‘Primer Paso’ a first step for Hispanic firms
Latinos are the fastest-growing segment of Rhode Island entrepreneurs. To get a sense of the issues they face, Providence Business News is...
Rhode Island Food Bank leader leaving<br> to tackle global hunger
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Bernard J. Beaudreau
Position: Executive director, Rhode Island Community Food Bank
Background: A Rhode Island native, Beaudreau took the helm at the Food Bank in 1995,...
OceanServer finds profits in low-cost unmanned subs
For 3 1/2 years, OceanServer Technology Inc. has been funding the research and development of unmanned miniature submarines by selling its line of lithium-ion...
Pawtucket fights to keep trash transfer station out
In the last few years, Pawtucket has made no secret of its plans to reinvent itself. In an effort to shed its image as...
New film puts spotlight on people of Federal Hill
Jon Raben is a geologist, not a professionally trained filmmaker, and until five years ago – when he dove headfirst into the neighborhood’s history...
Providence finance chief Prignano to leave for Coventry job
Providence Finance Director Alex Prignano will retire from city government, after nearly 30 years, Mayor David N. Cicilline said in a news release Monday,...
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...
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