URI Press Release from October 1999. One Recipient of these awards was Talent Development Student Babatunde Ologun.

URI student Babatunde Ologun of Pawtucket worked all summer but faced a harsh reality in its waning weeks-he was coming up short for school expenses. The sophomore, who wants to be a doctor, recalled worrying about what he was going to do.

Then the phone rang. Dr. Stan Cobb, chair of URI’s Biological Sciences Department, was on the line telling Ologun he was selected to receive a Brett Santoro Memorial scholarship.

Professor Cobb made five other calls that day to bright and financially needy students studying biological sciences to tell them they also were chosen to receive a scholarship.

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