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Andreozzi receives URI Dean’s Distinguished Achievement Award

MICHAEL ANDREOZZI, owner and CEO of Beltone New England, was awarded the Dean’s Distinguished Achievement Award by the University of Rhode Island for making...
GIVING PLATFORM: Financial organizational software My Fund, pictured above, links to United Way of Rhode Island’s online giving platform, allowing donors to give to any nonprofit organization throughout the country. / COURTESY UNITED WAY 
OF RHODE ISLAND

Nonprofits not worried about giving fatigue after storms

In the span of roughly four weeks, the southern coast of the United States and the island of Puerto Rico were ravaged by multiple...
THE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY building at the Kingston campus of the University of Rhode Island in South Kingstown was recently renamed Paramaz Avedisian '54 Hall in honor of the alumnus, above, who was known for his advocacy for patients as well as his charity. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

URI dubs pharmacy building Paramaz Avedisian ’54 Hall in honor of...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The University of Rhode Island community dedicated its Kingston campus College of Pharmacy building to alumnus Paramaz Avedisian, ’54, whose lifetime...
FRONT-ROW SEAT: Pawtucket Red Sox Chairman Larry Lucchino, at left in the front row, listens during a Senate Finance Committee hearing at the ­University of Rhode Island’s Swan Hall in South Kingstown, during which the team, the public and others provided feedback on the proposed PawSox stadium deal. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

A financing plan for a new PawSox stadium leaves the state...

(Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series looking at development opportunities in Pawtucket and their implications for the city and state.) Attendees...

Health, education see slow growth in R.I.

Lackluster growth in health and education employment could spell trouble for the Ocean State, where job gains or losses in any segment of the...
NISANNE GHONEM, assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy, received a 2017 Mentored Research Award from Advance-CTR to study the cause of kidney transplant failures. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

URI’s Ghonem receives grant to research kidney transplant failures

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy assistant professor Nisanne Ghonem received a 2017 Mentored Research Award from Advance-CTR (Clinical Translational...

Five Questions With Brenda Dann-Messier

Brenda Dann-Messier | Commissioner of postsecondary education, Rhode Island 1. What are the most serious challenges, or weaknesses, in the Rhode Island higher education system?...

URI begins construction on new facility after razing Welcome Center

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The University of Rhode Island’s Welcome Center has been razed and will be rebuilt as a larger, more up-to-date facility, WPRI-TV...
THE CURRENT CONDITIONS INDEX for August was 83. / COURTESY LEONARD LARDARO

August: Current Conditions Index posts fifth consecutive strong reading

SOUTH KINGSTOWN -  Rhode Island’s economy continued to outperform year over year, according to University of Rhode Island economist Leonard Lardaro in the latest...
NEGATIVE IMPACT: Malcolm A. Makin, president of Professional Planning Group in Westerly, says the U.S. Department of Labor’s so-called “fiduciary rule” will hurt investors by forcing wealth managers to charge fees for unmanaged assets and make it difficult for young investors to find wealth managers. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Rule curbing fees could squeeze wealth managers

The so-called “fiduciary rule” could curb expenses for retirement savers by $17 billion each year, but end up unfairly squeezing smaller players in the...
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