WORCESTER, Massachusetts, July 7 (TNSper) -- Clark University issued the following news: The Clark University Board of Trustees appointed six new members on July 1, and welcomed a familiar face back for another term. New members appointed to six-year terms are Lawrence Franks, M.A. '73, of Arlington, Virginia; Janet Goss '82 of Bethesda, Maryland; Karen Patterson Greene '92 of Natick, Massachusetts; Peter Mugar '96 of Boston; Jennifer Ottinger '94 of New York City; and Mark Wetzel of North Gra more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 6 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong joined a coalition of 16 state attorneys general in an amicus brief supporting schools' ability to protect the privacy of transgender students who have shared their identity with school staff. The brief, filed with the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Foote et al. v. Ludlow School Committee et al., argues in support of the Ludlow, Ma more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 6 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on July 5, 2023: Attorney General William Tong joined a coalition of 18 state attorneys general in filing an amicus brief defending Rhode Island's restrictions on large-capacity firearm magazines. The coalition filed the brief in Ocean State Tactical, LLC, et al. v. State of Rhode Island, a lawsuit seeking to overturn a 2022 Rhode Island law restricting magazines to a maximum of 10 roun more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 6 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement on July 5, 2023: * * * Attorney General William Tong issued a statement following a decision by Superior Court Judge Cesar A. Noble requiring WinRed Technical Services (WRTS) to comply with Connecticut's consumer protection investigation. Connecticut, Maryland, Minnesota and New York initiated an investigation in 2021 into both WinRed and ActBlue and whether the use of pre-checked recurri more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 7 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on July 6, 2023: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he has received notification from U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack informing him that his request has been approved for Connecticut to receive a federal agricultural disaster declaration due to the impact of the abnormal, sub-freezing weather event that occurred in the early morning hours of May 18, 2023. This declarati more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 4 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on July 3, 2023: Governor Ned Lamont today announced the creation of a state initiative to help incentivize prospective members to join the Connecticut National Guard. The initiative, known as the Joint Enlistment Enhancement Program (JEEP), will provide current and retired members of the Connecticut National Guard with the financial incentive of $500 per qualified lead that results in enlistment  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 6 -- The Connecticut Department of Transportation issued the following news release on July 5, 2023: The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) will conduct a virtual public information meeting regarding Phase 2 of the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail (Route 72 to Northwest Drive) on Thursday, July 20, 2023 at 7 p.m. The virtual Public Information Meeting is being held to provide the community an opportunity to learn about the proposed project and allow for more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 6 -- The Connecticut Department of Transportation issued the following news release: The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) will conduct a virtual public information meeting concerning the Reconstruction of Bridge No. 02572, U.S. Route 1 over South Frontage Road and I-95 Northbound Exit 83 Ramp in New London on July 27, 2023, at 7 p.m. The virtual public information meeting is being held to provide the public and local community the opportunity to offe more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 6 -- The Connecticut Department of Transportation issued the following news release on July 5, 2023: The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) will conduct a virtual public information meeting concerning the Replacement of the Route 149 Bridge over Dykas Brook in East Haddam on Tuesday, July 18 at 7 p.m. The virtual public information meeting is being held to provide the public and local community the opportunity to offer comments or ask questions regardi more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, June 29 -- Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, issued the following news release: With various lawmakers across the globe proposing regulations and guidance on large language model (LLM) tools, such as ChatGPT and Google Bard, Gartner, Inc. has identified four critical areas for general counsel (GC) and legal leaders to address. "Legal leaders can examine where the various proposals overlap to help senior leaders and the board prepare for re more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, June 29 (TNSres) -- Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, issued the following news release: * * * However, Frontline Roles Lag in Recruitment and Retention * * * Women have made a strong comeback to the supply chain workforce in 2023, with gains at nearly every level of leadership, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. The advances were particularly prominent at the C-Suite and executive level, where 26% of those roles (CSCO, SVP, EVP, CPO more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, July 6 (TNSres) -- Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, issued the following news release: * * * Strategists Believe More Strategic Planning and Execution Activities Could Automated * * * Seventy-nine percent of corporate strategists said that technologies such as analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation will be critical to their success over the next two years, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. Strategists said that, on more PR

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, July 4 -- Husch Blackwell, a law firm, issued the following news release: On June 30, 2023, the Delaware legislature passed the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act (HB 154). Subject to the procedural formalities in the legislature, the bill will move to Delaware Governor John Carney for consideration. Assuming the bill becomes law, Delaware will become the twelfth state - and seventh this year - to pass a consumer data privacy law. The other states that have passed bills  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 8 (TNSres) -- Yale Economic Growth Center issued the following news: The EGC affiliate and Tuntex Professor of International and Development Economics discussed his research, co-authored with Tianyu Fan and Michael Peters of Yale, which uses Indian household data to propose a new model for estimating the distribution of service-sector welfare gains for the Foundation for Economic Growth and Welfare (EGROW) webinar series. * * * Growing Like India: The Unequal Effe more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 6 (TNSjou) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * Maps of brain connectivity are built on brain atlases, of which there are many. A new tool allows researchers to compare maps built on different atlases. * * * The ability to map connections between different regions of the brain has helped scientists better understand the brain's relationship to behavior, how brains differ between people, and how they're affected by disease. These maps, called connec more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 7 (TNSper) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Andrew Goodman, PhD, C.N.H. Long Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and director of the Yale Microbial Sciences Institute, has been appointed chair of the Department of Microbial Pathogenesis. Over the past year, Goodman has served as interim chair of the department. Goodman received an undergraduate degree in ecology and evolutionary biology from Princeton University and a PhD in microbiology and mo more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 6 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: For the past eight years, Dennis Moledina, MD, PhD, assistant professor (nephrology), has been searching for a new method to determine if a patient with acute kidney injury (AKI) has acute interstitial nephritis (AIN), a common cause of AKI. AIN is a reaction to commonly used medications that causes kidney inflammation and injury. "Right now, we don't have any blood or urine tests available to diagnos more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 7 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news on July 6, 2023: The ability to turn genes on or off is fundamental to the diversity we see in cells, in individuals, and even in terms of health and disease. This process, known as gene transcription, involves converting the information stored in our DNA into a "carbon copy" called RNA. Until recently, scientists have relied on inexact illustrations and indirect experiments to understand this process,  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, June 29 (TNSper) -- Yale University issued the following news: William N. Eskridge Jr., a national expert on statutory interpretation and sexuality, gender, and the law whose work has transformed both fields, has been appointed the Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Public Law, effective immediately. Eskridge who joined the faculty at Yale Law School in 1998, was previously the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence. The Bickel professorship, considered one of the mos more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 4 (TNSper) -- Yale University issued the following news: Jessica Brantley, a scholar of medieval reading cultures as they are reflected in manuscripts, and whose writing has illuminated the connection between material culture and devotional practices, has been appointed the Frederick W. Hilles Professor of English, effective immediately. She is a member of Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), where she is currently the chair of the Department of English. A g more PR