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A new college campus can be an intimidating place. For many students, getting to know resources, academic rigor, student organizations, and campus layout is just as important as choosing which classes to take. 

Two years ago, these were the main concerns of incoming Providence College students Amie Mbye ’18 (Pawtucket, R.I.) and Jarely Paulino Diaz ’18 (Lawrence, Mass). But, after spending five weeks in the Friar Foundations Program (FFP), a summer bridge program intended to ease the transition from high school to college, they were poised to take on the school year.

This year, Mbye and Diaz each made it a priority to give back to the program by becoming resident assistants/mentors (RAMs) to 22 students in this summer’s FFP cohort – all members of the incoming Class of 2020. The program, which is supported by funding from The Angell Foundation and The Salah Foundation, invites accepted PC students who might benefit from a jumpstart to their college careers to campus. They take credit-bearing classes, attend skills-building workshops, participate in field trips, and get to know their fellow students and the campus.

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Last week, some of Rhode Island’s finest chefs convened at food-business incubator Hope & Main in Warren, RI, to explore ways to better utilize plentiful but less popular seafood species.

The 9 chefs — including JWU alumni Derek Wagner ’99 (Nicks on Broadway), Matt Varga ’05 (Gracie’s), Ben Mayhew ’10 (Garde de la Mer) and Aaron Thorpe ’01 (Cook & Dagger) — were given an hour and a half to sample, cook and experiment with new or relatively unfamiliar seafood.

The chefs were more than up to the challenge as they thoughtfully picked through the gleaming display of freshly-caught seafood, including butterfish, conger eel, fluke, sea robin, spiny dogfish, squid, skate and whelk (conch).

The end goal? To rehab the unfair reputation of these so-called “trash” or “bycatch” species, and expand their market here in the Ocean State.

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PROVIDENCE – Brown University ranked No. 12 on College Choice’s 2016 list of the 50 Best Master’s in Computer Science degree programs.

Master’s students within Brown’s program have a choice between a thesis, project or coursework only track.

College Choice’s rankings were based on cost of tuition, average salary of recent graduates and the school’s overall academic reputation. College websites, statistics and ranking websites provided this information. Brown’s total tuition is $50,224.

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A national jazz dance conference created by Lindsay Guarino, assistant professor in the Department of Music, Theatre and Dance, will be held on campus July 31-Aug. 3. “Jazz Dance: Roots and Branches in Practice,” is being co-hosted by the National Dance Education Organization, the largest dance organization in the country.

The conference will look at jazz dance broadly through movement workshops and conversations, inviting dialogue that connects the past, present and future of jazz.

“The conference is unique in that it is the first national jazz dance conference of its type, and it is exciting for me personally because it was inspired by my textbook that was published in early 2014,” Guarino said. “The conference is possibly one of the most important things I’ve done for the Salve Regina dance program. It’s helping me to give the program a unique identity in jazz dance – something very different from other dance programs across the country.”

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