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R.I. looks to preserve gains under Obamacare

Focus 08/17/2018

Rhode Island has had a good thing going under so-called “Obamacare,” according to state officials, but it all could change unless the state steps...

PROTECTIVE GEAR: John Caito III, Desmark Industries CEO, and Layne Mayer, Desmark consultant, on the production floor with the company’s first-generation riot suit.  / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Desmark looks to lead in protective-textiles market with new riot suit

Focus 08/10/2018

All forms of activism – from riots to demonstrations, rallies and protests – have colored the 18-plus months since President Donald Trump’s administration took...

PROBLEM-SOLVERS: University of Rhode Island assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering Gretchen Macht and a team of student researchers are using a state grant this summer to design something that would improve voter wait times, using queuing theory and facilities layout. From left, URI graduate students in system engineering Nicholas Bernardo, of North Haven, Conn., and James Houghton, of Holtsville, N.Y.; Macht; and URI mechanical engineering junior Ahmad Siddiqi, of Lincoln.  / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

When opinions won’t solve the problem

Focus 08/10/2018

Engineers are problem-solvers. But is there an engineering solution to long lines at the voting precincts? A professor of industrial and systems engineering at...

TAKE THEM TO THE RIVER: Pontiac Mills in Warwick is a sprawling former Fruit of the Loom mill complex across from Warwick Mall that is being redeveloped along the Pawtuxet River into residential and commercial space.  / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Three years on, Pontiac Mills lofts starting to take shape, take...

Focus 08/03/2018

Shuttered textile mills are complicated and expensive to redevelop into modern purposes. When a series of mill buildings is the project, the process can...

IN TUNE: More and more, institutions are reconfiguring bathrooms to be more inclusive of transgender people. Shauna Duffy, managing director of Providence’s AS220, is overseeing a renovation project that will include adding a gender-neutral restroom on its first floor.  / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Transgender bathroom issue moves to the fore

Focus 08/03/2018

Before starting a $4 million remodeling of its Empire Street complex in downtown Providence, leaders of the nonprofit community arts organization AS220 thought carefully...

HANDS-ON LEARNING: A newly launched craft-brewing certificate program at Johnson & Wales University features two weeks of hands-on education at Isle Brewers Guild in Pawtucket. From left, Jack Streich, vice president, brewery operations, Isle Brewers Guild; Devin Kelly, co-founder and managing partner, Isle Brewers Guild; Ed Korry, department chair, beverage and dining services, Johnson & Wales; Jeremy Duffy co-founder and managing partner, Isle Brewers Guild; Jennifer Pereira, associate professor, / Johnson & Wales. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Isle Brewers Guild partners with JWU to offer online craft-brewing certificate

Focus 07/27/2018

For a time, every old industrial complex, barn, music hall or former train station was ripe for the picking, as the fervor for craft...

HEIGHTENED INTEREST: James Fowler Jr., second from left, vice president for enrollment management at Salve Regina University in Newport, meets with students Tim Mentor, left, a sophomore majoring in political science; Mohammad Meraay, standing right, a junior majoring in marketing and business; and Santiago Durango, a junior majoring in political science. Fowler says prospective students and parents are more interested in how alumni fare with job placements than they were 10 years ago. PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Measuring college success in job placement

Focus 07/27/2018

When choosing a college, students may focus on the experience they’ll have for the next four years of their life. But increasingly they and...

Art schools aren’t doing so badly while other colleges struggle

Focus 07/27/2018

Sculptor Eleanor Tomlinson had doubts about art school. The tuition looked costly, there was no guarantee of a job and she wondered whether a...

CLEANING UP: Eric S. Anderson, left, president of Enviro-Clean, a damage restoration and remediation company in Smithfield, speaks with Robert Goralski, president of Cesyl Mills and owner of a warehouse facility in Woonsocket that sustained smoke damage from a fire.   / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Disaster-preparedness firms keep R.I. protected as storms increase, intensify

Focus 07/20/2018

A second-generation disaster restoration and remediation specialist, Eric S. Anderson, president of Enviro-Clean Inc. in Smithfield, knows all too well why businesses must be...

FLOOD-PRONE: Grover Fugate, executive director of the R.I. Coastal Resources Management Council, stands in front of properties on Strand Avenue in an at-risk area for flooding near the Oakland Beach neighborhood in Warwick.  / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Report: R.I. homebuilding codes don’t cover all storm risks

Focus 07/20/2018

Rhode Island again scored well in a recent report on the strength and enforcement of its homebuilding codes. However, with the 2018 hurricane season...

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