PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Nov. 7 (TNSres) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * At the end of a three-day residency at Brown, bestselling author and Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer took part in a panel discussion focused in part on how Indigenous knowledge can help address climate change. * * * If there's one thing Robin Wall Kimmerer wants people to realize about the fight against climate change, it's that love is more powerful than fear. "One of the things t more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Nov. 8 (TNSjou) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * An analysis of police reports in one Rhode Island city found few overdose situations involve safety concerns that required the presence of law enforcement. * * * While police officers are often dispatched alongside other first responders when drug overdoses are reported, an analysis of hundreds of overdose events in one Rhode Island city found that there were scant incidents that actually n more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Nov. 8 (TNSjou) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * A study led by Brown researchers found that a brief screener for psychological distress can be an efficient way to assess patient risk for cardiovascular disease. * * * Screening for psychological distress can be an effective way to assess a patient's risk for cardiovascular disease, a new study shows. What's more, the researchers note, the screening process can be easy -- even for health c more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Nov. 11 (TNSper) -- The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management issued the following news release on Nov. 10, 2022: Department of Environmental Management (DEM) Director Terry Gray announced today that he has named Susan Forcier, Esq., as the agency's Deputy Director of Environmental Protection (EP). As head of the EP Bureau, Forcier will lead an enterprise consisting of seven separate divisions, 170 employees, and a budget of around $35 million a year. The more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Nov. 10 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following news release on Nov. 9, 2022: Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced today that a Providence man was sentenced in Providence County Superior Court to serve eight years at the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI) after pleading to trafficking fentanyl and possessing a ghost gun following his arrest by the Rhode Island State Police (RISP) High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Nov. 10 (TNSfund) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: Rhode Island voters strongly said they want the University of Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay Campus to continue being a global center of excellence in ocean science by approving a $100 million bond referendum on Tuesday. With 412 of 414 polling places reporting as of late Tuesday night, 57.5 percent of voters said they support investments that will keep URI and the state of Rhode Island at t more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Nov. 8 -- The Rhode Island Department of Education issued the following news on Nov. 7, 2022: Commissioner Angelica Infante-Green and the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) today announced the agency has been awarded $250,000 in competitive grant funding to develop state-level policies and systems to support the scaling and sustainability of high-impact tutoring of students in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. RIDE is the only state education agency (SEA) amo more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Nov. 11 (TNSconf) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news on Nov. 10, 2022: Ethiopian native, Yeshi Mengistu, the academic attache at the Consulate General of Israel to New England, will speak about the Ethiopian Jewish holiday Sigd and the Ethiopian immigration to Israel Monday, Nov. 21 at noon at the University of Rhode Island The talk will be in the Hardge Forum in the Multicultural Student Services Center, 74 Lower College Road, Kingston Campus.  more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Nov. 11 (TNSres) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * At a panel discussion following Election Day, political scientists from Brown discussed what the midterms revealed about Americans' views, traditional polling practices and the two major parties. * * * In some years, particularly in generations past, midterm elections haven proven less than memorable. But 2022 was far from a snooze, said Katherine Tate, a professor of political science at  more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Nov. 8 (TNSres) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * American Fisheries Society publishes URI team's research article * * * It's better to harvest many fish species lightly than to harvest few species heavily. That's the result of a study published in Fisheries magazine and conducted by Jeremy Collie from the Graduate School of Oceanography and a group of fisheries experts. Collie uses an ecosystem-based fisheries management approach tha more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Nov. 10 (TNSres) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * Two Nursing Ph.D. students win national award for study on risky behavior * * * Studies suggest that parents continue to exert significant influence over their children's behavior even into the college years, and that extends into the choices they make regarding substance use and other risky behaviors. When parents encourage, or at least don't discourage, underage drinking, their child more PR