Two College alumna were honored in fall 2017 with Distinguished Achievement Awards, which recognize those who personify URI’s tradition of excellence in achievement, leadership and service.

Claire Perlman ’73 is a philanthropist and volunteer, supporting organizations locally and across the globe. She worked at hospitals in New York City before returning to Rhode Island. She is a member the URI College of Nursing’s Advisory Council and the Board of Trustees of Boston Medical Center. Perlman participates in medical mission trips to Belize and Cambodia, working alongside ophthalmologist Michael Morley, and has supported the building of eight schools and the provision of clean drinking water through the nonprofit, Water for Cambodia.

Barbara Hazard ’60 (doctorate in ’74) has been a practicing nurse, teacher, dean, researcher, author, consultant… there isn’t much Hazard hasn’t done in the advancement of nursing. Hazard spent many years as a clinical nurse before transitioning to academia. She has taught at URI, Yale, the University of Pennsylvania and Boston College, where she was Dean of Nursing for 17 years. She has authored more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and is the author of “Statistical Methods for Health Care Research,” a text book used around the world to teach statistical analysis to students in the healthcare professions.