Student Affairs

Student Affairs is that department in the College of Nursing that doesn’t teach any classes but really is the glue that holds the students and faculty together. Their primary mission is to keep all of the students in the College of Nursing on track to graduate. This includes not only undergraduates but also students working […]

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Meet Kai Younger

Keeping with the URI slogan “Think Big”, we give you Ms. Kai Younger. Kai is a senior but technically a junior in the College of Nursing at URI because of course requirements. It has taken her a while to get here but it has been a dream for her entire life. Kai is a little […]

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Samantha Ahmed ’14

  Hometown: Pawtucket, Rhode Island Samantha chose URI because it was close to home, but she’s fallen in love with her professors, who she says are the program’s biggest strength. “All the nursing faculty are very helpful and kind, they always want what’s best for you, and they expect you to work hard. They’re pretty […]

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Maura Coburn ’14

Hometown: Windham, New Hampshire Lots of little girls say the want to be a nurse when they grow up, but for Maura, it stuck. And she chose URI as the place to become a nurse because of its reputation and location near beaches and big cities and because “the campus had all of things I […]

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Morgan Deprey ’13

Hometown: Bristol, Connecticut Lots of options. That’s what appealed to Morgan about majoring in nursing. And sure enough, with her bachelor’s degree, she’ll be able to move into direct patient care, research, education, or pretty much any area she wants to. And because her mom has always worked in health care settings, she discovered long […]

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