Bisola Omisore ’13
considered admission to three prestigious graduate programs before deciding to enroll at Northwestern University next year. Of Togolese and Nigerian parentage, he was born in the Bronx, N.Y., attended middle school in North Providence, and went on to boarding school in Lagos, Nigeria. A scholarship from the Ida & Chris DiCarlo Endowment at the URI Foundation helped him earn his bachelor’s in chemical engineering from URI. Under Professor Otto Gregory, Bisola was part of a research group that designed sensors for jet engines. Where does he see himself in ten years? Teaching college, and mentoring young people like himself through the National Society of Black Engineers. “Maybe I’ll teach in Africa,” he says. “There aren’t enough teachers there.”