SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Oct. 28 (TNSGra)(TNScapV) -- The Association of Zoos and Aquariums issued the following news release: The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) has awarded Conservation Grants Fund (CGF) grants totaling nearly $290,000 to 13 research and conservation projects led by AZA members. Established in 1984, the AZA Conservation Grants Fund is a competitive grants program that supports the cooperative conservation-related scientific and educational initiatives of AZA members   more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Oct. 28 (TNSMon) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: The Food and Drug Administration's Office of Minority Health and Health Equity (OMHHE) has awarded a $3 million contract to Yale School of Medicine (YSM) to promote clinical trial education, awareness, and access for underrepresented minorities. Yale made great strides in this area at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the work now being funded will build on that work by further refining approac  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following statement on Oct. 27, 2021, by Commissioner James Danly on a decision (Docket No. ER21-2582-000) involving Fair Rates Act on PJM minimum offer price rule: * * * I submit this statement in accordance with section 205(g)(1)(B) of the Federal Power Act (FPA).[1] I voted to deny the proposal. PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (PJM) filed revisions to its Open Access Transmission Tariff (OATT  more

TOPSHAM, Maine, Oct. 29 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following news release on Oct. 28, 2021: Governor Janet Mills today received her COVID-19 booster shot at the CVS Pharmacy in Target in Topsham. The Governor received a Moderna booster. "I was grateful to get my booster shot today. It was free, quick, and easy, and I'll be better protected from COVID as a result," said Governor Mills. "The dangerous and more infectious Delta variant is making people seriously ill and landing them  more

AUGUSTA, Maine, Oct. 29 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following radio address transcript: People have asked me how I'm voting on Question One, the NECEC Corridor. Well, I voted just the other day at my town office. And I voted No. This is Governor Janet Mills. Let me tell you why. Last night, thousands of Maine people turned up their thermostats to keep warm as the weather gets colder. For nearly 60 percent of Maine homeowners, that means their oil furnace is firing up, and, at an   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 29 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey issued the following news release: Yesterday, Attorney General Maura Healey in collaboration with Lawyers for Civil Rights, the Anti-Defamation League, NAACP Boston Branch, and Greater Boston Legal Services' Asian Outreach Unit, hosted a "Virtual Convening on Addressing Hate in Our Communities" for municipal, school, and community leaders in Massachusetts. The convening featured remarks by AG Healey, a panel discussi  more

DENVER, Oct. 28 (TNSJou) -- National Jewish Health, a respiratory hospital, issued the following news release: A new monoclonal antibody therapy shows promise in offering an alternative treatment for patients suffering from moderate-to-severe asthma. Research led by Michael E. Wechsler, MD, MMSc, director of the National Jewish Health Cohen Family Asthma Institute, found that itepekimab was safe and effective in a phase 2 trial published online today in the New England Journal of Medicine. Ast  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on Oct. 27, 2021: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and U.S. Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) today applauded an announcement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that the Biden administration will make available $256,000,000 for Title X providers for fiscal year (FY) 2022. Title X funding is critical for New Hampshire family  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has joined the Vermont Agency of Agriculture Food and Markets (VAAFM) in announcing the latest round of grants available to dairy farmers, value-added dairy producers and agricultural service providers through the Northeastern Dairy Business Innovation Center (DBIC). A wide range of grants and contracts, from implementing on-farm grazing practices, to food safety, to b  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- The Smithsonian Institution issued the following news release on Oct. 28, 2021: Debuting with the exhibition "FUTURES" at the Smithsonian's Arts and Industries Building (AIB), a new project 'Smithsonian Future Visions 2071' will imagine possible future worlds based on current cutting-edge Smithsonian research, in honor of the Institution's 175th anniversary. Arizona State University's Center for Science and the Imagination (CSI) invited eight Smithsonian research teams to  more

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire, Oct. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Secret Service issued the following news release on Oct. 27, 2021: The U.S. Secret Service today welcomed five newly deputized task force officers to the New England Cyber Fraud Task Force (NECFTF). The NECFTF is composed of officials from state and local law enforcement throughout Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont and Maine and is charged with preventing, detecting and mitigating complex cyber-c  more

ORONO, Maine, Oct. 29 (TNSGra) -- The University of Maine issued the following news release: Maine Sea Grant staff and Maine-based researchers will advance a multimillion-dollar NOAA Sea Grant American Lobster Initiative (ALI), which announced its third round of funding. Six newly funded research projects, three of which are led by Maine-based researchers, will address critical gaps in knowledge about how the American lobster (Homarus americanus) is being impacted by environmental change in th  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Oct. 29 -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: After 18 years of service, Ingrid Mayer, MD, MSCI, professor of Medicine and Ingram Professor of Cancer Research, is departing Vanderbilt University Medical Center for a new role as an executive with AstraZeneca. In December she will become vice president, Global Clinical Head, Breast Cancer, and the head of Breast Cancer Research Strategy at AstraZeneca. Mayer is an internationally respected exper  more