Inventors help meet global demand for new ideas
To stay alive, some fish must stay in motion constantly, driving water through their gills to move oxygen into their bloodstream. And to stay...
URI chemist has formula
Jimmie C. Oxley is a fighter in the global war on terror. Her battlefield is a laboratory at the University of Rhode Island’s Kingston...
Restoration program marks 1.25 million lobsters
Lanny Dellinger, a full-time lobsterman since the early 1990s, said the best thing to come out of a recently completed six-year lobster restoration program,...
Product of URI research at leading edge of sonar
By John P. Mello
Contributing Writer
Sonar (sound navigation and ranging) has been around since the beginning of the 20th century, but it didn’t enter the...
Innovating in a traditional world
Tucked away in the woods off Route 2 in East Greenwich, in a simple 10,000-square-foot building, Chronomatic Inc. produces intricate logo jewelry and awards...
A bridge to the future, in a tree
Designers make accessibility the key to their work, no matter the locale
Kat Darula and Rosanne Ramos see beautiful designs everywhere – in beaches, hotels...
Specialty tech firms serving R.I.
In February 2004, five entrepreneurs met up in a San Francisco suburb and spent a long weekend thinking up ideas for a new technology...
Textron grants $400,000 to R.I. nonprofits
Textron Inc. recently announced 23 Rhode Island-based recipients of the company's 2006 grant program. Grants are awarded two times each year via the Textron...
NIH gives startup $2.8M for sepsis, anthrax trials
Every year, across the United States, nearly 800,000 people develop severe sepsis, a life-threatening condition in which the body is overwhelmed by infection, and...
Local credit unions join national branch network
Members of three Rhode Island credit unions can now walk into one of more than 2,200 credit union branches in 46 states and, with...
- Featured Event -
