Salve Regina University News

Kathleen Harrington, RSM, of New Bedford, a 1967 graduate of Salve Regina University, was honored with the university's 2009 Mission Award during its Fall Festival Weekend.

An information session on prescription coverage under Medicare Part D will be presented by Chris Murphy, a counselor at Westbay Community Action, at 10 a.m. Nov.

John and Allyson Etzell's home can get pretty hectic when they share the space with their three children, Sammi, 3, Taya, 4, and Matt, 6, and up to six other boys and girls, ages 5 to 11.

Bristol Community College has signed a new articulation agreement with Salve Regina University.

Palmer began his career at General Electric Co. in the commercial-equipment financing division, where he handled leasing for heavy equipment and aircraft deals.

The stage has been dark and the curtains closed at the Newport Casino Theatre for more than 20 years, but a little imagination can conjure up images of Will Rogers spinning a monologue here or Orson Welles or Oscar Wilde entertaining the crowd.

Salve Regina University got its first win of the season on Saturday, knocking off Bridgewater State College, 27-20, in a New England Football Conference game.

Sister Jane Gerety will be inaugurated as the Newport institution's seventh president on Friday during an outdoor ceremony on campus.

Madonna and Child, created by John La Farge. William Vareika Fine Arts Some artists are easy to pigeonhole.

Students at several Rhode Island colleges and universities are heading back to school this week, with at least one celebrity freshman expected on campus.

Students are being advised to bring hand sanitizer, digital thermometers and even surgical masks when they move to campus this fall, as colleges and universities in Rhode Island brace for swine flu.

Journalists followed every career move that John La Farge made. From the 1870s until his death in 1910, La Farge, a painter and stained-glass designer, produced thousands of windows as well as murals, landscapes and still lifes at his Greenwich Village workshops.

How different is life across the world? Nathan Sanders, 22, of Sterling, is finding out, while working in the Peace Corps, stationed in Mongolia.

Robert Coloney of Scotch Plains has been named to the dean's list at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Conn., for the spring semester.

How different is life across the world? Nathan Sanders, 22, of Sterling, is finding out, while working in the Peace Corps, stationed in Mongolia.

Salve Regina University was awarded a $5,000 grant from the John E. Fogarty Foundation to help finance its Learning Unlimited program for developmentally disabled adults.

Jennah Ackerman of Annandale was named to the dean's list at at Lynn University, Boca Raton, Fla., for the spring semester.

Beginning in the fall, students will be able to work toward their high school equivalency diploma and earn college credits at the same time thanks to The Community College of Rhode Island's "College Now" transition program.

One sunny day last week, Dennis Isom was shopping for a set of golf clubs in the "showroom" that Bob Restivo had set up under a blue awning on the front lawn of his home.

From E-1 to a federal agent in charge of field offices in two states, Paul Ciccarelli has run the gamut in the military and law enforcement.