PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 25 -- Brown University issued the following news release: The new collaboration between Brown University and the Rhode Island Department of Corrections will expand an already successful opioid treatment program in correctional institutions, helping people who are in the justice system but outside prison walls. People who find themselves in the criminal justice system are disproportionately likely to be affected by opioid use disorder (OUD), and that includes peop more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 25 [TNSscienceresearch] -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * - Ariel Deutsch, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, will join an astronaut who walked on the Moon and two top NASA scientists for a panel titled "Lunar Geology: Past, Present and Future." * * * As the celebrations surrounding the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing come to a close, Brown graduate student Ariel Deutsch is more PR

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- The Libertarian Party issued the following op-ed to the Boston Globe by Rhode Island ex-Governor Lincoln Chafee, who recently switched his voter registration to the Libertarian Party: As an American, I have been saddened and embarrassed by recent failures of American presidents to exercise their global duties responsibly. We have entered into never-ending, illegitimate conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa; bypassed our Constitution and the Fourth Amendment by eav more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 24 -- Lt. Gov. Daniel McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: Lt. Governor Daniel J. McKee was today joined by Representative Brian P. Kennedy, Speaker Pro Tempore of the House (D-Dist. 38, Hopkinton, Westerly), Senator James A. Seveney (D-Dist. 11, Bristol, Portsmouth, Tiverton) and Kevin M. Lynch, Acting Administrator of the Division of Public Utilities and Carriers to highlight a new law which creates protections for Rhode Island consumers usi more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 23 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following news release: Attorney General Peter F. Neronha today announced an important next step in the Office's review of clergy child sexual abuse: a new Memorandum of Understanding between the Attorney General and the Diocese of Providence pursuant to which the Office and the Rhode Island State Police will gain access to all complaints and allegations of child sexual abuse by clergy dating back to more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 22 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following news release: A coalition of 50 Attorneys General, comprising 48 states, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has reached a settlement with Equifax resulting from an investigation into a massive 2017 data breach. While consumers will receive up to $425 million in claims in the settlement, Equifax will also pay $1 million to the State of Rhode Island as a consequence  more PR

CHESTNUT HILL, Massachusetts, July 22 -- Boston College issued the following news: Boston College has named Mara Hermano, the vice president of integrated planning at Rhode Island School of Design, as vice president for institutional research and planning, effective September 1. She succeeds Kelli Armstrong, who became president of Salve Regina University in July. Hermano has served as RISD's founding vice president of integrated planning since 2015, where she conceived and established an offi more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, July 24 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * - University partners with four institutions as part of National Science Foundation Big Idea program to study coral reef evolution, adaptation * * * The University of Rhode Island is leading a team that has been awarded a $3 million 5-year collaborative research grant from the National Science Foundation as part of its investment in 10 Big Ideas to serve the nation's future. Funded through NSF' more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, July 26 [TNSscienceresearch] -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * - Expedition begins early next month * * * University of Rhode Island Professor of Oceanography Robert Ballard and his team aboard Ocean Exploration Trust's E/V Nautilus will travel early next month to Nikumaroro Island, a remote atoll within the Phoenix Islands archipelago to look for Amelia Earhart's airplane. Ballard said during a telephone interview Wednesday that if h more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, July 24 [TNSscienceresearch] -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: University of Rhode Island Professor of Oceanography Robert Ballard and his team aboard the E/V Nautilus will begin a quest in August to find Amelia Earhart's airplane, National Geographic has announced. Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared more than 80 years ago during her around-the-world flight. Earhart's plane was reported missing July 2, 1937, during the second- more PR