{"id":109311,"date":"2026-06-02T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=109311"},"modified":"2026-06-15T15:19:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:19:49","slug":"conversations-with-uris-2026-honorary-degree-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2026\/06\/conversations-with-uris-2026-honorary-degree-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversations with URI\u2019s 2026 Honorary Degree Recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KINGSTON, R.I.\u2013June 2, 2026\u2013In this special University of Rhode Island feature, 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/uri-to-award-honorary-degrees-to-entrepreneurs-marc-randolph-and-dan-harple-and-anti-poverty-advocate-kate-brewster\/\">honorary degree recipients<\/a> Marc Randolph, Dan Harple, and Kate Brewster share personal reflections on receiving their honorary degrees, the momentum and impact of URI, and the advice they hope today\u2019s students carry forward. Hear from leaders in entrepreneurship, technology, and community advocacy as they discuss innovation, purpose, and creating meaningful change.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"oembed oembed-youtube-com\" style=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ueh0uRhtLAM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Conversations with URI\u2019s 2026 Honorary Degree Recipients\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ueh0uRhtLAM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I.\u2013June 2, 2026\u2013In this special University of Rhode Island feature, 2026 honorary degree recipients Marc Randolph, Dan Harple, and Kate Brewster share personal reflections on receiving their honorary degrees, the momentum and impact of URI, and the advice they hope today\u2019s students carry forward. Hear from leaders in entrepreneurship, technology, and community advocacy as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":109312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12,88,30,25,4,56,41,5,1914,127,1912,1915],"class_list":["post-109311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","tag-college-of-arts-and-sciences","tag-college-of-business","tag-college-of-education","tag-college-of-engineering","tag-college-of-health-sciences","tag-college-of-nursing","tag-college-of-pharmacy","tag-college-of-the-environment-and-life-sciences","tag-graduate","tag-graduate-school-of-oceanography","tag-special-events","tag-undergraduate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109311"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109318,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109311\/revisions\/109318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}