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Local schools represented on Princeton Review’s best business schools list

NEW YORK – The University of Rhode Island, Bryant University and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth earned places on The Princeton Review’s 2016 list...
RICHARD BEAUPRE, founder and CEO of Lincoln-based ChemArt, joins Winifred Brownell, dean of the University of Rhode Island's College of Arts and Sciences, outside the newly named Richard E. Beaupre Center for Chemical and Forensic Sciences. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION/JOE GIBLIN

URI alum pledges $2.5M for construction of new URI chemical and...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Richard Beaupre, founder and CEO of Lincoln-based ChemArt and a University of Rhode Island alumnus, has pledged $2.5 million for construction...
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R.I. recognized for running top-performing unemployment insurance tax operations

CRANSTON – For the sixth year in a row, Rhode Island has earned a national award as the top-performer in a small state for...
BROWN UNIVERSITY again has the best value in Rhode Island, according to SmartAsset. /COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY

Brown goes public with $3B comprehensive campaign, ‘BrownTogether’

PROVIDENCE – Brown University has launched a $3 billion comprehensive fundraising campaign titled BrownTogether Friday evening, the largest in its history. The previous comprehensive campaign,...
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5Q: Torey Malatia

1You recently led WBEZ/Chicago Public Media. How do Providence's and Rhode Island's audiences compare? American audiences in every town or city have high aspirations for...

Women urged to be own advocates

Five of the state's 11 college presidents are women, dwarfing the national average of 26 percent, as of 2011, according to the Washington, D.C.-based...
CLUB ED: Professor Gordon Dash Jr., a member of the URI faculty in interdisciplinary neuroscience and expert in computational finance, meets with URI business student, Emily Kupa. / PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

Retirement undefined for many millennials

Saving for retirement is a concern for millennials in professional or college investment clubs, but not necessarily for their peers, several Rhode Island millennials...
Cleveland Kurtz, president of the Rhode Island Rhythm and Blues Preservation Society, discussed his organization's commitment to music in education for young people.

Five Questions With: Cleveland Kurtz

Cleveland Kurtz has been president of the Rhode Island Rhythm and Blues Preservation Society for about five years. Along with a love for the...
Partners from the Providence Children and Youth Cabinet attended a daylong summit at the White House on Oct. 21 on how to surmount barriers for first-generation students seeking financial aid.

Boosting student applications for financial aid focus of summit

PROVIDENCE – School district and community partners from the Providence Children and Youth Cabinet attended a daylong summit at the White House on Oct....

RI Bicycle Coalition doubles board

The Rhode Island Bicycle Coalition has doubled the size of its board of directors and extended the contract of Program Director Alex Krogh-Grabbe. Krough-Grabbe raised...
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