Steve Katz has been named director of sales and customer service, engineered membranes by Cooley Group. more

Jane Williams recently attended the White House’s Joining Forces event, held at the University of Pennsylvania. Williams, who is the dean of Rhode Island College’s School of Nursing, was one of only 20 nursing deans nationwide invited to the event. While there, she also participated in a nursing-leadership summit. Williams holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Michigan, an M.A. in education from New York University and a Ph.D. in nursing from the University of Rhode Island. more

A manager, with his arm around an emplyee’s shoulder, says “Never get your story too straight: they might hold you to it.” more

Imagine a private enterprise with the resources to make multimillion dollar investments on very high-profile parcels of land. more

Popular history holds the 20th-century decline of the textile industry responsible for many of the economic ills plaguing Rhode Island and Massachusetts’ SouthCoast. more

Steel wheels are rumbling across southern New England in greater numbers again. more

When industry insiders talk international travel in Rhode Island, they really don’t. more

In southern New England, most of the seafood you see and eat comes from halfway around the world. Unless you pay close attention to where your fish is coming from, it is likely that it is from China or Canada, and the same can be said throughout the country. more

Last week’s report from the R.I. Citizens for the Arts provided some welcome news. It appears that the creative economy is alive and well in the Ocean State. more

Through April of this year, Rhode Island continued to have the second-highest unemployment rate in the United States, leaving the state with 62,178 people unemployed. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for April was 11.2 percent, a one-tenth of a percentage point increase from the March rate. In fact, a double-digit unemployment rate is forecast for Rhode Island through the end of 2013. more