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CCRI ranked 2nd in nation for IT services

WARWICK – The Community College of Rhode Island has placed second in the country among large community colleges in the third national Digital Community...

Local physician recognized for life achievements

Dr. Brian Zink, emergency medicine physician-in-chief at Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital, has been chosen for the 2007 Hal Jayne Academic Excellence...

CVS executive earns award for health efforts

The R.I. Department of Health recently presented CVS/Caremark Corp. executive Diana Lemoine with its Community Partnership Award. This award is presented to individuals and...
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Justice Flanders to lead URI innovation panel

STATE HOUSE – Gov. Donald L. Carcieri this afternoon named lawyer Robert G. Flanders Jr., a former R.I. Supreme Court associate justice, to chair...
RISD'S Fleet Library, carved out of the former Rhode Island Hospital Trust banking hall, has won an architectural award. /

RISD library earns AIA, ALA kudos<br> for historic preservation

Efforts made to preserve the historic architecture of Rhode Island School of Design’s year-old Fleet Library, which was carved out of a former banking...
ANALYST TREVOR HOUSER tells ?Rise of the New Asian Giants? attendees that even with China?s advantages, it still lacks the know-how to add the most value to products. /

Conference evaluates the prospects of Asian giants

In the year 2040, Bryant University and Brown University students now studying economics and trade will be in their early to mid-50s. And they...

Slater proposes study of school districts merging

PROVIDENCE – A vote is scheduled this week for the formation of an 11-member panel that will study whether or not the state’s school...

URI nonviolence center offers Summer Institute

The University of Rhode Island’s Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies is offering a Summer Institute to prepare participants in the art of nonviolent...
THE LAWYERS at LaPlante Sowa Goldman brainstorm as a team to prepare for major cases. Above, clockwise from left, associates Michael J. Jacobs, Nicole M. Labonte, Philip J. Laffey, Marlene B. Marshall and Kenneth E. Russo, and partner Jeffrey D. Sowa. /

Law firm combines youth, experience

Robert Goldman met his partner Brian LaPlante at a professional development seminar on boundary disputes. LaPlante was barely 30, but in his short career,...
MICHAEL CORRENTE says that, besides "Prince of Providence," he wants to make 10 horror films based on screenplays by local college students. /

Corrente wants to boost R.I. film production

Michael Corrente recently spoke to friends and family at The Columbus Theater on Broadway about his latest movie, “Brooklyn Rules,” starring Freddie Prinze Jr.,...
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