Tag: University of Rhode Island
R.I. Foundation awards $440K in grants to support 18 medical research...
PROVIDENCE – Approximately $440,000 in seed funding has been awarded by the Rhode Island Foundation to five health organizations and higher education institutions to...
Summer 2025 Blue & You Regional Speaker Series launches June 18
NEWPORT – The fifth annual Summer 2025 Blue & You Regional Speaker Series, a collaboration between Innovate Newport, Ocean Tech Hub and the Grow Blue Strategy,...
URI names VanderGheynst new College of the Environment and Life Sciences...
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Jean VanderGheynst, who has been the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s engineering dean for six years, has been named the new dean...
States act to reverse CPA shortage. Will R.I.?
Accounting firms have long felt the crunch, and it’s getting worse.
A growing shortage of certified public accountants is pushing the profession to its limits,...
PBN announces 2025 40 Under Forty honorees
PROVIDENCE – Forty young professionals were selected as the winners of Providence Business News’ 21st annual 40 Under Forty Awards program.
The honorees were chosen...
Meet the Makers: Moss Pure’s air filtration products blend art with...
(Editor’s note: This is the 33rd installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
At this school clinic, students get checkups, then career mentoring
As Rhode Island continues to face a shortage of health care workers, a first-of-its-kind program using students from Brown University’s medical school is attempting...
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...
Tariff war not helping manufacturers
Local manufacturers were hopeful during pandemic-fueled supply chain disruptions for an eventual return of manufacturing jobs that were shifted overseas in previous decades.
But that’s...
R.I. manufacturers bracing for pain
As fluctuating tariff orders implemented by President Donald Trump’s administration continue to rattle the global economy, manufacturers in Rhode Island are bracing for higher...
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