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Jane Williams, Visionary Leader and Founding Dean of the School of Nursing, Retires

RIC President Frank D. Sánchez and Dean Jane Bodine Williams at her retirement reception.

2018 CRCA Spring Expo: Student Research Projects Probe Unmapped Territory

Rhode Island College Impact

A myriad of dynamic undergraduate research projects awaited visitors at the Murray Center on April 23. RIC’s annual Spring Expo of Research and Creative Activity Poster Session display​ed more than 160 faculty-mentored student research projects​, some of which shed light on​ data that had​ been overlooked for centuries. 

Campus-Wide Safe Zone Trainings Promote Inclusive Excellence

Safe Zone is a campus-wide training program designed to create a nonjudgmental, safe, welcoming and inclusive environment for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) community.

SHARKS!

In a First Year Seminar, RIC freshmen discover the fascinating life of sharks.

Necessity Became the Mother of Invention for Math App Inventor Roberto Campusano

“Like most discoveries in life, I stumbled upon this as I was pursuing something else,” says Roberto Campusano ’95.

Active Learning in Action at RIC

The initial assumption by many psych majors is that if they enroll in a Research Methods course ​they’re signing up for a semester of boredom. Not in Marcotte's courses.

Holocaust Survivor Talks About the Power of Forgiveness

A crowd of more than​ 1,000 came to hear Eva Kor’s address at Rhode Island College.

Enter Reilly’s Matrix, Where Memory and Reality Collide

“Have you ever ha​d a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you weren’t able to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the real world and the dream world?” — “The Matrix”​​​

Daughter of Slain Activist Malcolm X Addressed Young Leaders of Tomorrow

“In 1965 my mother witnessed the political assassination of her husband. She placed her entire body over my sister and me to protect us from the gunfire and to make sure we did not see.”