A great speech can still flop
Some years ago, IBM hired me to speak to a thousand of its sales and marketing people. When I took the podium the audience...
20 projects win $1.94M in State Preservation Grants
PROVIDENCE – Twenty museums, cultural art centers and public historic sites have been awarded preservation grants totaling $1.94 million by the R.I. Historical Preservation...
Brillat to depart from Education Exchange
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Tom Brillat, executive director of the Education Exchange in Wakefield since 1995, is resigning effective Dec. 31 to pursue longstanding interests....
History Channel to spotlight FM Global
JOHNSTON – FM Global, one of the world’s largest commercial property insurers, will be featured this Sunday at 8 a.m. on The History Channel,...
Helping others live the dream
Minimum-security inmates Anthony DelGatto and Robert Manchester work together to assemble an Adirondack chair at the Adult Correctional Institutions in Cranston. The inmates are...
Museum database comes to Brown, boasts 20,000 pieces
An online database of some 20,000 cultural objects available for inter-museum loan is moving to Brown University’s John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study...
After overseeing growth, Brown dean stepping down
Dr. Eli Y. Adashi, who has led Brown University’s medical school through a period of extensive growth, plans to step down at the end...
R.I. building expo pushes ‘green’ reuse concepts
With about 10 students gathered around him, Robert Cagnetta, founder of Heritage Restoration Inc., held a counterweight that hangs inside the framing of historic...
Paramount building at JWU renamed for food services pioneer
PROVIDENCE – Johnson & Wales University has renamed the Paramount Building at the school’s Harborside campus after David Friedman, a local entrepreneur and food-service...
RWU volunteers bring 1M shellfish to harbor
BRISTOL – Volunteers were expected to transferred more than 1 million adolescent shellfish to reefs on Prudence Island and in Bristol Harbor last Saturday,...
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