Hitting the Streets: John Vaccaro ’12 on What Led Him to Working With the NYPD

Growing up in URI’s hometown of Kingston, Rhode Island, John Vaccaro ’12 opted to attend the university closest to home for that and many other reasons. “It was convenient with my father working there,” he says, “and of course there was the family legacy since my older siblings attended. But I wanted to go to […]

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“Ones and Zeroes”: URI Student Hunter Bastan on How Talent Development Brought Her Closer to Her Dreams

Her plan originally was to never go to college. Both indecisive and reluctant, Hunter Bastan looked towards a possible future in either beauty school or the Marines before ever considering getting a traditional college education. But one letter changed all of that for the Providence native. What Bastan found in her mailbox filled her with […]

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