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Tai Chi Paradigm®Introduction on March 22

By Providence Reporter reports | Mar 19, 2023

Tai Chi Paradigm®Introduction on March 22

Community Service Tuesdays for Teens on March 28

By Providence Reporter reports | Mar 19, 2023

Join us Tuesdays at Weaver Library for drop-in community service opportunities for middle and high school students.

Recreation Department announces 2023 summer day camp registration

By Providence Reporter reports | Mar 19, 2023

EAST PROVIDENCE, RI – The City of East Providence Recreation Dept. will hold a six-week summer day camp for East Providence youth ages 6-12 (age as of September 1, 2023).

Screening Subcommittee Meeting on March 21

By Providence Reporter reports | Mar 19, 2023

Screening Subcommittee Meeting on March 21

Screening Subcommittee Meeting on March 21

By Providence Reporter reports | Mar 19, 2023

Screening Subcommittee Meeting on March 21

Let’s Dance Kids Movement Class

By Providence Reporter reports | Mar 19, 2023

Naomi Zeltzer, a Family Navigator for the EP Health Equity Zone, will be teaching a 4 week jazz dance/movement class at Weaver library for kids ages 2+ of all genders and skill levels.

Burrillville Budget Board on March 23

By Providence Reporter reports | Mar 19, 2023

Burrillville Budget Board on March 23

Catherine Roberts to step down as AMS Executive Director

By Providence Reporter reports | Mar 19, 2023

After seven years as Executive Director of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), Catherine Roberts will step down at the end of August to become Chief Executive Officer of the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (COMAP).

Interim Report of the Statewide Grand Jury (Reported February 27, 2023)

By Providence Reporter reports | Mar 19, 2023

Interim Report of the Statewide Grand Jury (Reported February 27, 2023)

Balakrishnan Awarded 2023-2024 AMS Birman Fellowship

By Providence Reporter reports | Mar 19, 2023

Jennifer Balakrishnan, the Clare Boothe Luce Associate Professor of Mathematics at Boston University, has been awarded the 2023-2024 AMS Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship for Women Scholars.

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Providence Reporter area weekly mass times

By Providence Reporter | Mar 18, 2023

The following parishes in the Providence Reporter coverage area hold weekly mass at these designated times.

Mentoring makes a difference

By Providence Reporter reports | Mar 14, 2023

Students at URI, whether in their first year or last, find a wealth of resources and community members looking to help them navigate their path at the University and beyond.

Brown extends test-optional policy for 2023-24 undergraduate admission cycle

By Providence Reporter reports | Mar 14, 2023

Brown University has extended its temporary test-optional undergraduate admission policy for the 2023-24 admission cycle.

Southern Maine’s Drummey Repeats as NCAA DIII Indoor Pole Vault Champion, Plymouth State’s Rigoli Earns All-America in Weight Throw

By Providence Reporter reports | Mar 14, 2023

University of Southern Maine junior Ben Drummey successfully defended his national title in in the pole vault after clearing 5.05 meters at the 2023 NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championship Friday at the Birmingham Crossplex.

In congressional hearing, Brown scholar addresses tensions between U.S. and China

By Providence Reporter reports | Mar 14, 2023

In the midst of escalating tensions between the United States and China, Tyler Jost, an assistant professor of political science at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, urged federal lawmakers to focus on preventing a dangerous military conflict with China, rather than focusing too intently on homeland security.

ELITE! Rhode Island College Women’s Basketball Wins Sweet 16 Showdown With No. 10/12 Chicago, 64-56

By Providence Reporter reports | Mar 14, 2023

Senior forward Izabelle Booth (Newport, R.I.) iced the game with four clutch free throws in the final minute as Rhode Island College defeated No. 10 University of Chicago, 64-56, in the Sectional Semifinals of the NCAA Div. III Women's Basketball Championship played at Babson's Staake Gymnasium on Friday evening.

For one Brown professor, merging math with art results in gallery-worthy visualizations

By Providence Reporter reports | Mar 14, 2023

To most people, math and art feel like two completely different subjects. But for Richard Schwartz — a mathematician who often creates colorful visualizations alongside his mathematics — the disparate fields go hand in hand.

Charting a course: URI professor draws Atlantic data from shipping vessels

By Providence Reporter reports | Mar 14, 2023

Messages in a bottle often carry information from another place and time. For University of Rhode Island professor emeritus H. Thomas Rossby, the messages he’s received came from seafarers and oceanographers past, as he recently combined century-old data, and a novel way of capturing modern data, to produce a report on the Atlantic Ocean that gives oceanographers a better understanding of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).