NEW YORK, Dec. 23 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The American Civil Liberties Union, an organization that works to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the U.S., issued the following news release: The American Civil Liberties Union celebrates President Biden's historic action in commuting 37 federal death sentences. In making this decision, President Biden has taken an unequivocal stand against one of the most flawed and inhumane mechanism  more

NEW YORK, Dec. 24 -- The Ad Council issued the following news release on Dec. 23, 2024: * * * Local broadcast TV stations nationwide unite during the holiday season to remind viewers that 'Buzzed Driving is Drunk Driving' * * * The Ad Council, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and the Television Bureau of Advertising (TVB), today announced the 21st annual Project Roadblock initiative. Local broadcast TV station  more

ITHACA, New York, Dec. 23 -- Cornell University issued the following news: There's something particularly Cornellian about December commencement. "And by that I don't just mean we have it when it is dark, gray and freezing cold outside," said Interim President Michael I. Kotlikoff, addressing 500 graduates and nearly 2,000 guests at the university's 22nd December Recognition Ceremony at Barton Hall on Dec. 22. "It's that a December commencement, recognizing graduates who completed their degree  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 -- Friends of the Earth issued the following statement on Dec. 23, 2024: * * * In response to New York Governor Hochul's decision to veto the NY Tropical Rainforest Economic and Environmental Sustainability (TREES) Act, Jeff Conant, Senior International Forest Program Manager at Friends of the Earth, has released the following statement: Governor Hochul's veto of the TREES Act is an unfortunate delay to the urgent need for state-level climate action. Deforestation, forest  more

SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, Dec. 23 -- The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation issued the following news release: The final brief has been submitted urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear six City University of New York (CUNY) professors' First Amendment case challenging the monopoly representation powers of Professional Staff Congress (PSC) union officials. The professors, five of whom are Jewish, want to dissociate completely from PSC based on public statements and other actions the pro  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following news release: * * * Drilling and fracking with carbon dioxide is now permanently banned * * * Environmental, public health, and community leaders from across New York are thrilled that Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law the bill (A8866/ S8357) that bans drilling and fracking for natural gas and oil using carbon dioxide (CO2). The simple bill, which passed the legislature in March with bipartisan support, closes a loophol  more

NEW YORK, Dec. 24 -- The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center issued the following news release: * * * MSK patients will remain in-network to continue receiving world-class cancer care * * * Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in New York and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) announced today that the organizations have reached a new multi-year agreement providing Anthem members with continued access to care at MSK hospital, outpatient care centers and physician offices across New   more

ITHACA, New York, Dec. 23 -- Cornell University issued the following news: Neuroscientist Gary Gibson, Ph.D. '73, keeps a framed picture of a cell derived from the skin cells of a person with Alzheimer's disease on his office wall. The image is a memento of Gibson's breakthrough hypothesis about an underlying cause of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's that an insufficiency of vitamin B1 called thiamine alters the ability of mitochondria in brain cells to properly use glucose, directly   more

HAMILTON, New York, Dec. 23 -- Colgate University issued the following news: A grant from the National Science Foundation will bring a new field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM) to Colgate University, complete with a suite of high-tech detectors that will allow for new research in geology, physics, biology, computer science, and other fields. "[The detectors] are incredibly versatile," says primary investigator (PI) Martin Wong, professor of earth and environmental geosciences. "  more

NEW YORK, Dec. 24 -- The New York Health and Hospitals issued the following news release on Dec. 23, 2024: * * * Additionally, the health care system launched a comprehensive three-year plan to strengthen and expand its behavioral health services and completed the expansion of its nationally recognized Lifestyle Medicine Program to all five boroughs * * * NYC Health + Hospitals today shared an overview of its accomplishments for the year. Throughout 2024, the municipal health care system fu  more

ITHACA, New York, Dec. 23 -- Cornell University issued the following news: A cell protein previously believed only to provide a scaffolding for DNA has also been shown to directly influence DNA transcription into RNA the first step of the process by which an organism's genetic code expresses itself. The fundamental breakthrough was discovered in apple cells but is relevant to all living organisms made of nucleus-containing cells, including humans. The finding, published Dec. 20 in Plant Cell,   more

LOCH SHELDRAKE, New York, Dec. 24 -- The State University of New York Sullivan campus, a community college, issued the following news release: SUNY Sullivan announces the launch of its Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) Spring 2025 cohort. The EOP provides tailored support services to help students enroll and succeed in college. These services include hands-on academic and career advising, personal counseling, and tutoring from enrollment through graduation. Modest financial assistance is av  more

ITHACA, New York, Dec. 23 -- Cornell University issued the following news: To a leaf, a falling raindrop is equivalent in mass to a bowling ball dropping on a person so how does the leaf survive? New research elucidates the raindrop's impact and the physical dynamics that help the leaf respond, with potential applications for agriculture and renewable-energy harvesting. In the paper, "Resonance and Damping in Drop-Cantilever Interactions," published Dec. 23 in Physical Review Fluids, researche  more

BRONX, New York, Dec. 24 (TNSres) -- The Wildlife Conservation Society issued the following news release: * * * New high-resolution models predict that some coral reefs in the Western Indian Ocean may be more resilient to climate change than previously thought AI modeling was able to pinpoint climate-resilient reefs that would benefit most from protection efforts * * * New science from WCS has mapped coral reefs across the Western Indian Ocean, uncovering unexpected pockets of climate-resil  more