PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * Building on substantial growth in its research enterprise over the last decade, the plan provides a roadmap for expanding scholarship at Brown to make an even greater positive impact in the world. * * * With the goal of strengthening the positive impact it makes by advancing solutions to pressing challenges facing the world, Brown University has finalized a plan to propel research across a more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 28 (TNSeco) -- Brown University issued the following news release: To meet the growing demand for wet laboratory space in Providence, driven by an expanding array of life sciences activity in the city's Innovation and Design District, Wexford Science & Technology, LLC, will transform 62,000 square feet at its Point 225 building into highly sought-after wet lab-ready research space. Brown University will lease approximately 31,000 square feet of the new lab space, more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 25 (TNSeco) -- Brown University issued the following news release: To celebrate the groundbreaking for a 212,000-square-foot building that will house a new state health lab, life sciences labs for Brown University, and additional biotechnology space on former I-195 land, Brown officials joined Rhode Island Governor Daniel McKee, the state's entire congressional delegation and a packed lineup of government, health and medicine leaders on Monday, Oct. 24. Dr. Megan more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Oct. 27 (TNSfund) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: The National Science Foundation has awarded nearly $1.3 million to University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography Assistant Professor Roxanne Beinart to continue her work in researching deep-sea animals and their bacterial symbionts. "We're researching how these organisms have adapted to hydrothermal vent ecosystems through their partnership with microbes. This award allows us to  more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 27 (TNSres) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * Every two years, a unique gathering connects patients and family members contending with an autism-like condition called Christianson syndrome with brain scientists working to develop therapies and solutions. * * * Whitney McMahon was sharing stories of what her 11-year-old son Peyton likes to do at home. Peyton isn't interested in toys, she said, and instead prefers to suds-up dishes in t more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 28 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on Oct. 27, 2022: Governor Dan McKee today was joined by Rhode Island's Congressional delegation, Lt. Governor Sabina Matos, the Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS), the Department of Human Services (DHS), and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) to announce $8.5 million in first-round funding from the Early Childhood Care and Educational Capital (ECCE) Fund more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 26 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on Oct. 25, 2022: Fulfilling plans announced one year ago, Governor Dan McKee and Richard Charest, Director of the Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals (BHDDH), gathered today on Howard Avenue in Cranston to announce the licensing of a new state psychiatric hospital. Securing the new license will improve patient care and better position the State  more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 25 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: Governor Dan McKee, the RI Department of Education (RIDE), RI Department of Human Services (DHS), and the Children's Cabinet announced the first step of Rhode Island's plan to reach 5,000 Pre-K by 2028: A series of public feedback sessions to gather community input on the new Working Draft Report and Preliminary Recommendations for Expanding RI Pre-K. "Access to high-quality early lear more PR

WARWICK, Rhode Island, Oct. 26 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on Oct. 25, 2022: To mark Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Governor Dan McKee today ceremonially signed legislation which helps protect survivors of domestic violence by keeping their addresses confidential. The bill signing took place at the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Governor McKee was joined by Lt. Governor Sabina Matos, bill sponsors Senator Dawn Euer and Repre more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 25 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: Governor Dan McKee was joined by Rhode Island's Congressional Delegation, legislative leaders, Brown University, and development partner Ancora L&G to break ground on a 212,000 square foot, 7-story building that will house the State's new health lab, life sciences labs for Brown University, and additional bio-technology space in the state's Innovation and Design District on the former I more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 29 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on Oct. 28, 2022: Governor Dan McKee and Rhode Island Secretary of Housing Secretary Josh Saal announced today that the State has committed $9.5 million in federal funds to expand legal services to support individuals and households experiencing housing insecurity across the state. "All Rhode Islanders, regardless of their financial situations, deserve a shot at securing and maintaining more PR

BRISTOL, Rhode Island, Oct. 29 (TNSbook) -- Roger Williams University issued the following news: The 2022 Housing Fact Book released today by HousingWorks RI (HWRI) at Roger Williams University explores the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the resources made available for housing affordability and Rhode Islanders' well-being. This year's publication provides an overview of how the Ocean State can take what has been learned from the changing environment and get to a place of equitable oppor more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- The National Republican Congressional Committee issued the following news on Oct. 25, 2022: The NRCC today released a new ad reminding voters that even as Rhode Islanders are struggling, Seth Magaziner supports Democrats' failed agenda. The economy is in a recession, retirement savings are depleted, and family budgets have been ravaged, but Magaziner supports more reckless spending and higher taxes. And with home heating costs set to skyrocket in Rhode Island, Magaziner more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 25 -- The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management issued the following news release: Governor Dan McKee, leaders of the Rhode Island General Assembly, and the Department of Environmental Management (DEM) announce that $700,000 in Local Agriculture and Seafood Act (LASA) programming funding is available to help new and existing food businesses grow and flourish. Enacted in 2012 to "support and develop more robust and self-sustaining agricultural and sea more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Oct. 26 (TNSres)(TNSfund) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * $700,000 grant from the Department of Homeland Security helps URI project build stronger communities through constructive conversation, media literacy * * * As a deep political polarization has divided the nation, communities, and even families, a new project led by a University of Rhode Island professor aims to help people tune out divisive rhetoric and spot misleading media  more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Oct. 25 (TNSsel) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news on Oct. 24, 2022: PBS NewsHour correspondent Jane Ferguson, a veteran of war reporting from such conflict hot spots as Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, says she's a crier. Sad movies and holiday ads showing a dog abandoned in the snow can get her going. "I'm a human being. I throw my arms around people. I express shock," Ferguson said Thursday in Edwards Hall on the University of Rhode Is more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Oct. 28 (TNSres) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * Researchers from the University of Rhode Island and the University of Hawaii are collaborating on a robot-based iceberg mapping mission * * * Icebergs originating from Greenland not only impact the environment by affecting sea-level rise and local ecosystems, but they can also damage offshore equipment and disrupt marine transportation. Researchers Mingxi Zhou and Chris Roman from the more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 29 (TNSeco) -- Brown University issued the following news release: Robot-building, LEGO-stacking, microscopy, crafting -- inside an innovative new learning space at Vartan Gregorian Elementary School built with financial support and partnership from Brown University, all of those activities and more are now possible. On Friday, Oct. 28, the Providence public school formally opened its new "STEAM Room," where students from kindergarten through fifth grade can get  more PR