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MONEY MATTERS: Brown University Health is using a portion of the funds raised in a $300 million bond issue last year to finance a Miriam Hospital renovation project that will include a new emergency department. The rendering shows what the completed $125 million project will look like. 
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Health care bond use grows nationally, but uncertainty looms for R.I....

As health systems’ balance sheets and labor forces are stabilizing, the health care bond market has rebounded. But uncertainty still reigns for Rhode Island...
FEELING COMFORTABLE: U.S. Navy veteran Lidell Booysen says the University of Rhode Island has eased his transition from the military. URI is one of six local colleges that have received the Military Friendly School designation. 
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These local colleges prove to be ‘military friendly’

Lidell Booysen is a U.S. Navy veteran and a mechanical engineering student at the University of Rhode Island. The 25-year-old isn’t like most of...
Susan M. Esper

Esper named Providence College board chair

SUSAN M. ESPER, a partner in audit and assurance in the Boston office of professional services and accounting firm Deloitte & Touche LLP, which...

League of Charter Schools’ Deltito-Sharrott charts the course for education

Business Women Awards 2025 WOMAN TO WATCH SOCIAL SERVICES/NONPROFIT: Chiara Deltito-Sharrott, Rhode Island League of Charter Public Schools executive director EDUCATION PREPARES MANY to succeed in...

Smith named Providence College’s new provost

PROVIDENCE – Thomas Smith, a teacher and scholar with two decades of academic leadership experience, has been named Providence College’s new provost and senior...

Legislation targets R.I.’s sports betting monopoly

New state legislation submitted in both the House and Senate is looking to upend the monopoly in Rhode Island’s sports betting market as revenue...

PC’s ‘Friars Give’ day raises record $3.3M

PROVIDENCE – In Providence College’s major quest to raise money that will help propel the college to the next level, its signature single-day fundraising...

3 Providence College hockey players ink entry-level NHL contracts

PROVIDENCE – A pair of Providence College men’s hockey senior defensemen recently signed entry-level contracts with the NHL teams they were drafted by in...
UP IN THE AIR: People such as Victoria McNeil, director of financial aid at the University of Rhode Island, are paying close attention to the projected $2.7 billion shortfall for the federal Pell Grant program and what it means for future aid to undergraduate students. 
PBN PHOTO/­ELIZABETH GRAHAM

The future of Pell grants is unclear for students

The federal Pell Grant program, named after the late Rhode Island Sen. Claiborne Pell, has money problems. The Congressional Budget Office is projecting the program...

‘March Madness’ a slam dunk for local restaurants, businesses over the...

PROVIDENCE – A weekendlong celebration of basketball madness proved to be an economic win for Rhode Island and its capital city. There’s now optimism for...
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