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PBN celebrates 40th anniversary with business community

PAWTUCKET – Providence Business News on Thursday celebrated four decades of providing business journalism to Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts at its 40th Anniversary...

R.I. has everything needed to make great sales pitch

We are all both proud of our state and sometimes critical of various sectors that can be improved. I have long been somewhere between...

CCRI graduates First Fit2Serve class aimed at preparing recruits for law enforcement careers 

WARWICK – The Community College of Rhode Island has graduated the inaugural class of its Fit2Serve: Pathway to Policing program, an eight-week training initiative...

Washington Trust sponsors Aug. 5 Summer Pops concert in Providence

PROVIDENCE – The Washington Trust Co. will sponsor the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra's annual Summer Pops concert, helping bring the free outdoor performance back...

No prize yet for Blue Ribbon Commission. School funding formula retool...

Lawmakers sat behind rows of tables, like students at their desks, in the R.I. Senate Lounge one January night to hear a guest speaker...

Brown University launches Workforce Lab to track job training programs

PROVIDENCE – Brown University’s Watson School of International and Public Affairs launched a new Workforce Development Policy Lab on Thursday to identify which job...

Rhode Island Foundation expands fundraising team to enhance service to current...

The Rhode Island Foundation has named Karen Fuller a Senior Philanthropic Advisor. She is responsible for inspiring philanthropy with current and prospective donors by...
PROGRAM ­SUCCESS: Amy Grzybowski, vice president of workforce development and ­community relations at New ­England Institute of Technology, says the success of its surgical technologist pilot program allowed it to become a registered ­apprenticeship. 
PBN PHOTO/­ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Surgical technologist pilot turned apprenticeship helping hospitals fill vacancies

In the operating rooms of Rhode Island hospitals, the work moves fast. Scalpels are handed off, instrument trays are counted and procedures unfold with...

Rhode Island Foundation awards $650K to support 26 medical research projects

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation has awarded nearly $650,000 in seed funding to 26 medical research projects, supporting work ranging from artificial intelligence...

Washington Trust adds tech executive Jeffrey M. Wilhelm to board

WESTERLY – Washington Trust Bancorp Inc. has elected technology and cybersecurity executive Jeffrey M. Wilhelm to the boards of the company and its subsidiary...
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