While the recent issue of RWU Magazine is still fresh on your desk – or coffee table – the publications team is hard at work planning the Fall 2013 issue. Our goal? To bring you the most compelling content possible. And what’s more compelling than you, our readers?
If you’ve ever wanted to see your name in print, a story in RWU Magazine is a great opportunity to share your work – personal or professional – your ideas and your passions.
No idea is too small. Think you (or someone you know) should be the subject of a Face to Face profile? Tell us why! Publish a fascinating research study recently? We’d love to hear about it. Can you play the xylophone with your toes? Quirky content works, too.
If you would want to read about it, we want to hear about it.
There are two simple ways to share your story idea with the RWU Magazine team:
“My wish is that you will use all means at your disposal … to ignite public support for a global network of marine protected areas, hope spots large enough to save and restore the ocean, the blue heart of the planet.”
—Sylvia Earle’s 2009 TED Prize Wish
Thanks to hard work, more than 6,000 hours logged underwater, and the poise that comes with having worked in just about every facet of ocean conservation, Sylvia Earle’s wish is gaining traction, one marine preserve at a time.
BRISTOL, R.I. -- On Saturday, May 18, another class of Roger Williams University students will cross the Commencement stage to receive their hard-earned degrees and officially become college graduates. Joining them will be honorary degree recipient and keynote speaker, John M. Barry, an historian and author whose recent book details the work of university namesake Roger Williams. A day earlier, preeminent civil rights attorney and founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center Morris Dees will address the RWU Law graduating class in a separate ceremony on the Bristol campus.
This year, both Commencement ceremonies will be livestreamed on the web for those unable to join us on campus. The ceremonies will only be streamed in real time, and an archived version of the events will be made available via YouTube at a later date. Click here to watch Commencement 2013.
Join fellow alumni for a fun-filled weekend featuring cocktails and a buffet by the bay with musical entertainment, a tour of the RWU Shellfish Hatchery, theatre alumni performance celebrating Professor Bill Grandgeorge's 80th birthday, a lobster bake, as well as tours of local sights like Newport Vineyard and shopping in waterfront Newport. Registration is required.
Join fellow alumni for a fun-filled weekend featuring cocktails and a buffet by the bay with musical entertainment, a tour of the RWU Shellfish Hatchery, theatre alumni performance celebrating Professor Bill Grandgeorge's 80th birthday, a lobster bake, as well as tours of local sights like Newport Vineyard and shopping in waterfront Newport. Registration is required.
Join fellow alumni for a fun-filled weekend featuring cocktails and a buffet by the bay with musical entertainment, a tour of the RWU Shellfish Hatchery, theatre alumni performance celebrating Professor Bill Grandgeorge's 80th birthday, a lobster bake, as well as tours of local sights like Newport Vineyard and shopping in waterfront Newport. Registration is required.
BRISTOL, R.I. – In one of the most successful fundraising events in university history, Roger Williams University raised $1.7 million during its 10th Annual Captain’s Cup Regatta this Saturday and unveiled plans for a new waterfront Sailing Center to be built on its Bristol campus.
The highlight of the evening came when Richard L. Bready ’08H, chairman of the University’s Board of Trustees, donated $1 million toward the project during a live fundraising auction conducted by Joseph M. Brito, Jr., a fellow Trustee. In a tent at the Herreshoff Marine Museum filled with 200 RWU sailing alumni, members of the current team, parents and community supporters, pandemonium erupted. Bready’s gift was quickly followed by a $500,000 pledge from a sailing family from Florida, then a $100,000 gift from an anonymous donor who arranged to have the pledged phoned into the auction. The series of seven- and six-figure gifts were followed by a large number of spontaneous smaller gifts. By the end of the evening, $1.7 million had been raised.
BRISTOL, R.I. -- Acts of violence invoke widespread fear and anger, and can paralyze the community upon which it is perpetrated. As recent world events have shown, even the most unassuming people prove themselves all too adept at wielding this darkness against others. But ask any proponent of the written and spoken word, and they are likely to agree that words are a much more powerful tool. Through language, we are able to shed light on injustices, to connect each other through a sense of shared humanity, to affect meaningful and courageous change and to redeem ourselves – reconciling the hurt inflicted by others, and create healing.
Enjoy fireworks over the bay, behind the Marine & Natural Sciences building. In the event of inclement wether, the fireworks will be rescheduled to Sunday night at 8:15 pm behind MNS.
BOSTON, MASS. -- With a creative writing and graphic design double major coupled with a post-grad certificate from Boston Startup School, Class of 2012 graduate Nicki Haylon had little trouble finding a job. She even got a cool job title: Minister of Creative Content.
Though Haylon planned to join the traditional publishing industry throughout four years at RWU, she quickly realized that her ideas and talents may be better valued – and sooner – at a smaller organization. At Libboo, a Boston-based startup that connects readers and authors by incentivizing book-sharing (like a book? Buzz about it and you’ll earn credits that could lead to prizes or free downloads) to encourage readers to promote undiscovered authors via channels they already use, such as Facebook and Twitter – Haylon manages the user experience, including designing the website, ads and marketing materials.
