Tag: Jack Reed
E.P. gets $200K for small-business incubator
EAST PROVIDENCE – The city on Wednesday announced a $200,000 federal award for a small-business and blue-economy incubator project at the former Oldham Elementary...
Bristol’s Revolutionary Heritage Byway gets $750K for upgrades
BRISTOL – The Revolutionary Heritage Byway is getting a $750,000 upgrade.
Sens. Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., joined state and local officials Wednesday to...
R.I. researchers get $6M for climate change, coastal resiliency hub project
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island researchers have been awarded $6 million in federal funding for a new data hub study climate change and coastal resiliency,...
North Kingstown, Glocester share $915K for wastewater management upgrades
PROVIDENCE – North Kingstown and Glocester are receiving a total of $915,000 in federal funding for wastewater management upgrades, members of the R.I. congressional...
NASA executive meets with R.I. business, university innovators
PROVIDENCE – A return trip to the moon. Volcanic glass and asteroid samples. Innovative underwater robots.
Those are just a few NASA-funded projects in which Rhode Island...
3 R.I. lighthouses to be transferred to state for historic preservation
PROVIDENCE – The National Park Service has agreed to turn over three historic Rhode Island lighthouses to the state and local groups for their...
URI’s Pharmaceutical Development Institute gets $1.2M in federal funds
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The University of Rhode Island received a $1.2 million federal earmark to support facility and equipment upgrades at the university’s Pharmaceutical...
Bill allowing failed-bank executive pay to be clawed back clears U.S....
WASHINGTON – In an effort to improve accountability at big banks and ensure managers of failed banks don’t profit from their mismanagement and negligence,...
SENEDIA reports defense, undersea tech had $7.6B impact on R.I. in 2022
MIDDLETOWN – Rhode Island’s defense and undersea technology cluster had a total economic impact of $7.6 billion on the Ocean State in 2022, according to a new...
Rhode Island nets $178K for air quality monitoring
PROVIDENCE – As smoke from Canadian wildfires hung in the air last week, the state received $178,046 toward air quality monitoring.
The federal funding, provided under...