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Mass. to build $26M tech center at BCC

FALL RIVER – The Patrick administration said Wednesday it plans to spend $26.5 million building a new science and technology center for Bristol Community...

Wheeler project rolling along

An expansion of the Wheeler School in Providence has edged closer the finish line with the completion of the structural frame of the Hamilton...

URI students find energy savings at Navy base

University of Rhode Island students recently pitched a plan to the Naval War College in Newport that could help reduce the military’s utility bills. During...

Providence among ‘smartest U.S. cities’

PROVIDENCE – The city has placed 22nd out of 55 on a new list of America’s smartest cities compiled by the news and opinion...

Seeing the educational value in entrepreneurship

The idea started out simply enough: More than three years ago, the Met Center wanted to offer a business class that lived up to...
THE ANNUAL COST of attending Rhode Island College for residents will climb 9 percent to $6,986 next year. Similar hikes will hit students at URI and CCRI. /

R.I. to hike public college tuition by 9%

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Board of Governors for Higher Education on Monday night voted to raise in-state tuition and fees at the state’s three...

Work begins on URI pharmacy building

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – University of Rhode Island officials broke ground Monday morning on a five-story, $75 million College of Pharmacy building that will be...

Courtesy is free and profitable

Rudeness rules the headlines these days, and we can’t escape it no matter where we go. Crudeness is the norm rather than the exception....

CCRI students design site for FEMA, R.I. EMA

WARWICK – The Federal Emergency Management Agency in partnership with the R.I. Emergency Management Agency has launched a Web site created by Community College...
WASTE NOT: URI engineering student Sarah Hanselman works to turn biodiesel waste into something useful. /

URI team seeks grail in biodiesel manufacturing

It may just be the holy grail of the biodiesel manufacturing process. Today, biodiesel can be created from spent vegetable oil collected from restaurants...
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