PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 16 -- The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management issued the following news release on March 15, 2023: The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is lifting the no-contact advisory it placed March 1 on the stretch of the Blackstone River from the Woonsocket wastewater treatment plant to the Slater Mill Dam in Pawtucket. The City of Woonsocket owns the plant but contracts its operations and maintenance out to Jacobs, a Texas-based co more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 16 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following news release on March 15, 2023: Attorney General Peter F. Neronha and Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) Director Terry Gray announced today they have filed a civil complaint in Providence County Superior Court against the City of Woonsocket, Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc., and Synagro Woonsocket, LLC, alleging violations of Rhode Island's environmental laws, stemming more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 16 (TNSper) -- Brown University issued the following news release: Dr. Michael Silverstein, director of the Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute at Brown University and a professor at the University's School of Public Health, has been appointed vice chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The task force is an independent panel of experts that works to improve the health of people nationwide by making evidence-based recommendations about clinica more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 15 (TNSres) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * As work to operationalize a three-party agreement between Brown, Lifespan and Care New England continues, Brown and CNE signed a separate agreement to align research operations. * * * In November 2022, Brown University, Lifespan and Care New England signed an aligned research collaboration (ARC) agreement to streamline biomedical research across the three institutions. Now, leaders from B more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 16 (TNSres) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * SBUDNIC, built by an academically diverse team of students using off-the-shelf parts, was confirmed to have successfully operated in orbit, demonstrating a practical, low-cost method to cut down on space debris. * * * Common sense suggests that space missions can only happen with multimillion-dollar budgets, materials built to withstand the unforgiving conditions beyond Earth's atmosphere more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 17 -- The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management issued the following news release: The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is announcing that depending on weather and wind conditions, it plans on conducting low-severity prescribed burns on state lands in Exeter and Coventry and on Prudence Island starting sometime in the last two weeks of March or the first week of April, excluding weekends. DEM will advise the public again several days bef more PR

WARWICK, Rhode Island, March 17 (TNSper) -- The Community College of Rhode Island issued the following news on March 16, 2023: Dr. Meghan Hughes, President of the Community College of Rhode Island since 2016, has announced today that she will step down from her position, effective August 31, 2023. As the fifth president of CCRI, and the first female president, Dr. Hughes is recognized as a higher education visionary who led the transformation at the community college with an unwavering focus o more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 15 (TNSfund) -- Brown University issued the following news release: With renewed federal funding, Brown University faculty will extend two initiatives built to encourage the success of students historically underrepresented in STEM graduate programs and prepare them for careers in the sciences: the Initiative to Maximize Student Development and the Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program. The National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National I more PR

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 14 (TNSjou) -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: * * * Indicators could be used to watch for future Antarctic ice shelf collapse, according to scientists * * * In 2002, an area of ice about the size of Rhode Island dramatically broke away from Antarctica as the Larsen B ice shelf collapsed. A new study of the conditions that led to the collapse may reveal warning signs to watch for future Antarctic ice shelf retreat, according to a  more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 16 (TNSjou) -- Rhode Island School of Design issued the following news release: * * * Through collaboration with WongDoody, RISD's Center for Complexity is addressing issues of healthcare equity * * * The Center for Complexity (CfC) at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) has collaborated with global creative agency WongDoody to develop Say Your Pain: The Universal Pain Translator, a new tool aimed at addressing language and cultural barriers between patients  more PR

ST. BONAVENTURE, New York, March 17 (TNSres) -- St. Bonaventure University issued the following news release: Dr. Daekyun Oh, assistant professor of physical education, presented research at the National Academy for Health and Physical Literacy (NAHPL) National Summit, held March 6-9 in Newport, Rhode Island. The NAHPL is a diverse and inclusive organization advancing the dimensions of health and physical literacy through professional development, advocacy, mentoring, and applied research in t more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, March 14 (TNSfund) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: The van Beuren Charitable Foundation has generously awarded the University of Rhode Island a $3 million grant to support the development of a new Ocean Engineering Complex on the URI Narragansett Bay Campus (NBC) that will propel the development of the region's blue economy. The funding complements the 2022 state bond that approved $100 million to dramatically transform the NBC and modernize more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, March 16 (TNSpp)-- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: As a student and Buddhist monk in India, Thupten Tendhar's introduction to the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came when he read a small chapter in a book about the civil rights activist. When he joined the Drepung Loseling Monastery, Tendhar's work in peace studies expanded, including training with rabbi Everett Gendler and his wife Dr. Mary Gendler from the Boston area who came to deliver a more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, March 14 (TNSres) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * River simulation table at URI is only one of its kind in area * * * With the recent floods on the West Coast and the approach of the anniversary of the record-breaking March 2010 floods in Rhode Island, University of Rhode Island professor Soni Pradhanang shared insights into the challenges of managing water, demonstrating a URI resource that helps others better analyze and predict wa more PR