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Commission clears way for nursing and health science facility at PC

PROVIDENCE – The City Plan Commission voted unanimously to approve an amendment to the institutional master plan for the Providence College campus, allowing the...

Providence accepting applications for mayoral fellows

PROVIDENCE – Mayor Brett P. Smiley on April 19 announced that the city is accepting applications for its 2023 Mayoral Fellowship Program. The city says...
CLOSER LOOK: Creative Conners Inc. owner and CEO Gareth Conners, right, inspects a piece of equipment with automation technician Stephen “Bo” Bogev at the manufacturer’s Warren facility.
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Creative Conners’ products keep stages moving for small theaters, productions

(Editor’s note: This is the eighth installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s ­unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
BLURRED LINES: Monica Linden, a senior lecturer of neuroscience at Brown University, doesn’t bar the use of ChatGPT by her students outright but says they can use the artificial intelligence program to generate ideas and develop different perspectives on topics. 
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Higher ed in R.I. grapples with the use of ChatGPT

When Monica Linden, a senior lecturer of neuroscience at Brown University, enlisted ChatGPT to write a portion of a class syllabus, there was some...
DATA CENTER: Ocean State Job Lot Chief Information Officer Hisham Aharon, left, and Chief Financial Officer John Conforti inspect the computer servers that power the retailer’s technology, including the artificial intelligence software it uses. 
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From design to contracts, companies embrace AI tools

Even if you haven’t tried artificial intelligence tools that can write essays and poems or conjure new images on command, chances are the companies...
Thomas Tzitzouris

Politics of bank regulation never about making banks safer

The modern banking structure has been around for at least 700 years. And banks have been failing for 700 years. From 1980 until the early...
Brian P. Stern

Stern elected chair of RWU School of Law board

BRIAN P. STERN, associate justice of the R.I. Superior Court, was elected chairperson of the Roger Williams University School of Law board of directors...

Building a network?

Have you begun attending networking events again with the pandemic subsiding? Yes: 100% No: 0% I’ve attended networking events remotely through the pandemic: 0% What networking events do...
THE NORTHERN RHODE ISLAND Collaborative's board of superintendents on April 25 voted to form a dissolution plan.

Northern R.I. special education collaborative dissolving after 36 years

PROVIDENCE – The Northern Rhode Island Collaborative board of superintendents on April 25 voted to formulate a dissolution plan, essentially ending the 13-school district...
THE RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION and state officials on Wednesday announced $11.7 million in American Rescue Plan Act grants were distributed to 149 local organizations. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION

RIF distributes $11.7M in ARPA grants to address hunger, housing, behavioral health

WARWICK – The Rhode Island Foundation, along with state elected officials, on Wednesday announced at Westbay Community Action that $11.7 million in federal COVID-19...
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