Centreville Bank adds 2 scholarships, bringing total 2024 commitment to $45K
WEST WARWICK – Centreville Bank has added the Future Business Leaders and the Emerging Community Leader scholarships to its existing scholarship program, the bank...
Former Hydrofera CEO, wife donate $1M toward URI athletic field upgrades
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A University of Rhode Island alum who is the former founder and CEO of a Connecticut-based health sciences company, along with...
Stonehill College acquires former elementary school building for $2.3M
EASTON – A former town elementary school building is now part of Stonehill College’s infrastructure, with plans for it still to be determined.
The college...
Wheaton College awarded $560K grant to look at inequities in health...
NORTON – Wheaton College was recently awarded a $560,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to support the liberal arts college’s humanities-centered curricular pathways to...
URI launches VR lab to enhance high school STEM education
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A new program at the University of Rhode Island is bringing virtual reality and traditional lab spaces together to provide local high...
Annenberg: Providence teacher resignations problematic
PROVIDENCE – In its latest look at teacher staffing in the Providence Public School District released Tuesday, the Annenberg Institute at Brown University says...
URI board of trustees approves tuition, fee increases for next year
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Tuition bills for students at the University of Rhode Island will go up next academic year.
The university’s board of trustees on...
RWU receives $1.7M federal earmark to retrofit, equip environmental science lab
BRISTOL – Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., helped secure a $1.7 million federal earmark for Roger Williams University to help retrofit and equip the university’s...
Mass. Education Commissioner Riley to step down March 15
EVERETT, Mass. – The education commissioner who both helped further propel the commonwealth as being a national leader in student performance and guide K-12...
RWU receives $3M grant to launch endowed professorships for business faculty
BRISTOL – Roger Williams University recently received a $3 million grant to make four matching gifts to launch endowed professorships for its faculty within...