COVENTRY, RI – March 21, 2023 – The Coventry Town Council ratified a three year contract for new Town Manager, Daniel Parrillo on Monday night. The ratification comes after the Council unanimously voted on February 27 to extend an offer of employment to Parrillo.
Dr. Meghan Hughes, President of the Community College of Rhode Island since 2016, has announced today that she will step down from her position, effective August 31, 2023.
As a student and Buddhist monk in India, Thupten Tendhar’s introduction to the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came when he read a small chapter in a book about the civil rights activist.
Dr. Michael Silverstein, director of the Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute at Brown University and a professor at the University’s School of Public Health, has been appointed vice chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
With renewed federal funding, Brown University faculty will extend two initiatives built to encourage the success of students historically underrepresented in STEM graduate programs and prepare them for careers in the sciences:
Farmington, Connecticut – Today, General Biomics, Inc. and Women & Infants Hospital announced a collaborative agreement to study the role of the human microbiome in diseases found in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs).
With a $5 million gift from Brown University to support the project, Care New England plans to build a new, technologically advanced labor and delivery center at Women & Infants Hospital that will serve families from Rhode Island and the surrounding region.