Q & A with Brown School of Public Health Dean Dr. Ashish Jha
A belated welcome back to Brown, Ashish. You returned last June after more than a year as the White...
Sowing native plants is crucial to the health of the environment, pollinators, food systems
‘If we don’t have native plants so that native pollinators can live, we will lose food sources’ So, you...
Q & A with professor and author Mike Stanton
Mike, let’s start with today. You live in Rhode Island and are a journalism professor at the University of...
Providence’s Write Rhode Island grows literary community from the ground up
Originally published by The Providence Eye, a publication partner of Ocean State Stories. Rhode Island’s literary legacy stretches from...
The promise and potential perils of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare
‘AI is coming and there’s nothing stopping it’ PROVIDENCE — Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool in the...
Q & A with Pawtucket State Rep. Jennifer Stewart
Welcome, Jennifer, to the Ocean State Stories Q & A forum. You are a state representative from District 59,...
Q & A with Neil D. Steinberg
Neil, you retired last May as the longtime president and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation, when the baton...
Q & A with Charlene Traynum
Charlene, you came to our attention reading the interview you granted Newport This Week, a publication we read regularly...
Q & A with Rebecca Bertrand
A belated congratulations, Rebecca, on becoming executive director of the Newport Historical Society [in 2022]! Can you give us...
Fueled by social media and pandemic, teenage depression rates rise across Rhode Island and America prompting ‘crisis’
But help is available to lift young lives NORTH PROVIDENCE – Nineteen-year-old Ty DaSilva first experienced depression as a...
Ocean State Stories gana la plata en la competencia internacional Anthem Awards
Honor se produce cuando un medio de comunicación sin fines de lucro con sede en el Centro Pell de...
Ocean State Stories wins Silver in international Anthem Awards competition
Honor comes as non-profit media outlet based at Salve Regina University’s Pell Center marks first year of publication NEWPORT...
‘Forever chemicals’ in water, air, and soil threaten health of Rhode Islanders
‘The presence of toxic chemicals in the environment poses significant health and ecological concerns’ PROVIDENCE — In May 2023,...