People

R.I. issued $13.8M in film tax credits in fiscal 2022

Art & Culture 08/16/2022

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island issued more than $13 million in motion picture tax credits in fiscal 2022, a significant jump from the previous year. The...

K-12 STUDENTS ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS will not be required to wear masks when they return to school this fall. / AP FILE PHOTO/LYNNE SLADKY

No statewide mask requirements, COVID-19 testing in Mass. schools this year

Coronavirus 08/16/2022

MALDEN, Mass. – Students entering K-12 public schools across Massachusetts this fall will get a return to normalcy after two years of restrictions and...

RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE'S Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities announced Friday it has been awarded a five-year, $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE

R.I. College’s Sherlock Center receives $3M federal grant

Education 08/12/2022

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island College’s Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities has been awarded a five-year, $3 million U.S. Department of Health and Human...

RICHARD M. LOCKE will step down as Brown University's provost at the end of the calendar year. / COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY

Locke to step down as Brown University’s provost at end of year

Education 08/11/2022

PROVIDENCE – Brown University will be in search of a new provost. The Ivy League institution announced Thursday that Richard M. Locke, who has served...

LUCY RIOS has been named the new executive director for the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Rios named R.I. Coalition Against Domestic Violence’s new executive director

Health Services 08/10/2022

WARWICK – Lucy Rios, who has been serving as the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence’s interim executive director for close to a year,...

THREE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND researchers, from left, Soni Pradhanang and Dawn Cardace, associate professors of geosciences, and Serena Moseman-Valtierra, an associate professor of biological sciences, were awarded a $735,000 grant by the NASA Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research to study methane gas emissions. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

3 URI researchers awarded $735K to study methane gas emissions

Education 08/10/2022

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A trio of University of Rhode Island researchers were awarded a $735,000 grant by the NASA Established Program to Stimulate Competitive...

Providence Public Schools recognized for sustainable electronics efforts

Education 08/09/2022

PROVIDENCE – The Information Technology Department of the Providence Public Schools recently received a 2022 Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool Purchaser Award for its...

Judith S. Earle,  Elizabeth Buffum Chace Center  executive director Judith Earle has served as executive director of Warwick-based Elizabeth Buffum Chace Center since 1997. The nonprofit serves victims and families of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Building a community

Nonprofit 08/05/2022

In the field of interpersonal violence, our mission and the wonderful work of our staff can only go so far, unless entire communities are...

Turowski honored for community building work in Newport

Education 08/05/2022

LINDSEY TUROWSKI, director of integrated marketing strategy and brand deployment within Salve Regina University’s Office of Strategic Communications and Public Affairs, was recently awarded...