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PRE-FAB HOMES: A crane moves a pre-manufactured housing unit into place on Bowdoin Street in Providence during ONE Neighborhood Builders’ construction of an eight-unit apartment house, which was completed in 2022. 

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R.I. has fallen behind in use of manufactured homes

As a housing crisis continues to rage throughout the U.S., a recent report notes that more residents are willing to live in nontraditional quarters...
HEATHER BOUJOULIAN has been elected as the new chairperson of Roger Williams University's board of trustees. She is the first woman to hold the chair position in the university's history. / COURTESY ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY

Roger Williams University elects Boujoulian as first woman board of trustees...

BRISTOL – Heather Boujoulian, a Roger Williams University alum and managing director and head of development at Boston-based real estate firm Berkshire Residential Investments,...

Roger Williams University adding new hockey, women’s golf programs

BRISTOL – Three new varsity sports programs will be competing at Roger Williams University within the next two academic years. The university announced in early...
ANNA CANO MORALES, the former vice president of external relations and diversity, equity and inclusion at Rhode Island College, jointly signed back in May a severance agreement with the college that she would receive $180,000, equaling a year's worth of salary, plus a stipend for health care. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE

RIC pays $180K severance to former DEI vice president

PROVIDENCE – As part of severance agreement from mid-May, Rhode Island College agreed to pay Anna Cano Morales, its now former vice president of...

RWU launches Hayden scholarships to support trades education

BRISTOL – Roger Williams University recently received a $250,000 grant from the Hayden Foundation, a philanthropic organization that provides financial assistance to educational organizations,...
ENERGETIC DISCUSSION: ­Abigail Hasenfus, renewable energy programs manager for the state of Rhode Island, speaks with Derek Gomes, chief public affairs officer for the R.I. Office of Management and Budget.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

POWERING UP: Opening a door to work in clean energy

Sometimes all it takes to launch careers and solve labor shortage issues is for someone to open the door and welcome the next generation...
HANDS ON: 
Teacher candidate Jessica Barresi, center, holds a metal box she worked on in a welding program that is part of a teacher certification program at Roger Williams University run by Lynne Bedard, center right. Also pictured, from left, foreground: Coventry High students Brayden Assadorian (wearing ­welding helmet) and James Spencer, and teacher candidates Jennifer Ortiz, back left; Anthony Carrion, foreground center right; and Louis Petrucci, right.
PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

CAREER SHIFT: RWU offers path to teaching for working adults

As the COVID-19 pandemic began to race across the country, Danielle Ricci could see a nursing shortage on the horizon and wanted to find...
BROWN UNIVERSITY was ranked No. 13 in the National Universities category in the U.S. News & World Report's annual Best Colleges rankings. / COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY

Brown, Providence College still among U.S. News’ best colleges despite slight...

PROVIDENCE – Both Brown University and Providence College saw their respective rankings slightly decrease this year, but they and other local colleges remain among...
ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY, pictured, along with Rhode Island College, Providence College, the Rhode Island School of Design and Salve Regina University, received a three-year, $3 million National Science Foundation grant to launch this fall the Rhode Island Research Administration Collaborative. / COURTESY ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY

5 R.I.-based colleges get $3M federal grant for new research administration...

PROVIDENCE – Five Rhode Island-based colleges and universities have collectively received a three-year, $3 million National Science Foundation grant to launch a first-of-its-kind initiative...
THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND has the Rhode Island Promise scholarship, which allows qualified students to attend the school tuition-free, but Massachusetts has taken it a step further by making a community college education available tuition-free for any Massachusetts resident with a high school diploma. / COURTESY COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND

Where does Mass. move to tuition-free community colleges leave R.I.?

Massachusetts has expanded its community college tuition-free program to cover all students this fall, but don't expect Rhode Island to follow suit anytime soon. State...
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