Friday, April 19, 2024

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Education

LEADERS FROM Brown and MBL gathered last week. From left, Brown Chancellor Thomas Tisch, ecologist Christopher Neill, Phyllis Rosenthal, Charles Rosenthal, Brown President Ruth Simmons, and MBL CEO Gary Borisy. /

Brown, Woods Hole lab receive $2M gift

PROVIDENCE – Brown University and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, last week announced plans to increase their collaboration after receiving a...

Dorcas Place program grooms adult learners for work

For eight adult learners at the Dorcas Place Adult and Family Learning Center in Providence, “Tune-Up Day” was an opportunity to hone interview skills...

Seminar: Businesses need leadership and optimism

Is your glass half empty, or half full? In the wake of the devastating floods in Rhode Island, many small businesses might be tempted...
WORKING IT OUT: From left: Rebecca Simon, NEIT academic-fieldwork coordinator; Carol Doehler, occupational therapy department chair; and Nancy Robert Dolley, master’s program director. /

OT master’s strong draw at NEIT

Looking for an academic program in Rhode Island that will provide a hot professional career path, with a projected 34 percent growth rate? One...

Supplemental budget sets stage for FY2011 fight

While the House and Senate’s competing 2010 supplemental budgets both leave broad-based state taxes untouched, other provisions to close this year’s $220 million deficit...
MICHELE CINQUEGRANO, regional director for Verizon, left, presents a check for $10,000 to Nicole Dufresne, executive director of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Providence. /

Project Learn receives $10,000 from Verizon

(Corrected, April 22) The Verizon Foundation donated $10,000 to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Providence to support its Project Learn program, which provides students...

RISD student saves DOT $2 million

PROVIDENCE – A Rhode Island School of Design student saved the R.I. Department of Transportation $2 million by suggesting it reuse the piers from...

PBN seeks 40 Under Forty nominations

PROVIDENCE – Nominations and applications are now being accepted for Providence Business News’ sixth annual 40 Under Forty competition. Since 2005, hundreds of young professionals...

Panel: CCRI needs focus, resources

WARWICK – The Community College of Rhode Island needs more money, increased capacity and a new focus on strategic industries in order to properly...

MooBella Ice Creamery at URI, JWU

TAUNTON – MooBella Inc., maker of a self-serve ice cream machine, has installed its second Ice Creamery in the state on the University of...
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