Valley Breeze Feature – August 2025

Central Falls student Woods selected as cancer scholar CENTRAL FALLS – Central Falls resident Kaylyn Woods was recently selected to participate in the Rhode Island Future Generation of Cancer Scholars program, and she says she’s ready to learn all about cutting-edge medical innovations. Woods, a 10th-grade biomanufacturing technology student at Davies Career and Technical High […]

Valley Breeze Feature – August 2023

Cancer scholars summer program ‘a tremendous success’ PAWTUCKET – The First Future Gen Cancer Scholars program launched by Brown University Health Cancer Institute has wrapped up its first year, which program director Dr. Thomas Olilla called “a tremendous success.” The 20 high school participants gathered at Rhode Island Hospital with program staff to commemorate the […]

Ocean State Stories – August 2023

For these high school students, the road to doctor starts here, in an innovative Rhode Island Hospital-based program run by Brown University Health Cancer Institute. PROVIDENCE – Rexella Bishop, who is beginning her junior year at Central High School, spoke with enthusiasm about her ambition to become a doctor — and the advantage her enrollment […]