NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, June 2 (TNSres) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * Yale introduces LUX, a groundbreaking custom search tool for exploring the university's unparalleled holdings of artistic, cultural, and scientific objects. * * * Yale University's museums, libraries, and archives contain vast troves of cultural and scientific heritage that fire curiosity and fuel research worldwide. Now there's a simple new way to make astonishing connections among millions of object more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, June 2 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on June 1, 2023 and a letter: Attorney General William Tong today thoroughly refuted efforts by Stone Academy to re-write history, to falsely blame its mismanagement and abrupt closure on state officials, and to shirk responsibility for the serious harm they have inflicted on their nursing students. In a letter to Stone Academy's attorney Perry Rowthorn, Attorney General Tong denounces t more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 31 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong today issued a statement following a decision by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit overturning a U.S. District Court ruling that vacated a Purdue bankruptcy order over its reliance on so-called "nonconsensual third-party releases" forcing states and other parties to grant unprecedented lifetime legal immunity to the Sackler family. T more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, June 2 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement regarding a decision today denying the plaintiff's motion for a temporary restraining order in the case filed by the Connecticut Citizens Defense League seeking to repeal the state's assault weapons ban. In her decision, Judge Janet Bond Arterton found the plaintiffs have no standing to seek a temporary restraining order. Th more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, June 2 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong praised a unanimous decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that affirmed a robust and fair reading of the False Claims Act (FCA). Earlier this year, Attorney General Tong led a bi-partisan effort in filing a brief on behalf of 33 states arguing that the Supreme Court should interpret "knowingly" under the FCA to allow evidence of what a provider subjectively k more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 31 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on May 30, 2023: Governor Ned Lamont and Aging and Disability Services Commissioner Amy Porter today announced that the Connecticut Department of Aging and Disability Services has been awarded $10 million in funding from the federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) that will be used to support upgrades and enhancements at senior centers statewide in Connecticut. The state is designating $9 million more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, June 1 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on May 31, 2023: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that the Connecticut Office of Early Childhood has completed the distribution of $70 million in state funding that was allocated by the governor and the state legislature in the most recently enacted state budget for bonus payments to the staff of child care and early childhood education providers statewide in Connecticut. The initiative, known more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, June 1 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on May 31, 2023: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that in the coming days he will sign into law legislation that was recently approved by the Connecticut General Assembly implementing a system of early voting for general elections, special elections, and primaries in Connecticut. The legislation, House Bill 5004, requires 14 days of early voting for general elections, 7 days of early voting fo more PR

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, June 1 -- General Electric, a manufacturer of appliances, lighting, power systems and other products, issued the following news release on May 31, 2023: This week, GE Vernova's Power Conversion business joins representatives from Canada's government, coast guard, international delegations at CANSEC, to showcase technologies that are helping the world's leading fleets to energize their missions with energy-efficient electric power and propulsion. Through integrated elect more PR

BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut, May 25 (TNSpro) -- M&T Bank, a financial holding company, issued the following news release: M&T Bank and Quinnipiac University today celebrate the first session of "Next Up," a new community leadership accelerator program aimed at identifying and cultivating emerging leaders across Connecticut. The program will bring together up-and-coming leaders from companies, including Stew Leonards, Marcum LLP, and Connecticut Distributors, Inc., to participate in courses led by e more PR

WASHINGTON, May 31 -- The National Republican Congressional Committee issued the following news: In case you missed it, last week, Rep. Jahana Hayes voted against stopping the trafficking of the highly addictive and dangerous drug, fentanyl. Fentanyl has been cited as the leading cause of death among 18 - 45 year olds, and Connecticut is no exception. Per the Connecticut Department of Public Health Drug Overdose Monthly Report: * From January to the 1st week of December 2022, there were 1,28 more PR

WEST HARTFORD, Connecticut, June 1 (TNSpro) -- The University of Hartford issued the following news: The University of Hartford's College of Education, Nursing and Health Sciences has announced exciting changes to its Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership for Social Justice. The program now places a greater emphasis on social justice education with diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, and belonging values at the core of its curriculum. Other changes include a reduced 51-credit requireme more PR

WEST HAVEN, Connecticut, June 1 (TNSres) -- The University of New Haven issued the following news: * * * As part of their capstone projects, seniors in the Tagliatela College of Engineering collaborated on real-world projects while learning from industry professionals. They presented their projects, posters, and prototypes as part of the University's recent Capstone Design Expo. * * * By Renee Chmiel, Office of Marketing and Communications Over the course of two semesters, Tim Renkowsky '23 more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, May 30 (TNSres) -- Yale School of Environment issued the following news: * * * New research led by the Yale School of the Environment demonstrates that improvements in battery range and costs is behind the rise of electric vehicle sales. * * * Transportation accounts for roughly one-third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and adoption of electric vehicles are seen by many experts in government and the private sector as a vital tool in efforts to reduce carbon emission more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, May 31 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: A new study led by George Goshua, MD, MSc, assistant professor of medicine (hematology), examines the cost effectiveness of gene therapy against standard-of-care treatment for patients with sickle cell disease (SCD), using both conventional cost-effective analysis (CEA) and distributional cost-effective analysis (DCEA) methodology, an approach that takes health equity into quantitative consideration.  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, June 1 (TNSawa) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Cindy A. Crusto, PhD, professor of psychiatry (psychology) and associate dean for gender equity at Yale School of Medicine, has been chosen to receive the 2022 Outstanding Contributions for Mentorship in Racial Justice Award from the Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA), Division 27 of the American Psychological Association. The award recognizes an SCRA member who has made exemplary contri more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, June 2 (TNSbook) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Deepak Cyril D'Souza, MD, Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry and a leading expert on the pharmacology of cannabinoids, is editor of "Marijuana and Madness," the third edition of an award-winning book that provides a comprehensive overview of the complex associations between cannabis and mental illness. The third edition has been revised and features eight new chapters. It incorporates new researc more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, June 1 (TNSres) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: In response to the opioid epidemic in the United States, interventions to prevent over-prescribing and misuse of opioids were enacted at institutional, state, and federal levels. To assess how changes in the prescribing landscape affected patients, a research team from the Yale COPPER Center examined the rates of both new and persistent opioid prescribing in patients with cancer as well as in patients  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, June 1 (TNSper)(TNSjou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: * * * Rohan Khera, MD, MS, a known expert in healthcare informatics, to serve on a leading medical journal. * * * Rohan Khera, MD, MS, assistant professor of medicine and biostatistics at the Yale School of Medicine, has been named associate editor at the Journal of the American Medical Association or JAMA, effective May 1, 2023. Established in 1883, JAMA is a peer-reviewed medical journal  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, June 1 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: * * * YSPH researchers study the underlying basis for increased diversity seen in NIH-funded MSTPs. * * * NIH-funded Medical Scientist Training Programs contribute to the diversity of the biomedical scientific workforce due to funding requirements, a Yale School of Public Health study has found. MSTPs funded by the National Institute of General Medical Science T32 training grants enroll more studen more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, May 31 (TNStalk) (TNSbook) -- Yale University issued the following Q&A on May 30, 2023, with Jill Jarvis, assistant professor of Francophone literature and culture in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences: * * * Yale's Jill Jarvis discusses the role of literature in "decolonizing" memory in Algeria and the intellectual journey that ultimately led her to North Africa. In 1830, France forcibly and violently colonized Algeria, keeping it as a territory until 1962, when the  more PR