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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, wants to help support at-risk teens.
RIC Student Meets the President of the United States
“It was an honor to share my story with President Obama earlier today and now it is my pleasure to introduce him,” says Lisbeth Avalos
Meet Our Students: Camden O’Brien Interns in Austria
The Salzburg Global Seminar in Austria is not simply another study abroad program. More than 70 international students gathered to change the world.
MEET OUR STUDENTS: Nicholas DeLuca, Army ROTC Cadet
RIC students normally travel overseas via study abroad, but Nicholas DeLuca crossed continents by another route – ROTC (the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps).
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.