuses on academic and institutional community engagement at Trinity College and nine other small, selective higher education liberal arts institutions. The Marcuss Fellowship awards two junior Trinity students st more PR

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The National Republican Congressional Committee issued the following news on May 2, 2023: ICYMI: Democrats are addicted to spending our money. Yesterday, congressional Democrats - led by Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer - made it clear they don't even want a conversation about cleaning up the spending mess they created. Does Jahana Hayes agree the U.S. should keep spending money we don't have without even talking about how to fix it? "Hakeem Jeffries and congressional D more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, May 2 (TNSper) -- Yale University issued the following news: Stephanie Wiles, who has expertly led the Yale University Art Gallery for the past five years, has been reappointed to a second term as the Henry J. Heinz II Director, Yale President Peter Salovey announced today. During her first term as director, Wiles spearheaded the gallery's reaccreditation process from the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), awarded in June 2021, a distinction that demonstrates that the  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, May 5 (TNSres) -- Yale School of Environment issued the following news on May 4, 2023: * * * Yale School of the Environment faculty speak about leveraging data to inform environmental decision making and policy at a panel discussion hosted by the Yale Club of New York City. * * * Trained as an oceanographer, Peter Raymond, YSE professor of ecosystem ecology and senior associate dean of research and director of doctoral studies, has long been researching how much water more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, May 2 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Environment issued the following news: * * * Gabriel Gadsden's prize-winning doctoral research on "social-ecological landscapes of fear" examines how negative human histories can limit scientific lines of inquiry and challenges environmental scholars to reckon with biases. * * * As a wildlife and research technician, Gabriel Gadsden studied conflict, specifically how predators impact the behavior of animals through fear. He also encoun more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, May 4 (TNSper) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Thiruvengadam Muniraj, MD, associate professor of medicine (digestive diseases), Yale School of Medicine; director of the Yale Medicine Pancreatic Diseases Program; director of bariatric endoscopy, and associate chief of Digestive Health, Yale New Haven Health (YNHHS), has been appointed associate editor of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (GIE), the official journal of the American Society of Gastrointestina more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, May 6 (TNSjou) -- Yale University issued the following news: In a new study, Yale scientists have identified the immune signature of rare cases of myocarditis among those vaccinated against COVID-19 with mRNA vaccines. When new COVID-19 vaccines were first administered two years ago, public health officials found an increase in cases of myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle, particularly among young males who had been vaccinated with mRNA vaccines. It was unc more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, May 5 (TNSjou) -- Yale University issued the following news: Grambank, a database of 2,467 languages that Yale linguist Claire Bowern helped create, helps researchers better understand the stakes when languages die off. Languages, like animal species, can go extinct. More than half of the world's approximately 7,000 signed and spoken languages are currently endangered. And without intervention they are likely to become extinct, meaning nobody will speak or sign them any more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, May 3 (TNSjou) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * Searching for compounds with the therapeutic effects of ibogaine but not is toxicity, researchers found two that eased depression and opioid withdrawal in mice. * * * Since the 1960s, the hallucinogenic drug ibogaine has piqued interest as a potential treatment for opioid addiction. Anecdotal and limited experimental evidence, including claims by some that they no longer had interest in using opioids a more PR