PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 10 (TNSRes) -- Brown University issued the following news release: A $25 million gift from accomplished life sciences entrepreneur and investor Pablo Legorreta and his wife, Almudena, will advance a plan to transform Brown University's recently launched cancer center into a world-class cancer center located in Rhode Island. The gift will rename the Cancer Center at Brown University, established in 2020 to build on the strengths of the Joint Program in Cancer Biol  more

BUFFALO, New York, Dec. 9 (TNSOps) -- Buffalo State College issued the following news release: By Wendy A. Paterson In 1600s and 1700s America, prior to the first and second Industrial Revolutions, educational opportunity varied widely depending on region, race, gender, and social class. Public education, common in New England, was class-based, and the working class received few benefits, if any. Instructional styles and the nature of the curriculum were locally determined. Teachers themselve  more

BERLIN, Connecticut, Dec. 10 -- Eversource Energy, a provider of electricity and natural gas, issued the following news: With an eye toward making Connecticut a national leader in clean energy, Eversource and the University of Connecticut have extended their joint commitment to the Eversource Energy Center into 2028, with the energy company announcing it will invest $14 million in the program during that time. The extension, approved earlier today at a meeting of the UConn Board of Trustees, w  more

AUGUSTA, Maine, Dec. 10 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following news release on Dec. 9, 2021: Governor Janet Mills announced today that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved her request for a Federal COVID-19 Surge Response Team on behalf of Maine Medical Center (MMC) in Portland. Starting as early as this weekend and running through Thursday, December 23rd, fourteen Federal clinicians, including physicians, nurses, and paramedics, will supplement existing staf  more

PORTLAND, Maine, Dec. 10 (TNSOps) -- The Maine Medical Center issued the following news release on Dec. 9, 2021: Leaders from across MaineHealth, northern New England's largest integrated health care network, said today that an unprecedented surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations among the unvaccinated is pushing their network to the brink. As a result, Maine Medical Center in Portland, the region's leading tertiary care center, has at times this week run out of critical care beds and has had to d  more

PORTLAND, Maine, Dec. 10 -- MaineHealth issued the following news: MaineHealth Innovation will be investing $100,000 through its inaugural Bonfire Fund in two innovations designed to improve the care of patients. The innovations receiving funding are a robotic clot retriever to improve the way neurosurgeons clear blood clots from brains, and the Collapsible Aerosolized Particle Enclosure (CAPE), a portable negative pressure isolation tent that fits over patient beds to help contain infectious p  more

DURHAM, New Hampshire, Dec. 10 (TNSOps) -- The University of New Hampshire issued the following news release: Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have received $3.1 million from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) for an innovative project to pair marsh restoration and resilience efforts in the Hampton-Seabrook Estuary with dune stabilization measures from northern Massachusetts to southern New Hampshire. These endeavors are aimed at protecting the Great Marsh which ecol  more