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MEET OUR GRADUATES: Shoi Parker
Rhode Island College ImpactShoi Parker traded a career in financial services for a career in healing.
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
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.
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.
Mysterious Writings by Roger Williams Deciphered After Almost Two Centuries
RIC Professor Emeritus of History J. Stanley Lemons
Born on the Tail of a Hurricane: RIC Adjunct Jennifer Bonin
“I was born during Hurricane Agnes, one of New England’s earliest land-falling hurricanes. It seems hurricanes have been following me ever since,” says RIC Adjunct Instructor of Geography Jennifer Bonin ’04.
MEET OUR STUDENTS: Joseph Sherry – Film Scholar
His research will be presented at a conference by the leading academic film and media studies organization in the country.
“Democracy in Disarray”: Peter Mendy Lectures in South Africa
Professor of History and Africana Studies Peter Mendy discusses why democracy in Africa remains largely elusive.