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PROVIDENCE — Forty-four Rhode Island college students are spending the summer helping out at area soup kitchens, art programs and environmental organizations, their $2,000 average stipends paid for by federal stimulus dollars.

After a year at the helm, president John Maeda is balancing broad shifts in the worlds of art, design, and business

So there was more than a little anxiety when John Maeda — sneaker designer, MIT professor, digital media rock star — took over as RISD president last summer.

In attempting to close the projected budget deficit in Providence, Mayor David N. Cicilline has officially asked the city’s nonprofit hospitals and universities to do their “fair share” by increasing fee payments to the city, notwithstanding their status as tax-exempt property owners.

WARWICK — Drivers on Route 95 will soon notice a new addition to the skyline along the highway when the New England Institute of Technology installs a 156-foot-tall wind turbine at its campus nearby.

A friendly rivalry between Massachusetts and Rhode Island over development of wind energy heated up this summer as Massachusetts released what it described as the “nation’s first draft comprehensive ocean management plan” that identifies sites for potential wind energy development.

Three students at Salve Regina University, junior Carin Heaney and seniors Alexandra Pereira and Samantha Sandland, are spending the summer investigating whether Applied Behavior Analysis can help children with autism become more aware of their social environment. Their work is done under the direction of Associate professor of psychology Sheila O’Brien Quinn

KOCHI: The old verse ‘water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink’ holds true for Kerala because we are always short of water even when we receive plenty of rainfall.

In order to encourage rainwater harvesting as a way of life among the people, several programmes have been launched to save and utilise water properly.

‘Student tax,’ nonprofit property exception at issue

Two bills have made progress in Rhode Island’s General Assembly that could cost Brown and its students millions of dollars if they become law.

One bill would allow cities to assess a “student impact fee” of $150 per semester for out-of-state students who attend private colleges in Rhode Island. The universities would pay the municipal governments directly, allowing them to raise the funds as they see fit.