HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 27 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on July 25, 2023: Attorney General William Tong joined a coalition of 16 attorneys general and New York City in calling on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to expand language access for critical government alerts sent to cell phones, known as Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEAs). In a comment letter, the coalition acknowledges the important steps FCC has taken to expand access to more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 27 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on July 26, 2023: Joining a coalition of 22 attorneys general, Attorney General William Tong today announced his opposition to a proposed class action settlement that fails to adequately hold accountable the 3M Company (3M) for contaminating Americans' drinking water supply. Under the proposed settlement, drinking water providers would withdraw the hundreds of lawsuits they have filed a more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 26 -- The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection issued the following news release on July 25, 2023: The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection ("DEEP") today released two draft Requests for Proposals for new large-scale zero carbon electricity resources. The proposals will help advance Governor Lamont's Energy Action Plan to improve energy affordability and reliability for Connecticut ratepayers, and help achieve the sta more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 27 (TNSres) -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on July 26, 2023: Governor Ned Lamont and the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) announced today that the State of Connecticut is proposing regulations to make cars and trucks up to 90% cleaner and to require vehicle manufacturers to deliver more zero-emission vehicles to Connecticut drivers while also increasing consumer protections. The public comment  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 25 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on July 24, 2023: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that, based on a recent audit that revealed a troubling number of erroneous records in the Connecticut State Police records management system and the State of Connecticut's traffic stop racial profiling database, he is commissioning an independent review to determine how and why this misconduct occurred, why it went undetected for so many year more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 25 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Governor Ned Lamont is encouraging advocates from the manufacturing industry to register for the Connecticut Manufacturing Ambassador Program, a recently launched state initiative that enlists industry advocates - called manufacturing ambassadors - who are interested in learning about the sector and volunteering their time to promote and strengthen the work being done around manufacturing statew more PR

MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut, July 27 -- Connecticut Wesleyan University issued the following news: From completing life-saving surgeries, to performing heart-gripping music, to fearlessly swimming the English Channel, the possession of paired appendages (arms and legs) is critical to human achievement. However, paired appendages are not unique to humans. Scientists have long known that human limbs evolved from the paired fins found in fishes, but where the first paired fins came from remains one of more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, July 28 (TNSres) -- Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, issued the following news release: * * * 52% of Organizations Say Risk Factors are a Critical Consideration When Evaluating AI Use Cases * * * A new Gartner, Inc. survey revealed that 55% of organizations that have previously deployed AI always consider AI for every new use case that they are evaluating. More than half of organizations (52%) report that risk factors are a critical con more PR

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, July 26 (TNSres) -- General Electric, a manufacturer of appliances, lighting, power systems and other products, issued the following news release on July 25, 2023: * * * Double-digit growth in orders, revenue, operating profit, and cash; raising 2023 guidance Second quarter 2023: * Total orders of $22.0B, +59%; organic orders +58% * Total revenues (GAAP) of $16.7B, +18%; adjusted revenues/* $15.9B, +19% organically/* * Profit margin (GAAP) of 8.3%, +1,510 bps; adjus more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, July 26 -- Greenwich Associates, a division of CRISIL, issued the following news release: Europe's corporate bond markets are the most electronic corporate bond markets in the world. According to new research from Coalition Greenwich, 62% of European investment-grade corporate bond trading volume was executed electronically in 2022, as was nearly half (49%) of notional high-yield volume. By comparison, 40% of U.S. investment-grade corporate bond trading volume and 31% of more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, July 26 -- Greenwich Associates, a division of CRISIL, issued the following news release: Indian companies are joining forces with the country's largest banks to help fuel their drive to become bigger, more international and more efficient. Nearly 90% of the large and middle market Indian corporates participating in the most recent Coalition Greenwich India Corporate Banking Study are optimistic about the outlook for their businesses over the coming year. Fully a third  more PR

NORTH HAVEN, Connecticut, July 28 -- M&T Bank, a financial holding company, issued the following news release on July 27, 2023: M&T Bank (NYSE: MTB) today announced the grand re-opening of its North Haven Branch, located at 117 Washington Avenue, North Haven, CT 06473. M&T acquired the branch through its merger with People's United Bank last year. It is located less than a mile from a Stop & Shop branch that was recently closed. Bank staff who serviced the Stop & Shop branch will now provide se more PR

HAMDEN, Connecticut, July 19 (TNSres) -- Quinnipiac University Poll has issued the following news release: * * * Majority Expect Climate Change To Negatively Affect World In Their Lifetime * * * With the 2024 presidential race potentially pitting a current and former president against each other and more than a dozen other candidates officially seeking their party's presidential nomination, voters are evenly split about voting for a third-party candidate, with 47 percent saying they would co more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 26 (TNSper) -- Southern Connecticut State University issued the following news: Philosophy Professor and Chair David Pettigrew, who specializes in topics related to the genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has been honored with one of the most prestigious faculty recognition awards given by the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) System. At a June meeting of the CSCU Board of Regents, Pettigrew was named a Connecticut State University Professor for hi more PR

WEST HAVEN, Connecticut, July 28 (TNSres) -- The University of New Haven issued the following news: * * * Nearly a dozen Chargers have received grants or scholarships from the NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium that will support their cutting-edge research, create important educational opportunities, and, possibly, lead to exciting scientific discoveries. * * * By Renee Chmiel, Office of Marketing and Communications For Katie Durkee '24 M.S., the opportunities she's had to conduct res more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 25 (TNSres) -- Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science issued the following news: Yale alumni Kevin and Lukas Czinger have created the first "human/AI-designed and 3D-printed hypercar." It only hints at the father-son team's greater ambition. The first thing people typically know about the father-son team of Kevin Czinger '82, '87 J.D and Lukas Czinger '17 is the car. Known as the Czinger 21C, it's sleek, sporty, and extremely fast. And it has the numbers t more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 27 -- Yale School of Management issued the following news: Ishita Chakraborty, who received her PhD in marketing at Yale SOM in 2021, is the co-winner of the 2023 Donald R. Lehmann Award, presented by the American Marketing Association's Marketing Research Special Interest Group to honor the best dissertation-based article recently published in the Journal of Marketing or Journal of Marketing Research. Chakraborty, who is now on the faculty of the Wisconsin School  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 28 -- Yale School of Public Health issued the following news: A research team co-led by Yale School of Public Health professor Dr. Sunil Parikh, MD, MPH, has received $500,000 in funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to continue the development of an innovative noninvasive test for malaria using lasers and ultrasound. The grant will allow researchers to build two improved prototypes of their cytophone testing platform and to do extensive field testing in more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 25 -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: On the morning of the 12th annual Global Health Day, March 16, 2023, Sheela Shenoi, MD, MPH, associate director of the Internal Medicine Office of Global Health and associate professor of medicine (infectious diseases) announced the winners of this year's Global Health awards. Anne Havlik, MPH, won the Asghar Rastegar Global Health Medical Education & Capacity Building Award, and Kenneth Gunasekera, MD, PhD, more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 25 (TNSres) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: * * * Website Is Launched to Extend Program's Reach * * * With staggering mortality rates, the COVID-19 pandemic brought with it a secondary grief crisis. The Grief-Sensitive Healthcare Project was developed at the Yale Child Study Center (YCSC) in 2020 to address issues related to this crisis, in collaboration with Child Bereavement UK and the New York Life Foundation. With the recent launch of a  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 26 -- The Yale University School of Medicine issued the following news: A new deep learning application provides an automated screening method for left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction. The condition substantially reduces the pumping capacity of the heart and is associated with frequent hospitalizations and a twofold risk of premature death. LV dysfunction is preventable with timely detection and initiation of medications. However, identifying the disease befor more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 28 -- The Yale University School of Medicine issued the following news: Immune-checkpoint inhibitors have become the standard of care for patients with advanced melanoma to improve survival, but only some patients respond to this immunotherapy and have long-term benefits. The lack of a long-lasting response, researchers say, is related to failure of antitumor immunologic memory. Treatment options for advanced melanoma are limited for patients who do not respond to t more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 25 (TNSres) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * Yale alumni Kevin and Lukas Czinger have created the first "human/AI-designed and 3D-printed hypercar." It only hints at the father-son team's greater ambition. * * * The first thing people typically know about the father-son team of Kevin Czinger '82, '87 J.D and Lukas Czinger '17 is the car. Known as the Czinger 21C, it's sleek, sporty, and extremely fast. And it has the numbers to back up its fut more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 27 -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * A Yale-led research team has conducted the first genome-wide study of retainers who lived and worked at Machu Picchu. * * * A genetic analysis suggests that the servants and retainers who lived, worked, and died at Machu Picchu, the renowned 15th century Inca palace in southern Peru, were a diverse community representing many different ethnic groups from across the Inca empire. The genomic data, described in more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 26 (TNSjou) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * In a new study, Yale researchers reveal new insights into the role of the LRRK2 gene in triggering the devastating neurodegenerative disease. * * * The role played by mutations in the LRRK2 gene in promoting Parkinson's disease has long intrigued scientists, and even led to an experimental drug that inhibits the over-active protein. Yet exactly how LRRK2 triggers this devastating neurodegenerative di more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 28 (TNSres) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * A new Yale study has identified a way to tame the self-destructive tendencies of certain killer T cells that are used to treat cancer. * * * In a promising form of immunotherapy known as CAR T-cell (chimeric antigen receptor) therapy, the patient's T cells are engineered to better recognize and attack antigens on the surface of cancer cells. In treatments currently approved for use in battling lympho more PR