TD Alumnus URI physical therapy graduate grateful to clinical instructor for giving him back his life

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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Commencement 2014: South Kingstown resident overcomes near-fatal injuries to earn degree from URI

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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Commencement 2014: URI senior earns engineering degree in spite of obstacles

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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Talent Development Student Ivan Brooks ’13 Featured as a URI Big Thinker

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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Talent Development junior wins prestigious Fulbright to study for summer in England

Talent Development Student, Alyssa Mason, is URI’s first-ever participant in the Fulbright UK Summer Institute. In a few weeks, Alyssa Mason will board a plane and fly to England to spend a month at a university polishing her writing skills. Oh, and she might eat some shepherd’s pie, too. The trip is a dream come […]

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Commencement 2013: URI senior finds joy in helping those less fortunate

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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A Peaceful Exchange in Nepal

From Summer 2012 URI Alumni Magazine Quadangles. Talent Development Students Mecca Smith and Mallory Stedman are featured in an article about the Alternative Spring Break sponsored by the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies. Mallory Stedman carefully packed a medicine bag with a sacred feather when she traveled to Nepal this March. The bag, blessed by […]

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