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MATTHEW WELDON, second from right, director of the R.I. Department of Labor and Training, speaks during a panel discussion at Providence Business News' Workforce Development Summit in Providence on Thursday. Also on the panel are, from left, Lindsey Brickle, director of workforce and community partnerships at Polaris MEP; Julie Matthew, manufacturing director of Amgen Inc. in Rhode Island; Ara Millette, director of talent acquisition and workforce development at Lifespan Corp.; Nina Pande, executive director of Skills for Rhode Island’s Future; and Douglas Sherman, senior vice president and provost at the New England Institute of Technology. PBN Editor Michael Mello, standing at right, moderated. PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

PBN workforce summit: Flexibility ‘the best asset you can have at this time’

PROVIDENCE – With Rhode Island now having regained more than 90% of jobs lost due to the COVID-19 pandemic, employers may feel that the...
OLNEYVILLE NEW YORK SYSTEM INC.'S sign auction raised $27,092 in support of the Rhode Island Community Food Bank. / COURTESY OLNEYVILLE NEW YORK SYSTEM INC.

Olneyville New York System’s sign auction raises $27K for R.I. food bank

PROVIDENCE – When he decided to put the restaurant’s historic 1954 neon sign up for auction to support the Rhode Island Community Food Bank,...
THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND has received a $7 million gift from Cherubina “Ruby” DeChristofaro, wife of the late Joseph DeChristofaro to advance molecular and neuroscience research at the university. Also, URI's Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences building, pictured, will be renamed in honor of the DeChristofaros and their seven-figure gift. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODEI SLAND

URI receives $7M gift to advance neuroscience, molecular research

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The University of Rhode Island has received a substantial gift from the family of a late alum and former insurance executive...

R.I. postsecondary council approves Warner as RIC’s full-time president

PROVIDENCE – Jack R. Warner will stay on as Rhode Island College’s president. In a meeting Wednesday morning, the R.I. Council on Postsecondary Education unanimously...

More Rhode Islanders are earning 4-year college degrees 

You might call it a bachelor party: Rhode Island saw an almost 4% increase in bachelor’s degrees in 2022, according to new national data from a...

Five Questions With: Nick Figueroa

Nick Figueroa is the director of the Brown Collegiate Scholars Program at Brown University. The initiative is designed to prepare cohorts of students from...

AG deems Rhode Island PBS-The Public’s Radio merger application complete

PROVIDENCE – R.I. Attorney General Peter F. Neronha has deemed the 443-page merger application submitted by Rhode Island PBS and The Public’s Radio complete,...

R.I. Good Neighbor Energy Fund seeking money to address urgent heating needs

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Good Neighbor Energy Fund, administrated by United Way of Rhode Island Inc., is appealing to the public for donations...
ATTENDEES HOLD PORTRAITS at a recent Rhode Island Vegan Awareness painting fundraising event. The organization will hold a Paint & Sip Fundraiser on Feb. 24 at Plant City in Providence. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND VEGAN AWARENESS

Philanthropy Calendar, Feb. 14, 2024

Click here for the Sept. 27, 2022 issue of the Philanthropy Calendar.
BRIAN T. MOYNIHAN, chairman and CEO of Bank of America Corp., has been elected chancellor of the Corporation of Brown University. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Brown University’s corporation elects Bank of America CEO Moynihan chancellor

PROVIDENCE – Bank of America Corp.’s chairman and CEO will start this summer leading the corporation that oversees all operations at his alma mater. Brown...
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