PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 8 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following news release: Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced today that the Office has taken enforcement action against a Rhode Island man who held himself out as a contractor despite not having the proper registration or licenses for the work he agreed to perform, and initially pocketed $15,000 from a Rhode Island consumer. In an Agreement of Voluntary Compliance, approved in Rhode Island Sup more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, March 10 (TNSres) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news on March 9, 2023: * * * Uses a century's worth of data to report on Atlantic Ocean between New England, Bermuda and Africa * * * Messages in a bottle often carry information from another place and time. For University of Rhode Island professor emeritus H. Thomas Rossby, the messages he's received came from seafarers and oceanographers past, as he recently combined century-old data, and a nov more PR

WARWICK, Rhode Island, March 8 (TNSpro) -- The Community College of Rhode Island issued the following news: In response to labor market needs, the Community College of Rhode Island was recently approved by the Council on Postsecondary Education to add four new certificate and degree programs to its expansive list of academic programming. The new programs are: - Certificate in Court Reporting - Certificate in Surgical Technician - Certificate in Mental Health & Wellness - Certificate in Cas more PR

WARWICK, Rhode Island, March 10 (TNSgov) -- The Community College of Rhode Island issued the following news: For the second time in the program's history, our Cybersecurity program has earned designation as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD) through academic year 2028 by the National Security Agency (NSA). CAE-CD designation reflects the college's ability to meet the increasing demands of contributing to the protection of the National Information Infrastructure  more PR

WOONSOCKET, Rhode Island, Feb. 28 -- CVS Health issued the following news release: CVS Health(R) (NYSE: CVS Opens in a new window) announced today it will invest $10 million to build a new 48-unit multi-family supportive housing community in Indianapolis called St. Lucas Lofts. The project is part of the company's commitment to addressing social determinants of health at the local level. Made possible through the company's collaborations with CREA, LLC., and nonprofit co-developers Englewood Co more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 8 (TNSres) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * As part of Brain Week Rhode Island, the Brown Brain Fair will offer kids and adults alike the chance to learn about brain research through interactive stations, art projects, games and lightning talks. * * * Why are children better at learning new languages than adults? How do optical illusions work? And does practice really make perfect? Rhode Islanders can explore these questions and ot more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 9 (TNSres) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * Richard Schwartz is not only a renowned mathematician, but a writer and illustrator of children's picture books -- his secret is bringing math and art together. * * * To most people, math and art feel like two completely different subjects. But for Richard Schwartz -- a mathematician who often creates colorful visualizations alongside his mathematics -- the disparate fields go hand in hand more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 9 (TNSres) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * Speaking before a U.S. Senate committee on the risks and opportunities of artificial intelligence, computer scientist Suresh Venkatasubramanian urged lawmakers to establish regulations to govern AI-based systems. * * * To maximize the benefits of artificial intelligence while cutting down on its potential harm to society, Brown University computer scientist Suresh Venkatasubramanian urged  more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 10 (TNSgov) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * Speaking before the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement and Intelligence, Tyler Jost called on federal leaders to stay focused on maintaining an uneasy status quo in Taiwan -- and urged them to invest in social science research on the effect of China's propaganda activities. * * * In the midst of escalating tensions between the more PR

WASHINGTON, March 10 -- The National Republican Congressional Committee issued the following news on March 9, 2023: When you are Seth Magaziner, being too extreme is a big problem. That's exactly where Magaziner found himself today -- not just too far-left for Rhode Island voters, but also too far-left for fellow Democrats, including Chuck Schumer. 33 Senate Democrats rejected the reduced sentences for violent crime that Seth Magaziner supported just weeks prior. Read more here (https://theh more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 11 -- The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management issued the following news release: The no-contact advisory on the Blackstone River that the Department of Environmental Management (DEM) announced March 1 because of partly treated wastewater being discharged by the Woonsocket Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility will continue as the plant's operators try to correct an ongoing process failure, DEM is announcing today. DEM inspected the wastewater tr more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, March 8 (TNSfund) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: The Rhode Island Department of Education has awarded $81,429 in Multilingual Learner Success Grants to four local school districts that will partner with the University of Rhode Island's TESOL/BDL faculty to support high-quality instruction and family engagement to increase educational success and student outcomes for speakers of other languages. The grant awards were announced by Gov. Dan Mc more PR

BRISTOL, Rhode Island, March 9 (TNSpro) -- Roger Williams University issued the following news on March 8, 2023: To be leaders in diversifying the construction management industry, Roger Williams University and D.F. Pray are launching a career training and scholarship program to develop talent and support underrepresented students majoring in construction management. Today, the university and construction management firm announced D.F. Pray's commitment of $100,000 to establish the D.F. Pray  more PR

BRISTOL, Rhode Island, March 7 (TNSpp) -- Roger Williams University issued the following news: * * * A team of Engineering students from the Class of 2022 share their steps for building your own "personal-use" backyard wind power * * * If you have a treadmill, a bicycle and some PVC pipe, you have a mini wind turbine in the making. A senior engineering team's capstone project improved upon an open-source wind turbine design that could put wind-energy generation in the hands of the average ho more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, March 7 (TNSper) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: The University of Rhode Island has named Ellen Reynolds vice president for student affairs following a comprehensive national search. Reynolds, who holds an education leadership doctoral degree, has served in positions of leadership at URI for two decades, including as interim vice president for student affairs for the past year. As vice president, Reynolds will work closely with the Universit more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, March 7 (TNSres) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * Nutrition professor Marie Mortreux's work, partly funded by NASA, could help inform long-term space flight planning * * * When it comes to maintaining muscular and skeletal health in the body, it's either use or lose it. Maintaining mechanical load on muscular and skeletal systems is critical to prevent muscle atrophy and bone loss throughout the body. In daily life on Earth, ordinary more PR

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, March 11 (TNSconf) -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: * * * The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine's Medical Student Research Symposium is March 24. * * * Ellen Shrontz's trail to becoming a medical doctor has taken her from her hometown of Seattle to her undergraduate program in Providence, Rhode Island, to an immunology research laboratory in Cape Town, South Africa, and finally, to the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine (VTCSOM) in Roanoke. Alt more PR