NEW YORK, July 3 -- Columbia University Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory issued the following commentary on July 2, 2025: * * * AI and Climate Justice: Balancing Risk With Opportunity As AI expands its global reach, how can we ensure its just and inclusive use when applied to climate science? By Marco Tedesco When we think of artificial intelligence (AI) and climate justice, we can imagine two stars in an orbital waltz; each with its own gravity, sometimes in harmony, while other times in t  more

ALBANY, New York, July 1 (TNSbrep) -- New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli issued the following news release: * * * DiNapoli: Proposed Congressional Cuts to SNAP Program Mean More New Yorkers Without Enough Food Rising Food Insecurity Statewide Will Only Get Worse * Proposed federal changes to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), the nation's largest program helping households obtain food, would increase costs to state governments, limit eligibility and reduce th  more

ALBANY, New York, July 1 -- The New York State Department of Labor issued the following news release: * * * New York State Department of Labor Announces Workforce Scheduler For Job Seekers Time-saving Tool Helps Customers Manage Upcoming Appointments and Connect with NYSDOL * The New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) today announced its Workforce Scheduler, a new self-service website to help customers better manage access to the wide range of no-cost career services offered by the Dep  more

NEW YORK, July 4 (TNSjou) -- Rockefeller University issued the following news: * * * Rockefeller team finds flawed data in recent study relevant to coronavirus antiviral development The COVID pandemic illustrated how urgently we need antiviral medications capable of treating coronavirus infections. To aid this effort, researchers quickly homed in on part of SARS-Cov-2's molecular structure known as the NiRAN domain--an enzyme region essential to viral replication that's common to many coronav  more

ROCHESTER, New York, July 4 -- Rochester Institute of Technology issued the following news release: * * * Visiting student joins RIT robotics lab and gets 'dream' experience Aayush Kulkarni adds the sense of touch in robotic technology during internship * Robots that can sense and act through touch? That is what Aayush Kulkarni, an undergraduate visiting student, taught a robot to do during his internship at RIT. Kulkarni is participating in the International Visiting Research Student Prog  more