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Paige Dellerman ’16

Student Paige Dellerman is bringing clean water to poor communities throughout the world, thanks to a bangle she designed for Alex and Ani.

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Court a Winner

It’s a great time to be a URI basketball fan, thanks to two visionary coaches—Dan Hurley and Daynia La-Force.

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#MakeYourGreenCount

An energetic and caring group of URI students are teaming up with a local nonprofit to raise money to fight the childhood malnutrition crisis.

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Advance Healing, Naturally

Alex and Ani founder's $1 million gift to support natural products research, the discovery of plant-based molecules to improve human well-being.

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Lynne Corry ’95

Lynne Corry, RI Women's Prison deputy warden, credits the support and inspiration she received from URI's Talent Development Program.

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Sara Stevens Nerone ’90, ’95

URI grad is founder of the Rock-Paper-Scissors Children’s Fund, a nonprofit that provides art and music programs, as well as bikes, to children in Vietnam.

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Get your Feet Wet

At URI, students can receive training in nearly every possible level of scuba diving—including scientific diving, making underwater research possible.

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Ivy Burns ’16

Ivy Burns never thought she 'd be excited about seaweed. After eight months studying the marine algae, she can’t get enough of it.

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Experience Cuba

The old Chevys were charming, the Museum of the Revolution moving, but playing pickup baseball with a bunch of 10-year-olds is the memory that sticks.

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Jorge Elorza ’98

“We limit ourselves by being afraid to fail," says the Providence mayor, a URI grad. "Failing positions you to be more successful.”

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Design. Create. Learn.

Landscape architecture students to design a two-and-a-half acre municipal park and parking lot in Westerly—a real project with a real client.

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Roderick Mather

Rod Mather, perhaps best known for his studies of shipwrecks around the world, has a growing reputation in the emerging discipline of applied history.

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Make History

For a student who grew up on a farm, a life exploring undersea shipwrecks and poring over archival documents and maps in Europe might seem impossible.

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Keith Niko Freeman ’16

Keith Niko Freeman, president of the Native American Student Organization, wants the URI community to be more aware of Native American culture.

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Apply the Laws of Physics

So, what is medical physics? In short, medical physics is the application of physics concepts to medicine. And right now the profession is booming.

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Amy Battocletti ’13

When as a young girl, Amy Battocletti learned that wildlife populations were declining and species were becoming extinct, she felt a personal calling.

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Joy Emery

When we hear the word "patterns," we think of repeating shapes. For Professor Emerita Joy Emery, patterns mean Butterick, Simplicity or McCall’s.

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Turn Up the Volume

Maybe you're a DJ at heart with eclectic musical tastes—or you love everything about sports and dream about a career in play-by-play work.

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