Rhode Island State Representative Robert Lancia R-16 proposed a bill on Thursday that aims to increase the number of children who can afford to attend private school. Lancia’s House Bill 7055 would allow for total business donations to need-based scholarships, in exchange for a tax credit, to reach ...
The city of Providence will introduce 400 electric-assist bikes this summer through New England’s first electric bike-share system, following a deal with JUMP Bikes signed Dec. 15. “A bike-share program positions Providence to be a more sustainable, healthier and fun city for years to come,” said ...
Providence Police charged Shishuai Li GS with obtaining money by false pretenses yesterday, according to Providence 6th District Court records. Under the ruse of fundraising for children in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Li tricked a woman from Florida into giving him $30,000, according to the U.S. News ...
Aaron Regunberg ’12 announced his candidacy for lieutenant governor Oct. 24. Challenging incumbent Daniel McKee, Regunberg sees the office as an opportunity to tackle President Trump’s agenda and represent Rhode Islanders rather than corporations, he said. As state representative for House district ...
Even before most students had returned to campus following winter break, Metcalf Auditorium filled last Thursday and Friday as students and faculty attended “Beyond Deep Learning,” a workshop designed to showcase interdisciplinary perspectives on artificial intelligence and its future. Artificial ...
The sticker prices of colleges can be shocking to prospective students and their families. Many schools offer financial aid in the form of grants, scholarships, loans and work-study to help alleviate costs. A simplified financial aid calculator — called MyinTuition —recently partnered with the University ...
As computer science becomes increasingly popular, paying all of its undergraduate teaching assistants has become a challenge for the department. For introductory courses in the Department of Computer Science — such as CSCI 0150: “Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming,” CSCI 0170: “Computer ...
A drug previously used for treatment of skin growths has been found to help prevent the development of certain skin cancers, according to a new clinical trial in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Led by Martin Weinstock, professor of dermatology and epidemiology at the Alpert Medical ...
A new University study published in Molecular Cell examined the specific amino acid changes that cause damaging processes associated with ALS and the dementia that results from it. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, more commonly known as ALS, is a disease involving the death of neurons that control voluntary ...
Gov. Gina Raimondo’s administration unveiled a $9.38 billion budget that would finance $250 million in public school reparations and allocate $3 million to growing the state’s small businesses, while relying upon sports betting — should it be legalized by the Supreme Court this year — to bring ...
While nuclear magnetic resonance technology has long been used in physics to study materials, it has not been especially effective at analyzing small, thin substances. New research from University scientists published in the Review of Scientific Instruments unveils how the orientation of coils matters ...
Updated on Jan. 29, 2018 at 8:28 a.m. Following a motion hearing held in October 2017, Chief Judge William Smith of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island ruled Jan. 16 on several complaints filed by a former Brown student in a sexual assault lawsuit against another former student, ...
The University received a record-high 35,368 applicants for the class of 2022, according to Dean of Admission Logan Powell. The applicant pool — which includes both early and regular decision applications — is 8 percent larger than the class of 2021 pool, The Herald previously reported. The group ...
Providence small business owners gathered Tuesday night for a community forum hosted by Mayor Jorge Elorza in the Joseph A. Doorley Jr. Municipal Building to highlight new opportunities for loans and programs designed to streamline business development. “Small business is the lifeblood of the community,” ...
The Rhode Island School of Design is bolstering its selection of graduate degrees by offering its first-ever graduate school programs in the liberal arts departments. This fall, students will be able to pursue Master of Arts degrees in the new Global Arts and Culture program as well as the Nature-Culture-Sustainability ...
A 17-year-old has been arrested in an attempted shooting that took place in the second-level parking garage of the Providence Place Mall Jan. 15. The 19-year-old victim, identified as Leonard Liriano on the Providence Police Department’s Twitter, was shot in the leg but not fatally wounded. The shooter ...
Tanks of luminescent jellyfish and rippling seaweed line the walls of an open space on the bottom floor of the Rhode Island School of Design’s Nature Lab. But a transformation is underway; by the end of 2018, the room will become a “maker space” inviting students to conceptualize and engineer ...
In a community-wide email sent yesterday, President Christina Paxson P’19 announced the University’s proposal to work with Prospect Medical Holdings — a California-based hospital chain — in merging with Care New England, the second largest health care system in Rhode Island. The University’s ...
The University admitted 21 percent of its early decision applicants to the class of 2022, selecting 738 students from the largest early decision applicant pool in the University’s history, wrote Dean of Admission Logan Powell in an email to The Herald. The University saw almost a 10 percent increase ...
The University has reached its $30 million fundraising goal to carry out “The Brown Promise: The Future of Financial Aid at Brown” — an initiative to eliminate all loans from undergraduate financial aid packages, according to a University press release. Now that the University has achieved this ...
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