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LASTING SUPPORT: Oscar Chilabato, associate professor of marketing and Ad Team co-adviser at Johnson & Wales University, has been supporting JWU students at the National Student Advertising Competition for 19 years. For the first time in the program’s history, the team took first place at this year’s competition in New Orleans. / COURTESY JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY

Real-world experiences helping prepare JWU, URI marketing majors

Michael Gotera, a Nevada native, wasn’t sure what to study when he began as a freshman at Johnson & Wales University in Providence but...
THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND adjunct faculty union has filed a complaint with the Attorney General”s office against URI President David Dooley and the RI Council on PostSecondary Education. /COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

URI adjuncts file complaint against president, state for compensation

Updated: Tuesday, June 13 at 11:54 a.m. SOUTH KINGSTOWN - URI/AAUP Part-Time Faculty United, the union representing approximately 450 University of Rhode Island adjunct professors,...
LEONARD LARDARO'S Current Conditions Index suggests that Rhode Island's economy expanded in April, but at a slower rate than March. / COURTESY LEONARD LARDARO

CCI fell 9 pts. from March, bounced back 50 pts. from...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Momentum gained through 2016 has sustained itself through April 2017 according to the latest Current Conditions Index measured by University of...
JENNIFER BAIRAM, A JUNIOR in University of Rhode Island's Pharmaceutical Sciences Program will be part of the intern program at Lonza Biologics this summer. /COURTESY THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

Five Questions With: Jennifer Bairam, University of Rhode Island student

A native of Hooksett, New Hampshire, Jennifer Bairam is a junior in the B.S. Pharmaceutical Sciences program at the University from Rhode Island. She...
FROM LEFT, Nicholas DaSilva, Kenneth Rose and Benjamin Barlock, doctoral students at the University of Rhode Island’s College of Pharmacy, which is part of the Academic Health Collaborative, launched a drug development company, Alcinous. They discuss their venture in the pharmacy building on the Kingston Campus in early June. /COURTESY NORA LEWIS

URI graduate students launch pharmaceutical company

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Three doctoral students at the University of Rhode Island’s College of Pharmacy have started a company that harnesses big data in a...
COMPOSTING CHAMPIONS: Frank Mastrobuono, left, and Mike Kowalczyk are the co-founders of Earthly, a Providence-based food-waste-management and composting company that recently took first place in the New England Cannabis Convention’s Pitch Slam. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

An Earthly plan for food waste

Frank Mastrobuono, a former environmental scientist, always considered himself the “outdoorsy type.” He used his “drive to go back to business school” to start a...

Senators oppose elimination of Sea Grant program

WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of 26 senators is calling for federal funding to be preserved for the National Sea Grant College Program, which...
FIVE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND students received certificates in energy economics and policy. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

URI students first to earn energy economics and policy degree

SOUTH KINGSTOWN - Last month, five University of Rhode Island College of the Environment and Life Sciences students were the first in the school's...
FINAL TOUCHES: The Good 5 Cent Cigar staff at the University of Rhode Island works on the last issue of the semester. Production manager Seamus Fuller points out an online article to managing editor Allie E. Lewis, foreground, while editor-in-chief Emma Gauthier looks on. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Locally owned publications remain viable in parochial Rhode Island. But for...

Looking to expand her social circle, and to become more involved on campus, Allie E. Lewis two years ago decided to join The Good...
THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY of Pawtucket on June 6 will host University of Rhode Island Master Gardener Jeff Rossi at the Spaulding-Johnson House for a lecture on historic herb gardening. /COURTESY PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF PAWTUCKET

PSP to host Jeff Rossi at Spaulding-Johnson House for gardening lecture

PAWTUCKET – The Preservation Society of Pawtucket on June 6 will host University of Rhode Island Master Gardener Jeff Rossi at the Spaulding-Johnson House...
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