PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 11 (TNSGra) -- Brown University issued the following news release: The National Institute on Aging has awarded a $1.4 million grant to a research team based at Brown University and Hebrew SeniorLife to partner with Walgreens to add customer data to a massive monitoring system of the long-term safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccination for Medicare beneficiaries. The tracking system, established by the same team of researchers in February, was already the first bi more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 13 (TNSJou) -- Brown University issued the following news release: Scientists with the BrainGate research collaborative have, for the first time, used an implanted sensor to record the brain signals associated with handwriting and used those signals to create text on a computer in real time. In a study published in the journal Nature, a clinical trial participant with cervical spinal cord injury used the system to "type" words on a computer at a rate of 90 charact more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 13 (TNSOps) -- Brown University issued the following news release: As students arrived on campus in early May for the start of Brown's summer term, the University welcomed undergraduates into a new, state-of-the-art residence hall for the first time in 30 years. About 114 sophomores, juniors and seniors moved into Brown's newly completed health and wellness center and residence hall at 450 Brook St. during a staggered, socially distanced move-in event from May 9 t more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 14 (TNSJou) -- Brown University issued the following news release: Since the 1950s, political scientists have theorized that political polarization -- increased numbers of "political partisans" who view the world with an ideological bias -- is associated with an inability to tolerate uncertainty and a need to hold predictable beliefs about the world. But little is known about the biological mechanisms through which such biased perceptions arise. To investigate th more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 15 (TNSJou) -- Brown University issued the following news release: The rare blood clot disorder reported by some Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine recipients is also a risk of COVID-19 infection, according to a new report by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Stroke Council Leadership. Dr. Karen L. Furie, chair of the Department of Neurology at Brown's Warren Alpert Medical School, served as lead author of the report, which synthesized  more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, May 12 (TNSAwa) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: For the second year in a row, University of Rhode Island sophomore Jack Eustis '23, of East Greenwich, has been selected to receive a Project Global Officer Scholarship (Project GO). An initiative of the Defense Language and National Security Education Office in the United States Department of Defense, Project GO is designed to equip future military officers with valuable language and intercultu more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 13 (TNSPer) -- Brown University issued the following news release: After six years of extensive accomplishments at Brown, and an impressive career spanning more than 35 years leading administrative operations in education, Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration Barbara Chernow will retire at the end of the summer. Chernow is a Brown Class of 1979 graduate who returned to her alma mater in 2015. As the senior member of Brown's executive team respon more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 11 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following news release: Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced that a Central Falls man was sentenced in Providence County Superior Court to serve nine years at the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI) after pleading to molesting a female victim in 2015 at a residence in Central Falls. Christopher Piloto (age 37) pleaded nolo contendere to one count of first-degree child molestation. At a heari more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 7 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following statement: * * * Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following statement today expressing his Office's support of robust regulatory review by the Energy Facility Siting Board (EFSB) of a proposal to expand an existing liquified propane gas (LPG) facility in the Port of Providence: "In-depth, comprehensive regulatory oversight of facilities with operations that impact the health and  more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 12 -- The Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education issued the following news on May 11, 2021: Governor Dan McKee and Commissioner Angelica Infante-Green today announced that the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE), in partnership with the Department of Human Services, has expanded Rhode Island Pre-Kindergarten classrooms and opened the lottery for state-funded Pre-K programs for the 2021-2022 school year. RI Pre-K, which is entering its more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 12 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on May 11, 2021: Governor McKee and the Rhode Island Department of Health today announced the administration of one million doses of COVID-19 vaccine in Rhode Island. The announcement took place at Rhode Island Hospital where the first shot was administered on December 14, 2020. "The 1 millionth COVID-19 vaccine dose is a big milestone for the smallest state. Every shot brings us one ste more PR

NARRAGANSETT, Rhode Island, May 12 (TNSBook) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: He found the resting place of the Titanic, John F. Kennedy's PT-109, the aircraft carrier Yorktown and numerous other modern and ancient shipwrecks, as well as hydrothermal vents and their exotic ecosystem that lives off the energy of the Earth instead of the sun. Now marine explorer Robert Ballard is looking back at his 50-year career of discovery by publishing a memoir, Into the Deep, rec more PR