WORCESTER, Massachusetts, Aug. 9 -- Assumption College issued the following news: Interim Director of Athletics Christine Lowthert has announced that Kyle R. Medeiros has been named the head coach of the Assumption College Women's Volleyball team. Medeiros brings eight years of coaching experience to his new position at Assumption. From 2011-18, Medeiros served as head volleyball coach for the Rhode Island Blast Volleyball Club. He has also held the position of head volleyball coach for the Ea more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Aug. 13 [TNSresearch] -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: Amelia Moore has traveled to The Bahamas countless times since 2002, often on extended trips lasting several months or more. And during that time, she observed an evolution in the tourism industry in this tourism-dependent nation that reflect the dramatic changes happening around the world, especially the changing climate. "Tourism is looking for ways to expand its marketing niches into n more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Aug. 15 [TNSscienceresearch] -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * - Working with the Rhode Island Department of Health, Brown MPH student Joyce Pak is interviewing hospital and other critical facility managers to inform a real-time computer model of storm consequences. * * * Hurricanes have the potential to wreak immense havoc, particularly in states -- Rhode Island included -- with extensive waterfront. In addition to hurricane-force winds,  more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Aug. 13 [TNSscienceresearch] -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * - In a finding that could shed light on tissue formation, wound healing and cancer spread, a new study shows that human cells follow the same rules as non-living particles to form fractal-like branching structures. * * * Tree-like branching structures are everywhere in the human body, from the bronchial system in the lungs to the spidering capillaries that supply blood to the e more PR

WARWICK, Rhode Island, Aug. 15 -- The Community College of Rhode Island issued the following news: Students, faculty and alumni from the Community College of Rhode Island Theatre Program combined to win more than a dozen awards at this year's Rhode Island Theater Awards at The Columbus Theatre in Providence. Nominees for the annual awards ceremony are divided into six major categories, including College/University, Musicals, Professional, Community, Independent and Other, the latter of which i more PR

WARWICK, Rhode Island, Aug. 16 -- The Community College of Rhode Island issued the following news: Maddie Josephs, the Department Chair for Allied Health at the Community College of Rhode Island, has been named the President-Elect for the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS) after serving as a regional director for the past six years. Josephs, who is also a professor and Program Director for CCRI's Histotechnician and Medical Laboratory Technology programs, will use her new more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Aug. 13 [TNSsociologyresearch] -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * - Punitive peers can increase how much fellow decision-makers support punishment, by up to 40 percent. * * * When acting as one part of a group charged with deciding how to punish someone -- a jury, for example -- individuals are swayed by their peers to punish more often than they would if deciding alone, a new study found. "People can get together in a group and be intensi more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Aug. 16 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following news release: * * * - Decision issued by Superior Court Presiding Justice Alice B. Gibney denies opioid manufacturers' motion to dismiss * * * Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced today that the State's lawsuit against opioid manufacturers cleared an important hurdle and will continue to move toward trial after a favorable ruling issued by the Rhode Island Superior Court. Presidin more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Aug. 14 [TNSscienceresearch] -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: A research team, led by the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, recently returning from a groundbreaking, 18-day expedition aboard the Swedish Icebreaker Oden has made a discovery related to plastics in the Arctic Ocean. The team, traveling as part of the National Science Foundation funded Northwest Passage Project (NPP) to investigate the Canadian Arctic Arc more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Aug. 13 [TNSscienceresearch] -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * - Goshen, N.Y., native awarded fellowship for summer research * * * Populations of two varieties of seaweed found in Narragansett Bay are going in opposite directions, according to recent research by a University of Rhode Island undergraduate. Rockweed, a common intertidal species found throughout the bay, is on the increase, while sugar kelp, a subtidal species confined t more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Aug. 13 [TNSscienceresearch] -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: University of Rhode Island Professor of Oceanography Robert Ballard and his team, aboard Ocean Exploration Trust's E/V Nautilus, are positioned off Nikumaroro Island, a remote atoll in the western Pacific on an expedition to find Amelia Earhart's airplane. A photo, taken by a British colonial officer in 1937, provided a clue to where the aviator may have crashed and U.S. intelligen more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Aug. 15 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: Michael O'Brien '20, president of the University of Rhode Island's Student Alumni Association (SAA), received a national Outstanding Student Leader Award from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) at the ASAP Network Convention in Baltimore on August 3 and 4. The award is given to a dedicated student who has significantly improved the organization by inspiring growth, cultivati more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Aug. 14 [TNSscienceresearch] -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: To Brennan Phillips, University of Rhode Island assistant professor of ocean engineering, it was an unparalleled sight. In the depths of the sea off the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, he and a team of researchers saw what he describes as "a magic carpet of stars." These "stars" were actually bioluminescent lights emitted from thousands of flashlight fish (Anomalops katoptron) more PR