Tag: Brown University
Brown students develop low-cost technology to reduce ‘space junk’
PROVIDENCE – More than 27,000 pieces of “space junk,” or nonfunctional and abandoned spacecrafts and other mission-related debris, currently orbit the Earth, according to NASA,...
Tidewater funding woes place Rhode Island FC in home field disadvantage
Rhode Island doesn’t have a full roster of premier sports venues.
And with financing woes slowing the $124 million Pawtucket soccer stadium project where the new United...
Lincolnwood completes multimillion-dollar renovation
NORTH PROVIDENCE – Lincolnwood Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center has completed a multimillion-dollar renovation and modernization of its nursing and rehabilitation facility in North Providence.
The...
LOST IN EMISSIONS: Businesses befuddled by state’s net-zero goals
So far, the 10 electric vehicle charging stations tucked away in the corner of the 200-space parking lot at Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence Inc. haven’t...
Brown University’s ‘Brown Promise’ financial assistance program now permanent
PROVIDENCE – Brown University’s “Brown Promise” program, which offers scholarship funds in lieu of packaged loans that the Ivy League institution eliminated four years...
Health organizations get $9.1M to bolster services, medical research
PROVIDENCE – Four Rhode Island health care organizations will share $9.1 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to strengthen services across...
2 Brown University basketball players sue Ivy League over no-scholarship policy
PROVIDENCE – Two Brown University basketball players, one former and one current, filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday accusing the eight Ivy League...
UMass Dartmouth receives $3.6M federal grant for MUST program
DARTMOUTH – The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s Marine and UnderSea Technology research program will once again be the beneficiary of a multimillion-dollar federal grant...
Brown announces Paxson contract extension
PROVIDENCE – Brown University President Christina H. Paxson has received a contract extension that is one year longer than formerly announced, the university disclosed...
McKee makes push for $45M investment in life sciences
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee on Monday joined House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi and a panel of stakeholders in the biotechnology and life...