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JWU’s winning recipe for keeping students in school
Known best for its culinary-arts program, Johnson & Wales University offers degrees in the arts and sciences, business, education, nutrition, hospitality and technology. Not...
Trust precious commodity to Gannon
For Gannon & Scott, recycling precious metals found in everything from electronic and medical devices to jewelry has changed over the years, but making...
What economists learned from top stories of 2013
In 2013, a graduate student discovered a flaw in a spreadsheet, renewing the debate about austerity and debt. Emerging economies tanked, and Bitcoin boomed....
EB-5 center eyes creation of hundreds of R.I. jobs
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services this past fall designated Pathway Capital Partners, LLC as Rhode Island’s first regional EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program center. The...
Firm an invitation to get creative
Custom-invitation maker Ladyfingers Letterpress is poised for rapid growth.
By spring, the Pawtucket company will be selling a Heritage Baby Album, interactive greeting cards and...
Award raises Steel Yard’s profile, grant potential
Nicolas Bauta co-founded the Steel Yard in Providence with Clay Rockefeller. The redeveloped steel-fabrication facility, which serves as a campus for arts education, workforce...
On-shoring jobs is a Groov-y thing
Manufactured products like grooved pins are commonly used in lawn sprinklers on golf courses, in fire hydrants and in bike kickstands.
“If you look really...
Physician assistants can help fill primary-care need
As George Samuel Bottomley led centers for physician-assistant studies from Pennsylvania to Maine over the past decade, he envisioned launching a center in Rhode...
RIF makes difference in health care, education
By the time Dr. Christopher Furey, a Vermont native, finished his residency in family medicine at Memorial Hospital in Pawtucket this past June, he...
Allergen training is nothing to sneeze at in R.I.
(Corrected, 10:40 a.m., Nov. 5)
A year ago, staff at Gregg’s Restaurant in Warwick, a family eatery specializing in desserts, stopped short of serving a...