Best of 2021 Best of 2021 (Re)discover our favorite homepage features of the year. A culture of inclusionFulbright scholar Meg Jones heads to Finland to research global approaches to LGBTQ+ inclusion in teacher education programs.Read Love the earthThe URI Coastal and Environmental Fellows Program involves undergraduates in addressing current environmental problems.Read A community at workTo those who make it happen, URI's Free Farmers' Market is a model of collaboration, an example of good karma, and a labor of love.Read Lessons in acting and lifeMasked and wearing a baseball cap, 2020 Tony Award-nominee for Best Actor Andrew Burnap '13 easily passes for the students he teaches. (In September 2021, Burnap was awarded the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.)Read Keeper of her cultureWhile still an undergraduate, Leah Hopkins ’20 became the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology’s first community engagement specialist. Her job: to create educational programming and raise the profile of Indigenous and tribal communities. Read Shark researchSenior Dario Castillo spent the last five months conducting research on sharks and stingrays as a National Geographic STEM field assistant.Read No limitsBrianna MacDonald, one of only four female graduates of URI’s computer engineering program in 2021, had a job in her field before she had a diploma in hand. But there's much more to her story.Read Student, veteran, dadSophomore Kaitlyn Salinas and her dad, Navy veteran Victor Salinas, a junior, regularly cross paths in front of Kirk Hall.Read Suited for spaceRachel Bellisle '18 struggles for the right words to describe the feeling of weightlessness. On a plane. In free fall. Intentionally.Read Called to serveThomas Bonneau’s preferred pace? Lightspeed. After earning a B.A. in biology in 2021, he began the one-year MBA at the College of Business and anticipates medical school after that.Read
