Five Questions With: Hasbro’s Dr. Michelle Rickerby
Started in June 1998, the Hasbro Children’s Hospital Partial Hospital Program provides an unusual combination of services for kids with both medical and psychiatric/behavioral...
AS220 gets $2.1M for Merc Block project
BOSTON – As part of a $17.5-million loan, grant and subsidy program, the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston, through member institution Bank Rhode...
Innovation Factory adds to lineup for BIF-4 Summit
PROVIDENCE – Musician, drum-pad inventor and Drum-pad and MIDI-standard creator Dave Kusek, hacker and personal technology developer Joshua Klein and 37signals founder and...
SolarWrights buys Conn.-based Sunsearch
BRISTOL – SolarWrights Inc., a provider and installer of solar and wind systems to customers across New England, has extended its reach with the...
Warwick IT entrepreneur wins national award
WARWICK – A local entrepreneur has been honored by national IT services provider CMIT Solutions as its 2008 Franchise of the Year. The Austin,...
Toray Plastics (America) gets its first chairman
NORTH KINGSTOWN – Kojiro Maeda, a 32-year veteran of Toray Plastics and its Tokyo-based parent company Toray Industries Inc., has been named the U.S....
EpiVax gets $600K from NIH for diabetes studies
PROVIDENCE – Local biopharmaceutical startup EpiVax Inc. has been awarded a two-year, $600,000 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney...
Health care IT firm updates practice software
WARWICK – GBA Health Network Systems last week announced that a new version of its medical practice automation software package, MEDfx, is now available...
Elmhurst Extended Care gets double kudos
PROVIDENCE – Elmhurst Extended Care, the nursing home affiliated with Roger Williams Medical Center, got a double dose of praise in recent days, with...
R.I. artist recognized for map of WWII invasion
A Providence artist designed and won a national award for an interactive map in the visitor center at the Normandy American Cemetery, in France,...