PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 17 (TNSjou) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * A new study by researchers at Brown University and the Providence V.A. Medical Center shows that disability compensation payments have a positive impact on veterans' health. * * * A large study comparing Vietnam War-era military veterans who became eligible for disability compensation with ineligible veterans found that eligibility for compensation was associated with substantial reduction more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 15 -- The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management issued the following joint news release on June 14, 2022: Governor Dan McKee and The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) announce that DEM will receive $846,343 in grants from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to replace freight trucks and marine engines that move goods and services across the state and non-road port cargo-handling equipment serving the Port o more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 16 (TNSpro) -- Providence College issued the following news release on June 15, 2022: Providence College's School of Continuing Education (PCSCE) today announced the launch of flexible degree programs (Flex Programs) for adult learners. Like PCSCE's other part-time programs, each student chooses their degree path and sets the pace from Day 1. But with Flex Programs, adult learners will also enjoy a learning experience that is delivered almost entirely online, with more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 16 -- The Rhode Island Department of Education issued the following news on June 15, 2022: The plaintiffs in Cook v. McKee joined Rhode Island Education Commissioner Angelica Infante-Green and jointly announced today that they will establish a Rhode Island Civic Readiness Task Force to consider specific measures to strengthen civics education in Rhode Island. In addition, the Commissioner announced that she will establish a Diploma Seal of Civic Readiness to be a more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 17 (TNSper) -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on June 16, 2022: Governor Dan McKee today announced changes and additions to the Board of Education, the Council on Postsecondary Education, and the Council on Elementary and Secondary Education. David A Caprio, Esq. Governor McKee has appointed David Caprio to the Board of Education and to Chair the Council on Postsecondary Education. "David is a lifelong Rhode Islander who more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 15 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on June 14, 2022: Governor Dan McKee and the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) announced today that DEM will receive $846,343 in grants from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to replace freight trucks and marine engines that move goods and services across the state and non-road port cargo-handling equipment serving the Port of Providence. The more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 16 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on June 16, 2022: Governor Dan McKee today joined with Rhode Island Housing to announce a historic investment of more than $80 million to create and preserve more than 875 homes across the state. Of these, over 800 will be affordable units. Through a combination of state and federal resources, including $15 million from the McKee Administration's RI Rebounds initiative and $10 million fr more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 16 (TNSsro) -- The Rhode Island Supreme Court issued the following opinion (No. 21-16) on June 15, 2022: * * * The respondent mother appealed from a decree of the Family Court, issued on October 26, 2020, terminating her parental rights to her son. The respondent argued on appeal that the trial justice erred by finding that (1) a chronic "substance abuse problem" rendered her unable to care for Donnell, (2) DCYF had proven by clear and convincing evidence that r more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 16 (TNSsro) -- The Rhode Island Supreme Court issued the following opinion (No. 21-2) on June 15, 2022: * * * The Department of Children, Youth, and Families appealed from two Family Court decrees denying its petition to terminate the parental rights of the respondent parents to their child, Nolan, pursuant to G.L. 1956 Sec. 15-7-7(a)(3). DCYF alleged that the trial justice erred by concluding that DCYF had failed to make reasonable efforts to reunify the parent more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 17 (TNSsro) -- The Rhode Island Supreme Court issued the following opinion (Nos. 20-200, 201, 205, 208) on June 16, 2022: * * * In these cases, consolidated by the Supreme Court for opinion, the State of Rhode Island appealed from Superior Court orders and decisions granting the defendants' motions to dismiss the criminal information against them, which included several counts of accessing a computer for fraudulent purposes, in violation of G.L. 1956 Sec. 11-52-2 more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, June 17 (TNSper) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: University of Rhode Island President Marc B. Parlange has named Matthew McDonald, associate vice president for communications at the University of Miami, to URI's newly established position of vice president for communications and marketing. McDonald was chosen following a comprehensive national search, and he will start Aug. 1 at URI. "This position will be vital, not only as we develop and f more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, June 14 (TNSres) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * Volunteer legacies of coastal, ocean, and environmental colleagues honored * * * For their exceptional volunteer service to communities in Rhode Island and beyond, which have benefited tremendously from their knowledge, guidance, and concern for a wide range of coastal issues, a cadre of University of Rhode Island colleagues are the recipients of 2022 Distinguished Fellow Awards, the m more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, June 17 (TNSres) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: How would you like to work at Argonne National Laboratory's Advanced Photon Source in Chicago? Sounds like something from the distant future, right? But it's as current and real as the work University of Rhode Island doctoral student Cali Antolini is doing as part of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Graduate Student Research Program. At the close of the spring semester, Antolini star more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, June 17 (TNSres) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * Women aged 40-64 encouraged to apply for study that also compares digital and traditional weight training systems * * * Middle-aged women in the community who are not avid weight trainers but might be interested in the benefits resistance training provides are being sought for a University of Rhode Island Department of Kinesiology research study. The study will examine the physiologic more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, June 14 (TNSres) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * Skye Leedahl honored for 'outstanding contributions' to gerontological research * * * Recognized for her "outstanding contributions to the field of gerontology," Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Science Skye Leedahl is being inducted as a Fellow for the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), the nation's largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field o more PR