“I believe that URI has provided me with role models who have been immensely influential in the time I’ve spent here so far. These people push me to do as much as I can, and I know it will be beneficial in obtaining the dreams I have for myself,” Levenson ’21 says.
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Joëlle Rollo-Koster, a history professor at the University of Rhode Island, is heading an international team of scholars that is creating a landmark work on the history of the papacy commissioned by Cambridge University Press.
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Thanks to a seed grant awarded by the Infosys Foundation USA, URI’s Graduate School of Library and Information Studies is collaborating with the national FamilyCodeNight.org initiative to bring family coding events to several diverse Rhode Island communities through public libraries.
Continue reading "URI brings Family Code Nights to Rhode Island families"In October, seven A&S alumni returned to campus to facilitate a career workshop for students. Thanks to Elizabeth Berman ‘09, Michele Caprio ‘90, Jim Ferrara ‘89, Tonya Glantz ‘90, Jason Kirkpatrick ‘92, Caitlin O’Donnell ‘10, Kathleen P. O’Donnell-White ‘90, thirty students spent 90-minutes gaining advice on interviewing, resume building, finding that first job, discovering internships, […]
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Growing up in New Hampshire, Megan “Meg” Hamblen had countless opportunities to explore her love for the stage. At first only a hobby, Hamblen quickly acquired a liking for the theatrical arts when she started working as a stage manager at a local theater company. She loved the atmosphere, and she knew that theatre was […]
Continue reading "Meg Hamblen, ’19, dreams of a more arts-accessible future"Hundreds of forensic science experts have come to the Kingston Campus to discuss everything from crime scene investigation to evidence analysis to such famous cases as the O.J. Simpson trial, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist and the investigation into the Boston Strangler.
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“Getting to work in Cyprus, at an archeological site, alongside dedicated and passionate professional archeologists and art historians from all over the world was a truly unique and amazing experience,” said Kira Wencek, ’19, who is spending her senior year studying at Kochi University in Japan, in an email.
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“Since we started the company in 2014, we have established a well rounded network of veterans service organizations to help them feel human following their transition back to civilian life,” said Alexa Modero, ’14, a native of Randolph, New Jersey.
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Phil Pasco decided to attend URI for three reasons: family history, cost, and Landscape Architecture. Though the first two might sound common, as Pasco is one of many with a grandfather who attended URI and opted to enroll at Little Rhody over Roger Williams based on tuition, one might not expect Landscape Architecture to be […]
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Participating in a dig in Cyprus, cleaning, analyzing, and sorting Byzantine-era mosaics. Getting research published in a premier Chemistry journal. Creating and performing a piece of theatre with 15-18 year-olds to discuss issues of crime, violence, and sexual assault in their communities. These opportunities were among those afforded to twelve undergraduate students through the inaugural […]
Continue reading "Arts and Sciences Fellows Program: A Summer Opportunity for Growth"This year, several Arts and Sciences students won prestigious, competitive national scholarships: the Boren, Truman, and Fulbright. Chase Hall ‘19, double major in Political Science and Chinese and minor in Theatre, was awarded $20,000 through a Boren Scholarship to subsidize the cost of the Chinese Flagship Capstone Year at Nanjing University. One of the most […]
Continue reading "Arts and Sciences Student Achievement Leading to New Opportunities"An internship and other forms of experiential learning can provide an invaluable complement to the classic liberal arts education. In the Harrington School of Communication and Media at the University of Rhode Island, students are strongly encouraged to do at least one internship or to engage in hands-on experiential learning opportunities, from partnering with a […]
Continue reading "Harrington Mentoring Program Prepares Students for Professional World"Arabic, a language spoken by about 420 million people in the world, was not even a thought in Evan Cummiskey’s head when he first started thinking about college. A native of Warwick, RI, Cummiskey chose URI in part, like many before him, because of the price tag. With a tuition limit that kept him from […]
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The University of Rhode Island and Wheaton College, as well as eight additional colleges and universities from across New England, announced they had formed a collaborative group known as the New England Humanities Consortium.
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