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APRIL 1-14, 2022
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New nonstop flights have tourism leaders salivating BY NANCY LAVIN | Lavin@PBN.com
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IFTIKHAR AHMAD sees dollar signs in the winding security lines and crowds clumped around conveyor belts of suitcases at Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport. And those dollars aren’t just for the airport. The spending that accompanies passengers and planes is a boost for the entire state, an economic impact of 20,000 jobs and $2.6 billion, according to a 2020 report by the Federal Aviation Administration.
FOCUS: TOURISM
TEAMWORK: Samuel Kaplan, right, a clinical research assistant for Lifespan Corp., demonstrates a device called the Bubbler while Dr. Gregory Jay, Brown University professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and Division of Engineering, looks on. The device, a breath test for COVID-19, was developed in a collaboration between Brown and Lifespan. COURTESY LIFESPAN CORP.
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Will latest failed merger end the university’s bid for bigger role in health care? BY JACQUELYN VOGHEL | Voghel@PBN.com
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dream, as Brown University leaders described it, included Providence’s Jewelry District filled with biotech companies spun off from discoveries made by an “integrated academic health care system” combining Lifespan Corp. and Care New England Health System, with Brown front and center as a crucial partner providing researchers and highly trained doctors. It included Brown President Christina H.
Paxson’s vision of a “world-class cancer center” conducting research and providing treatment to Rhode Islanders. “It’s this integration of research, discovery, patient care, clinical care that is going to be spurred,” Paxson said in a video announcing a signed merger agreement released by the three entities in February 2021. The plan included a SEE BROWN
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