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$3.6M in community-development grants awarded to 10 municipalities

PROVIDENCE – Ten municipalities have been awarded approximately $3.6 million in federal community-development grants, Gov. Daniel J. McKee announced Wednesday.  Administered by the U.S. Department...

Westerly Community Credit Union donates $100K to planned Tower Street Community...

WESTERLY – Westerly Community Credit Union has committed $100,000 to support the Tower Street Community Center project, a developing nonprofit space focused on health,...

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,...
CHEMICAL REACTION: Beatrice Charles of Providence looks at some chemicals while studying in the Community College of Rhode Island’s chemical distillation and processing program at the Westerly Education Center. 
PBN PHOTO / MICHAEL SALERNO

CCRI’s process technology program gives Rhode Islanders a new career option

PBN Manufacturing Awards 2024 EXCELLENCE IN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT & PRODUCTIVITY: Community College of Rhode Island JUST BEFORE 2018, officials at the Community College of Rhode Island...
LINDSAY WALSA, center, of CVS Health Corp., speaks with a Bryant University student during the university's Career Fair back in September. Bryant officials feel the university does more than enough to prepare students for life after graduation and does not need to implement a "job guarantee" program similar to what Curry College in Milton, Mass., is launching. / COURTESY BRYANT UNIVERSITY/PAM MURRAY

Curry College will offer graduates a job guarantee. Should local colleges...

PROVIDENCE – Less than a year after becoming Curry College’s new president, Jay Gonzalez needed to find a way to make his Milton, Mass.-based...
READY MODE: Kolby Gomes went through pipefitter training through the partnership program operated by General Dynamics Electric Boat and the Community College of Rhode Island as he prepares to start a career with the submarine builder. 
PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Class of their own: More employers partnering with local colleges

Although he had some experience working in construction, Kolby Gomes says learning the ins and outs of pipefitting was like studying a foreign language. But...

State awards $5.9M in housing, community development grants

PROVIDENCE – Fourteen local cities and towns received 31 housing and community development grants totaling $5.9 million from the state, Gov. Daniel J. McKee...

CCRI names Fino new executive director of workforce partnerships

WARWICK – Cody Fino, who has served as the Community College of Rhode Island’s director of industry partnerships, has been promoted to executive director...
TEAMWORK: From left, Amgen Rhode Island manufacturing associate Alexandra Marzilli, senior associates Matt Miller, Jie Wen Yang and Kate Boucher, and Front Line Manager Marissa Burke work together in a section of the company’s new West Greenwich plant that employs single-use technology to manufacture drug substances.
COURTESY AMGEN RHODE ISLAND

Amgen strives to find, groom new talent through various avenues

PBN Manufacturing Awards 2022 EXCELLENCE IN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT & PRODUCTIVITY: Amgen Rhode Island AS ONE OF THE LARGEST manufacturing companies in the state, Amgen Inc. has a...
GOV. DANIEL J. MCKEE, center, helps with local state education and business officials cut the ribbon on the new Woonsocket Education Center. / COURTESY R.I. OFFICE OF GOV. DANIEL J. MCKEE

New Woonsocket Education Center officially opens

WOONSOCKET – State-elected and education officials on Tuesday formally cut the ribbon on the new Woonsocket Education Center that has officially opened at 115...
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