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Professor Richard Weiner’s Scholarship Garners International Attention
Professor of Political Science Richard Weiner’s recent publication of “Les Reciproqueteurs: Post-Regulatory Corporatism” in the “Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning” is one of four research projects garnering international recognition.
American Democracy Project to Examine African Americans and Politics in America
A distinguished panel of community leaders offer their perspective
The Power of the Hip Wine
“Imagine a Trinidadian carnival full of vibrant colors, costumes, drumbeats, whistles and horns. Imagine the smells, the sweat rolling down your back, the call and response.”
Filmmaker Jay Heyman Lectures on the Making of a Documentary
“Jay’s visit was an opportunity for our students, who are at the beginning of their filmmaking careers, to see and hear how challenging, unpredictable and, above all, rewarding this kind of work can be,” said Adjunct Professor Soren Sorensen.
Exclusive Interview: Viola Davis talks about her life and her new film
“Every time I’ve seen Davis, she has created a character so real that, for a few seconds at least, she stops the movie in its tracks.” – Charles Taylor, Salon.com
MEET OUR STUDENTS: Budding Filmmaker Emerges from Shadow of Genocide
Rhode Island College ImpactIn a voice so soft one must strain to hear him, RIC communication major Virgile Mahoro speaks of the atrocities he witnessed.
Segregation is Back in America’s Public Schools
On November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges integrated the William Frantz Public School. In retaliation, white parents withdrew their children and Bridges’s father was fired from his job. Ruby completed the first grade alone. Ruby’s walk to school the first day, escorted by U.S. Marshals, inspired the 1964 Norman Rockwell painting “The Problem We All Live With.”
The Illuminated Walkway, a Sixth-Century Mystic and the Number Nine
Pythagoras, Greek mystic, mathematician and “father of numerology,” would raise an interested eyebrow if he knew that RIC’s Illuminated Walkway was unveiled on the ninth day of the ninth month in the ninth year of the third millennium.
RIC Hosts 2014 STEM Career Expo for Girls
In a workshop titled “Learning to Make Things Fly,” students received a quick lesson in physics and built their own catapult.
MEET OUR STUDENTS: Jose Rosario – An Odd Twist of Fate Led to His Life Purpose
This 19-year-old, who uses a wheelchair, is determined to help support at-risk teens.