PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 5 -- Brown University issued the following news release: Members of a U.S. Senate committee learned on June 4 that the ability of America's colleges and universities to safely reopen this fall will have implications not only for students pursuing degrees, but also for federally funded research and development, and for regional economies that rely on schools as major economic engines. And partnership with federal and state governments will be fundamentally critica more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 4 -- Brown University issued the following news release: Emily Oster, an economist and public policy expert at Brown, has partnered with medical experts, data scientists and Brown students to create a hub of helpful information about COVID-19. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- Lately, Emily Oster's inbox has been flooded with questions from parents who are worried about the risk of COVID-19 sickening themselves and their children. Oster, a professor of econ more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 2 -- Brown University issued the following letter: Brown University's senior leaders shared the following message about confronting anti-black racism and racial injustice with the University's community of faculty, staff, students on Saturday, May 30, and with all Brown alumni on Monday, June 1. Confronting racial injustice Dear Brown Community, We write to you today as leaders of this university to express first deep sadness, but also anger, regarding the raci more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 2 -- Rhode Island School of Design issued the following statement by President Rosanne Somerson: I write today stepping aside from my usual COVID-19 updates that I send each week. Over the weekend we witnessed an outpouring of anger and hurt that rippled across the country over the continued embedded role that racism occupies in our society. While the recent catalyst was the tragic murder of George Floyd by police, the widespread outrage results from the blatant t more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, June 5 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: Miles Schelling has had an uncommon interest in India ever since traveling there with his parents while in the seventh grade. He was awarded a grant as an undergraduate mathematics major at Bates College to study music in New Delhi, and he returned a year later to teach music in a remote village in the Himalayan mountains. As a graduate student studying geosciences at the University of Rhode Island, he  more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, June 5 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: A lecturer at the University of Rhode Island has won the Rising Star Award from the Society for Conservation Biology for research she conducted as a doctoral student about the value of protected land to birds. Michelle Peach of Wakefield received the award following the 2019 publication of a paper about her research in the journal Conservation Biology. The award recognizes outstanding student researcher more PR