PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Rhode Island Foundation is set to announce Tuesday that projects aimed at eradicating hepatitis C and encouraging design by young people were chosen as winners of this year's Rhode Island Innovation Fellowship.
The winners -- Dr. Lynn Taylor, an infectious diseases specialist at Miriam Hospital, and Adrienne Gagnon, executive director of Providence-based DownCity Design -- will each receive $300,000 over the next three years to implement their ideas.
A seven-member panel chaired by Rhode Island Foundation president and CEO Neil D. Steinberg selected Taylor and Gagnon from 183 proposals.
The fellowships are aimed at supporting innovative projects that will improve life in Rhode Island. They are funded by Providence philanthropists John and Letitia Carter.
Here are links to videos on the projects proposed by Taylor, Gagnon and the five other finalists for the fellowships: Lynae Brayboy; Laura Briggs, Domenico Pacifici and Jonathan Knowles; Al Dahlberg; Angela Jackson; and Leo Pollock.