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Adelman, Strom win Leadership for Change awards

PROVIDENCE – Two local educators will be honored tomorrow evening with the Pembroke Center Associates’ Leadership for Change through Education Award. • H. Terri...

R.I. Business Plan Competition adds high school track

PROVIDENCE – High school students will be invited to compete in the upcoming Rhode Island Business Plan Competition for the first time since the...

URI becomes an official partner of CFA program

KINGSTON – The University of Rhode Island’s College of Business Administration has been named a Charter Financial Analyst Program Partner by the CFA Institute,...

Major study of long-term care starts

The National Institute on Aging has awarded $10 million to Brown University’s Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research to create a major national...
BRANDON MELTON, senior vice president of HR at Lifespan, says the labor shortage will only get worse. /

In work force development, collaboration seen as key

A year ago, leaders in Rhode Island’s health care sector and in work force development and education held a summit to tackle a major...

Brown works with employers to ID best in wellness

So maybe you have started a Weight Watchers program at the office, or a lunchtime walking group. Perhaps an expert has come in to...

RISD officials consider expanding to Charlotte

Right now it’s just talk, and Rhode Island School of Design officials are quick to say it may never go farther than that. RISD administrators...
PETER MCWALTERS, the state education commissioner, says it’s crucial to ensure students are better prepared for college. /

Stepped-up efforts urged to expand college access

Education leaders celebrating the 30th anniversary of Rhode Island’s only state-funded college financial aid program on Nov. 16 said that efforts to make higher...
THE ORIGINAL interior in the stables area of the Victorian-era Wetmore Hall will be preserved as Salve transforms Wetmore and the adjacent Mercy Hall into an arts center. /

Salve to build arts center aided by $750,000 award

Two historic carriage house and stable complexes on the Salve Regina University campus will be transformed into a Center for Arts and Culture thanks...
CARL CROFT, a junior at New England Laborers’ Cranston Public School Construction Career Academy, and sophomore Michael Sisto build a prototype robot for the upcoming FIRST Tech Challenge. /

Building robots to sharpen skills

It’s not exactly a typical homework assignment: Take a box of Erector-Set pieces and construct a robot that can move on command and quickly...
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