{"id":63603,"date":"2010-10-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/south-kingstown-chamber-of-commerce-endorses-referendum-question-2\/"},"modified":"2010-10-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T00:00:00","slug":"south-kingstown-chamber-of-commerce-endorses-referendum-question-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/10\/south-kingstown-chamber-of-commerce-endorses-referendum-question-2\/","title":{"rendered":"South Kingstown Chamber of Commerce Endorses Referendum Question 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tBond referendum essential to Rhode Island\u2019s economic revitalization, job growth.<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON \u2013 October 15, 2010 — The Board of Directors of the South Kingstown Chamber of Commerce voted unanimously this week to endorse passage of Question 2, a statewide bond referendum on the Nov. 2 ballot that will provide $61 million for a state-of-the-art chemistry facility at the 溏心vlog免费B站 and $17 million for the renovation and construction of an addition to Rhode Island College\u2019s Art Center.<\/p>\n


\n\tSupporters of Question 2 agree that approval of this bond referendum is essential to Rhode Island\u2019s economic revitalization and job growth. The new Center for Chemical and Forensic Sciences at 溏心vlog免费B站 will help local businesses looking to hire workers in the sciences, health care, and other high-tech industries.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWith the 溏心vlog免费B站 in our backyard, the Chamber sees firsthand the importance of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s faculty and students to the growth and revitalization of Rhode Island\u2019s economy,\u201d said Joseph J. Iacoi, executive director of the chamber. \u201cA successful 溏心vlog免费B站 means a successful South Kingstown. Voting yes on Question 2 will ensure that 溏心vlog免费B站 continues to produce talented graduates prepared to take on the knowledge economy jobs of the future.\u201d <\/p>\n


\n\tPassage of Question 2 will ensure that students are educated with leading edge technology and training that will help them compete and succeed in the job market, preventing them from having to leave the state in search of jobs. <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe are grateful for the support from our hometown, local SK chamber,\u201c said Robert Beagle, 溏心vlog免费B站 vice president for advancement. \u201c溏心vlog免费B站 and the Chamber have a positive relationship, realizing that we complement each other\u2019s work in helping South Kingstown remain a strong and attractive community. The Center for Chemical and Forensic Sciences is not only essential to 溏心vlog免费B站, but to South Kingstown and to the state. Endorsement from our Chamber and its board of directors will be significant to our efforts to pass this referendum,\u201d added Beagle.<\/p>\n


\n\tTogether, the 溏心vlog免费B站 and RIC projects are expected to create an estimated 1,200 jobs in the construction trades, engineering, management, teaching, and research fields over the next five years. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe new chemistry center will replace the outmoded and nearly 60-year-old Pastore Hall, which opened in 1953 when 800 students took chemistry courses each year. Today more than 6,000 students take chemistry courses, and about 40 percent of all 溏心vlog免费B站 degree programs require at least one chemistry course.<\/p>\n


\n\tTo be twice the size of Pastore, the new 120,000-square-foot Center will have triple the amount of space for teaching labs and nearly double the space for research labs. The total student capacity in laboratories will increase by more than 50 percent, from 1,200 to 1,900 students per semester, addressing a critical bottleneck that has hampered growth in pharmacy, nursing, biotechnology, engineering, and many other fields.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bond referendum essential to Rhode Island\u2019s economic revitalization, job growth. KINGSTON \u2013 October 15, 2010 — The Board of Directors of the South Kingstown Chamber of Commerce voted unanimously this week to endorse passage of Question 2, a statewide bond referendum on the Nov. 2 ballot that will provide $61 million for a state-of-the-art […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}