William Hamilton
William Hamilton joined Providence Business News as the special projects editor in February 2019. Before that, he had been a content editor and Sunday business editor at The Providence Journal. He was a PBN staff writer from 2007 to 2011, and had previously written and edited for the Fall River Herald News, the Pawtucket Times and the Kent County Daily Times. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Rhode Island.
Five Questions With: Michael Fein
Michael Fein has been appointed dean of Johnson & Wales University’s John Hazen White College of Arts & Sciences at the Providence campus. He...
PC, RIC, Bryant collaborate to get grant for nuclear magnetic resonance...
PROVIDENCE – Providence College will use a $288,300 grant from the National Science Foundation to help pay for the purchasing of a nuclear magnetic...
Brown University raises a record $420.6M in donations in fiscal 2019
PROVIDENCE – Gifts and donation commitments to Brown University totaled a record $420.6 million in the fiscal year 2019, eclipsing last year's record-setting mark...
Five Questions With: Sara Enright
In just a few weeks, a new group of Community College of Rhode Island students will participate in Rhode Island Promise, the scholarship program...
An outlier comes to Providence Place
While other department stores have closed as sales slip away with changing consumer preferences and a migration online, Reading, Pa.-based Boscov’s is an outlier....
New stores help Providence Place evolve
To many, the closure of Nordstrom at Providence Place mall was a disheartening blow for the capital city, and further proof online shopping is...
Brown using $12.5M NIH grant to fund research on substance misuse,...
PROVIDENCE — Brown University has been awarded a $12.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to launch a new Center of Biomedical...
RISD vice president takes research and planning job at Boston...
PROVIDENCE – Mara Hermano, vice president in integrated planning at Rhode Island School of Design, has been hired as vice president of institutional research...
Five Questions With: Dan Swedits
Dan Swedits, a certified public accountant and audit supervisor at Blum, Shapiro & Co., is one of a group of firm employees who have...
Brown awarded $10.8M grant to develop opioid treatment program in criminal...
PROVIDENCE – The National Institutes of Health is awarding a $10.8 million grant to Brown University to develop and evaluate an opioid treatment program...
