Fall 2020

FEATURES

Our Plastic Problem

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Plastic. We depend on it. But it’s wreaking havoc on our environment. URI faculty, students, and alumni are working hard to turn the tide.

Activist History

The racial reckoning of 2020 reveals how much remains unresolved in the struggle for racial justice. We look back at URI’s history of student-led civil rights activism.

Adam and Bryan Seated at Bar

Brewing a Business

Adam Oliveri ’05 and Bryan Ferguson ’05 met as students at URI and their longstanding friendship became the foundation for a successful craft beverage business.

The Hunger Crisis

Hunger on campus and beyond isn’t a new problem, but COVID-19 has exacerbated the situation. URI faculty, staff, and alumni are helping to feed our community.

Keeper of Her Culture

Her Story
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Leah Hopkins ’20 is the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology’s first community engagement specialist. Teaching people about Indigenous history and culture isn’t just her job, it’s her mission.

CURRENTS

From the President

The Next Normal
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  • Ellen Reynolds Stay Calm and Know the Drill - At the center of URI's response to COVID-19 is Ellen Reynolds '91, assistant vice president of student health and wellness and the director of Health Services at URI.
  • Green open quotation mark You Can Quote Me - URI experts are quoted in the media frequently. Here are a few that bear repeating.
  • Cooper Monaco poses with the giant quahog he found last summer. Holy Moly! That’s a Big Quahog! - An 11-year-old finds a record- breaking quahog and donates it to URI’s Marine Science Research Facility.

APERTURE

Breathing Room

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Sculpture instructor Jon Laustsen’s recent work incorporates themes of life, breath, wind, death, and the creative process.

NETWORK

Blue Minds

Captain Zach Rollins ’19 teaches people how to love
the ocean through his podcast, Along the Keel.

Close Up

What’s for dinner? Bruce Moffett ’87, founding chef of four restaurants, has some ideas for you.

A pair of ivory-billed woodpeckers on a tree

Your Stories

Stephen Hopkins ’72 shares his tale of a class field trip to South Carolina that didn’t go quite as planned.

Holly Zimmermann, M.S. ’93 running in the desert during the Marathon des Sables distance race

Niche

There are extreme athletes and then there’s ultramarathon mom, Holly Zimmermann, M.S. ’93.

CAPTION THIS

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Do you have a funny idea for a caption for this photo from the URI Archives?

Winning Caption, Summer

Students propping themselves above the floor in a corridor using their hands and feet agains the walls

“This COVID-19 quarantine is driving us up the wall!!!”
Tom Mulvey, M.A. ’67

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EPILOGUE

Art of the Ocean

Eric Lutes ’91 is best known as an actor, but painting is his first love.

His Work
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