Tag: University of Rhode Island
URI applications break a record. GPAs of incoming first-year students are...
After receiving a record number of applications, the University of Rhode Island exceeded its enrollment target for the incoming freshman class this fall.
The academic...
PBN Health Summit panel: Could R.I. fix doctor shortage by looking...
Despite the state’s ongoing shortage of primary care providers, Rhode Island’s largest health system has seen success in recruiting doctors from surrounding states. However,...
Bjorn steps down as URI athletics director
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – After nearly two decades, the University of Rhode Island is now searching for a new athletics director.
Thorr Bjorn announced Wednesday he...
Five Questions With: Allison Markova
Allison Markova joins the University of Rhode Island Research Foundation as its director of technology transfer and innovation partnerships as the organization scales up...
‘We are in crisis’: PBN summit highlights glaring gaps in affordable,...
WARWICK – Precarious and vulnerable.
That’s how Dr. Edward McGookin would describe the state of Rhode Island’s health care.
Two safety net hospitals – Roger Williams Medical Center and...
Quonset Business Park surpasses 15,000th job milestone
NORTH KINGSTOWN – Twenty years after its founding, Quonset Business Park this week celebrated its 15,000th job.
State officials and Quonset Development Corp. leaders gathered...
Five Questions With: Ryan Chapman
Ryan Chapman, assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of Rhode Island’s College of Health Sciences, is working on new orthopedic technologies. He recently...
Ocean State Labs puts open layout to the test
As Rhode Island’s life sciences industry continues to take shape, John Flavin wants the state’s first incubator wet lab space to feel different from...
THE ‘AMAZON EFFECT’: Warehouse looms over Johnston, but will it fulfill...
Making way for Amazon.com Inc. has been no easy feat for the town of Johnston since the e-commerce giant opened a 3.8 million-square-foot fulfillment...
RIC to offer retirement buyouts to longtime employees
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island College has announced plans for a voluntary retirement buyout package for 101 faculty and staff members.
A memo from the office...
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