Month: November 2018

Bisnow Dives into the Ryan Center: Architecture That Evokes the Power of We

Earlier this month, the commercial real estate media group Bisnow and architectural firm SMMA came together to publish a piece about Providence College’s new home for its business school, the Arthur F. and Patricia Ryan Center for Business Studies. The building unites the east and west campuses and has become a destination for students of all majors when studying, grabbing a coffee, meeting up with friends, or going to class. It has become “the centerpiece of campus,” according to Bisnow.

 

 

 

 

 

Groups of PC students gather in the atrium of the Ryan Center to study, do homework, or just hang out.

After a design competition in which architectural firms submitted their ideas for the building, SMMA and principal John Scott were chosen to bring the College’s vision to life.

Scott’s ideas for the center called upon the concepts of crossroads and intersections and revolved heavily around wanting to unify new and old spaces. The back half of the Ryan Center is the old Dore Hall – a dorm building on campus that has not been in use in recent years. SMMA repurposed the building within a larger structure that now houses offices, classrooms, study spaces, a café, a finance lab, multiple computer labs, and large open spaces for students to gather. The firm wanted to bring “new life” to Dore Hall, according to Scott. And they did exactly that…Click to read more

Filmmaking in Between

from El General, an experimental historical documentary that earned Almada a best director award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival

Filmmaker Natalia Almada MFA 01 PH has earned valuable new support from Sundance to continue “working at the vanguard of inventive artistic practice in story, craft and form.” In October the Utah-based nonprofit announced that she is one of four filmmakers to be named 2018 Art of Nonfiction Fellows. The program provides “artists with a distinct voice and vision” unrestricted grants and year-long fellowship tracks tailored to their individual creative goals.

Almada, a native of Mexico and recipient of a 2012 MacArthur “genius” award, is known for making expressive films that combine deep personal reflection with critical social commentary. Her 2011 documentary El Velador (The Night Watchman) addresses the heartbreak of ongoing drug wars by focusing on a single worker at one of the rapidly growing cemeteries where Mexico’s most powerful drug lords are buried. Todo lo demás (Everything Else), her most recent film—and first narrative feature—presents a portrait of extreme isolation, “a low-key character study whose gently repetitive rhythms mask an unusually keen sense of nuance and subtlety,” as New York Timescritic Jeannette Catsoulis puts it.

Made while Almada was a MacArthur Fellow, the film follows the monotonous daily routine—ripe with rituals—of a 63-year-old government clerk in Mexico City named Doña Flor (played by Adriana Barraza), who exists largely removed from meaningful human contact…Click to read more

Not Defined By The Narrative

BRISTOL, R.I. – Moving to a new country has many inherent challenges; new customs, an unfamiliar language and a different community of people. What can often make these challenges even more difficult are the misconceptions and prejudices that dominate the media’s narrative and influence our perceptions.

A group of International Ambassadors at Roger Williams University are challenging those stereotypes with their short film “Not Defined By The Narrative,” which premiered on Monday as the first event of International Education Week.

“This video aims to reveal a different side of the story by interviewing insiders of nations around the world and capturing their reactions and perspectives to various stereotypes about their countries,” said Anne Sinclair Imondo, a junior Architecture major from Rwanda….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