PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 11 (TNSres) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * Professor Jimmy Xu will study and teach in France next year as a Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair as part of an effort to reinforce collaborative research between the United States and France. * * * The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board have selected Brown University professor Jimmy Xu for the Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 13 (TNSjou) -- Brown University issued the following news release on April 12, 2023: * * * A Brown-led research team compared boil water alerts and unexcused absence rates in Jackson's public schools to show the wide-ranging negative effects of water contamination on children's health. * * * When a team led by researchers from Brown University's School of Public Health tried to gather data about the health effects of the longstanding water contamination crisis more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 15 (TNSjou) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * Researchers found that a derivative of the natural compound indirubin offers a new approach to treating glioblastoma in mice, which will inform future research in humans. * * * A new study shows how a drug made from a natural compound used in traditional Chinese medicine works against malignant brain tumors in mice, creating a promising avenue of research for glioblastoma treatment. In t more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 12 (TNSgov) -- Brown University issued the following news release: The date is etched clearly into his mind -- Jan. 6, 2021, marked the moment when U.S. Rep. Seth Magaziner knew he would run for Congress. Magaziner, then serving as Rhode Island's general treasurer, got a call about the siege on the United States Capitol from the state police colonel. Due to the violence in Washington, D.C., the colonel said, he planned to send several state troopers to keep watc more PR

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- The Democratic Governors Association issued the following news on April 13, 2023: Yesterday, on his 100th day in office, Gov. Dan McKee announced a new strategy to set Rhode Island students up for success. His new "Learn 365 RI" plan engages local leaders and community organizations to create year-round programs for students of all ages to learn in settings beyond the classroom. The new plan will use millions of dollars in federal funding to add a million hours of extra more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 14 (TNSrpt) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * Co-authored by researchers at Brown and Providence's Refugee Dream Center, the report includes passages from 32 interviews with Afghan refugees and offers eight recommendations for leaders involved in resettlement. * * * In August 2021, nearly 76,000 Afghan refugees navigated bureaucratic confusion, experienced painful family separation and witnessed harrowing violence as they fled Kabul  more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 12 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following news release on April 11, 2023: Attorney General Peter F. Neronha today joined a multistate coalition to challenge the decision issued by a district court judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas that could restrict medication abortion access nationwide. The amicus brief, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, urges the court to stay the distric more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 15 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following news release: On April 13, Judge Thomas O. Rice of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington issued an order reiterating that his injunction protecting access to mifepristone in Rhode Island and 17 other states remains in full force and effect notwithstanding recent orders by courts in Texas. As a result, access to mifepristone in Rhode Island is protected and provider more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 11 (TNSper) -- Rhode Island School of Design issued the following news release on April 10, 2023: * * * Currently serving as Wheaton College's provost and a professor of the history of art, Ghadessi believes that knowledge, in all its forms, is what constructs a just and innovative society. * * * Following an extensive international search, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) is pleased to announce the appointment of Touba Ghadessi as provost, effective July  more PR

BRISTOL, Rhode Island, April 13 (TNSawa) -- Roger Williams University issued the following news: * * * Hannah Baldwin, who will graduate in May from the M.A. Forensic & Legal Psychology program, received recognition for her novel research on discrimination in the criminal justice system. * * * Hannah Baldwin, a second-year graduate student in RWU's M.A. Forensic & Legal Psychology program, was feeling a little overwhelmed as she defended her thesis and took stock of the work she needed to fi more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, April 13 (TNSres) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * John Taylor and colleagues hope to identify opportunities for policymaking support * * * John Taylor, associate professor of agroecology at the University of Rhode Island, has received a $973,479 award from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, one of 12 to receive funding through the institute's Urban, Indoor, and Other Emerging Agricultural Production Research, Education a more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 12 (TNSres) -- Brown University issued the following news release: Elfred Anthony Pinkard, a longtime educator with decades of leadership experience at historically Black colleges and universities, has been named Brown University's first-ever HBCU presidential fellow, effective July 1. Pinkard, who will retire this spring as president of Wilberforce University in Ohio, the nation's oldest private HBCU, was appointed to lead an emerging effort to strengthen and e more PR