CALLAGHAN, Australia, July 25 (TNSres) -- The University of Newcastle issued the following news: An internationally recognised researcher who has advanced our understanding of human birth has been named the 19th Freeman of the City of Newcastle. In a career that spans more than 35 years, Distinguished Laureate Professor Roger Smith AM has sought answers to some of medicine's biggest questions, helping families across the world with his research into pregnancy, premature birth and stillbirth.   more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 26 -- The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven issued the following news release: * * * The Community Foundation delivers $4.63 million to local nonprofits in a year of high demand for funding * * * The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven has awarded $4,626,285 in grants to a large and diverse group of nonprofit organizations serving Greater New Haven through its annual responsive grants program. Grants are being given to 142 nonprofits, a record to  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on July 25, 2024: DEVIN SUGGS, also known as "JB," 20, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in New Haven to 168 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his involvement in a violent New Haven street gang and several gang-related shootings. Today's announcement was made by Vanessa Roberts Avery  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 25 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: BOSTON A convicted felon has been sentenced in connection with firearm and drug offenses that occurred in 2019 and his subsequent possession of firearms and narcotics while on pre-trial release for the previously charged offenses. Christian Soares, a/k/a "Eazy," 31, of Brockton, was sentenced on July 18, 2024 by U.S. Senior District Court Ju  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 25 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: HARTFORD, Conn. Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that AURELIA CAROLINA LARA-DIAZ, 30, a citizen of the Dominican Republic last residing in Boston, Massachusetts, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vernon D. Oliver in Hartford to 50 months of imprisonment for trafficking fentanyl   more

DURHAM, New Hampshire, July 26 -- The University of New Hampshire issued the following news release: * * * Collaboration with University of Minnesota will focus on cold-climate challenges * * * The University of New Hampshire has been selected to lead the Cold Climate Center of Excellence for Stormwater Infrastructure Technology (CCCESIT), one of four Centers of Excellence for Stormwater Control Infrastructure Technologies established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The ce  more

WILMINGTON, Delaware, July 26 (TNSres) -- AstraZeneca, a biopharmaceutical company, issued the following news release: * * * FDA Advisory Committee reviewed IMFINZI(R) (durvalumab) for treatment of resectable non-small cell lung cancer based on AEGEAN Phase III trial results * * * The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) acknowledged that AstraZeneca's IMFINZI(R) (durvalumab) met the primary endpoint of event-free survival (EFS) in the treatment of r  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 26 -- GBH, a multiplatform creator for public media, issued the following news release on July 25, 2024: Boston public media producer GBH has been honored with 20 nominations across ANTIQUES ROADSHOW, FRONTLINE, and NOVA by The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) for the 2024 Annual Emmy(R) Awards. Today, FRONTLINE, GBH's investigative journalism series, received 17 nominations for the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, including in the Best Document  more

GEELONG, Australia, July 26 (TNSres) -- Deakin University issued the following news release: Deakin University preventative health experts have joined a team of researchers in Tamworth this week in the first step of a long-term project aimed at improving nutrition-related health outcomes within the community. Members of the Global Centre for Preventative health and Nutrition (GLOBE) in Deakin's Institute for Health Transformation (IHT) met with researchers from the University of Newcastle's De  more

WASHINGTON, July 25 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) has been nominated as a "New Englander of the Year" by the New England Council for her collaboration with the organization over her six terms in Congress to bring New England voices and values to Washington. The Council presents the New Englander of the Year Awards each fall at its Annual Celebration in Boston, an event that has drawn over 1,700 guests from throughout t  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 25 -- Brown University issued the following news: PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] Ilija Nikolov knows better than most that a quantum future is coming. In fact, he's so certain of it that he's helping one of the world's largest investment firms prepare for it. The Brown University Ph.D. student is completing an internship with the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology data science team at Fidelity Investments' Boston headquarters this summer. As an intern at  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release on July 25, 2024: A Salem man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in a North Shore-based drug trafficking organization (DTO) that manufactured and distributed tens of thousands of counterfeit prescription pills containing narcotics. Kion Shepherd, 25, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to 70 months in pri  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, July 25 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: By Austin Chen, MIT News correspondent It's one of the paradoxes of economic development: Many countries currently offer large subsidies to their industrial fishing fleets, even though the harms of overfishing are well-known. Governments might be willing to end this practice, if they saw that its costs outweighed its benefits. But each country, acting individually, faces an incentive to k  more

WASHINGTON, July 26 -- The Senate Special Committee on Aging released the following testimony by Christopher Whaley, an associate professor of health policy at the Brown University School of Public Health and an associate director of the Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research, from a July 11, 2024, hearing entitled "Health Care Transparency: Lowering Costs and Empowering Patients": * * * Chairman Casey, Ranking Member Braun, and members of the committee, thank you for the opportun  more

WASHINGTON, July 25 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: **Shaheen secured more than $24 million for critical projects across New Hampshire** Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Chair of the U.S. Senate Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies (CJS) Subcommittee and a senior member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, participated in a full committee markup of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 CJS Appropriations bill. In a 26-3 vote, the Committee approved the  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 25 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Robert Fuller, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging LUIS RODRIGUEZ, also known as "Plum" and "Minnie  more

WASHINGTON, July 26 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release on July 25, 2024: * * * This is the first subpoena issued by the HELP Committee since 1981 * * * As private equity's grip on the American health care system grows stronger and more dangerous, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today led the committee in a bipartisan vote to authorize an investigation into the bankruptcy of Stewa  more

WASHINGTON, July 26 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release on July 25, 2024: As private equity's grip on the American health care system grows stronger and more dangerous, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today led the committee in a bipartisan vote to authorize an investigation into the bankruptcy of Steward Health Car  more