PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Sept. 7 -- Brown University issued the following news release: As part of its ongoing effort to ensure a fully equitable experience for individuals with disabilities, Brown University is taking major steps this fall in implementing a strategic action plan for web accessibility. The University is training web content editors across campus on website accessibility, developing new policies and procedures to ensure digital accessibility standards, and engaging in a projec  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Sept. 4 -- Brown University issued the following news release: With research and teaching expertise in fields ranging from brain science and data science to Africana studies, epidemiology and engineering, 53 new professors and lecturers will join the Brown University faculty in the 2018-19 academic year. "Faculty are central to Brown's core educational mission," said Brown University Provost Richard M. Locke. "They are responsible for engaging in research and discover  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Sept. 4 -- Brown University issued the following news release: To a soundtrack of bells tolling and bagpipes playing, Brown University's 2,693 newest undergraduate, graduate and medical students processed through the Van Wickle Gates and along a path lined with cheering families and applauding faculty and staff on Tuesday, Sept. 4. After a short march across the Quiet Green, the students -- who arrived in Providence from all corners of the globe and representing nearl  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 -- The Democratic National Committee issued the following statement by Northeast Regional Press Secretary Elizabeth Renda in response to reports that Rhode Island's health insurers finalized rate hikes of up to 8 percent for 2019: "Next year, Rhode Island's working families will be left with the bill for Donald Trump and his Republican cronies' partisan games, which have sabotaged the American health care system. Due in large part to what the state's lead insurance regulator  more

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Sept. 6 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: Becoming an entrepreneur can be an exciting, but intimidating goal. For young adults considering such a path, entrepreneur Aidan Petrie has two words of advice, "Be brave." Petrie, who started 15 companies to date, will share his challenges and successes in entrepreneurship in his presentation on Sept. 10 at URI's Avedisian Hall, 7 Greenhouse Road, Kingston Campus, from 6 to 7 p.m. Petrie's lecture, "  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Sept. 5 -- Brown University issued the following news release: At 9:50 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 5 -- during the busy break between class sessions on the first day of Brown University's 2018-19 academic year -- hundreds of students swarmed in and out of the newly renovated Friedman Hall. With a prime location on the College Green in the heart of Brown's campus, the historic building formerly named Wilson Hall had been shuttered for the previous academic year, with a co  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 -- The League of Conservation Voters issued the following news release: The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) Action Fund, which works to elect candidates who will support sound environmental policies, announced today its endorsement of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse for re-election to the U.S. Senate from Rhode Island. "Nobody is more focused on the urgent need to combat the climate crisis than Senator Whitehouse, and we could not be more enthusiastic about endorsing him as   more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Sept. 7 -- The Rhode Island of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a campaign of Everytown for Gun Safety, issued the following statement by Volunteer Leader Amy Herlihy: * * * The Rhode Island chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, part of Everytown for Gun Safety, today issued the following statement in response to reports that a 15-year-old Central High School student was fatally shot in front of the Providence Career and Technical Academy  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 -- The Republican Governors Association issued the following news release: As Rhode Island Democrat Governor Gina Raimondo re-election campaign struggles, with polls showing her in a dead heat for the general election while her approval rating remains below 40 percent, national observers are souring on her chances of victory in November. Last week, Inside Elections moved Rhode Island's gubernatorial race rating from "Likely Democrat" to "Leans Democrat," noting Raimondo's l  more

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Sept. 6 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: The desire to look young and vibrant often drives people to such measures as temporarily paralyzing the muscles in their faces. But thanks to University of Rhode Island researchers, those looking to maintain their youthful appearance may be able to do so without injecting toxic bacteria into their bodies. College of Pharmacy Professor Navindra Seeram has led a team of researchers in unlocking a myriad   more

NARRAGANSETT, Rhode Island, Sept. 7 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: Isaac Ginis said that it is notoriously difficult to forecast hurricanes in New England. When storms move north, they develop a more complex wind structure than those remaining in the Southeast and Gulf of Mexico, their paths become more erratic, and the region's complicated topography makes predicting their movement over land especially challenging. In addition, the relatively short rivers in New E  more

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Sept. 6 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: Rosaria Pisa and her University of Rhode Island colleagues felt fairly confident about two years ago that the country would elect its first woman president and that gender equity would become a top priority. "We felt that URI should be part of the conversation," said Pisa, professor and director of URI's Gender and Women's Studies program and one of the coordinators of this year's URI Honors Colloquium  more

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Sept. 6 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: Christy Ashley, associate professor of marketing in the College of Business at the University of Rhode Island, likes to shake things up in her classroom. "I am not afraid to try new things in the interest of continuous improvement in the classroom," said Ashley. "There is a bit of overlap to the way I approach teaching and the way I approach research - I experiment to see what affects desired learning   more

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Sept. 6 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: University of Rhode Island researcher Hollie Putnam is leading a collaborative $1.1 million, three-year investigation into how coral and other organisms dependent on coral reefs adapt and acclimate to environmental stress caused in large part by climate change. Putnam, an assistant professor of biological sciences in the College of the Environment and Life Sciences, is working with Debashish Bhattachar  more

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Sept. 6 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: For Kara Bissonnette, the year has already been a whirlwind - visiting nine countries, completing an internship in Manhattan, earning national recognition - and her senior year at the University of Rhode Island is just starting. The South Kingstown resident was chosen one of the top 10 interns in the career-builder website WayUp's top 100 for her work this summer with Publicis Health, a division of the  more

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Sept. 4 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: The University of Rhode Island and Johnson & Wales University will offer a dual-degree in pharmacy and physician assistant studies beginning in fall 2018, the first such collaboration between public and private universities in the country. URI Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) students can apply to Johnson & Wales' Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies (MSPAS) program after completing their fourth  more