PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 21 (TNSres) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * Inside Brown's Prince Laboratory, the engineering Ph.D. student is delving deeper into his passion for flight and working to solve one of the biggest challenges of drone aerodynamics. * * * Whether it's how airplanes take off and land or how they cruise in the air even through turbulent conditions, one thing has always been a constant for Anoop Kiran: a love of all things aviation and aero  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 21 (TNSres) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * Seventy undergraduates from across the U.S. are engaging in research at Brown this summer through the Leadership Alliance, a nationwide consortium originally founded at the University in 1992. * * * After spending nearly a year working for Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas, rising Brown University junior Mia Reiland knew she wanted to make an impact in the field of legal services for Native Ame  more

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, July 20 (TNSper) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news on July 19, 2023: Revaa Goyal has had a busy summer. The pharmacy student at the University of Rhode Island juggles a high number of activities and responsibilities during the school year and decided to use her summer downtime to set her sights in new directions. Goyal spent a month backpacking through Europe with friends from URI and home in Michigan. The foursome traveled to Norway, Hungary,   more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 20 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on July 19, 2023: Governor Dan McKee today announced that Rhode Island's Office of Energy Resources (OER) will be receiving a combined total of $6.6 million in federal funding from the U.S Department of Energy's (DOE) Grid Resilience State and Tribal Formula Grant Program ($3.4 million) and the State Energy Program (SEP) ($3.2 million). This funding will support administrative and progra  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 21 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on July 19, 2023: Governor Dan McKee today is recognizing the Newport Festivals Foundation (NFF) for ensuring that the upcoming productions of its world-renowned concerts, Newport Folk and Newport Jazz, will be sustainable events this summer. NFF undertook a rigorous process to earn a green certification from the Department of Environmental Management (DEM) that involved NFF scrutinizing  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 21 (TNSres) -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following statement on July 20, 2023: * * * Governor Dan McKee released the following statement on today's jobs report, which shows that Rhode Island's unemployment rate dropped to 2.9 percent. Rhode Island's unemployment rate is also well below the national rate of 3.6 percent, and June marked the 19th consecutive month that the state's unemployment rate was below the U.S. rate. "We're pleased that  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 21 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on July 20, 2023: Governor Dan McKee today announced that 31 Rhode Island communities have signed onto the Administration's Learn365RI Municipal Compact and committed to increase out-of-school learning opportunities for young people in their communities. "If we're going to catch up with our neighboring states and recover from the impact of the pandemic, we know there must be additional   more

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, July 21 (TNSres) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: A University of Rhode Island faculty member is part of a committee that will help the National Science Foundation shape its research agenda for the next decade. Carlos Garcia-Quijano, a professor of anthropology who studies the interactions between people in coastal communities and the natural environment, has been named to the committee for the Decadal Survey of Ocean Sciences. The committee,  more