Rhode Island College News

Eighth-grade science students Gratus Goodridge, left, and Jeffrey Balbuena work on projects about motion and forces under teacher Robert Rasmussen's guidance.

Monday morning, U.S. Senator Jack Reed is scheduled to go to Rhode Island College and announce that more than $280,000 in federal financing is coming to the college's School of Nursing, to upgrade a laboratory that simulates a real-world hospital setting.

Jeff Bridges plays aging country musician Bad Blake in the upcoming movie "Crazy Heart," based on the novel of the same name by Rhode Island College English professor and Foster resident Thomas Cobb.

Rhode Island College, named a "military friendly school" by G.I. Jobs magazine, opened a new Veterans Resource Center in Building 5 on the east campus Nov.

Fusionworks Dance Company presents movements with a message. In the modern dance troupe's new show, which opened Thursday and runs through Saturday at Rhode Island College, there's an emphasis on making a statement.

Allison Crews in "Rabbit Hole" at Rhode Island College. Hayden James David Lindsay-Abaire's "Rabbit Hole" is the ultimate elephant-in-the-room play, a biting drama about a couple dealing with the death of their child, a couple who can't take a breath without bumping up against their loss.

KICKIN' IT Fusionworks' Karen Swiatocha. In the ambitious program they will perform this weekend , members of Fusionworks Dance Company will premiere three pieces that look at the human condition from several perspectives.

Working the room like a revival preacher, Chanravy Proeung tells her 29 young students to sit in a circle and write their first names on the flashcard in front of them.

Is abstract art ever completely abstract? And is it OK to read real-world references into abstract artworks, even when the artist who created them says otherwise? Those are some of the questions that came to mind during a recent visit to Rhode Island College's Bannister Gallery, which is hosting an exhibit of paintings and drawings by Eve Aschheim.

An exhibit that spotlights black gay men who live in Rhode Island opened at the John Hay Library at Brown University in Providence on Nov.

There were two brawls at the end of the Division IV state girls soccer championships held at Rhode Island College on Sunday.

The Patriot Battalion celebrated Halloween early this year. On Friday, Oct. 30, at 6:30 a.m., the Battalion conducted its annual Halloween Run.

Eight months after he first emerged as a possible 2010 political contender, Republican defense lawyer Erik B. Wallin put the state Board of Elections and the rest of Rhode Island on notice Wednesday - he is running for attorney general.

State tax collections plunged over the last four months, yet another sign that Rhode Island's economy is going nowhere fast.

The Montpelier Chamber Orchestra delivered a challenging and ultimately rewarding concert, Sunday afternoon at Vermont College of the Fine Arts' College Hall Chapel, that featured works of Mozart, Beethoven.

Two men who may face off next year in the race for Rhode Island governor will be discussing the political legacy of their families.

A total of four dozen fourth- and fifth-graders fanned out across the Rhode Island College campus.

We don't like to flog too many events here at N4N. But for all you political junkies, this is one worth knowing about.

Since he first trudged through the woods to found Providence, Roger Williams has been variously called an American statesman, a canny trader and a champion of religious freedom.

Dream Studios of Cape Cod has opened at 1 Reardon Circle in South Yarmouth. The performing arts school has a community center feel, with three studios, a parents lounge and a Wi-Fi homework room included in its facility.