Saturday, April 11, 2026

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United Way Rhode Island’s Nicolato, Sincere Multiservice Inc.’s Martinez among PBN’s...

PROVIDENCE – Cortney Nicolato, CEO and president of United Way Rhode Island Inc., has been selected by Providence Business News as this year’s Career...
LAB WORK: Kaitlin Dailey, left, a University of Rhode Island assistant professor, monitors technician Victoria Coulter, a 2025 pharmaceutical sciences graduate, on URI’s South Kingstown campus. 
PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

URI pharmacy enrollment rebounds after decline

When Kerry LaPlante decided to become a pharmacist, the opportunity to play a direct, accessible role in community health care served as a major...
CREDIT ­WORTHY: Conor ­McCloskey, left, Narragansett High School principal, and Narragansett schools Superintendent Peter Cummings, are pleased that the town topped the list of Rhode Island school districts that saw the biggest increase in students taking Advanced Placement exams over the last decade. 
PBN PHOTO/­ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Advanced Placement participation surges across R.I. high schools

At Narragansett High School, students as young as freshmen are stepping into college-level classrooms, tackling Advanced Placement courses that just a decade ago few...

Former Providence police chief named head of security at Brown University

PROVIDENCE – Former city police leader Hugh T. Clements Jr. has been named vice president for public safety and emergency management and chief of...

Brown University police chief out after court settlement approved

PROVIDENCE – Brown University Chief of Police Rodney Chatman is leaving the university after a settlement proposal with Brown was approved in Rhode Island...
COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND'S Knight campus in Warwick was put on lockdown Tuesday due to a "suspicious person.” / COURTESY COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND

CCRI Warwick lockdown over; no threat found

WARWICK – The lockdown order put in place at The Knight Campus of the Community College of Rhode Island Tuesday has been lifted. The campus, along...

Mullen named women’s basketball coach at URI

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Colleen Mullen, the 2025 America East Coach of the Year who spent two years with the Rams as a player from 1998-2000, has...

Report: Court appoints special master to oversee finances of ailing Croft...

PROVIDENCE – A veteran attorney has been appointed by a Rhode Island judge to oversee the finances of the cash-strapped Croft School, WPRI-TV CBS...

Build a resilient workforce

Rosemary A. Costigan | Community College of Rhode Island president Resilience is not something that happens by chance. It is cultivated deliberately through foresight,...
NEW HOME: Loren M. Spears is executive director of the Tomaquag Museum in Exeter, which has spent years fundraising and clearing regulatory hurdles to establish a larger, more accessible home for the museum at the University of Rhode Island campus in South Kingstown. 
PBN PHOTO/­ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Tomaquag Museum hopes to break ground on new larger facility at...

The 800-square-foot building that houses the Tomaquag Museum, Rhode Island’s only Indigenous museum, is a tight squeeze for its 12,000 cultural belongings, well over...
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