Tim Haitz, Talent Development Alumnus and May 2014 Graduate of URI’s Doctor of Physical Therapy Program, is featured on URI Today Website. URI physical therapy graduate grateful to clinical instructor for giving him back his life Timothy Haitz was 30 years old when he discovered that one of his legs was an inch shorter than the […]
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Member of the TD family featured as “Big Thinker”
Graduation Profile of Talent Development Family Memeber Charles Rushimisha On the sidelines of a poultry plant in 2005, a smug supervisor told Charles Rushimisha that he would be aligning chickens on a conveyor belt at minimum wage for the rest of his life. Newly arrived from Rwanda and barely speaking English, the young man took it as a […]
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If you look at Sylvia Bogusz’s resume, you might reach the conclusion that she is just another college over-achiever. But you’d just be getting a small part of her story. That’s because nowhere in the South Kingstown resident’s summary of academic and professional accomplishments does she list her triumphs over near-fatal injuries she suffered when […]
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The loss of both parents and economic disadvantage could have come between an engineering degree and Christopher Lionel Calderón. But inner drive and a vision for himself powered Calderón through Providence Public Schools and four years at the University of Rhode Island. “Everything is what you make of it,” Calderón says. “That’s the gift I […]
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Big Thinkers at URI. Talent Development Alumnus Ivan Brooks. In addition to being a featured student for Commencement 2013, Talent Development Student Ivan Books has been selected as a URI Big Thinker. Ivan Brooks ‘13 has sung in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Providence, and he is marketing his casual clothing line to young […]
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Commencement 2013 Student Profile of Talent Development Alumna Dianna Bonilla. Growing up in one of the toughest neighborhoods in Providence, Dianna Bonilla saw first hand how poverty can destroy families. But instead of fleeing that life, the 22-year-old senior at the University of Rhode Island has decided to embrace it by helping those less fortunate. […]
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Commencement 2012 Student Profile and Video of Talent Development Alumna Reudi Correia. Reudi Correia said she has always had “the caring gene,” and she proved it by taking care of her family in good times and bad while she was growing up. As a nursing student at the University of Rhode Island, she continued in that […]
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Commencement 2011 Student Profile of Talent Development Alumna Karolina Gaide. The University of Rhode Island’s International Business Program was the ideal opportunity for graduating senior Karolina Gaide to see the world and prepare for a career filled with international travel. “From the very beginning I knew I wanted international business and German,” said Gaide, 23, who […]
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Commencement 2011 Student Profile of Talent Development Alumnus Brandford Davis. Whether it is changing the culture of intolerance on campus, or the educational climate in his hometown of Providence, University of Rhode Island senior Brandford Davis is committed to improving life for everyone. The first in his family to graduate from a four-year university, Davis was […]
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Commencement 2010 Student Profile of Talent Development Alumnus Brandon Brown. Ask University of Rhode Island senior Brandon Brown what he sees when he thinks about his hometown of Central Falls, and his answer is direct. “When I think of Central Falls, the immediate thing that comes to mind is my future,” Brown said. “I made […]
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