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Providence gets $300,000 ArtPlace America grant
With the intention of helping to spruce up the Upper South Providence neighborhood, the Creative Capital recently won a $300,000 ArtPlace America grant. The project, ‘Illuminating Trinity’, will focus...
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Brown poll shows Hillary leading, PPP has Sanders ahead
Polling show it’s a close race to win the Democratic presidential primary in Rhode Island. A local poll from Brown University’s Taubman Center for Politics and Policy indicates a slight lead for...
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Polls show climate change and cannabis are important to Rhode Island
Lost in last week’s primary election were some other promising poll numbers for progressives. A Public Policy Polling survey found 3 of 4 Rhode Islanders would be more likely to support a candidate who...
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Neo-racialism: The sociopolitical climate of Trump
Editor’s note: This post is part of a summer-long series, The Sociology of Trump. Every Friday RI Future will feature an essay written by a Brown University sociology student on an aspect of Trumpism....
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Desensitized America: How Trump out-smarted voters
Editor’s note: This post is part of a summer-long series, The Sociology of Trump. Every Friday RI Future will feature an essay written by a Brown University sociology student on an aspect of Trumpism....
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An unscientific examination of higher education in RI, courtesy of the...
The Princeton Review college rankings are far from scientific, but the annual listicles offer an interesting look at what Rhode Island’s institutions of higher learning are good at, and what they are...
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Trump and white evangelicals: points of conversions
Editor’s note: This post is part of a summer-long series, The Sociology of Trump. Every Friday RI Future will feature an essay written by a Brown University sociology student on an aspect of Trumpism....
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Moment or movement? Sociology in the rise of Donald Trump
Editor’s note: This post is part of a summer-long series, The Sociology of Trump. Every Friday RI Future will feature an essay written by a Brown University sociology student on an aspect of Trumpism....
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Interpreting Trump: How body language reveals unstated truths
Editor’s note: This post is part of a summer-long series, The Sociology of Trump. Every Friday RI Future will feature an essay written by a Brown University sociology student on an aspect of Trumpism....
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Can fruit-picking robots from Brown help create a more sustainable future?
Rebecca Pankow and John Oberlin work with Ursula in the Brown University Humans to Robots lab. Ursula works at Brown University learning how to pick flower petals from a daisy. It’s not difficult work...
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