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Jim Cafone '88, M.S. '90

When a Ministry of Health in Africa wanted to vaccinate thousands of children against meningitis, it was URI alumnus Jim Cafone ’88, M.S. ’90, who delivered the vaccines from manufacturing plants thousands of miles away. Cafone is vice president of supply network services at pharmaceutical powerhouse Pfizer and leads a global logistics network that spans […]

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Gabriella Cortes '13

Senior Gabriella Cortes, 22, started her internship at the R.I. Coalition Against Domestic Violence on the same day a group of 15 women who’d survived abuse were starting to write a script. Representing many ethnicities and ages, the women of the task force SOAR, Sisters Overcoming Abusive Relationships, had been journaling about their experiences. Now […]

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Scott Molloy

Professor of Labor and Industrial Relations Scott Molloy is an award-winning scholar, author and teacher who’s well known and loved for telling his story of labor while teaching about labor history. His story goes like this: Encouraged by his father, a Providence cop, and his mother, a Providence schoolteacher, he earned his bachelor’s degree from […]

Flight-o-plankton

Awaiting history

Binfang Yan

Two health issues are ever-present in America. One is the seasonal flu and the other is being overweight. So when people see ads for medications that may fix these conditions, many will head to the doctor and then the nearest pharmacy. They figure “this should be fine for me or it wouldn’t be on the […]

Marie Ghazal '77

A framed newspaper photo of her at the Jenks Park playground in Central Falls commemorates the moment Marie Ghazal’s big idea to improve lives was born. She was a nursing student at URI then, showing children how a stethoscope works on Health Day. As the daughter of working class, immigrant parents, the indelible memory of […]

Giving them pearls of hope in an oyster harvest

Learn to teach by, well, teaching.

Shirley Cherry M.L.S. '75

Shirley Cherry M.L.S. ’75 grew up poor in the segregated South, banned from attending school or walking into a library. On a 100-acre farm where peaches and cotton grew in the Alabama heat, Shirley’s grandmother operated a school and library for the children. “The library was a hallway with six feet of books and that […]

Emma Kilbane '13

How do you get kids excited about school when you don’t speak their language? You can start by singing popular Hannah Montana and Beyoncé songs with them, like Emma Kilbane did. While teaching English at a township school in South Africa, she often started her one-on-one lessons with sing-alongs to make the kids comfortable. She’s […]

Repair. Reuse. Recycle. Rethink the manufacturing of goods.

Celebrate our heritage.

Marie Jenkins Schwartz

Have you seen the movie Lincoln? Do you think it tells the whole story? When Marie Jenkins Schwartz watched Lincoln, she kept a close eye on some of the most important characters – the First Lady, Mary, and the slaves. The URI professor of history has spent years studying the ins and outs of slavery […]

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Justin Resendes '13

As a boy, University of Rhode Island senior Justin Resendes dreamed of playing professional soccer, and as an all-state honoree and captain of his high school team, he seemed well on his way to achieving his goal. Now his big idea is coaching in Major League Soccer. Justin’s path changed at URI, where his studies […]