Carothers to step down as URI president
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – University of Rhode Island President Robert L. Carothers is set to officially announce that he will step down at the end...
Projo buyouts a sign of times<br> in the newspaper industry
Reductions in the daily newspaper industry are taking place with unsettling frequency, and now The Providence Journal – the state’s largest news organization –...
Coping with less, the Six Sigma way
Patricia Martinez has a heck of a task ahead of her.
Two months into a 2009 budget year marked by debilitating spending cuts, the director...
A new path to productivity
Concordia Manufacturing LLC celebrates its new $1.6 million medical-fiber manufacturing space in Warwick (READ MORE) with balloons and a speech by Gov. Donald L....
R.I.’s independence still making news
As all local school children know, Rhode Island began life as a break-away region of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Following in that proud tradition,...
Eyeing ‘a higher level of doctor’
The course is called “Doctoring,” and along with the foundations of anatomy, cell biology, physiology, genetics and other core medical sciences, it is one...
Hundreds to pull jet to help in fight against MS
WARWICK – For the second year in a row, hundreds of volunteers are expected to gather at T.F. Green Airport on Sept. 20 to...
‘The Eye Site’ exhibit in Providence thru Oct. 30
PROVIDENCE – “The Eye Site: A Traveling Exhibit on Low Vision,” a project of the National Eye Institute, went on display at the Central...
Foster/Glocester to get $1M for energy lab
GLOCESTER – The Ponaganset Alternative Energy Lab and Biomass Facilities Project will receive nearly $1 million in federal aid, U.S. Sen. Jack Reed said...
Providence metro area is 170th ‘best performing’
SANTA MONICA, Calif. – The Providence-New Bedford-Fall River metropolitan area fell 20 slots this year to No. 170 in the Milken Institute / Greenstreet...