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Poverty, educational disparities weigh on R.I. kids

Nonprofit 03/31/2007

Nearly one in five Rhode Island children lived in poverty as of 2005, and about 23,000 children – 10 percent – lived in households...

PROVIDENCE Art Windows fills empty storefronts with works such as 'Fragment Land,' a quilt by Mia Capodilupo of Chicago. /

Turning empty windows into artists’ showcases

Nonprofit 03/31/2007

At night, Maureen Keaveny’s window is a black-light-illuminated sculpture of recycled paper shaped into shrubbery. The Rhode Island School of Design junior calls it...

'AFTER SOME TIME, I can estimate whether I can trust this rater or not,' explains Yan Sun, an assistant professor of computer engineering at URI and who recently was awarded a five-year National Science Foundation research grant. READ MORE /

Rating the raters is at the core of URI professors’ research

Nonprofit 03/31/2007

A team of computer engineers at the University of Rhode Island has requested patent protection of a technology to combat the manipulation of user-generated...

DR. ELIZABETH LAZARUS, a radiologist at Women & Infants Hospital, looks at an MRI of breasts scanned with new technology where the patient lies on her stomach. /

Local doctors helping set new standards for breast cancer diagnosis

Nonprofit 03/31/2007

If hospitals in the real world functioned like the doctors on “House, M.D.” every diagnosis could cost a year’s salary, and health insurers would...

DENTAL HYGIENIST Mary O?Connor works on a patient at Blackstone Valley Community Health Care, which is building a much larger dental facility nearby. /

Expanding dental services for northern R.I.’s poor

Nonprofit 03/31/2007

Aiming to address what its executive director calls “a major public health concern,” Blackstone Valley Community Health Care is turning a former bank hall...

QVC, Kirks Folly team up to raise money for autism

Nonprofit 03/31/2007

Jenniefer Kirk, co-founder of Kirks Folly, a Providence-based designer and manufacturer of fantasy jewelry, home accessories and clothing, has embarked on a “Dreams Come...

State’s future depends on children’s lives

Nonprofit 03/31/2007

Nearly one of every five children in Rhode Island lives in poverty. Nearly one in 10 lives in extreme poverty, under $8,122 for...

FROM LEFT, at the new store in Warwick, are Sally Wilson and Tom Houllahan of Panera Bread, Doris Stearn Donovan of Children?s Friend & Service, and Ruth Devitt, general manager of Panera Bread. /

Panera grand opening helps Children’s Friend

Nonprofit 03/31/2007

In celebration of the grand opening of its sixth store in Rhode Island – at 1000 Bald Hill Road, Warwick – Panera...

WILLIAM C. WALLACE II has been named the VNAA 2007 Volunteer of the Year for his work in the South County area with VNS Home Health. /

South County VNS trustee to receive national award

Nonprofit 03/31/2007

William C. Wallace II, a trustee of VNS Home Health Services in Narragansett, will be honored with the Visiting Nurse Associations of America’s 2007...