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STAYING THE COURSE: Dawn Apajee, founder and president of professional staffing service City Personnel Inc., speaks to Recruiting Coordinator Adora Andrade, who is writing on the board. Apajee says the nature of City Personnel’s business – which provides legal, administrative, accounting and support staffing services – calls for a commitment to diversity. PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

DEI TEST: Roll back? Push ahead? For many organizations, a critical...

Cover Story 07/18/2025

The diversity pledges flooded corporate inboxes across the country as protests filled the streets over George Floyd, a Black man who died under the...

Wendy Wallace was hired as Brown University’s director of civic engagement in May 2023. She previously served as director of engagement and development at the university’s Annenberg Institute’s National Student Support Accelerator. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

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Education 07/18/2025

Wendy Wallace | Brown University Director of civic engagement In every corner of Rhode Island, local organizations are building stronger, more equitable communities –...

GOING ON FOOT: Sonia Rodriguez, holding the green umbrella, of Smithfield leads the “Walk with a Doc” at South Main Street in Providence in June. Although there was no doctor on this particular walk and it was threatening to rain, the participants forged ahead because the health-related program has also become a social exercise.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Questions for a doctor? These walkers gladly trek 2 miles to...

Health Matters 07/18/2025

Ray Mendes had become very familiar with the waiting room at The Miriam Hospital’s Men’s Health Center in Providence after going to countless appointments...

OTHER PLANS? Erin Fitzgerald, director of the Center for Global Education and Fellowships at Salve Regina University in Newport, says she has many international students and researchers considering their options outside the U.S.  PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY

Uncertainty raises stress among foreign students

Education 07/18/2025

At Salve Regina University, the Center for Global Education and Fellowships has been preparing to welcome 80 international students to campus in the fall...

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Business Services 07/18/2025

PBN 40 Under Forty Awards 2025 KENIA MCCARTHY | 39 Director of biomed human resources, Brown University What is the biggest challenge currently facing your industry and...

URI’s Meade Stadium upgrades show more seating, new press box

Economic Activity 07/14/2025

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Additional seating, a new press box and new concessions are key elements to the $42 million renovation project at Meade Stadium,...

H. Carr & Sons Inc. CEO and president dies at 73

Business Services 07/11/2025

PROVIDENCE – James L. Carr Jr., who over five decades helped expand his family-owned general contracting company, H. Carr & Sons Inc., across New...

Alan G. Hassenfeld, former Hasbro CEO and philanthropist, dies at 76

Business Services 07/09/2025

PAWTUCKET – Alan G. Hassenfeld, the former longtime chairman and CEO of Hasbro Inc. – the global toymaker his family founded more than a...

Registration open for 7th annual NEMIC MedTech Leadership Program

Health Services 07/08/2025

PROVIDENCE – Registration is now open for the New England Medical Innovation Center’s 7th Annual MedTech Leadership Program. The education program developed and run by...