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This entry was posted on March 15, 2010, filed under: Community, Featured. | There are No Comments. |

In support and recognition of the important relationship that exists between Roger Williams University and the Town of Bristol, the Town of Bristol/Roger Williams University Cooperative Committee is pleased to announce the solicitation of grant requests to be funded by the newly established Fund for Civic Activities (FCA). As part of the University’s voluntary agreement [...]

This entry was posted on March 15, 2010, filed under: Community, Featured, On Campus. | There are No Comments. |

August Strindberg’s classic modern drama about an aristocratic young woman and her father’s valet comes to Roger Williams University’s Performing Arts Center. Written in 1888 by Sweden’s “father of modern literature,” Strindberg treats sexuality and human struggle with a frank naturalism previously unknown in the theatre.
“Strindberg really explores a timeless message in “Miss Julie” by [...]

This entry was posted on March 11, 2010, filed under: Academic, Community, Featured. | There are No Comments. |

Graduate students seeking a master’s degree in teaching can now hone their skills by working side by side with seasoned educators at the Gordon School, a racially diverse, coeducational independent school in Rhode Island for students in nursery school through eighth grade. The Teacher Residency Program at the Gordon School - a collaborative project with [...]

This entry was posted on March 10, 2010, filed under: Academic, Community, Featured. | There are 1 Comments. |

Roger Williams University Health and Wellness Educator (HAWE), Hannah Freedman, was honored at the recent BACCHUS Network regional conference for her peer education efforts at RWU and the local community. Ms. Freedman received the BACCHUS Area 10 Outstanding Peer Educator Award on Feb. 27 at Suffolk University in Boston, Mass., the location of this year’s [...]

This entry was posted on March 5, 2010, filed under: Community, Featured, On Campus. | There are No Comments. |

More than 400 high school girls descended on the Roger Williams University campus today to participate in the ninth annual GRRL Tech Interactive Technology Expo. Presented by Tech Collective, the industry association for information technology and biotechnology in Rhode Island, GRRL Tech (Girls Reaching Remarkable Levels) offers female high school students an engaging look into [...]

This entry was posted on February 19, 2010, filed under: Academic, Community, Featured, On Campus. | There are 1 Comments. |

Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” is a Pulitzer Prize-winning look into racial prejudice in the American South and a modern U.S. literary classic. As the book marks its 50th anniversary this year, Roger Williams University is hosting a series of events to celebrate the acclaimed novel, culminating with a lecture next week by a [...]

This entry was posted on February 19, 2010, filed under: Academic, Community, Featured, On Campus. | There are No Comments. |

As part of its campus-wide response to the crisis in Haiti, Roger Williams University will host an art sale to benefit Haitian relief efforts. Community artists from across Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts, as well as artists from the RWU campus, have donated approximately 60 works of art that will be displayed and available for [...]

This entry was posted on February 18, 2010, filed under: Academic, Community, Featured. | There are 1 Comments. |

One of the most critically and commercially successful Latina writers of her time, Julia Alvarez, will visit Roger Williams University to share her keen insights and fresh observations of the Latino experience, past and present, in the United States.
Ms. Alvarez will visit the University as part of its Civil Discourse Distinguished Lecture Series on Thursday, [...]