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Students seek real-world experience
Supplementing a liberal arts education with “real-world experience” is the carrot career-center directors and admissions staff at Rhode Island’s colleges and universities increasingly dangle...
Creativity consultant’s calling card
Coming up with creative solutions to fundraising challenges is what Seaside Consulting Inc., owner Lynne Donahue believes sets her work apart from the competition.
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Tribal approach to leadership can increase productivity
Jeffrey Deckman began learning real-world lessons required to hold down a job and advance as a teenager.
“There was no coddling, you either kept...
Bioengineering a key at Brown school expansion
The growth taking place at Brown University’s School of Engineering is not generic in nature, just adding to the program’s existing chemical, computer, electrical,...
More schools hook into entrepreneurship
It wasn’t until this past year, her senior year, at Bryant University, that Melissa Ellard decided to take an elective in the school’s Global...
Passions nurtured from childhood deliver success
Gina DiSpirito was 4 years old when she fell in love with art, 19 when she fell in love with starting a business and...
Newport Mansions numbers up, as local hotels down
(Corrected, 11 a.m., July 29)
On the heels of record-setting attendance in 2012, the Preservation Society of Newport County is seeing continuing improvement in 2013....
Small press finds help in cloud
Small presses have always struggled to compete, but New Street Communications LLC is finding its way by tapping serendipitously into literary, computing and other...
Baldness doesn’t have to be forever, says ‘hair doctor’
Hair-transplant treatment and procedures have come out of the Dark Ages and offer scientifically and medically sound alternatives to baldness, according to Dr. Robert...
Bygone-era design a key for startups
Walking into the common area of Betaspring, the startup accelerator at 95 Chestnut St., Providence, is how emerging entrepreneurs meet. And it’s not an...