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Washington Trust CEO, CFO to retire
WESTERLY – There’s a changing of the guard planned this winter for Washington Trust Bancorp Inc., as long-time Chairman and CEO Joseph J. MarcAurele...
EpiVax launches EpiVax Oncology for personalized cancer vaccines
PROVIDENCE — Immunolgy engineering biotech firm EpiVax Inc. has launched EpiVax Oncology Inc., a venture-backed spinoff focused on the development of personalized therapeutic cancer...
Federal audit finds Betaspring intentionally misused $804K
PROVIDENCE – A federal audit released this week claims business-accelerator and consultant Betaspring LLC intentionally misused $803,644 to fund operations in 2012.
A manager of...
CVS announces expansion of efforts to combat opioid abuse
WOONSOCKET – CVS Health Corp. announced an expansion of its efforts to combat national opioid abuse Thursday.
The company said it will expand its CVS...
Brown seeks to convert student loans to student grants
PROVIDENCE – Brown University announced that it has begun a campaign to eliminate loans from the university’s financial aid packages, with the goal of...
$19M in NSF funding awarded to URI Narragansett Bay research initiative
PROVIDENCE - Consortium for Coastal Ecology Assessment, Innovation, and Modeling, or C-AIM, a University of Rhode Island research initiative measuring the ecological health of Narragansett...
R.I. receives $10.6M in community development grants
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island will receive $10.6 million in development grants, U.S. Sen. Jack F. Reed announced on Sept. 16.
The federal aid comes in...
R.I. construction employment rises fastest in nation in August
PROVIDENCE - Rhode Island ranked No. 1 in the nation for year-over-year construction employment growth percentage in August, according to the Associated General Contractors...
R.I. unemployment holds at 4.3 percent in August
PROVIDENCE – The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in Rhode Island in August held steady for the second consecutive month at 4.3 percent, a 1...
URI School of Education nets $1.4M in scholarships to prepare STEM...
PROVIDENCE - University of Rhode Island's School of Education is the beneficiary of a $1.4 million Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program geared to science,...
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