Turning empty windows into artists’ showcases
At night, Maureen Keaveny’s window is a black-light-illuminated sculpture of recycled paper shaped into shrubbery. The Rhode Island School of Design junior calls it...
Rating the raters is at the core<br> of URI professors’ research
A team of computer engineers at the University of Rhode Island has requested patent protection of a technology to combat the manipulation of user-generated...
Local doctors helping set new standards<br> for breast cancer diagnosis
If hospitals in the real world functioned like the doctors on “House, M.D.” every diagnosis could cost a year’s salary, and health insurers would...
SBA hires Conn. firm to demolish<br> buildings at Rocky Point
WARWICK – The U.S. Small Business Administration’s Rhode Island office says it has hired Fuss & O’Neill, a full-service engineering firm based in Manchester,...
Expanding dental services<br> for northern R.I.’s poor
Aiming to address what its executive director calls “a major public health concern,” Blackstone Valley Community Health Care is turning a former bank hall...
Workforce Board awards $1.3M for job training
CRANSTON – The Governor’s Workforce Board last week awarded $1,298,665 in grants to 69 Rhode Island employers to support employee training.
The grants, which ranged...
West End institution shuts down with little notice
Stacey Behan moved to the Broadway neighborhood on the West End of Providence five months ago because she “fell in love” with the area.
The...
Brown gets $1M grant to aid enrollment program
PROVIDENCE – Brown University has received a $1 million grant to establish the College Advising Corps at its Howard R. Swearer Center for Public...
Attleboro OKs sweeping urban renewal plan
ATTLEBORO – The Attleboro City Council last week approved, by a 10-to-1 vote, a sweeping urban renewal plan crafted by the Attleboro Redevelopment Authority...
Slater invests $250,000 in software startup
PROVIDENCE – The Slater Technology Fund last week announced that it has provided financing to Public Display, a Providence startup that is developing Web...
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