PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 11 -- Brown University posted the following news: * * * 'Learn, synergize, empathize': Brown celebrates 31st annual Staff Development Day * The Brown University campus hummed with activity on Wednesday, June 11, as nearly 2,000 employees celebrated Staff Development Day. Now in its 31st year, the daylong event honored staff members' contributions and offered opportunities for professional development, personal wellness and community engagement, both on campus a more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 10 -- Brown University posted the following news: * * * 60 years of planetary science discoveries at Brown, from the Moon to Mercury to Mars * In 1967, Jim Head was about to complete his Ph.D. in geology at Brown University when his advisor, Tim Mutch, said something that horrified him.  "There are no unanswered questions in the stratigraphy of the Earth," Mutch told a classroom full of aspiring geologists and stratigraphers. Head and his classmates were shock more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 9 -- Brown University posted the following news: * * * Brown joins amicus brief detailing how federal research cuts imperil America's global competitiveness * PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- Brown University along with 23 other colleges and universities filed an amicus brief on Monday, June 9, in support of Harvard University's motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit challenging the federal government's funding freeze on approximately $3 billion in rese more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 13 -- Brown University posted the following news: * * * Brown launches new master's degree programs in management, organizational leadership * As organizations around the world contend with rapid change and evolving workforce dynamics, two new Brown University master's degree programs will aim to provide students with the professional skills needed to make an impact as leaders at different stages of their careers.  The master's in management and the master of more PR

SMITHFIELD, Rhode Island, June 10 -- Bryant University issued the following news: * * * Bryant partners with Navigant Credit Union for new fieldhouse, leadership opportunities By Peter Kerwin Smithfield, RI--Bryant University announces a strategic partnership with Navigant Credit Union, which includes a $5 million gift that will establish the new Navigant Credit Union Fieldhouse later this fall, as well as student empowerment opportunities focused on experiential education and leadership dev more PR

SMITHFIELD, Rhode Island, June 10 -- Bryant University issued the following news: * * * Bryant University launches Online Master of Science in Applied Artificial Intelligence By Stephen Kostrzewa Bryant University announces the launch of its new Online Master of Science in Applied Artificial Intelligence, which will welcome its inaugural class in Fall 2025. Bryant's Master's in Applied AI draws upon the university's institutional tradition of education across subject areas. It will prepare  more PR

SMITHFIELD, Rhode Island, June 13 -- Bryant University issued the following news: * * * 'Ask, check, and verify' to avoid sharing lies on social media By Bob Curley As a native Californian, Marketing Professor Sharmin Attaran, Ph.D., watched with concern as wildfires swept through the Altadena and Pacific Palisades neighborhoods of Los Angeles in January 2025. Then she saw something online that made her heart skip a beat: an image of the famous Hollywood sign on fire. "I see the photo - more PR

SMITHFIELD, Rhode Island, June 11 -- Bryant University issued the following news: * * * 'Power and Influence' course helps create new leaders By Bob Curley You don't need to be Niccolo Machiavelli or The Godfather's Don Corleone to wield power in the workplace. But it does help to study them -- and scholars like Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Cialdini, as well as icons like Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and even Taylor Swift -- if you want to be an effective leader, says M more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 12 -- Brown University posted the following news: * * * Q&A with Sydney Skybetter: Exploring new 'collisions' among art, movement and technology * Ten years ago, choreographer and then Brown University artist-in-residence Sydney Skybetter convened what he calls an "intimidatingly heterogeneous" group of artists, engineers, critical theorists and astronauts for the first Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces.  Through conversations, presentations more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 13 -- The Rhode Island Supreme Court issued the following opinion on June 11, 2025: * * * Jeanette Runey et al. v. Wayne S. Faring, Individually and as Trustee of the Wayne S. Faring Trust dated March 12, 2007. Present: Suttell, C.J., Goldberg, Robinson, Lynch Prata, and Long, JJ. OPINION Justice Lynch Prata, for the Court. The plaintiff, Jeanette Runey/1 (plaintiff), appeals from a Superior Court order denying her motion for a preliminary injunction against h more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 5 -- The Rhode Island Supreme Court issued the following opinion: * * * LMG Rhode Island Holdings, Inc. v. Office of Governor Daniel J. McKee. Present: Suttell, C.J., Goldberg, Robinson, Lynch Prata, and Long, JJ. OPINION Justice Lynch Prata, for the Court. The plaintiff, LMG Rhode Island Holdings, Inc. (LMG or plaintiff), publisher of The Providence Journal, appeals from the dismissal of its petition for declaratory and injunctive relief relating to an Access more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 12 -- The Rhode Island Supreme Court issued the following opinion on June 10, 2025: * * * State v. Luis Roman. Present: Suttell, C.J., Goldberg, Robinson, Lynch Prata, and Long, JJ. OPINION Justice Lynch Prata, for the Court. The matter before the Court is an appeal filed by the defendant, Luis Roman (defendant), of a Superior Court order denying the defendant's motion to reduce his sentence under Rule 35 of the Superior Court Rules of Criminal Procedure. The  more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 13 -- The Rhode Island Supreme Court issued the following opinion on June 11, 2025: * * * State v. Robert Raso. Present: Suttell, C.J., Goldberg, Robinson, Lynch Prata, and Long, JJ. OPINION Justice Goldberg, for the Court. When a defendant is sentenced to imprisonment for violating a suspended or a probationary sentence, G.L. 1956 Sec. 12-19-18 allows a motion to terminate the sentence of imprisonment under certain circumstances. The defendant contends that t more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 12 -- Brown University posted the following news: * * * With potential implications for mechanical systems, study reveals physics of 'nick shot' in squash * In squash, the "nick shot" is an emphatic, point-ending play in which a player strikes a ball that ricochets near the bottom of the wall and rolls flat along the floor instead of bouncing, leaving an opponent with no chance to return it.  While the shot is as old as the game itself, a team of researchers  more PR