Borders to close two local bookstores
WARWICK – Borders Group Inc. announced Thursday it will close about 200 of its mall-based bookstores in January, including two local ones, and cut...
RIH awarded $11M for stem-cell research
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Hospital will receive $11 million over the next five years to create a major stem-cell research center that will focus...
Conference on homelessness coming up
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless will host a conference about homelessness and affordable housing on Monday, Nov. 9 at the...
Brown offers buyouts to cut jobs, budget
PROVIDENCE – Brown University is offering incentives, including a year’s pay and a $15,000 bonus, to some non-faculty employees if they choose to retire...
R.I. jobless rate may peak at 14% in 2010
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island economy is currently in its worst shape in more than four decades, and the state’s unemployment rate will not...
Five Questions With: Walker Williams
Walker Williams is a junior at Brown University and founder of Jobzle, a new job-search Web site for local students. He talked with PBN...
R.I. seeks $20M health research center
PROVIDENCE – A group of local research institutions led by Brown University have applied to the National Institutes of Health for a five-year, $20...
BofA celebrates R.I. nonprofits
PROVIDENCE – The Bank of America Charitable Foundation says it’s donating more than $400,000 to two Rhode Island nonprofits to address “critical social issues”...
Brown has best-paid local college leader
PROVIDENCE – Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons was the highest-paid local college president in the 2007-08 school year, according to an analysis of...
Family Service of R.I. event raises $140K
GTECH Corp., Bank of America and the Citizens Foundation helped raise $140,000 for Family Service of Rhode Island at the nonprofit’s annual fundraising event,...
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