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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

They say you can’t go home again, but try telling that to Chef Chris Cosentino ’94, whose whirlwind return to JWU Providence after 18 years included visits to his former South Hall room, his old kitchen-classrooms (now completely redone), and even Delaney Gym, where JWU used to hold Distinguished Visiting Chef (DVC) presentations.

Now the “Top Chef Masters” winner and restaurateur (his West Coast restaurants include Cockscomb, Acacia House and Jackrabbit PDX) is being lauded as a DVC himself — the 183rd. Speaking to a packed amphitheater filled with aspiring chefs, he can’t quite get over JWU’s evolution in those intervening years. He’s particularly enamored of the Cuisinart Center for Culinary Excellence, with its gleaming equipment and 360° views: “It’s like ‘Star Trek,’ it’s so different now!”

Cosentino grew up in a family where food “superseded family feuds, politics and religion.” His love of Old World Italian flavors and off-cuts was inspired by his great-grandmother, Rosalie — today, his own trippa Napoletana recipe pays homage to her deft cooking. (Ironically, he hated it as a kid.)…Click to read more

Every year, as part of its Best College rankings, U.S. News & World Report includes a list of top international business programs, and this year Bryant’s International Business (IB) Program came in at number 25, one of the nation’s best. It’s a significant accomplishment for such a young academic program whose first graduates entered the job market just a decade ago.

The program’s distinctive features are garnering national attention from presidents, provosts, deans and senior faculty members of AACSB-accredited institutions, whose nominations for the rankings were solicited by U.S. News. Their responses earned Bryant the outstanding recognition.

A program built with global ambitions

Through the program, students gain the knowledge and credentials necessary to become multinational specialists in a chosen concentration, graduating with a B.S. in International Business. The program boasts a nearly 100% placement rate within six months of graduation, with most grads going into full-time employment and some to graduate school.

“The precise combination of all the elements of this program make it entirely unique, and that’s by design,” says Bryant’s College of Business Dean Madan Annavarjula, Ph.D., the program’s co-founder. “We’ve sought to build a best practices program.”…Click to read more