PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 24 -- The American Mathematical Society issued the following news release: On June 20, mathematician William "Brit" Kirwan served as a witness before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP). Convened by Committee Chair Sen. Bernie Sanders and Ranking Member Sen. Bill Cassidy, the hearing focused on training and retaining teachers and discussion of recent results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Kirwan - ch  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 28 (TNSres) -- The Economic Progress Institute issued the following news release: Nearly 99% of Rhode Island businesses in RI are small businesses or micro businesses -- generally defined as those having 10 employees or fewer counting the owner. In fact, 80% of RI businesses have no employees besides the owner. These small and micro businesses employ just over half of the total workforce. The care economy, despite being the fifth-largest sector of the RI economy,   more

WASHINGTON, June 29 -- The Association of Research Libraries issued the following news: Karim Boughida has been appointed as the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member representative to the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Steering Committee (https://www.cni.org/about-cni/steering-committee) for the 2024-2027 term. Boughida has been dean of University Libraries for Stony Brook University (SUNY) since September 2022. Prior to Stony Brook, he was dean of University Libraries at   more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 20 -- The American Mathematical Society issued the following news release: In mid-June, 35 mathematicians toured the Rhode Island facilities of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) as part of the Roots of Unity workshop, held at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) at Brown University. When the tour group passed the framed photo gallery of AMS officers, one graduate student pointed and exclaimed, "There's Bianca!" "  more