RWU Magazine

RWU’s Extension School and School of Law provide critical educational programming and legal services for the justice-impacted community.

Meko Lincoln has had a transformational experience through education, earning his first credentials while incarcerated for a 17-year sentence through the Extension School's Prison Correspondence Program. He then pursued an associate, bachelor's, and master's degree from RWU EXT, opening the door to a career in helping the justice-impacted community.

With state-of-the-art facilities on the shores of Narragansett Bay, expert faculty leading cutting-edge research, and plenty of opportunities for hands-on learning in the classroom and out in the field, the Marine Biology program at Roger Williams University has been making waves since its founding in 1974.

For the past five decades, the program has grown from a full-time faculty of four to 18 leading faculty experts, with expanded curricular and research opportunities for undergraduate students. Here, Brian Wysor, Interim Dean of the Feinstein School of Social and Natural Sciences and former longtime Marine Biology chair, discusses the program’s 50-year evolution and what makes it a splashing success.

All year round, Michael Melton, Yeaton Professor of Finance and Director of RWU’s Center for Advanced Financial Education (CAFE), fields calls from companies like the New York Stock Exchange, Morgan Stanley, MJX, Gabelli Funds, Interactive Brokers, BlackRock, and plenty more. What do they have in common?

They all want to hire CAFE graduates.

Launched in the fall of 2004, Melton built CAFE for the Mario J. Gabelli School of Business with the aim of creating a distinctive Portfolio Management Program that provides a real-world, industry-oriented education different from any other school in the nation.

With nearly 50 years of training leading practitioners, the Cummings School of Architecture is harnessing its alumni to take the school to the next level.

During his studies, Joseph D’Oria was set on his career path by an internship through the architecture school, and now he is paying that back through a growing initiative of distinguished alumni returning to the Cummings School of Architecture to prepare students for careers in the built environment.

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