PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 3 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Oct. 1: Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that a Brown University student team is among eight undergraduate and graduate student teams selected from colleges and universities across the country for project funding through EPA's People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) grant program. The Brown team is being awarded $75,000. "I congratulate these students for t  more

NEW YORK, Oct. 2 (TNSJou) -- Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health issued the following news: A new article in the New England Journal of Medicine reviews scientific progress in understanding aging in the 50 years since the founding of the Institute of Medicine (now called the National Academy of Medicine). The Perspective article by renowned aging scholars Dean Linda P. Fried and John Rowe points to promising developments in aging science, medicine, and public health, yet argue  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, Oct. 3 (TNSPer) -- Emory University's Winship Cancer Institute issued the following news release: Kevin Kalinsky, MD, MS, will join Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University (Winship) November 9th as director of its Glenn Family Breast Center and as associate professor in Emory University School of Medicine's Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology. Kalinsky comes to Winship from New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York, N.  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 3 -- The Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition issued the following news on Oct. 2: The State Department has announced that only 15,000 refugees will be allowed to resettle in the U.S. in the 2021 fiscal year that begins today, a record-low cap for a refugee resettlement program that is already in tatters after nearly four years of hostile policies. For fiscal 2020, the Trump administration had capped refugee admissions at 18,000, but State Departme  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 3 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Oct. 1: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that the Agency selected 12 recipients to receive approximately $3 million in funding to help reduce food loss and waste and to divert food waste from landfills by expanding anaerobic digester capacity in the United States. The project types selected for funding include feasibility studies, demonstration projects, as well as t  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 -- Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Oct. 2: On Monday, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) joined Rep. Jared Huffman (CA-02), Chair of the House Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife, to take part in a session of the nationwide fisheries virtual listening tour for a discussion on federal fisheries policy in the context of the New England fishery management region. Courtney and Huffman were joined by Reps. Seth Moulton (MA-06), Chellie   more

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire, Oct. 3 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on Oct. 2: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) hosted a roundtable discussion this morning with Somersworth officials to highlight the need to prioritize state and local funding in COVID-19 response legislation. Later in the day, she participated in a ceremony honoring the selection of National Flight Simulator of Manchester as the Small Business Administration's (SBA) New Hampshire Veter  more