PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 6 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following news release on Mar. 5, 2021: Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced today that his Office has filed an amicus curiae brief with the Rhode Island Supreme Court in the matter of City of Providence vs. Rhode Island Energy Facility Siting Board, a case involving the decision by state regulators to place National Grid power lines through India Point Park and along the Providence waterfront more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 6 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following news release: Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced that his office has filed a memorandum in the Rhode Island Supreme Court in opposition to a motion to accept a proposed agreement that would allow for the expansion of a marina in Block Island's Great Salt Pond. In the papers filed yesterday, the Attorney General further detailed why a proposed agreement between the Coastal Resources more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 2 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following news release: Attorney General Peter F. Neronha will join the Federal Trade Commission and more than 100 federal, state, and local agencies, consumer groups, and national advocacy organizations in participating in the 23rd annual National Consumer Protection Week (NCPW), now through March 6, 2021. As part of the Office's responsibility to ensure that consumers are adequately protected from more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 2 (TNSGra) -- Brown University issued the following news on March 1, 2021: Building on extensive financial support provided to students and families contending with economic challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, Brown will disburse an additional $5.4 million in funding to eligible undergraduate, graduate and medical students this month. Of that total, $4.8 million will come from two federal COVID-19 economic relief programs -- the Coronavirus Aid, R more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 5 (TNSJou) -- Brown University issued the following news: Humans have made a remarkable impact on the planet, from clearing forests for agriculture and urbanization to altering the chemistry of the atmosphere with fossil fuels. Now, a new study in the journal Nature reveals for the first time the extent of human impact on the global water cycle. The study used NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat-2) to assemble the largest ever dataset of seaso more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 5 (TNSRes) t-- Brown University issued the following news: When Jennifer Doudna, a professor in the departments of chemistry and of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, found out that she had won the Nobel Prize, her husband had some news for her. "You are truly an ambassador of science now," Jamie Cate, Doudna's husband and a fellow scientist and professor at U.C. Berkeley, told her. "Your job, more than anything else, is to sp more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 5 -- Brown University issued the following news: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted teaching and learning at elementary, middle and high schools across the United States, leaving millions of already disadvantaged students in danger of falling further behind academically. But with help from researchers and education leaders, led by a team at Brown University, many of those students may soon get assistance. In winter 2021, Brown's Annenberg Institute for School R more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 6 (TNSGra) -- Brown University issued the following news: As NASA gears up for its Artemis program and the return of humans to Moon, the agency has asked a team of Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design students for help in dealing with one of the peskiest problems in lunar exploration: dust. When Neil Armstrong first set foot on the Moon in 1969, he was quick to note that the lunar soil was extremely fine-grained, "almost like a powder." Those tiny  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 3 -- The Democratic Governors Association issued the following statement: * * * Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo was confirmed as the U.S. Secretary of Commerce. DGA Chair New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham released the following statement: "Congratulations to Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo on her new role as the U.S. Secretary of Commerce. Secretary Raimondo is the right person to help Americans recover from the pandemic and build back a better, more equitable economy.  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 3 -- The Democratic Governors Association issued the following news: Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo was confirmed as the U.S. Secretary of Commerce. As Gov. Raimondo transitions to this new role in the Biden administration, Lt. Gov. Dan McKee will become Rhode Island's next governor. Gov. McKee has served as Rhode Island's lieutenant governor since 2014. Born and raised in the Ocean State, Gov. McKee has spent much of his life in public service, serving on Cumberland Town Co more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 5 (TNSPer) -- Brown University issued the following news: Mary Jo Callan, a leading scholar and practitioner of community-engaged scholarship and service, has been appointed executive director of the Swearer Center and associate dean for engaged scholarship at Brown University, effective May 17, 2021. Callan will draw upon a career dedicated to promoting inclusive and equitable community partnerships as she leads Brown's efforts to advance community-engaged teac more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 6 (TNSPer) -- Brown University issued the following news: M. Grace Calhoun, the current director of athletics and recreation at the University of Pennsylvania, will lead athletics at Brown University as vice president of athletics and recreation, beginning April 19, 2021. Calhoun graduated magna cum laude from Brown in 1992, having competed in track and field as a varsity athlete. Calhoun is regarded as a national leader in collegiate athletics with nearly three more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, March 5 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: Rhode Island voters from across the state approved bond Question 1, which will provide $107.3 million for major renovation projects at the University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island College and the Community College of Rhode Island. Of that total, $57.3 million is slated for continuing upgrades to URI's Fine Arts Center. The higher education bond issue was one of seven bond questions being considered by more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, March 5 (TNSRes) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: Sports such as swimming, tennis and baseball, which involve repetitive overhead arm motions, often lead to imbalances and injury within the muscles surrounding the scapular and shoulder joints, often leading to chronic shoulder pain, especially for swimmers, about 91 percent of whom experience chronic shoulder pain. Two University of Rhode Island kinesiology graduate students aim to help swimm more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, March 3 (TNSRes) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: Adolescent brains are developmentally distinct from adults, resulting in different reasons for engaging in risky behavior like substance abuse, which makes it difficult for clinicians to know how to approach addiction treatment with younger patients. While they require different approaches to treatment, adolescents often receive addiction treatment based on adult models, limiting its effectiven more PR

NARRAGANSETT, Rhode Island, March 4 (TNSRes) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: University of Rhode Island shark expert Brad Wetherbee has been tagging mako sharks up and down the East Coast for nearly 20 years and tracking their migratory movements around the North Atlantic. That data is now proving useful in a study aimed at improving the management of this imperiled species. Mako sharks are among the fastest fish in the ocean, and they travel great distances throug more PR