WHAT: University of Rhode Island and state officials will join researchers to announce an $8.1 million, 5-year grant renewal by the National Institute of Environmental Health and Sciences, a division of the National Institutes of Health.
On Sept. 13, Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, was visiting relatives in Tehran when members of the Guidance Control, Iran’s morality police, pulled her from a train station and arrested her for defying the country’s mandatory hijab law.
WHAT: On Oct. 6, the University of Rhode Island will commemorate the 56th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s visit to the University’s Kingston Campus with a speaking program and the unveiling of a commemorative plaque in Keaney Gymnasium.
Building on a long-standing commitment to supporting projects in Providence’s Jewelry District that contribute to the economic vitality of the city and state, Brown University has signed a letter of intent to lease laboratory space in a major public-private life sciences development project
As data-driven technologies transform the world and artificial intelligence raises questions about bias, privacy and transparency, Suresh Venkatasubramanian is offering his expertise to help create guardrails to ensure that technologies are developed and deployed responsibly.