PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 23 (TNSRes) -- Brown University issued the following news release: To stem the tide of COVID-19 infections both within correctional institutions and in surrounding communities, jurisdictions around the U.S. should act immediately to reduce the number of people housed behind bars. That's the recommendation of a panel of criminal justice and public health experts assembled by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. The panel detailed its guida more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 21 (TNSRes) -- Brown University issued the following news release: A grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will kickstart a new series of initiatives and discussions at Brown University focused on migration to and from countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The $225,000 grant, awarded to the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ) and the Department of Africana Studies at Brown, w more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 24 -- Brown University issued the following news release: With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden met for the second and final time to discuss their plans to address the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, racial justice and more. Though the night featured fewer interruptions and ad hominem attacks than the first presidential debate on Sept. 29, the contrast between the two candidates was no les more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 22 (TNSJou) -- Brown University issued the following news release: As researchers and medical professionals work to develop new treatments for cancer, they face a variety of challenges. One is intratumor heterogeneity -- the presence of multiple kinds of cancer cells within the same tumor. Often, these "mosaic" tumors include cells, such as polyploidal giant cancer cells, that have evolved to become aggressive and resistant to chemotherapy and radiation. In the p more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 20 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following news release: Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced that two Rhode Island residents have been ordered to repay $15,371 to the State after pleading in Providence County Superior Court to fraudulently obtaining unemployment insurance benefits by not reporting earned wages to the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training (DLT). Richard Geminiani (age 57), of Woonsocket, pleaded nolo  more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 22 -- Brown University issued the following news release: Civic engagement among young voters in America has long lagged behind that of older residents -- and even at a university nationally recognized as Best in Class for student voting rates, Brown students have not been fully immune to this trend. While eligible student voters at the University were more likely than their peers at other institutions to cast ballots in the past two federal elections, there is r more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Oct. 23 (TNSPer) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: The University of Rhode Island has named Gaurav Khanna, Ph.D., its founding director of Research Computing. Khanna comes to URI from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth where he served as a professor of physics and co-director of the university's Center for Scientific Computing & Visualization Research. A respected leader in research computing for more than a decade, Khanna has directed  more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Oct. 22 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: In the early 1990s, Apple Computer extended domestic partner benefits to same-sex couples, locking the tech company in a fight with a Texas county that threatened to withdraw a tax break for a proposed Apple facility. It was national news, highlighting a clear inequity. A doctoral student in business administration at the University of California, Berkeley, Douglas Creed followed the story, fascinated.  more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Oct. 21 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: College of Health Sciences Assistant Professor Alisa Baron will have some new funding to support her academic and research endeavors after receiving a national award from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Baron, assistant professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders, will receive a $5,000 prize after being named recipient of the national organization's Advancing Academic-Resea more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Oct. 21 (TNSJou) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: For the first time, researchers have mapped the biological diversity of marine sediment, one of Earth's largest global biomes. Although marine sediment covers 70% of the Earth's surface, little was known about its global patterns of microbial diversity. A team of researchers from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), the University of Hyogo, the University of Koch more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Oct. 23 (TNSRes) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: Justin Moore has always had a keen interest in working with wildlife, and this year he got his first chance. The University of Rhode Island senior spent the last six months conducting field studies of one of the Ocean State's most unusual birds, the American woodcock, which is sometimes called the timberdoodle. The softball-sized bird with a long flexible beak does what Moore calls a "wobble d more PR