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INNOVATOR Q&A

5 innovators to watch in R.I.’s life sciences industry

Rhode Island’s life sciences are already starting preclinical spinoffs, creating apps for specific patient populations, and conducting ground-breaking medical research. Here’s a look at a few we’ve featured recently.

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EDUCATION

Raimondo tells Brown graduates to ‘stick around’ R.I., commit to public service

“We have a lot of issues that we, together, have to deal with,” US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said after accepting an honorary degree from Brown University on Sunday. “They can all be solved... if you guys get in the game.”
RHODE MAP

Fidelity gives Bryant a building to expand its Smithfield campus

The 250,000-square-foot building and 30 acres will become the new home of the university's College of Business.
COMMENTARY | CYNDY ETLER

Engaging high school literacy instruction could fix two crises in public schools

When high school educators can teach reading driven by students’ interests, school becomes a joyful place. Teens’ psycho-social needs are met, and teachers remember why they joined the profession.

INNOVATOR Q&A
Will R.I.’s overdose prevention center counter overdose deaths amid the opioid epidemic?
A Brown professor who studies the impact of overdose prevention centers hypothesizes that the nation’s first state-led effort in Providence could be an effective strategy to help mitigate the overdose crisis and save lives.

RI NEWS
R.I. trail named for ‘Tarzan’ Brown, the Narragansett Indian who won two Boston Marathons
The Nature Conservancy in Rhode Island names a three-mile loop for Brown in the 1,100-acre Carter Preserve in Charlestown, R.I.

RI BUSINESS
Outgoing CEO of RI Foundation urges leaders to focus on housing, education, and opportunity for all
Many of Rhode Island’s challenges are “brutally simple to identify and very difficult to solve,” Neil D. Steinberg said, but “social and economic will needs to overcome the political will.”

SPACE
Brown University faculty chosen to help NASA return to the moon
NASA has chosen a team from Brown University and institutes around the world for help in its return to the moon.

More Rhode Island Education Headlines

RHODE MAP

AI helped write today’s Rhode Map. How’d it do?

An egregious cliché about the weather and some fanciful nonsense about future-telling coffee showed me that AI still has a long way to go. And yet ...

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LaFortune is named the new director of City Year Providence

The former Providence city councilor has a master's from Brown and has worked in higher ed for 17 years. She was mentored by City Year as a youth.

RI CRIME

Son of former priest accused of sexually assaulting teenage girl at Westerly, R.I., high school

The former staff member is the first person charged under a new Rhode Island law criminalizing sexual contact between minors and authority figures.

RI CRIME

Westerly, R.I., school employee charged with sexual assault of a student

Sean Tormey, 39, was an in-school suspension supervisor and detention monitor at Westerly High School and was “in a position of authority with respect to the victim.”

INNOVATOR Q&A

Why do champagne bubbles stream to the top? This Brown scientist found out.

Research led by Professor Roberto Zenit helps explain not only what gives champagne its distinct line of bubbles, but may hold “important implications for understanding bubbly flows in the field of fluid mechanics” that can be applied to other industrial uses.

RI ENVIRONMENT

With wildlife, the best of intentions can do more harm than good

People are "naturally attracted to these animals and they don’t consider the consequences,” said Dr. Scott Marshall, R.I. state veterinarian. “Leaving it alone actually is giving it the best chance to survive,” said R.I. DEM's Michael Healey.

RHODE MAP

CCRI gets an interim president tonight

The Council on Postsecondary Education is expected to select Rosemary Costigan, CCRI's current vice president for academic affairs.

GLOBE RHODE ISLAND

Boston Globe Rhode Island earns 37 Rhode Island Press Association awards

The awards include first place finishes in business, education, feature writing, investigative reporting, tourism, and hard news, as well as awards for best website and ongoing coverage of homelessness in Rhode Island.