December 22, 2011 | Levent OZLER

Rhode Island School of Design announced the inaugural Shared Voices: The RISD Presidential Speaker Series, kicking off with special guest Juan Enriquez on Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 7:30PM in the RISD Auditorium.
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Dec. 8, 2011, 9:00 a.m. EST

PROVIDENCE, R.I., Dec 08, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Rhode Island School of Design presents the inaugural Shared Voices: The RISD Presidential Speaker Series, kicking off with special guest Juan Enriquez on Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 7:30PM in the RISD Auditorium [Canal Walkway at Market Square, Providence]. This event will be free of charge and open to the public, but advance registration is necessary and offered on a first-come, first-serve basis at www.risd.edu/sharedvoices .Click here to read original story in its entirety

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Providence by night is a city alive with places to learn, taste, see, and hear, an urban center with a fiercely independent spirit left over from free-thinking founder Roger Williams. Brian Hodge, communications and social media manager for the Providence Warwick Convention and Visitors Bureau, says Providence “is not a city of big-box places.

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From the June 22, 2011 edition

by Ayla Rosen

During tough economic times, the academic challenges that students face in school do not even compare to the challenges that they may face when they begin looking for jobs. Unlike most colleges, Rhode Island School of Design has started to equip their creative thinking graduates with “artrepreneur kits.” Now in the second year of the program, RISDs “artrepreneur kits” include some of the tools and resources their graduates will need to “maximize their potential for innovation and explore entrepreneurial possibilities.”

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http://bostinnovation.com/2011/06/22/risd-equips-grads-with-entrepreneurial-toolkits/

01:00 AM EDT on Sunday, May 15, 2011
By Bill Van Siclen
Journal Arts Writer

Take nearly 200 talented young artists and designers, turn them loose inside the Rhode Island Convention Center and what do you get? The artistic rite of spring that is the Rhode Island School of Design’s annual Graduate Student Exhibition, that’s what.

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Rebecca Bellhaus

Senior Staff Writer

“Most of the things I’m going to tell you are going to be the opposite of your preconceptions.”

So began Richard Saul Wurman, the self-proclaimed “information architect” and founder of Technology/Entertainment/Design — or TED — conferences, in his talk at the Rhode Island School of Design Auditorium Tuesday night. Wurman emphasized the importance of defying expectations and finding personal interests.

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http://www.browndailyherald.com/ted-founder-encourages-exploration-of-ideas-1.2355786

Jack Comer

Contributing Writer

The Rhode Island School of Design launched a partnership last week with car sharing company Zipcar, making two Toyota Scions available last Thursday.

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http://www.browndailyherald.com/risd-launches-partnership-with-zipcar-bringing-car-count-to-20-1.2375067