Bristol-Warren Patch
By Lucine Kozinian |May 11, 2011
Many students graduate from college without any real life experience, but that is not the case for Roger Williams University Public Relations students. Throughout the semester students in Dr. Amiee Shelton’s Public Relations Campaigns class scattered across Rhode Island gathering information.
01:00 AM EST on Sunday, February 6, 2011
By Linda Borg
Journal Staff Writer
The Providence Journal / Bob Breidenbach
WARWICK-Science geeks are cool. Girl geeks are even cooler.
Three all-female robotics teams competed in Saturday’s FIRST Tech challenge, which drew 300 high school students from 32 public and independent schools to the New England Tech Center for Automotive Technology.
I’ve never been colder in my life. My radiator spills its last few drops of anti-freeze onto the pavement and my engine sputters and spits. My van comes to a grinding halt. I peer into the back and see my dogs are staring at me and shivering. I can barely see their faces through their breath mist, but it’s obvious that they realize that we’re stuck. I notice that their water dish is frozen and jump in the back to thaw it by adding more water. I can’t feel my hands and I struggle with getting a grip on the lid of the bottle. I get it to pop and my numb hand flips back as it hits the metal handle of the door.
Oh Sweet Jesus it hurts! The tips of my fingers feel as if they’re vibrating. The back of my hand might as well have a flaming knife stuck in it. I want to cry, but all I can do is let out a low steady groan that gradually gets louder the harder I squeeze my hand. My dogs look concerned so I pull it together. This is my first impression of my new home. Welcome to freezing Rhode Island. “Well, we’re not in Denver anymore, boys,” is all I can think of to tell my dogs. Read the rest of this entry »
By PBN Staff
PROVIDENCE – A discovery made by an associate professor of art history at Providence College earned one of the spots on Archaeology Magazine’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2010.
Thomas F. Strasser’s 2008 and 2009 discovery of stone tools at two sites on the Greek island of Crete that date between 130,000 and 700,000 years old were hailed as the earliest indirect evidence of boating by early human ancestors (from the mainland to the island 40 miles out to sea). Read the rest of this entry »
01:00 AM EST on Sunday, November 28, 2010
By Bonnie Nickerson
A very exciting international design competition is under way in Providence to select a pedestrian bridge that will replace the Route 195 highway bridge spanning the Providence River. The bridge will be a path connecting Fox Point and College Hill to downtown, the Jewelry District and the emerging Knowledge District.
It will be a direct and seamless link creating a pedestrian and bike path from India Point Park through two new waterfront parks to be developed as part of the Iway relocation project into downtown and beyond. Read the rest of this entry »
CRANSTON — Many partnerships between colleges and elementary and secondary schools are “tinkering around the edges” of education, but have little or no impact on children’s achievement, says Brian McCadden, dean of the School of Professional Studies at Providence College.“We need to get into the school day,” he said.
“We need more of this kind of thing,” he said, describing one collaboration in which sophomore elementary-education majors were paired with teachers in the Newport public schools and worked under their supervision directly with children to improve their literacy and math skills.
McCadden participated in a policy summit Tuesday on maximizing the reach of educational resources, from pre-kindergarten through college, to close the achievement gap between what students learn and what they need to learn to enter the work force.
BRISTOL — Roger Williams University honored the memory of philanthropist and entrepreneur Luther H. Blount Monday with the dedication of renovated and expanded marine science facilities that will focus on the environment and the restoration and cultivation of shellfish and other aquatic creatures. Read the rest of this entry »
11/24/10 10:55AM
Cindy VanSchalkwyk
SEEKONK – One student who attended GRRL Tech on Friday was especially glad she got involved. Kate Farinha, a junior at Seekonk High School, won a full four year scholarship to Roger Williams University, the school which hosted the event. Read the rest of this entry »
Christy Nadalin
November 30, 2010
While a dedicated group of volunteers are taking on the gratifying work of decking the halls in the Linden Place Mansion, another group of volunteers have really been getting their hands dirty behind the scenes. Last Saturday, about a dozen members of the Roger Williams University Historic Preservation Society, under the direction of D. J. Sevigny and Duane Houghton, cleaned out the Linden Place barn. Read the rest of this entry »
November 23, 2010
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—An estimated 1,200 people in need will sit down for an early Thanksgiving dinner courtesy of Johnson and Wales University.
Tuesday’s annual event provides people who are homeless or otherwise in need with a Thanksgiving meal of roasted turkey, stuffing, gravy and all the fixings. Read the rest of this entry »
