Moses Brown School recently announced that it will establish a Sailing and Marine Education Center in Cranston, thanks to a $1.5 million anonymous gift.
The new center will provide a waterfront classroom for marine education and a home for the school’s championship sailing team and will accelerate a signature initiative called “MB TRIPs” – Travel, Research and Immersion Programs.
PROVIDENCE — Providence College on Saturday is officially launching the biggest fundraising campaign — for $140 million — in its almost 100-year history.
The college says the money raised will touch every aspect of college life, from a new School of Business to new faculty members to a more robust endowment.
The New England Institute of Technology has won a second $2.5-million federal grant to expand the shipbuilding and advanced manufacturing institute it created when it won its earlier grant in 2013.
New England Tech will add five programs to its two core training programs at the institute, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Those new programs will offer shipfitting, pipe welding, sheetmetal, pipefitting and robotics classes to 200 Rhode Island students.
PROVIDENCE — If you’re going to solve a problem in your business, you must first determine the real problem. Designers call this “figuring out the essential question.”
That’s one message Charlie Cannon shared Monday with business leaders, entrepreneurs, engineers and manufacturers who gathered at the Rhode Island School of Design to figure out ways that design can help transform manufacturing.