Teaching art, design to the next generation
Almost five years after Rhode Island School of Design began working with Providence’s struggling Hope High School, a key part of the effort is...
A place to grow technology businesses
The R.I. Economic Development Corporation is working with a local IT entrepreneur and co-founder of the Providence Geeks to launch an IT and digital...
URI begins construction of major biotech facility
The University of Rhode Island broke ground last week on its Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences, a project to which the state’s leading...
Poverty, educational disparities<br> weigh on R.I. kids
Nearly one in five Rhode Island children lived in poverty as of 2005, and about 23,000 children – 10 percent – lived in households...
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...
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...
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...
Successful trade requires a cultural understanding
Although the Cold War ended nearly two decades ago, the views promoted during that time have left a gap in cultural understanding between the...
Career makeovers can unmake you
Talk about Superman pulling a phone booth-style switcheroo. There’s a New Zealander named David Kirk, who is now CEO of Fairfax Holdings, one of...
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