Patricia Daddona, Author at Providence Business News

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"Fighting a rare disease is not like fighting more common diseases." / COURTESY RDUF

Five Questions With: Patricia Weltin

In Their Own Words 12/05/2014

Patricia Weltin of Rumford is executive director and founder of the Rare Disease United Foundation, a rare disease advocacy organization founded in 2011. The...

Health Care Association targets Ebola funds

Nonprofit 12/05/2014

WARWICK – The Rhode Island Health Care Association is raising funds this month on behalf of nursing home staff whose families and friends have...

Panera Bread launches Holiday Gift Drive

Nonprofit 12/05/2014

CUMBERLAND – Twenty-eight Panera Bread bakery-cafes in Rhode Island, southeastern Massachusetts and Connecticut have launched an annual Holiday Gift Drive that runs through Dec....

Girl Scouts prep for Digital Cookie

Nonprofit 12/05/2014

WARWICK – Girl Scouts of Southeastern New England will be part of the national organization’s new Digital Cookie platform, expanding the program’s ability to...

Adler Pollock gives $10K scholarship

Business Services 12/05/2014

Adler Pollock & Sheehan PC in Providence has awarded its 2014 diversity scholarship of $10,000 to Alicia R. Selman, a freshman at Northeastern University...

TO REMEDY A SHORTFALL of teachers to handle its growing student population, the University of Rhode Island has committed $5.3 million over the next four years to add 55 faculty, including 40 tenure-track positions and 15 lecturer posts.

URI launches $5.3 million plan to hire 55 new faculty over...

Education 12/04/2014

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Citing more than a decade of continual enrollment increases, the University of Rhode Island said Thursday it plans to spend $5.3...

STATE EDUCATION COMMISSIONER DEBORAH GIST SAID the reports will help the department support the quality of its educator-preparation programs and improve the process of program approval. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

RIDE releases first set of annual educator reports

Education 12/04/2014

PROVIDENCE - Data in the statewide report on Rhode Island educator-preparation programs released Thursday show nearly 100 percent of the 2,242 educators who were...