First lady Michelle Obama joined 13 wives of military servicemen Friday evening for a roundtable gathering at the Rhode Island National Guard headquarters in Cranston. Later that night, she appeared at a fundraiser for her husband at the East Side home of Joseph Paolino Jr., a former Providence mayor ...
New research on the solar system's smallest and innermost planet could help scientists understand Earth's history. Six percent of Mercury — the equivalent of 60 percent of the continental U.S. — is covered with volcanic plains, providing evidence of how the planet and possibly others were ...
Of the $30 billion promised to developing nations by developed nations to combat climate change at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, only $7 billion has definitely been given, according to research compiled for a September report on countries' transparency levels in committing ...
Cynthia Frost, the University's vice president and chief investment officer, netted a total of $1,011,351 in compensation for 2009 — the highest amount for any University official. The figure represents an increase of over 13 percent in Frost's annual earnings from the 2008 calendar year, according ...
Gov. Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14 announced yesterday afternoon that he will not distribute licenses to medical marijuana compassion centers. Chafee has delayed authorizing these licenses for months, garnering resentment from medical marijuana patients and advocates.
As part of ongoing efforts to develop a thriving knowledge district in Providence, the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority released a proposal Monday to launch the "Core Connector" — a two-mile stretch of streetcar service that would run through the Jewelry District, downtown and the heart of ...
City officials met last night to review a proposal to overturn Providence's long-standing overnight parking ban, currently in effect between the hours of 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. Officials plan to vote on the issue in upcoming months.
At the general body meeting of the Undergraduate Council of Students last night, Mary Grace Almandrez, newly appointed director of the Third World Center and assistant dean of the College, laid out her vision for the center.
About 250 Brown and RISD students have signed up for MunchCard — a student-created restaurant discount program — a month into its launch. The MunchCard, billed by its creators as an off-campus alternative to University meal plans, is now being accepted at 20 College Hill eateries, with more ...
When the Rhode Island Nurses Institute Middle College Charter School officially opened its doors Sept. 19, it became the first charter school in the country to give aspiring nurses the chance to earn both a high school diploma and college credit.
State lawmakers learned Wednesday that, despite hours of discussion and deliberation by an 12-member pension advisory group, there is no clear-cut path to solving Rhode Island's failing pension system.
When journalists interview Professor of Anthropology and International Relations Catherine Lutz about the Costs of War study she directed, she notices a difference in the conclusions U.S. and foreign reporters draw. While U.S. journalists have tried to contextualize the study's findings on the U.S. ...
Over 60 protesters gathered to challenge Bank of America and rising home foreclosures in front of the bank's building in downtown Providence yesterday afternoon.
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Off the main entrance looms the work of famous Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang. A student's hiking journey is memorialized on the walls upstairs. And in the basement, a virtual chef can make you a pizza modeled after the globe. Every once in a while, he is shot dead.
The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority authorized a reduction Tuesday in the frequency of bus service on 13 routes, according to an article in yesterday's Providence Journal.
Since her first visit to Mexico's Gulf of California in 1996, Heather Leslie, assistant professor of environmental studies, has seen the fish stock decline first-hand. The gulf, which supplies more than half of Mexico's seafood and three-fourths of its shrimp, is changing rapidly.
Fall brings out the beauty of trees. But in many cities, including Providence, there is not enough foliage to compete with the concrete and asphalt.
Corrections appended. They do not know his name, but some students have had disturbingly close encounters with him. He often comes up in conversation and has become the subject of jokes and songs. The man, an infamous naked masturbator, has been spotted in the yards of at least three off-campus student ...
Former Chilean president and Professor-at-Large Ricardo Lagos addressed a packed Joukowsky Forum last night about the "two epochal changes" facing Latin America — income distribution inequalities and a rapidly growing middle class — as it emerges relatively unscathed from the 2008 ...
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