Education

R.I. awards $2.3M for local ‘learning centers’

Education 04/06/2007

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Deparment of Elementary and Secondary Education has awarded 13 grants, totaling $2.3 million, to expand or establish community learning centers...

2 LIN TV stations win Peabody Awards

Education 04/06/2007

PROVIDENCE – LIN TV Corp. (NYSE: TVL) today announced that its WTNH-TV of New Haven, Conn., and WISH-TV of Indianapolis, Ind., have been honored...

5 Brown professors named Guggenheim Fellows

Education 04/06/2007

PROVIDENCE – Five members of the Brown University faculty have been awarded 2007 Guggenheim Fellowships, the university announced today. The new fellows, selected on the...

MALCOLM L. SPAULDING, a URI professor of ocean engineering, will serve as CoEUT's director. /

URI and NUWC line up 19 partners and $1.5M for...

Education 04/05/2007

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Donald L. Carcieri, U.S. Sen. Jack Reed and U.S. Representatives Patrick J. Kennedy and James R. Langevin joined University of Rhode...

Steamship Historical Society hires director

Education 04/04/2007

EAST PROVIDENCE – Michigan native Matthew S. Schulte has been selected to serve as the Steamship Historical Society of America’s first executive director. His...

U.S. SEN. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and other officials are announcing the funding at a news conference this morning. /

Providence schools to get $800,000

Education 04/04/2007

PROVIDENCE – U.S. Sen. Jack Reed is to join Mayor David N. Cicilline, Providence Schools Superintendent Donnie Evans and other officials this morning in...

Details of planned Center of Excellence<br> for Undersea Technologies to be...

Education 04/03/2007

PROVIDENCE – The establishment, by the University of Rhode Island and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, of a national Center of Excellence for Undersea...

SLADES BANK's Dennis Wyatt, senior VP and director of retail banking, and Seekonk manager Lisa Russo, right, with the new sign. /

Slade’s Ferry adopts new name, logo

Education 04/02/2007

SOMERSET – Slade’s Ferry Bank today unveiled new signs as the institution adopted both a new logo and a new name, Slades Bank, in...

Consuelo Sherba is named Pawtucket Foundation’s<br> 2007 Person of the Year

Education 03/31/2007

PAWTUCKET – The Pawtucket Foundation has named violist and music educator Consuelo Sherba to receive one of two 2007 Pawtucket Foundation Persons of...