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Many banks consolidating jobs as economy shifts
While restaurants and retailers were laying off their workers at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, banks embarked on a hiring spree in the...
On some campuses, Chinese students are fewer
When Yifei “Jerry” Hu arrived at Brown University last year, he knew he wasn’t going to return home – at least not for a...
Student loan debt forgiveness could have big impact in R.I.
With tensions heightening for many borrowers as the federal government prepares to resume student loan payments at the beginning of next year following a...
R.I. requires insurers cover biomarker testing
Dizziness, memory loss, anxiety and a perpetually swollen left foot and ankle are among the side effects Normand Audette has experienced from taking an...
New R.I. law ensures gratuities get into the right hands
Anyone who has worked in the service industry knows how rapidly things can change from one shift to the next.
One night’s tips might cover...
$6.7M charging station to boost electric buses
Going electric is about to get a little easier for the R.I. Public Transit Authority.
The bus agency is preparing to start construction on a...
Designers try to devise better safe-injection sites
In Providence and Pawtucket, harm-reduction organization Project Weber/RENEW regularly hands out test strips that can detect whether a drug sample contains fentanyl, a highly...
Bryant school will train students for science, business sides of health
BRAD CROUGH doesn’t bat an eye at the prospect of sorting through a dizzying tranche of numbers.
A skilled coder with degrees in accounting and...
URI’s connection to Mass. high-performance computing center powers advanced research
In Gaurav Khanna's world, access to cutting-edge, high-performance computers can open up countless possibilities.
Khanna is a physics professor at the University of Rhode Island,...
Fox Point Hurricane Barrier in need of upgrades, environmental groups warn
PROVIDENCE once led the nation in hurricane protection.
But in the half-century since the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the Fox Point Hurricane Barrier,...
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