NEWPORT — Blinking in brilliant sunshine and refreshed by a cool morning breeze, 658 students of Salve Regina University picked up their degrees Sunday from Jane Gerety, Salve president.
A large, white tent and the campus’s numerous leafy trees provided shade as the waters of Easton Bay glittered, and some of the thousands of relatives and friends of the graduates at the 64th annual commencement took time to explore Cliff Walk, which runs past the campus.
BRISTOL, R.I. — A total of 169 prospective lawyers donned robes Friday in graduating from Roger Williams University School of Law.
Judith S. Kaye, retired chief judge for the State of New York, delivered the commencement address. Kaye is known for her groundbreaking leadership of that state’s court system. During her tenure, she tackled contentious issues such as the rights of gay couples and the death penalty in her rulings. In addition, she instituted specialized courts focusing on drug addiction, mental health and domestic violence that have been modeled elsewhere.
PROVIDENCE – Every year, the Rhode Island School of Design graduates another batch of seniors from its film-animation-video Department.
Some of the alumni? Seth MacFarlane and Gus Van Sant to name a few.
Imagine being the bull in a bullfight, tormented by a matador.
That’s the perspective RISD senior Lynn Kim gives in her animated short “Toro”.
“There’s quite a bit of sensory overload that’s happening. And a lot of the film actually focuses quite a bit on that, what you perceive, what you might see as the bull, and what you might feel as the bull,” Kim said.
PROVIDENCE — The outpouring of support for Central Falls, the first city in state history to go through federal bankruptcy, has continued to blossom.
On Tuesday, urban studies and design students from the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University unveiled the “Central Falls Comprehensive Master Plan,” to transform the 1.3-square-mile urban landscape into a picturesque oasis dotted with scores of trees, bikeways and gardens.
The plans are so ambitious it’s hard to imagine that the state’s most densely populated city with 19,400 residents wouldn’t soon become a very different place.