Talent Development Nursing Student Rodney Confident is featured on URI Today.
Advocates for new Chemistry Building.
University of Rhode Island nursing student Rodney Confident of Providence knows that without a solid foundation in chemistry, which is required of all nursing students at URI, he and his classmates would be less able to understand how the body reacts to medicine, the bio-chemical reactions produced by certain diseases and even allergic reactions.
But he said URI students and faculty in health care disciplines are at a crossroads. All rely heavily on chemistry as a foundation in their specific fields, and need expanded spaces and contemporary equipment. Without them, Rhode Island will be ill equipped to respond to the expanding and ever changing health care environment.
That’s why Confident, his fellow nursing students and thousands of others who rely on chemistry courses to complete their majors, are stressing the importance of bond referendum 2, which asks voters to approve $78 million for higher education, $61 million of that total for a modern chemistry building at URI.