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RIC nursing school: No tobacco use by uniformed students
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island College School of Nursing has become the first public nursing school in the state to prohibit cigarette smoking or use of tobacco products by its students while in uniform or representing the school. more
12/10/12
RIC students honored at theater festival
PROVIDENCE – Seven Rhode Island College students and professors were honored during the 2013 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in early February in Hyannis, Mass. more
2/11/13
RISD grads work on prize-winning film
PROVIDENCE – Three Rhode Island School of Design alumni are enjoying international recognition for their work on “Beasts of The Southern Wild,” a coming-of-age film that this year won the top prize for dramatic film at the Sundance Film Festival and the Camera D’Or prize, given to a first-time director, at the Cannes Film Festival. more
8/13/12
URI’s dining facility is honored for conservation
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The University of Rhode Island’s Hope Commons dining facility has been recognized for excellence by the National Association of College & University Food Services, for its efforts in environmental conservation. more
8/13/12
CCRI, RIF heads honored by New England Board of Higher Ed.
Ray Di Pasquale, the president of the Community College of Rhode Island, and The Rhode Island Foundation President and CEO Neil D. Steinberg have been honored by the New England Board of Higher Education. more
| 2/7/13
URI offers double major in green business
The University of Rhode Island now is offering a green business double major, which it says is one of the country’s first undergraduate programs focused on green business. more
Sawyer students left in limbo
The sudden closure of the Sawyer School has left 302 Rhode Island students in academic and financial limbo. With education officials last week still unsure even of who was in charge of the shuttered school, the shutdown has also raised questions regarding oversight of for-profit education in the Ocean State. more

BY RHONDA MILLER
PBN Staff Writer | 1/14/13

UMass Dartmouth to inaugurate Chancellor Grossman
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth will inaugurate Chancellor Divina Grossman at around 2 p.m. on Thursday, topped off by student appreciation and engagement events that will continue through the weekend. more
Bryant program listed among ‘hot new MBAs’ by WSJ
Bryant University’s supply-chain management program was among a handful of MBA programs commended in The Wall Street Journal’s “Hot New MBA” report. more
| 6/6/13
Student data key to campus planning
Brown University’s decision to expand its School of Engineering within its College Hill campus was driven in part by analysis of an extensive collection of data involving faculty, staff and students, including an elaborate map that tracked regular travel patterns in order to best determine the location of new buildings. more

By Rebecca Keister
PBN Staff Writer | 4/29/13

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