PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 9 (TNSper) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * Jha has served for 14 months as White House COVID-19 response coordinator and will resume leadership of the School of Public Health on July 1 with a focus on transforming public health education, research and practice. * * * After spending 14 months on temporary leave to lead the U.S. government's COVID-19 pandemic response and recovery efforts, Dr. Ashish K. Jha will return to lead the Bro  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 9 (TNSjou) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * A new study highlights an unintended consequence of interventions to combat the country's illicit opioid epidemic, emphasizing the need to include harm reduction strategies as part of a comprehensive response. * * * For decades, efforts by police to seize illicit drugs have been a cornerstone strategy for disrupting drug markets and removing drugs from communities. But there's an unintended  more

WOONSOCKET, Rhode Island, June 10 -- CVS Health issued the following news release on June 9, 2023: Today, CVS Health(R) (NYSE: CVS) announced the opening of its newest Workforce Innovation and Talent Center (WITC) in collaboration with Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit, offering comprehensive skills training, job placement and community health services. The innovation hub features a mock retail store, pharmacy and other professional education settings. Offering workforce development traini  more

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, June 6 (TNSres) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: Paula Bontempi, dean of the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography, posed her own question Wednesday afternoon before a panel established last fall by NASA: Why should the space agency be heading an effort to research unidentified anomalous phenomena? Bontempi was one of 16 members of NASA's Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study team gathered for a day-long pu  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 8 (TNSper) -- Brown University issued the following news release: John Papay, a leading scholar on educational inequality and an associate professor of education at Brown University, has been appointed the next director of Brown's Annenberg Institute for School Reform. Papay has served as interim director since January. In taking on the role for the longer term, he will continue to position the Annenberg Institute to serve as a hub of education scholarship that c  more

AUGUSTA, Maine, June 10 -- The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry issued the following news: On Wednesday, at the 2023 Northeastern Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NEASDA) Regional Meeting held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, Amanda Beal, the Commissioner of the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF), was elected to serve a one-year term as NEASDA President. NEASDA is a regional association that brings together the Commission  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 8 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on June 7, 2023: Governor Dan McKee today announced a Request for Proposals (RPF) for nearly $4 million in grants to foster new or expanded initiatives to promote learning beyond the formal school day and beyond the traditional 180-day school year. The Advancing Learning Beyond the 180-Day School Year grant program is part of the Governor's Learn365RI initiative, with the long-term goal o  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 9 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: Governor Dan McKee, Department of Housing Secretary Stefan Pryor and RIHousing announced the launch of the $4 million Municipal Technical Assistance Program (MTAP). From updating land use and permitting requirements to infrastructure evaluations, Rhode Island cities and towns can apply to receive technical assistance from a pool of consultants to support local affordable housing producti  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 8 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following news release on June 7, 2023: Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced today that his Office has petitioned Rhode Island's Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) Subcommittee on Rights-of-Way to intervene in the matter of the Spring Avenue Extension in Westerly, a case that affects the State's coastal and environmental resources. As an intervening party in the CRMC's ongoing review o  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 7 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following news release on June 6, 2023: Attorney General Peter F. Neronha today announced that the Office has filed a lawsuit against a major Rhode Island rental corporation and its president for failing to comply with numerous state rental, lead hazard, and consumer protection laws that have placed the health and safety of hundreds of renters at risk and which constitute unfair market practices. In t  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 10 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following news release on June 9, 2023: Attorney General Peter F. Neronha today announced that an East Greenwich business owner has been ordered by a Providence County Superior Court magistrate to pay $422,000 in restitution for defrauding the State's Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) by falsely claiming certain children were enrolled at his daycare centers, and billing CCAP for non-existent enroll  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 9 -- The Rhode Island Department of Education issued the following news release: House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi, Mayor Frank Picozzi, Commissioner Angelica Infante-Green, and the Rhode Island Department of Education joined school district leaders, students, and staff at Wyman Elementary School to award $7.5 million in RIDE's Learning Inside Out Outdoor Classroom grants. In total, 89 projects across 29 local education agencies (LEAs) will receive grants to creat  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 6 -- The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management issued the following news release: Because of the generosity of a local family farm, a group of private and public open space and conservation organizations could buy a 65-acre parcel in Pascoag known for its prime agricultural soil and save it from development forever. For more than 40 years, Ernie and Norma O'Leary grew corn for the family's dairy herd on the land, which abuts Buck Hill Management Area  more

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, June 6 (TNSjou) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * There's no shortage of evidence that environmental factors influence species evolution, but a new study demonstrates a two-way street in which evolutionary changes feed back into the environment. * * * The story of the peppered moths is a textbook evolutionary tale. As coal smoke darkened tree bark near England's cities during the Industrial Revolution, white-bodied peppered moths becam  more