Cybersecurity experts are increasingly concerned that the nation’s future leaders are unprepared to deal with the digital threats programmers and cryptographers are wrestling with. more

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Health has awarded the state’s Safe Place for Teens to Work Award to the Pawtucket Red Sox. more

Metryx, a social-venture project hoping to change education via use of a mobile assessment platform, says it is making great strides toward making the application available in a schoolwide format next fall. more

With its second round of Innovation Fellowships, The Rhode Island Foundation is making investments in the state that, unfortunately, few others are stepping forward to make. more

DARTMOUTH – The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth School of Law and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development have formed a National Fair Housing Collegiate Partnership Campaign. more

BRISTOL – Roger Williams University School of Law now will offer students the option to earn a three-year J.D. degree on an accelerated 2.5 years, or a more flexible four-year track. more

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The University of Rhode Island has established a new Islamic and Mediterranean studies cluster. The school has also hired three new Islamic studies professors and a French professor to support the initiative. more

NEWPORT – The International Yacht Restoration School has expanded its scholarship opportunities for students applying to the school’s three full-time programs. more

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – University of Rhode Island professor of political science Nicolai Petro has received a Fulbright research grant to study the role of the Russian Orthodox Church, while living abroad in Ukraine. more

DARTMOUTH – The University of Massachusetts has created the James J. Karam Scholarship Fund for SouthCoast students to attend any UMass campus, in honor of the UMass Dartmouth graduate. more