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Emily Serman: Investigating Global Climate Change at NASA

Emily Serman interned at NASA during four summers and became a key player in the agency’s climate change research.

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Emily Moorehead: Reducing workplace disasters

Emily Moorehead left her internship at FM Global with a bang. Literally. The chemical engineering student spent the summer of 2012 conducting explosions for the insurance company.

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Cody Swan: Rhode Island innovation, global advantage

Every week Cody Swan brings the classroom to the real world. The intern at Toray Plastics (America) has learned how the knowledge he learns from a lecture or in a book translates in the marketplace.

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Nathan Harris: Smart manufacturing keeps jobs onshore

To keep manufacturing alive and well in Rhode Island, plant managers need people like Nathan Harris.

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Kevin Danh: On the road training

Maintaining the safety of more than 600 bridges and 1,100 miles of roadway is no small task. Each year, University of Rhode Island engineering interns to assist in keeping the state’s traffic infrastructure safe.

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Eily Cournoyer: Winning the cancer battle

More children between the ages of 1 and 14 die from cancer than from any other disease. Eily Cournoyer is working to bring that number to zero.

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Brittany Alphonse: A passion for bettering lives

Biomedical engineering student Brittany Alphonse dreams of becoming a force for good.

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Marc Vigeant: Field work in Latin America

After years of planning, engineering student Marc Vigeant traveled hundreds of miles to help a Guatemalan school install its first wastewater treatment system.

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Colleen Grinham: Taking the worldview

One could say engineering senior Colleen Grinham holds high aspirations. She wants to save millions of people by engineering clean water solutions.

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Alissa McKechnie: A year in China sets her apart

Alissa McKechnie interned at Hasbro, studied in China and became a global engineer.

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