Robert Neville, a Brown University student in his senior year who is developing a remote rehabilitation monitoring system for recovering cardiac patients, was named the winner last evening at the second annual statewide elevator pitch contest sponsored by the Rhode Island Business Plan Competition...

...Along with Neville, eight other presenters shared $1,000 in cash prizes. They included:

• Jesse Maddox, of Providence, who is developing a way for college students to buy text books cost-effectively and independently of campus bookstores.
• Maureen Wallbeoff, of Mansfield Center, Conn., who is creating a website to help connect divorced families or families in which children do not live with both parents.