PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 1 (TNSenr) -- Brown University issued the following news release: To advance collaboration and consistency across its work on student recruitment, financial aid and student records, Brown University has established a new Enrollment Division that will include its College Admission, Financial Aid and Registrar offices. Provost Richard M. Locke said the strategic shift best positions the University to continue to develop innovative ways to attract the best and brigh more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 1 (TNSres) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * In its fourth year, Brown Biomedical Innovations to Impact is advancing the commercialization of Brown research and supporting the creation of new products aimed at saving and improving lives. * * * A new spinal stimulation technology to treat chronic neuropathic pain. Better testing of oncology drugs to protect the heart. An X-ray detector with higher sensitivity and lower radiation. Each  more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Nov. 30 (TNSres) -- Brown University issued the following news release: After a collaborative research effort led in large part by recent Ph.D. graduate N'Kosi Oates, the Graduate School at Brown University has renamed its diversity fellowships in honor of Mae Belle Williamson Simmons, who earned her Ph.D. in psychology from Brown in 1962 -- the earliest known Black woman to earn her doctoral degree from the University. Alycia Mosley Austin, associate dean of diversit more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 2 -- Brown University issued the following news release: Brown University has added a new provision to its nondiscrimination policy that explicitly prohibits caste oppression, in a move to underscore protections for members of the University community and to call attention to a subtle, often misunderstood form of structural inequality. The Corporation of Brown University, Brown's governing body, voted in Fall 2022 to adopt the change to the University's Corporati more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 3 (TNSjou) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * A new study by researchers at Brown University showed that the pandemic further restricted access to postpartum care, potentially exacerbating existing health care disparities. * * * Attendance at postpartum health care visits declined by almost six percentage points during the COVID-19 pandemic -- with uninsured women, Black women and women under age 19 facing the sharpest decreases in vis more PR

WOONSOCKET, Rhode Island, Dec. 2 -- CVS Health issued the following news release: Amidst a busy holiday shopping season and as part of an ongoing commitment to support law enforcement and help build safer communities, CVS Health(R) (NYSE: CVS) today announced the installation of time delay safe technology in 800 CVS Pharmacy(R) locations -- including those in Target stores -- in 13 states across the U.S. The states and corresponding number of pharmacy locations include Delaware (22), Iowa (39), more PR

CENTRAL FALLS, Rhode Island, Dec. 1 (TNSawa) -- The Rhode Island Department of Education issued the following news: In a surprise celebration Wednesday, the Rhode Island STEAM Center at Rhode Island College (RIC) and the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) presented Central Falls High School teacher Alison Murray with the 2022 RI STEAM Educator Award. Murray, who has been teaching in Rhode Island public schools for more than a decade, is known to her colleagues as an innovative, engagin more PR