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Brown to add security cameras following December shooting

PROVIDENCE – Brown University's new interim vice president for public safety outlined sweeping security enhancements Tuesday following the mass shooting last month that killed...

State’s highest-paid employees include URI coaches, president

PROVIDENCE – Workers at a college, hospital and a prison are among Rhode Island's highest-paid state employees. They include a pair of University of Rhode...

Does Brown University need to upgrade campus security in the wake...

Brown University’s head of public safety is on administrative leave following the Dec. 13 mass shooting that killed two students and injured nine others. University...

CCRI participating in new MIT manufacturing initiative

PROVIDENCE – The Community College of Rhode Island has linked up with a program launched by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology designed to boost...

Brown University police chief placed on leave pending campus safety review 

Brown University’s head of public safety is now on administrative leave as the Ivy League school undergoes two outside reviews of its security practices...

Motive still unknown after suspect in the Brown attack and MIT...

A frantic search for the suspect in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University ended at a New Hampshire storage facility where authorities discovered the man...

Anonymous tipster cracks Brown University shooting case

PROVIDENCE (AP) – Information from a tipster who had a strange encounter with another man on a sidewalk outside Brown University was key to...

URI Coastal Institute announces 2025 Emerging Coastal Leaders

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The University of Rhode Island Coastal Institute has announced its 2025 Emerging Coastal Leader award recipients. The program recognizes graduate students whose research advances...
Amanda Queiroz

Ryan Scholar to travel abroad, teach English in Uruguay

AMANDA QUEIROZ, a University of Rhode Island graduate student and Thomas M. Ryan Scholar, has been awarded a Fulbright fellowship from the U.S. Fulbright...
REVEALING INVENTION: University of Rhode Island associate professor Claudia Fallini, right, and postdoctoral fellow Riccardo Sirtori display a small, low-cost device they helped develop at URI’s South Kingstown campus to study the long-term degenerative effects of traumatic brain injury. 
PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

URI researchers build low-cost device to reveal hidden damage from brain...

Traumatic brain injuries are far more common than many realize. Globally, more than 65 million people suffer such trauma each year, University of Rhode...
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