NEW YORK, Jan. 24 -- New York University issued the following news release on Jan. 23, 2024: NYU President Linda G. Mills today announced the appointment of Professor Avinoam Patt as the inaugural director of NYU's Center for Study of Antisemitism and the Maurice Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies in NYU's Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. Patt--a scholar of the Holocaust and Israel whose work at the University of Connecticut included a one-credit course titled Why the Jew  more

DENVER, Colorado, Jan. 23 -- Gov. Jared Polis, D-Colorado, issued the following news release on Jan. 22, 2024: Today, in a letter to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel, Governor Polis, joined fellow governors in urging the commissioner to provide guidance on the taxability of Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) benefits, and also encouraged the IRS to prevent double taxation. The Governor was joined by Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, Maryland Governor Wes Moore, Massachusetts Governor Maura  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Jan. 26 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Jan. 25, 2024: Attorney General William Tong today filed two lawsuits against 28 chemical manufacturers responsible for knowingly contaminating Connecticut waters and natural resources and harming public health with toxic PFAS "forever chemicals." The two complaints (https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/AG/Press_Releases/2024/Binder1.pdf) seek to hold the companies responsible for dangerous  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Jan. 23 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Jan. 22, 2024: Governor Ned Lamont and Connecticut Housing Commissioner Seila-Mosquera Bruno today announced that the Connecticut Department of Housing is awarding $12.1 million in grants to eight municipalities for upgrades that will modernize and rehabilitate housing for low and moderate-income individuals, as well as community infrastructure. The grants are being awarded through the Commun  more

MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut, Jan. 25 (TNSres) -- Connecticut Wesleyan University issued the following news: The Earth's present-day atmosphere has a carbon concentration that's 50 percent higher than it was before industrialization, a rapid escalation that is a contributing factor to widespread climate changes, according to experts across the field of paleoclimatology. To further understand the potential effects of climate change and other important aspect of Earth's climate history, Dana Royer, G  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 24 -- Yale Law School issued the following news release: Dean Heather K. Gerken has announced that Joshua Macey '17 will be joining the Yale Law School faculty as an Associate Professor of Law on July 1, 2024. Macey teaches and writes about bankruptcy, environmental law, energy law, and the regulation of financial institutions. He has won the Morrison Prize -- awarded to the "most impactful sustainability-related legal academic paper published in North America duri  more

DOBBS FERRY, New York, Jan. 23 -- Mercy University issued the following news: Elementary, middle and high school students, teachers and the communities of 10 public schools in New York and Connecticut will comprise the new Long Island Sound Schools network, a program committed to the protection of local watersheds, the Sound and our one global ocean. The program is modeled on the National Atmospheric and Oceanographic Administration's (NOAA) Ocean Guardian Schools and the international Blue Sch  more

SOUTH HADLEY, Massachusetts, Jan. 25 -- Mount Holyoke College issued the following news: Amanda Mayfield has been appointed as the associate vice president of finance at Mount Holyoke College. Mount Holyoke College has announced the appointment of Amanda Mayfield as associate vice president of finance. She previously served as the associate vice president of finance at Connecticut College. Mayfield brings over 20 years of experience in higher education finance and will start her position in F  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Jan. 27 -- The Pennsylvania Democratic Party issued the following news: Connecticut hedge fund mega-millionaire David McCormick was crowned this week's "biggest loser" by City and State Pennsylvania for admitting to an Ivy League crowd in New Hampshire that he is only "spending half [his] time in Pennsylvania" and the other half with "really wealthy people." ICYMI: City & State Pennsylvania: This week's biggest winners & losers * Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dave  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Jan. 25 -- The Pennsylvania Democratic Party issued the following news: Connecticut hedge fund mega-millionaire David McCormick admitted to a New Hampshire crowd that he is only "spending half [his] time in Pennsylvania" and the other half with "really wealthy people," making a point to differentiate between the "median income [of] $55,000 to $60,000" in Pennsylvania and the "really wealthy people" to his Ivy League audience. Listen to the full quote HERE (https://twi  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Jan. 24 -- The Pennsylvania Democratic Party issued the following news: In a recent interview with WGAL, Connecticut hedge fund executive David McCormick refused to say how many days he's spent in Pennsylvania in the last year. Watch the interview HERE: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODpofd791ng) WGAL's Barbara Barr: "Can you tell us how many days you lived in Pennsylvania last year versus how many in Connecticut?" McCormick: "You know, like, I..listen...I..I.."   more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Jan. 24 -- The Connecticut Department of Transportation issued the following news release: The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) is developing plans to replace existing traffic control signal equipment with new equipment to meet current CTDOT standards at 24 locations in the cities or towns of Avon, Danbury, East Granby, Farmington, Kent, Middlebury, Simsbury, and Southbury. At applicable locations, pedestrian control features (countdown pedestrian indicati  more

GREENWICH, Connecticut, Jan. 24 -- RSR Partners, a provider of professional services, issued the following agency statement on Jan. 22, 2024: * * * When Russ Reynolds founded our firm back in 1994, he knew that "bigger isn't always better." And so, he purposely created a boutique firm with a truly collaborative and client first culture, and with a goal of providing our clients with "high touch" service and unbiased advice. We started out in the boardroom, focusing our efforts on recruiting dir  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 26 -- Southern Connecticut State University issued the following news: Southern Connecticut State University celebrated the acquisition of a prestigious five-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) on Thursday, Jan. 25. The grant, part of the renowned Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program, aims to recruit, retain, and graduate students currently underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathemat  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Jan. 25 -- The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing issued the following news: Wendy A. Henderson, PhD, CRNP, FAASLD, FAAN, has been appointed the Gail and Ralph Reynolds President's Distinguished Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and will serve as a faculty member in Penn Nursing's Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences. She joins Penn Nursing from the University of Connecticut where she held a joint appointment as Professor in the School of N  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 23 (TNSres) -- The Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science issued the following news: * * * The National Academy of Sciences recognized Michel Devoret and Robert Schoelkopf for their innovative work in quantum information processing. * * * By Jim Shelton The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has awarded the prestigious Comstock Prize in Physics to Yale researchers Michel Devoret and Robert Schoelkopf for their groundbreaking work in quantum information p  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 26 -- The Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science issued the following news: Using state-of-the-art aircraft-based measurements and supporting laboratory experiments, a team of Yale and Canadian researchers found that many pollutants in the air related to Canadian oil sands greatly exceed the emissions that have been previously reported. Over recent decades, global petroleum production has shifted towards more unconventional sources, including oil sands. In   more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 25 (TNSres) -- Yale School of Public Health issued the following news: By Fran Fried Rafael Perez-Escamilla, professor of public health (social & behavioral sciences) at the Yale School of Public Health, has been awarded a $400,000 grant from the American Heart Association to study how a novel produce-prescription program might improve the health of Hispanic people in Hartford, Connecticut, with type 2 diabetes. The study summary, as presented by Perez-Escamilla,   more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 23 (TNSres) -- Yale School of Environment issued the following news: * * * Forests play a key role in mitigating climate change by removing and storing carbon dioxide, but they are facing increasing challenges. In the new Department of Energy report "Roads to Removal," a team of YSE scientists map out a plan to reach critical climate goals by increasing carbon uptake in forests. * * * A new U.S. Department of Energy report co-authored by Yale School of the Enviro  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 27 (TNSres) -- The Yale University School of Medicine issued the following agency statement on Jan. 26, 2024: * * * The VA Connecticut Healthcare System and the Yale School of Medicine (YSM) are pleased to announce that Alan Dardik, MD, PhD, will assume the position of Chief of Surgery for VA Connecticut at the end of February 2024. He replaces Melissa Perkal, MD, who has served as Acting Chief for the West Haven Center since the retirement of Ronnie Rosenthal, MD,  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 24 (TNSres) -- The Yale University School of Medicine issued the following news: Ruslan Medzhitov, PhD, Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, has been chosen to receive the 2024 Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal, awarded by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The medal is given every two years for outstanding research in the medical sciences. As noted in the NAS announcement, "Medzhitov's pioneering contributions  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 26 (TNSres) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * As the Yale Peabody Museum prepares to reopen after a major renovation, a team of skilled specialists is helping its smaller fossil exhibits come to life. * * * A pair of prehistoric predators stand together in the preparators' lab in the basement of the Yale Peabody Museum. Poposaurus, a 200-million-year-old bipedal carnivore, bares its pointy teeth. To its right, Deinonychus, a nimble raptor that   more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 23 (TNSres) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * The National Academy of Sciences recognized Michel Devoret and Robert Schoelkopf for their innovative work in quantum information processing. * * * The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has awarded the prestigious Comstock Prize in Physics to Yale researchers Michel Devoret and Robert Schoelkopf for their groundbreaking work in quantum information processing and related fields. Both are members of   more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 25 (TNSres) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * New study offers insights into how living organisms distribute the energy needed to support all functions of the body -- which likely also influences behavior. * * * Every system in a living organism depends upon a finite supply of energy in order to function. In humans, no organ is more energy-intensive than the brain, which consumes about 20% of the body's metabolic energy. But how is energy distr  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 23 (TNSres) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * In recent years scientists have been surprised to find RNAs outside of their cellular comfort zone. A Yale study offers insight into what they're doing there. * * * Ribonucleic acids (RNAs) are the ultimate cellular insiders. They perform several critical jobs, such as ferrying genetic instructions from a living organism's DNA to its protein-making machinery (a process key to cellular processes) and   more