Roger Williams University News

Mark L. Stenning, Chief Executive Officer of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, has been named the 2008 recipient of the prestigious Chairman's Award.

The Providence Police Department is planning to launch itself as a "teaching police department," modeled on the idea of a teaching hospital, where police officers from here and around New England will learn ...

Millions of viewers watched Senators Barack Obama and John McCain spar about the military strategy in Afghanistan Friday at the University of Mississippi, and tomorrow their running mates will face off.

While most Brown students were dozing, shielded from the heavy rain, 60 Brown Students for Obama gathered at Hope High School early Saturday morning for a canvassing trip to Nashua, N.H. Seventy-two volunteers ...

When the runners step off the starting line at tomorrow's sixth annual Kerouac 5K Road Race, there's a bit more up for grabs for a Lowell High School student.

For a brief time, Melanie Alves considered attending a four-year school after she graduates from New Bedford High School next spring.

It is the cruel dilemma of the working poor: lousy, low-paying jobs make it impossible to break out of bad circumstances, and the bad circumstances are the reason for the lousy, low-paying jobs.

Roger Williams University is honoring Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac by offering a partial scholarship to a student from his hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts.

For more than eight decades, The Louisiana Weekly has been a voice for African Americans throughout Louisiana.

Roger Williams University is scheduled to receive a visit at 7 tonight by Tom Trento.

Chris Barrett Mapping of the ocean area that could contain Rhode Island's first offshore wind farm is kicking into high gear.

Senior Circuit Judge Bruce M. Selya is now the longest-serving Rhode Islander in the history of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Some local colleges were given high grades by U.S. News and World Report. Roger Williams University was ranked No.

Duke University made headlines in 2004 when it handed out Apple iPods to every incoming freshman.

The statewide School Improvement Team was successful in delaying a vote by the Board of Regents to implement changes to state graduation regulations several months ago, and now it's hard at work to do it again.

College freshmen expect to meet friends in dormitories or dining halls, but for Pat Rice and Andy Westerkanp it was painting a shed that sparked their new friendship.

Far from banning technology from the classroom as a potential distraction, colleges across the country are toying with an array of cutting-edge products and services for entering freshmen, who have grown up ...

Greece Megan Brasch of Greece was named to the dean's list for the spring semester at the State University of New York at Binghamton.

People like Kim Ahern may hold the 2008 election in their hands. She's 24, a Providence College graduate, a law student at Roger Williams University, and a veteran user of Internet social networking sites.

Brown University ranks 16th this year in U.S. News & World Report's annual list of America's best national universities, which was released yesterday.