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.

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

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.

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.