Tag: University of Rhode Island
CCRI to lay off 122 part-time employees
WARWICK – Community College of Rhode Island President Meghan L. Hughes wrote in a letter Aug. 21 to the college community that 122 part-time...
Should state aid to Rhode Island’s three public colleges be increased...
All three of Rhode Island’s state colleges are expecting enrollment declines for the upcoming fall semester, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The Community College...
Library aiming to help build businesses
Providence Public Library was founded 145 years ago during a period that is now referred to as the Long Depression. Starting with the Panic...
Avishai Nevel, founder and CEO, Rhode Island-Israel Collaborative
PBN 2020 Leaders & Achievers Awards
Avishai Nevel | Founder and CEO, Rhode Island-Israel Collaborative
HOME IS WHERE the heart is, and Avishai Nevel’s heart...
Lardaro: R.I.’s economy is ‘largely out of our hands’
PROVIDENCE – University of Rhode Island economist Leonard Lardaro says the state's economic health depends less on what it does than on how well...
Feds grant $2.3M for 401 Tech Bridge facility in Portsmouth
PORTSMOUTH – Polaris Manufacturing Extension Partnership will receive $2.3 million in federal funds for construction of an Advanced Materials and Technology Center here for...
CCRI, R.I. College projected to see enrollment declines for fall
PROVIDENCE – Two of Rhode Island’s three state colleges have publicly disclosed that they are expecting enrollment declines for the upcoming fall, as the...
POWERING UP: Offshore wind sector gains momentum despite pandemic
Stark white walls, blank computer screens and empty desk chairs weren’t what the executives at Denmark-based wind-energy firm Orsted had in mind when they...
New app to help local fishing industry reach customers
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The University of Rhode Island Fisheries Center, along with Rhode Island Sea Grant, Eating with the Ecosystem, the Commercial Fisheries Center...
Providence Stormwater Innovation Center using park to experiment
After three consecutive days of stifling, 90-degree heat, any droplets of water had long since evaporated from the shallow inlet of vegetation outside the...