Despite making up nearly half of the U.S. workforce, women are still vastly underrepresented in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workforce, the U.S. Census Bureau reported this week. An array of initiatives in Connecticut seek to close the gap.
Read MoreWhether recently released studies in the U.S. and Europe will provide sufficient reason to pause as Connecticut edges ever closer to legalizing recreational marijuana during the current session of the state legislature remains an open question.
Read MoreFor environmentalists, passage by Congress this week of a federal budget package included, significantly, a long-sought repeal of a planned auction of Plum Island, in Long Island Sound. The action, ardently advocated for nearly a decade by scores of organizations and members of Congress across the region, opens a path “for permanent protection of this unique place and its critical habitats, endangered wildlife, and cultural history.”
Read MoreThe Yale School of Public Health has been on a roll during the past few months, even as it was encountering a noisy bump in the road. The good news: Dr. Anthony Fauci, will give the 2021 commencement address. Marcella Nunez-Smith will serve in the incoming Biden Administration, leading a new COVID-19 task force on equity issues. But there’s more swirling about.
Read MoreMassachusetts ranks No. 1 in the 2020 Milken Institute State Technology and Science Index, a biennial assessment that uses 105 metrics to determine each state’s science and technology capabilities relative to opportunities for job growth and wealth creation. Connecticut ranked #12.
Read MoreConnecticut has been awarded a five-year grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to enhance a range of suicide prevention activities coordinated among several state agencies. The grant, awarded to the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH), will run through August 31, 2025. The state has also released its Suicide Prevention Plan.
Read More“We are in a precarious position,” explained Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, who is leading the COVID-19 response at the NIH. Fauci returned as a guest this month on Conversations On Health Care, a radio program/podcast on healthcare issues produced by Community Health Center, Inc., based in Middletown and distributed nationally.
Read MoreJosé Manuel (Manny) Otero, PhD, Senior Vice President for Technical Operations and executive team member at Turnstone Biologics, Inc., has been appointed to the 11-member Governing Council of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.
Read MoreSave the Sound, a regional nonprofit, released results of its “2020 Long Island Sound Report Card,” revealing surprising results, raising concern about the current ecological health of local bays and their resilience in the face of warming trends and ongoing pollution from Sound communities.
Read MoreWesleyan University Associate Professor of Psychology Anna Shusterman, will begin a study in 65 diverse public and private preschool classrooms throughout Connecticut, supported by a $1.8 million grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF), which may have implications for later learning in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and math.
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