Story in the Public Square to receive inaugural history award

Story in the Public Square, a program of Salve Regina’s Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, will receive the Newport Historical Society’s inaugural History Starts Here Award, offered to an individual or organization who is making history now, or making opportunities for thinking about how history is important to today.

Hosted by Jim Ludes, executive director of the Pell Center, and G. Wayne Miller, senior staff writer at the Providence Journal, Story in the Public Square features interviews with print, screen, music and other storytellers about their creative processes and how their stories impact public understanding and policy. The program is available on more than 200 public television stations across the country as well as SiriusXM satellite radio’s P.O.T.U.S channel.

The History Starts Here Award builds on the historical society’s interest in how historical perspectives help us think about the present and improve the future. “Storytelling is an essential component of history, and especially of public history,” said Ruth Taylor, executive director of the historical society. “By focusing on how story impacts understanding and discourse today, Jim and Wayne are making history, and using the techniques of historical discipline to capture important work in a variety of fields.”…Read more

Sister Jane to receive honorary degree during 69th Commencement

President Jane Gerety, RSM, who is retiring in June after 10 years at the helm, will be awarded an honorary doctorate and will offer her reflections when the University community gathers on Sunday, May 19 to celebrate its 69th Commencement. Sister Jane’s longtime friend, U.S. Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), will present the honorary degree citation, after which he will offer remarks to the University’s graduating Class of 2019.

Sister Jane joined Salve Regina’s board of trustees in 1995 and, among her leadership efforts to advance the institution, chaired its committee to rewrite the University’s mission statement re-affirming its mercy mission and Catholic intellectual tradition. Inaugurated as Salve’s seventh president in 2009, she worked tirelessly during her tenure to introduce several new academic programs, expand student scholarships, and oversee a major renovation to the University’s flagship academic building. But first and foremost, Sister Jane was known across the University community as a student’s president.

“I’ve loved being part of the spirit of Salve, which I really think is imbued with mercy,” she said. “I hope I’ve helped to cultivate that spirit.” When she announced her retirement, she told students: “You have changed in your time at Salve and so have I. Looking forward, we all share a bit of fear for the unknown and also hope for the excitement that is to come.”…Read More

Marcoux and colleagues receive Patty Jo Watson Award

Dr. Jon Marcoux, associate professor and coordinator of the Noreen Stonor Drexel Cultural and Historic Preservation Program, has received the Southwestern Archaeological Conference’s Patty Jo Watson Award for best article or book chapter on southeastern archaeology.

“A Seventeenth-Century Trade Gun and Associated Collections From Pine Island, Alabama” was published in the 2017 issue of Southeastern Archaeology. Co-authored by Marvin Smith from Valdosta State University, Erin Grendell from Yale Peabody Museum and Gregory Waselkov from the University of South Alabama, the article was selected from a pool of 22 nominations.

“My colleagues and I are honored to receive this award,” Marcoux said. “The goal of this project was to work with the Yale Peabody Museum and Native American groups to help repatriate burial goods. It is particularly satisfying to know that our research helped return these sacred objects to their rightful place.”…Click to Read More

Seven Salve Regina grads awarded 2018 Wavemaker Fellowships

Seven recent Salve Regina alumni who are working as young professionals at Rhode Island-based companies have been selected as 2018 Wavemaker Fellowship recipients. The program provides tax credits up to $6,000 each year for up to four years to help graduates pay off their student loans.

To qualify for the program, a Rhode Island Commerce Corporation initiative established in 2016 to keep talent in the state, graduates with higher education loan debt must be employed or have an offer for employment in a STEM or design field with a Rhode Island-based company, nonprofit or university.

Eligible fields include life, natural or environmental sciences; computer, information or software technology; advanced mathematics or finance; engineering; industrial design or commercial design; and medicine or medical device technology.

Salve Regina graduates selected to join the 2018 Wavemaker Fellows cohort of 240 young professionals include: Kaitlin Bove (DiSanto, Priest & Co.), Kathleen Gamez (Lifespan), Kaylee Miller (Bradford Soap Works), Alicia Morgan (Applied Behavioral Interventions PLLC), Shane O’Connell (Sea Corp), Kenia Richards (The Providence Center) and Sydney Robinson (Corrigan Financial Inc.)…Click to read more