PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 14 -- Brown University issued the following news release: As part of its long-term commitment to investing in the economic and cultural vitality of Providence's Jewelry District, Brown University has purchased the share of South Street Landing it has leased since the formerly vacant power station opened in its redeveloped form in 2017. The University space includes 136,000 square feet on floors three, four, five and six, where nearly 500 Brown employees from a ra  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 14 (TNSres) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * The Brown neuroscience Ph.D. student and competitive boxer researches how the brain processes combinations - like the ones she practices at the gym - to better understand cognitive disorders. * * * When competitive boxer Hannah Doyle throws punches in the ring, she knows precisely what her brain is doing to enable her body to string together sequences like jab, cross, hook, cross - and oth  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 14 (TNSres) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * Brown research team finds small unmapped lakes in the Arctic are far less abundant than previously thought, greatly reducing the cumulative methane emissions they were thought to contribute to Earth's atmosphere. * * * When it comes to greenhouse gases, methane is one the biggest contributors. Not only is it massively abundant -- it's about 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide at trapp  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 13 -- Mastercard issued the following news release on Dec. 12, 2023: * * * Newest product from Citizens' expanded partnership with Mastercard is made from 90% recycled plastic and features Mastercard's Touch Card(TM) innovation * * * Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CFG) today announced the full rollout of Citizens Bank, N.A.'s ("Citizens") new sustainably manufactured Mastercard(R) Debit and ATM Card, the latest product in a collaborative partnership with  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 15 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following news release on Dec. 14, 2023: Today Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha and Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) Interim Director Utpala Bandy, MD, MPH, the two state regulators empowered to oversee hospital conversions in Rhode Island, notified the parties involved in the proposed hospital conversions of Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital in a let  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 16 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following news release on Dec. 15, 2023: Attorney General Peter F. Neronha today announced a significant promotion and 16 recent legal hires within the Office of the Attorney General. Additionally, the Office is also now accepting applications for the 2024 Clifton Clerkship Program, with more information available on the Attorney General's website (https://www.riag.ri.gov/about-our-office/internships  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 12 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following news release on Dec. 11, 2023: Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced today that his Office has resolved Rhode Island's lawsuit against Exxon Mobil, the final gasoline refiner named in the State's 2016 case, for its role in polluting Rhode Island's soil and groundwater with the gasoline additive methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE). Rhode Island has previously entered into settlement agr  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 15 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following news release on Dec. 14, 2023: Attorney General Peter F. Neronha today announced the Office's final step in effectuating more than $56 million in settlements with national pharmacies CVS, Walmart, and Walgreens as part of a multistate effort to hold them accountable for their role in furthering the devastating opioid epidemic in Rhode Island and across the country. The Attorney General file  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 5 (TNSres) -- Rhode Island School of Design issued the following news release: * * * Rhode Island School of Design students create objects to engage and stimulate a variety of animals at Roger Williams Park Zoo in the course Design for Animal Enrichment * * * In a studio course called Design for Animal Enrichment, Industrial Design students at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) have been creating objects thoughtfully designed to provide mental and physical st  more

BRISTOL, Rhode Island, Dec. 14 -- Roger Williams University issued the following news: By Mel Thibeault As a new full-time Spanish teacher at Barrington Middle School in Rhode Island, Kyle Villella '23 has begun meeting with parents and holding parent-teacher conferences for the first time. But, thanks to a virtual education training program called Mursion that Villella used as part of his studies at Roger Williams University, he said he's well prepared for these interactions. "Mursion allo  more

BRISTOL, Rhode Island, Dec. 14 (TNSres) -- Roger Williams University issued the following news: * * * A double major in Biology and Applied Mathematics, senior Colton Pelletier used his interdisciplinary education to construct the Roti-bot to aid in studying molecular longevity * * * Piece by piece, wire by wire, Colton Pelletier built a robot in the Molecular Longevity Laboratory in the basement of the Marine and Natural Sciences building during the summer after his sophomore year at Roger   more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 14 -- Brown University issued the following news release: Members of the Brown community experienced the sensation of stepping inside a camera in the University's Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, where a studio was temporarily converted into a room-scale camera obscura on Tuesday, Dec. 12. Created by Kelly Egan, DJ Potter and Leo Selvaggio, staff members at the Brown Arts Institute, the camera obscura projected a live image of the outside world on the walls,  more

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: Kara Li Liu, a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Rhode Island College of Business, has been named a Best Reviewer by the Decision Sciences Journal of Innovation Education. Liu, who is expected to graduate in the spring with a doctoral degree in operations and supply chain management and a master's degree in statistics, received the award in November at the Decision Sciences Institute's nati  more

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * Natalie Sabik honored by American Psychological Association for her use of Intersectionality Toolbox to identify disparities * * * University of Rhode Island Associate Professor of Health Studies Natalie Sabik has won the 2023 Innovative Teaching Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, recognizing her work to address social issues in her classes and curricu  more

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Dec. 13 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: The Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society was founded in 1897 and is one of the most renowned multidisciplinary honor societies in American higher education. More than 100 years after the URI chapter of Phi Kappa Phi was established in 1913, the University of Rhode Island branch has been inducted into the Circle of Excellence, and has received the Gold Honor award. In April 2023, the URI chapter inducted 32 stud  more