PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Education (RIDE) and the R.I. Board of Governors for Higher Education (RIBGHE) on June 8 unveiled Rhode Island DataHub, a new central resource for student data on educational achievement, demographics, health and student-risk factors, from prekindergarten through college. more

Chef Joseph Leonardi, executive chef at the Somerset Club in Boston, conducts a two-hour demonstration to Johnson & Wales University culinary students on Jan. 16. Leonardi returned to his alma mater for the event as the 168th distinguished visiting chef and was honored at a luncheon. Joining him during the demo was Celia Cordeira, rear, a junior in the culinary-arts program, who received a $2,000 scholarship in his name. more

BankNewport is helping middle-school students stay on the right track with a $3,000 grant to help fund the expansion of the Bristol-Warren School Mentoring Program. more

PROVIDENCE – The Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical School broke ground on the Paul W. Crowley East Bay Campus, named after the late state representative, earlier this month. more

Arnold Robinson is director of the Community Partnerships Center at Roger Williams University. Formed just under two years ago, the center serves as a central resource to partner students with community organizations, client organizations and government agencies in real-world, experiential-learning projects that would have a visible impact on partner communities. more

DARTMOUTH – University of Massachusetts Dartmouth faculty members are among those within the school whose creative-economy projects will benefit from $259,300 in grants from the President’s Creative Economy Initiative Fund announced last month. more

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A team of archaeologists from the University of Rhode Island, the Israel Antiquities Authority and the University of Louisville have discovered the remains of a fleet of early 19th-century ships and ancient harbor structures from the Hellenistic period at the Israeli city of Akko, an ancient port of the eastern Mediterranean. more

Before it opened a bucolic Bristol campus in 1969, Roger Williams University was a city school with roots in Providence dating back to 1919. more

As an offering for master’s level students, Salve Regina University will run a certificate of advanced graduate studies in substance abuse and treatment program, the university announced Monday. more

PROVIDENCE – Charter-school applications for the 2013-2014 school year were up more than 20 percent from 2012, according to an analysis by the Rhode Island League of Charter Schools released March 1, which was charter-school lottery day. more