WASHINGTON, July 20 (TNSpol) -- The National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild posted the following news release and joint letter on July 19, 2022, with 155 organizations: In light of the Supreme Court's rights-stripping decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, today, 156 immigration, criminal justice, and civil rights organizations sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) urging the agency to immediately issue clear guidance to prevent the Dob  more

NORTHAMPTON, Massachusetts, July 20 (TNSper) -- The American Farmland Trust issued the following news release: Jim Hafner, Ph.D., joins American Farmland Trust as New England Deputy Director where he will oversee the management and implementation of AFT's New England Regional Programs and help define the regional strategy and engage with partners to identify new opportunities. Hafner joins AFT with a background in program management, strategy, and administration in farm service and advocacy org  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 20 -- The Boston Foundation issued the following news release on July 19, 2022: The Asian Community Fund (ACF) at the Boston Foundation today announced $240,000 in grants to 35 nonprofits, in the first round of grants made through the new fund. The funding was made possible in part by an allocation from the Boston Foundation's COVID-19 Response Fund targeting Asian-focused organizations. The ACF leveraged those funds to give out $100,000 in general operating support  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 20 (TNSper) -- Bunker Hill Community College issued the following news release: Somerville poet and longtime BHCC Humanities faculty member Doug Holder was elected co-president of the New England Poetry Club in June 2022. The club, founded in 1915 by Robert Frost, Amy Lowell and Conrad Aiken, offers writing workshops, sponsors contests and grants to poets, and hosts the oldest poetry reading series in the country. Holder, who has taught writing at BHCC since 2010, is  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 20 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: The New England Journal of Medicine reported an important finding in 2019 from a Yale-led clinical trial: for the first time, researchers showed that a drug, teplizumab, could delay the development of type 1 diabetes by two years. Kevan Herold, MD, C.N.H. Long Professor of Immunology and professor of medicine (endocrinology), and the principal investigator of the trial, said teplizumab likely will be  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 20 (TNStalk) -- Environment Massachusetts issued the following statement on July 19, 2022: * * * President Joe Biden will visit the site of the former Brayton Point coal-fired power plant in Somerset on Wednesday and speak about climate change and the transition to clean energy, administration officials announced today. Ben Hellerstein, state director for Environment Massachusetts, issued the following statement: "There's no better example of the transition from f  more

WASHINGTON, July 20 (TNScapv) -- Friends of the Earth issued the following news release and joint letter on July 19, 2022: A letter sent today to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan urges him to immediately act on the EPA's existing authority to provide federal oversight of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), also known as factory farms, under the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act. The letter, signed by 21  more

WASHINGTON, July 20 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases issued the following news release on July 19, 2022: Although COVID-19 booster vaccinations in adults elicit high levels of neutralizing antibodies against the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, antibody levels decrease substantially within 3 months, according to new clinical trial data. The findings, published today in Cell Reports Medicine, are from a study sponso  more

WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts, July 20 (TNSres) (TNStalk) -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Northeast Fisheries Science Center issued the following agency statement on July 19, 2022: * * * We completed approximately 85 percent of planned stations, from the mouth of Chesapeake Bay through the Gulf of Maine. * * * Our Ecosystem Monitoring cruises help researchers understand and predict changes in the Northeast shelf ecosystem and its fisheries. Core sampling on the spring Ec  more

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- Rep. John B. Larson, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release and letter on July 19, 2022: Members of the Connecticut Congressional Delegation, Representatives John B. Larson (CT-01), Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), and Joe Courtney (CT-02) sent a letter to President Biden urging him to utilize the full powers of the Defense Production Act as another tool to lower gas prices now and fight the high prices Americans are facing at the pump. Gas prices have begun to fall, but e  more

ROCHESTER, New York, July 20 (TNSper) -- The University of Rochester issued the following news release: Named positions celebrate the contributions of professors as researchers, scholars, and teachers. Several faculty members at the University of Rochester were appointed to named professorships in the first half of 2022. An honor designed to recognize the national stature of a professor's work, the named positions are part of a long-standing tradition to celebrate the work of Rochester's facul  more