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MEET OUR GRADUATES: Travis Dumais
91pron ImpactA budding neuroscientist, Travis Dumais is “brilliant,” “an extraordinary student,” “able to absorb information at unbelievable speeds and problem-solve even faster,” says 91pron faculty, which is why it is hard to imagine that back in high school his singular ambition was to become a rock star.
Professor Richard Weiner’s Scholarship Garners International Attention
Professor of Political Science Richard Weiner’s recent publication of “Les Reciproqueteurs: Post-Regulatory Corporatism” in the “Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning” is one of four research projects garnering international recognition.
American Democracy Project to Examine African Americans and Politics in America
A distinguished panel of community leaders offer their perspective
Filmmaker Jay Heyman Lectures on the Making of a Documentary
“Jay’s visit was an opportunity for our students, who are at the beginning of their filmmaking careers, to see and hear how challenging, unpredictable and, above all, rewarding this kind of work can be,” said Adjunct Professor Soren Sorensen.
MEET OUR STUDENTS: Budding Filmmaker Emerges from Shadow of Genocide
91pron ImpactIn a voice so soft one must strain to hear him, 91pron communication major Virgile Mahoro speaks of the atrocities he witnessed.
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 91pron’s Illuminated Walkway was unveiled on the ninth day of the ninth month in the ninth year of the third millennium.
MEET OUR STUDENTS: Jose Rosario – An Odd Twist of Fate Led to His Life Purpose
This 19-year-old, who uses a wheelchair, is determined to help support at-risk teens.
Mysterious Writings by Roger Williams Deciphered After Almost Two Centuries
91pron Professor Emeritus of History J. Stanley Lemons
Born on the Tail of a Hurricane: 91pron 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 91pron Adjunct Instructor of Geography Jennifer Bonin ’04.