RWU reaching out to inner-city residents

 

Kobi Dennis says he’s dedicated his career to boosting educational and employment opportunities for those most in need in Providence.

The downtown resident’s work as co-founder of Unified Solutions, which finds education, employment and workforce-development opportunities for young people, involves neighbors and friends; their battles are his battles.

He thinks the group’s efforts will get a boost with the opening of Roger Williams University’s new city campus at One Empire Plaza.

A partnership was forged between RWU’s School of Continuing Studies and multiple community organizations, including Unified Solutions, to address the lack of higher education and employment opportunities available to inner-city residents.

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Art Review: RISD students show their mind-blowing work in sprawling show

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Most art exhibits tend to go in for things of beauty. But if you’re looking for a show that’s all about pushing the envelope and thinking outside the box, then check out what RISD’s graduating MFA students are up to, in a show at the Rhode Island Convention Center.

That’s not to say this show doesn’t have its share of beautiful objects, it’s just that most have an unexpected twist, if not a touch of the outrageous. Take Jisoo Lee’s metal baseball cap topped with globes of braided metal and delicate silver flowers attached with springs.

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Brown gets $11.5 million grant from National Institutes of Health

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The National Institutes of Health has awarded Brown University an $11.5-million grant aimed at bettering the understanding of the genetic nature of such diseases as cancer, severe lung infections and preeclampsia, a serious and sometimes fatal complication of pregnancy.

The five-year grant establishing a new Center of Biomedical Research Excellence will not only fund research but boost collaboration among Brown faculty who specialize in such distinct but related fields as immunology and molecular biology.

All will involve the use of advanced computer analysis, an important new tool of the digital age – computational biology, as it is known in the life sciences.

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