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PBN names ’09 R.I. Best Places to Work

PROVIDENCE – Providence Business News and Best Companies Group today announced the winners of the annual Best Places To Work in Rhode Island competition...
STUDENTS DO HOMEWORK in the new Brown University bookstore last winter. City leaders want to charge private colleges and universities $150 per semester for every out-of-state student they have attending their school. /

City wants new tax on colleges, hospitals

Updated | 1:30 p.m. PROVIDENCE — House Majority Leader Gordon Fox today plans to introduce a bill crafted by Mayor David N. Cicilline’s administration that...

Papitto sues RWU over Baypoint rent

BRISTOL – A company owned by Ralph R. Papitto, former chair of the Roger Williams University Board of Trustees, has sued the school for...

NIH awards $18M to URI for research

KINGSTON – The National Institutes of Health has awarded the University of Rhode Island a five-year, $18 million grant to support biomedical research in...

New group to push STEM jobs for girls

WARWICK – The Northeastern Girls Collaborative Project, a coalition of organizations that works to encourage young women to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering...
APC BY SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC received a 2009 Green Enterprise IT Award for its line of InRow cooling products, including the InRow SC System 1 NetShelter, above. /

APC product line wins Green IT Award

WEST KINGSTON – APC by Schneider Electric recently received an environmental award presented jointly by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Uptime Institute,...

PBN’s Nesi named a 2009 Metcalf Fellow

NARRAGANSETT — The Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting announced today that Providence Business News staff writer Ted Nesi and 10 other journalists...

Path to prosperity paved with private sector jobs

Is municipal government as efficient as it can be? If you ask Rhode Island business leaders, most would probably tell you they would...

Dreams soar when you aim high

A class of college seniors filed into a room for their final exam. The professor announced that she had divided the questions into three...
TRICKS OF THE TRADE: APC by Schneider Electric, a division of France-based Schneider Electric, is one of many Rhode Island businesses active in global trade. Above, a worker at the company’s South Kingstown plant. /

Trade builds relationships for R.I. firms

In 1985 in the tiny downtown office of the Rhode Island Small Business Development Center, seven local business leaders hunkered down for the day...
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