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REWARDED: Kaylee Cabral, third from left, of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport’s Combat Systems Department Cybersecurity Division, receives the 2023 Society of Women Engineers Helen Martha Sternberg Award from acting Technical Director Vicki Comeau, left; Emily Callahan, a representative of the New England Shoreline Section of the Society of Women Engineers; and Commanding Officer Capt. Chad Hennings during the annual awards ceremony on June 7. 
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Cabral wins engineering award from Naval Undersea Warfare Center

KAYLEE CABRAL, an engineer in the Combat Systems Department Cybersecurity Division of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport, was presented the Society of...

Five Questions With: Jamie Mitri

Jamie Mitri is the founder and CEO of Moss Pure, a maintenance-free, live moss product that filters air quality while bringing a natural aesthetic to indoor spaces. PBN: For...
CAMPING OUT: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rhode Island employees hold an all-staff retreat held at Camp Meehan in Notte Park in North Providence. 
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BIG SISTERS OF RHODE ISLAND

Big Brothers Big Sisters of RI’s community service extends to the...

PBN Best Places To Work Awards 2023 SMALL COMPANIES #1: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rhode Island Employees in R.I. 36 CEO Katje Afonseca WHEN BIG BROTHERS BIG...

Senate panel mulls ranked-choice voting for primaries, state elections

In October 2021, Sen. Samuel Zurier, D-Providence, won a five-person Democratic primary with a little more than 31% of the vote. The second and...

Boston Fed, MIT mark completion of central bank digital currency research

PROVIDENCE – It’s too soon to tell whether a central bank digital currency could work. This was the conclusion of a recently completed research project...

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,...

Five Questions With: Anais Missakian

Through a collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Rhode Island School of Design, there is a new fabric in town, one that acts...
LAB VISIT: Roger Williams University President Ioannis Miaoulis visits with Emma Place, left, and Alicia Schickle, who are examining the Northern Star Coral being raised in the university’s wet lab. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

AN ENGINEER’S ATTITUDE: At RWU, Miaoulis revels in opportunities to solve...

(Editor’s note: This is the second installment in an occasional series of interviews with the state’s new wave of higher education leaders. You can...
THE HEALING TOUCH: University of Rhode Island assistant professor Daniel Roxbury, left, and former URI graduate student Mohammad Moein Safaee display the “smart bandage” they spent two years developing. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

URI researchers are the brains behind ‘smart bandage’

Imagine a future with a bandage that could sense whether an infection was developing and could tell the patient or caregiver to get the...
KAUSHALLYA ADHIKARI, a URI assistant professor of electrical engineering, received a Young Investigator Award this year from the Office of Naval Research, which she will use to research sonar systems. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

URI engineering professor awarded grant to investigate sonar capabilities

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Kaushallya Adhikari, one of the University of Rhode Island’s newest engineering professors, will help the U.S. Navy research and maximize its...
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