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East Greenwich, RI – Dr. Douglas H. Sherman, Senior Vice President and Provost at New England Institute of Technology, announced that the university is now offering a Master of Public Health (MPH) program. This program utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to prepare professionals in public health science with a foundation of management and leadership skills. Graduates of the MPH program will acquire the knowledge and skills to successfully practice public health in a supervisory/management role to oversee, plan, evaluate and improve population health programs and initiatives.

The MPH program focuses on essential public health services along with critical management principles giving graduates a balanced view of public health science with emphasis on the leadership, budgeting, supervision and project management skills necessary to lead successful public health efforts.

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NEWPORT, R.I. – Salve Regina University’s Cultural and Historic Preservation program has been awarded a $39,000 grant from the National Park Service to conduct a site documentation project on an historic battlefield in South Carolina. The grant, administered by the NPS’s Battlefield Protection Program, is one of 20 awarded nationally, totaling $1.2 million, to support work that safeguards and preserves significant American battlefield lands for present and future generations.

Salve Regina students in the CHP program will conduct a site documentation project for the Sadkeche Fight, a battle associated with the little-known Yamasee War (1715-1717) in South Carolina, giving them a unique opportunity to contribute to a real world, federally funded preservation project.

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After researchers spent years developing an artificial intelligence technology to monitor lab animal behavior, a team of recently graduated entrepreneurs is investigating its commercial potential.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – Brown undergraduates Adrienne Tran and Max Song didn’t just take Thomas Serre’s machine vision course in Fall 2015 – they ultimately took an innovation from his lab to consider its potential for commercialization.

The technology, which Serre’s lab has developed with Brown colleague Kevin Bath over the last several years, automates the observation of research animals. Normally students and other research assistants must painstakingly review hours of video footage to determine when and for how long a mouse sleeps, wakes, feeds, drinks, grooms another mouse, nurses its pups and so on. Those factors are key to understanding the potential effects of an experimental intervention on the mouse’s behavior.

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Brown University is now accepting applications for a new Executive Master in Science and Technology Leadership (EMSTL) program, which is designed to prepare engineering, science, and technology professionals to be successful in industry.

The 16-month program of study is “for highly accomplished professionals with five to 15 years of experience in technical fields who are ready to broaden their impact and achieve greater success as business and organizational leaders,” according to the university.

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