PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 12 -- Brown University issued the following news: Brown's campus burst to life on Wednesday, June 12, as employees from across the University celebrated Staff Development Day. Now in its 30th year, the daylong event honored staff members' contributions and offered a vast range of opportunities for professional development, personal wellness and community engagement, both on campus and beyond. Brown President Christina H. Paxson welcomed and thanked staff during a  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 11 -- Brown University issued the following news: Brown University's Sayles Hall had been transformed into a computer lab: At round tables, teams huddled around monitors, scrolling through screens of numbers and graphs. Groups consisted of data scientists, clinicians, teachers and local high school students along with Brown master's students and future physicians from its Warren Alpert Medical School. The assignment was simple: Spot the biases hiding in the healt  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 12 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: Acknowledging the importance of consistent attendance in education and in alignment with the #AttendanceMatters campaign, Governor Dan McKee and Commissioner Angelica Infante-Green are pleased to highlight the top elementary, middle, and high schools with the greatest average weekly attendance. The following schools are Rhode Island's attendance leaders for the week of June 3, 2024/*:   more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 14 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: Revolution Wind is marking the completed construction of the project's union-built advanced foundation components, the latest milestone for Rhode Island and Connecticut's first large-scale offshore wind farm and the first multi-state offshore wind farm in the nation. Governor Dan McKee, the Department of the Interior's U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Director Elizabeth Klein, U.  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 14 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: Governor Dan McKee, joined by general officers and gun safety advocates, signed into law the Safe Storage for Firearms legislation (H 7373A/S 2202A) sponsored by Senator Pamela Lauria (D-Dist. 32, Barrington, Bristol, East Providence) and Representative Justine Caldwell (D-Dist. 30, East Greenwich, West Greenwich). The event included emotional testimony from advocate Patti Alley, who s  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 10 -- Brown University issued the following news: An international team of planetary scientists has detected patches of water frost sitting atop the Tharsis volcanoes on Mars, which are not only the tallest volcanic mountains on the Red Planet but in the entire solar system. The discovery marks the first time frost has been spotted near the planet's equator, challenging existing perceptions of the planet's climate dynamics, according to the team's new study in Na  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 13 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following statement on June 12, 2024: * * * Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following statement in reaction to a Rhode Island Superior Court decision ordering Prospect Medical Holdings to pay millions in unpaid bills: "I appreciate Judge Stern's decision and careful consideration of this matter. As we argued, and the Court ordered, Prospect Medical Holdings must comply with our 2021 HCA  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 12 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following news release on June 11, 2024: Attorney General Peter F. Neronha and 42 other attorneys general have reached a $700 million nationwide settlement with Johnson & Johnson to resolve allegations related to the marketing of the company's baby powder and body powder products that contained talc. Talc is a naturally occurring mineral alleged in numerous other lawsuits filed by private plaintiffs i  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 15 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following statement on June 14, 2024: * * * Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following statement regarding the Supreme Court's decision in Garland v. Cargill to strike down an important federal gun safety regulation: "In 2017, thousands gathered in Las Vegas to attend a country music festival, during which a gunman opened fire on the crowd killing 60 people and injuring more than 850 - t  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 12 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: Governor Dan McKee, joined by Lt. Governor Sabina Matos, House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi (D-Dist. 23, Warwick) and bill sponsors Senate President Dominick Ruggerio (D-Dist. 4, North Providence, Providence) and Representative Raymond Hull (D-Dist. 6, Providence, North Providence), signed the Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights (LEOBOR) reform legislation today in a State Room cere  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 12 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: Governor Dan McKee, Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi and Senate President Dominick Ruggerio today announced the introduction of legislation to make Rhode Island's banking tax structure more competitive. The agreement, as outlined in legislation sponsored by Representative Joseph Solomon and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Louis P. DiPalma, will be fully vetted by the General Assembly this   more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 14 -- Brown University issued the following news: Thirty-nine recent Brown graduates have received Fulbright awards for the 2024-25 academic year to conduct independently designed research projects or teach English in locations across the globe. Brown has ranked as one of the top three student Fulbright producers in the nation for the past eight years, earning the highest spot on the list four times. The U.S. Department of State, which oversees the Fulbright U.S.  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 15 -- Advanced Energy United issued the following news release: By Savannah Gribbins Advanced Energy United, the national clean energy business association, celebrates the passage of the 2024 Energy Storage Systems Act. This landmark legislation, passed last night, marks a pivotal step in Rhode Island's journey toward a resilient, 100% clean electricity future. "With the passage of this legislation, Rhode Island has taken a critical step towards a clean energy   more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 13 -- Brown University issued the following news: The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board have selected two Brown University faculty members as Fulbright U.S. Scholars: Dr. Margaret Bublitz, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry and human behavior, and medicine; and Srinivas Reddy, a visiting assistant professor of religious studies. Fulbright Scholar Awards are prestigious and competitive fell  more