PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Feb. 9 (TNSGra) -- Brown University issued the following news: The National Institute on Aging has awarded a $4.2 million grant to a research team based at Brown University and Hebrew SeniorLife to partner with CVS Health to develop a massive, data-driven monitoring system that tracks the long-term safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccination for Medicare beneficiaries. The members of this group, who are age 65 and older and tend to have more diagnoses of Alzheimer's d more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Feb. 11 (TNSJou) -- Brown University issued the following news: New research provides insights into the treatment of Christianson syndrome (CS), an X-linked genetic disease characterized by reduced brain growth after birth, intellectual disability, epilepsy and difficulties with balance and speech. "One of the major challenges in developing treatments for human brain disorders, like CS, is developing an experimental system for testing potential therapeutics on human  more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Feb. 10 (TNSJou) -- Brown University issued the following news: A new study finds that providing people who have recently given birth access to long-acting reversible methods of contraception, such as intrauterine devices and contraceptive implants, could help prevent them from unintentionally falling pregnant in the following months. The study -- which analyzed the effects of a 2012 Medicaid policy implemented in South Carolina -- found that expanded access to partic more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Feb. 9 (TNSJou) -- Brown University issued the following news: Paleontologists have made great strides in understanding how extinct animals like dinosaurs walked, ran, swam and flew when they were alive -- but much about the mechanics of how different species moved remains uncertain. A new study led by researchers at Brown University offers a new perspective on this long-standing conundrum. The research, published on Monday, Feb. 8, in Proceedings of the National Acad more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Feb. 12 (TNSJou) -- Brown University issued the following news: One thing that decades of social science research has made abundantly clear? Americans in urban areas live in neighborhoods deeply segregated by race -- and they always have. Less clear, however, is whether city-dwellers stay segregated when they leave home and go about their daily routines. That's a question to which Jennifer Candipan, an assistant professor of sociology at Brown University, was determin more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Feb. 12 (TNSGra) -- Lt. Gov. Daniel McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on Feb. 11, 2021: Lt. Governor Dan McKee today sent a letter to Governor Gina Raimondo and Commerce Secretary Stefan Pryor calling for immediate changes to the Restore RI small business grant program to ensure local businesses receive funds before the December 30, 2020 CARES Act deadline. "It's time for the state to make a full-court press on getting Restore RI grant funds out more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Feb. 12 (TNSPer) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news on Feb. 11, 2021: Cornelius M. Kerwin M.A. '73, president emeritus of American University and current professor in its Department of Public Administration and Policy in the School of Public Affairs, has been named to the University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees. The 17-member board, established by the Rhode Island General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Gina Raimondo in July 2019, gove more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Feb. 11 -- The Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education issued the following news: The Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) Commissioner Angelica Infante-Green announced the new Learning, Equity, and Accelerated Pathway (LEAP) Task Force that will convene and engage in a participatory, evidence-informed and data-driven process to understand statewide learning during COVID-19 in partnership with educational experts, practitioners, families, s more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Feb. 9 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: A University of Rhode Island professor has been honored by the American Council on Teaching Foreign Languages with the Nelson Brooks Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Culture - one of the premier national awards in language education. Niko Tracksdorf, of Needham, Massachusetts, an assistant professor of German and associate director of the German International Engineering Program, is editor and co more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Feb. 10 (TNSRes) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: While viewing hundreds of hours of infrared video footage of captive New England cottontails at Roger Williams Park Zoo, University of Rhode Island senior Hannah Petit watched for signs of breeding behavior. The rare rabbits, which are being bred in captivity so their offspring can be released into the wild, are not nearly as prolific as their reputation would suggest. After dozens of pairings more PR