Verizon awards education-related grants
EAST PROVIDENCE – The Verizon Foundation awarded $50,000 in grants to four Rhode Island school districts and two educational organizations last Wednesday in a...
Tech Collective seeks workshop proposals addressing skills gap for new IT...
PROVIDENCE – Tech Collective is seeking proposals to design and provide a work force development clinic to help new/transitioning workers obtain skills for entry-level...
UMass to offer master’s in public policy online as digital...
SHREWSBURY, Mass. – The master’s in public policy program developed by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth will now be offered in an additional, fully-online...
Brown researcher finds 1,600-year-old tomb of Mayan king in Guatemala
PROVIDENCE – A research team led by Brown University Professor Stephen Houston has unearthed a 1,600-year-old tomb of a Mayan king at an archaeological...
More teachers, not fewer, would help G.A.’s work to better serve...
To the Editor:
I was amused by Tom Letourneau’s assertion in a recent edition of Providence Business News (“Educators reap self-serving rewards through legislature,” June...
Insurance humor wins $1K from Provider Group for recent high school...
Provider Insurance Group has announced the grand-prize winner of its second annual Can You Make Insurance Funny? video contest at the Wellesley High School...
Brown grass part of UMass Dartmouth’s plan, pilot for sustainable landscapes
Excuse the appearances at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, but it’s the dead of summer and the grass on much of the school’s 700-acre...
Brown’s new arts center will be an exercise in transparency for...
Scheduled to open early next year, the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown University boasts a distinctive design that...
Ask a lot of questions before taking your next sales job;...
If you’re in sales, you know the feeling. It’s the middle of the night about two weeks after starting a new job. You were...
R.I. second-worst state to do business in, says CNBC; Mass. moves...
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island has been listed as the second-worst state in the nation for business, according to CNBC’s fourth annual America’s Top States...