PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 5 (TNStalk) -- Brown University issued the following news release: As data-driven technologies transform the world and artificial intelligence raises questions about bias, privacy and transparency, Suresh Venkatasubramanian is offering his expertise to help create guardrails to ensure that technologies are developed and deployed responsibly. "We need to protect the American people and make sure that technology is used in ways that reinforce our highest values," s more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 5 (TNSres) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * To help attract a thriving mix of entities focused on health and medicine, Brown signed a letter of intent with Ancora L&G to lease 20,000 square feet of lab space in a building that will house new State Health Laboratories. * * * Building on a long-standing commitment to supporting projects in Providence's Jewelry District that contribute to the economic vitality of the city and state, Bro more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 7 (TNSres) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * A partner effort among Brown scholars, volunteers and Native American leaders, Stolen Relations has recovered thousands of Indigenous enslavement records, drawing attention to a topic rarely broached in school history lessons. * * * About 350 years ago, in the midst of a conflict known as King Philip's War, the English captured and enslaved a group of Wampanoag Native Americans. The Wampa more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 5 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on Oct. 4, 2022: Governor Dan McKee today announced that a major life sciences development project is moving forward in the state's Innovation and Design District on the former I-195 land. The 212,000 square foot, 7-story building will house a new public health lab for the State of Rhode Island, while also providing additional lab space available for lease to organizations in the local li more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 7 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on Oct. 6, 2022: Governor Dan McKee, Lt. Governor Sabina Matos, House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi, Senate President Dominick J. Ruggerio and the Rhode Island Foundation today announced a new $20 million grant program for nonprofits working on food insecurity, housing instability and homelessness prevention, and the behavioral health needs of Rhode Islanders. "Supporting local nonprofits  more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 4 -- The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management issued the following news release on Oct. 3, 2022: Governor Dan McKee and the Department of Environmental Management (DEM) are announcing today that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded $161,158 to DEM through the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP) to help Rhode Island farmers expand market access for local fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, and nursery crops. The program a more PR

BRISTOL, Rhode Island, Oct. 7 (TNSres) -- Roger Williams University issued the following news: With the Rhode Island election only four weeks away, Republican Allan Fung is statistically tied for voter support with Democrat Seth Magaziner for the 2nd Congressional District seat, according to a new Roger Williams University/WPRI 12 poll released on Thursday, October 6. Fung is leading with 46 percent of the vote to Magaziner's 40 percent; however, the margin of error in the poll is 6.2 percent, more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Oct. 7 (TNSres) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * A collaboration between research and industry receives Phase 2 funding from the National Science Foundation to develop biodegradable oceangoing bioplastics * * * Plastic's cheapness, versatility and durability are undeniable, but in a burgeoning Ocean Internet of Things, plastic as we know it and the marine environment are a toxic combination. "Just as there has been an explosion of ne more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Oct. 7 (TNSres) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * URI College of Pharmacy researchers partner with JWU to leverage culinary nutrition, food science and chemistry to increase maple syrup consumption * * * Creating "better-for-you foods" that not only taste great but also pack a nutritional punch has been a major focus of research in the University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy's Bioactive Botantical Lab for several years. And now, more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Oct. 7 (TNSfund) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news on Oct. 6, 2022: * * * Renewal follows new federal guidance and funds targeting PFAS pollution * * * Against the backdrop of a new federal undertaking to address PFAS pollution, a University of Rhode Island-based PFAS research-and-outreach program has been renewed by the government for another five years. The STEEP (Sources, Transport, Exposure and Effects of Per- and polyfluorinated alkyl Co more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Oct. 4 (TNSres) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * Loose studying greenhouse gasses beneath sea ice in the New Arctic * * * Oceanography Professor Brice Loose (of Newport) and his family have headed to Norway this fall, where he'll use a Fulbright Award to study greenhouse gasses beneath the sea ice in the changing Arctic. Loose and his family will be in Bergen through August 2023. Loose will work with experts at the universities of Be more PR