PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 14 (TNSres) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * A study of patients in Taiwan led by a researcher at Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School showed an association between hypothyroidism and dementia in older adults. * * * Older people with hypothyroidism, also called underactive thyroid, may be at increased risk of developing dementia, according to a new study -- and the risk of developing dementia was even higher for people who more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 15 (TNSfund) -- Providence College issued the following news release on July 14, 2022: Providence College announced today that it has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to support Conversations for Change, a new campus-wide initiative that will promote civil discourse across campus and in the local community. Dr. Nicholas Longo, professor of Global Studies, and Dr. Quincy Bevely, assistant vice president for Institutional Diver more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 13 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: Governor Dan McKee joined the Quonset Development Corporation and state and local officials on Tuesday morning to cut the ribbon on the modernized Pier 2 at Quonset's Port of Davisville. The $83.1 million expansion and modernization will extend the life of the Pier by 50 years and was completed $7 million under budget. The project was funded by a bond approved by Rhode Island voters in more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 16 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on July 15, 2022: Governor Dan McKee was joined by Lt. Governor Sabina Matos, bill sponsors Senator Leonidas P. Raptakis and Representative Thomas E. Noret, members of the Johnson's Pond Civic Association, and state and local officials to sign legislation that grants the Department of Environmental Management (DEM) the authority to restore water levels in Johnson's Pond in Coventry. The more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 15 (TNSjou) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * The new process, which is more effective and efficient than conventional methods, has the potential to significantly impact cancer diagnostics as well as other fields of research. * * * In cancer research, it all comes down to a single cell. Over the last decade, cancer researchers have homed in on the fact that an individual cell from a tumor can be used to perform molecular analyses tha more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, July 13 (TNSper) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: Alejandro Hazera, professor of accounting at the University of Rhode Island, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Rhode Island Society of Certified Public Accountants, one of two educators elected to the board. His two-year term began May 1. Formed in 1905, the Rhode Island Society of Certified Public Accountants is one of the largest statewide professional membership organization more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, July 12 (TNSres) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * URI College of Nursing Professor Susan Desanto-Madeya's major federally-funded study aims to find path over barriers to equitable care * * * About 12 million adults in the United States are living with serious illness that carries a high risk of mortality and puts great strain on family caregivers. That strain is exacerbated in cultural-minority families facing inequities of care that  more PR