Our students made us proud with their flexibility and resilience during the unprecedented, unexpected changes this past semester. We’re thrilled to introduce you to some of our amazing seniors! They’re a distinguished group—published scholars, seasoned performers, multilingual interns, national scholarship winners, double and triple majors—all ready for what’s next.
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Dawn French ‘93, a graduate of our journalism program, now works as Senior Vice President for Marketing, Communication and Community Relations at White Plains Hospital in White Plains, NY. “We have news updates coming in every day,” she says of her work during the COVID-19 pandemic, “and every day we have to synthesize them. It’s really the ability to take the same message and slice it in a specific way for each individual audience, which is something I first learned how to do at URI.”
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Two of our juniors have been selected for prestigious international affairs and public policy programs being held online this summer: Cierra Wornum, a political science and journalism major, and Timothy Berard, a political science and Africana studies major.
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One of Allegra Angell’s proudest accomplishments in her four years at the University of Rhode Island involved her honors project. She and another student created a video game to teach adolescents about unhealthy relationships using research on effective ways to teach young adults new concepts and different types of relationship abuse that they may encounter.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has already had a great effect on politics and this year’s election cycle. In part one of a two-part Q&A, two of our political science professors, Christopher Parker and Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, discuss future potential effects.
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From teaching music in Africa, to performing in a nonprofit choir in Boston, to starting a treble group that supports women in music, Elise Felker has explored her passion for music education in many ways.
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When our theatre season ended abruptly this semester because of the coronavirus pandemic, so too did Jeremy Chiang’s expected stage swansong. Chiang, who enjoys any excuse to sing, was to play the equally song-obsessed Prince Herbert in the season-ending musical, “Monty Python’s Spamalot.”
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Two of our freshmen majoring in international studies have been selected for prestigious scholarships to study foreign languages abroad this summer.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented event in modern society. It has prompted an unparalleled experiment on our families, societies, politics, and economy. URI social scientists have already begun to weigh in on current effects and future implications.
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For Mary Lind ’22 reporting for The Good Five Cent Cigar, URI’s student newspaper, COVID-19 has thrust her and her fellow staffers into campus history, as they spend the remaining weeks of their spring semester chronicling its effect on the university.
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While an undergraduate physics major, Torrie Sutherland ’20 researched radio astrophysics and created images of active galactic nuclei jets to study the polarization of the light that is being ejected from black holes. She was also the trombone section leader in URI’s Marching Band and twice performed in the Newport Jazz Festival.
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Our Social Science Institute for Research, Education, and Policy’s Public Policy Lab engages students and faculty in policy and program analysis and evaluation for government and community-based organizations in the state of Rhode Island.
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URI is welcoming two students and a teacher from the renowned Alpha Boys Institute in Kingston, Jamaica, as part of an exchange program that supports music education. The program is supported by March for Music Education, which encourages youth music education and social development through creativity.
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Associate Professor of History Rae Ferguson is intentional about involving her students in projects that require introspection. “I want my students to see themselves as part of a historical thread that’s always moving, always changing,” she says.
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Christian Harder ‘05 discusses how his B.A. in art from URI prepared him to become a professional lifestyle photographer.
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