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BROWN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT Chistina H. Paxson earned $1,067,491 in total compensation in 2015, the highest amount of any private college in the Providence metropolitan area for the year. / COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY

Report: Brown, Bryant, JWU lead region in private college executive compensation

Education 12/11/2017

PROVIDENCE - Brown University President Christina H. Paxson was the highest-compensated higher education executive in the Providence metropolitan area, according to the Executive Compensation...

CURRENT CONDITIONS INDEX for Rhode Island in October was 83. A CCI above 50 indicates economic growth. /COURESY LEONARD LARDARO

Lardaro: R.I. CCI shows growth, but there is ‘potential reason for...

Economic Activity 12/11/2017

PROVIDENCE - University of Rhode Island economist Leonard Lardaro posted a Current Conditions Index for Rhode Island in October of 83, a 33-point gain...

FURTHER STUDY: Dr. Gregory D. Jay, owner of Lubris LLC, has been investigating lubricin, a glycoprotein recently licensed to Novartis for use as a dry-eye treatment. Jay is looking into lubricin’s potential as a treatment for damaged joints and abdominal scarring prevention. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

R.I. hospitals’ dilemma: Nurture innovation or be downsized by it

Entrepreneurship 12/08/2017

Medical innovation saves and improves otherwise desperate lives and lends prestige to the hospitals nurturing it, while attracting new patients, funding, and top researchers...

TEAM MEETING: From left, Brenton DeBoef, professor of chemistry at the University of Rhode Island, and Alcinous Pharmaceutical team members Nicholas DaSilva, CEO and Ph.D. student in the URI College of Pharmacy; Benjamin Barlock, chief technology officer and Ph.D. student in the URI College of Pharmacy; David Worthen, chief operations officer and URI assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Department of Chemical Engineering; and Ken Rose, chief scientific officer and Ph.D. student in the URI College of Pharmacy, discuss Alcinous’ latest research project. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Alcinous to use $50K Innovation Voucher to create new PARP inhibitor

Education 12/08/2017

Five weeks prior to celebrating its first year in business, Alcinous Pharmaceuticals received a $50,000 Innovation Voucher from R.I. Commerce Corp. The microcompany had been...

DANIEL ROXBURY, assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of Rhode Island, is part of a team using nanotechnology to better understand obesity-induced diseases. / COURTESY DANIEL ROXBURY

URI engineering professor tackles heart disease with nanotechnology

Education 12/08/2017

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – University of Rhode Island chemical engineering assistant professor Daniel Roxbury is among a team using nanotechnology to better understand obesity-induced diseases,...

URI to use $8M grant to create research program to study...

Education 12/08/2017

PROVIDENCE – The University of Rhode Island will use an $8 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health to create a research...

PROVIDENCE BUSINESS NEWS hosted its first-ever Workforce Excellence, Diversity and Inclusion summit Thursday.

PBN hosts first Workforce Excellence, Diversity & Inclusion summit

People 12/07/2017

WARWICK – Unconscious bias, strategic diversification to include people of color and women as well as the roots of diversity and inclusion from how...

PHILLIP CLARK, a human development and family studies professor at the University of Rhode Island, was named the recipient of the 2018 Hiram J. Friedsam Mentorship award by the Association for Gerntology in Higher Education. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

URI’s Clark named 2018 Hiram J. Friedsam Mentorship award recipient

Education 12/01/2017

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Phillip Clark, a human development and family studies professor at the University of Rhode Island, has been named recipient of the...

Prochaskas win scientific excellence award from Institute of Coaching

Education 12/01/2017

JAMES AND JANICE PROCHASKA, spouses and research partners, were recently honored with an Institute of Coaching Vision of Scientific Excellence in Coaching award, an...