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...
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 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...
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...