Brown rare-periodicals project awarded grant
PROVIDENCE – The Modernist Journals Project, a joint effort by Brown University and the University of Tulsa, has been awarded a $332,823 grant from...
Free seminar on IT disasters, recovery
PROVIDENCE – Lighthouse Computer Services and Providence Business News will sponsor a free all-day seminar covering all aspects of IT disaster and recovery at...
GTECH gives computer lab to Providence school
PROVIDENCE – GTECH Corp. this month added a new site to its After School Advantage program, which serves at-risk children throughout the United States...
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...
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 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...
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...












