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Big Thinkers Archive
Staci Renee Smith ’13
As a marine in Iraq, she'd come under fire, recoiled at the charred remains of blown-up trucks and watched in horror as artillery rounds secretly packed in a car trunk ...
Tags: biology, dentist, Iraq, senior profile
Cheryl Foster
What University of Rhode Island students have said for decades is now known worldwide: Professor Cheryl Foster is one of the most inspirational teachers. In March, the John F. Kennedy ...
Tags: honors program, inspirational teacher, philosophy, rhodes scholar, sholarship
Eden Kalyanapu ’13
When you hear the word entrepreneur, your first thought might be a business mogul like Richard Branson or Oprah Winfrey. But for Eden Kalyanapu, being an entrepreneur means starting a ...
Cherisa Friedlander ’08
Cherisa Friedlander '08 always knew her life would revolve around the water. She was a competitive swimmer growing up and competed on the URI team for four years. She majored ...
Tags: fisheries, marine biology, NOAA
Alyssa Neill ’14
Junior Alyssa Neill sees great value in knowing where food comes from and how it grows. She’s put her own knowledge to work co-founding the student group Slow Food URI, ...
Tags: dietetics, nutrition, Slow Food URI, truman scholar
Rob Cohen
Next generation filmmakers studying at the University are being taught by Rob Cohen, an award-winning writer, director, and producer who uses his lens to slip through time. From his studio in ...
Tags: Buchenwald, documentary, filmmaker, Holocaust, Jewish, survival, video
Mindy Levine
Chemistry Professor Mindy Levine grew up thinking she would become a physician like her father until she realized she didn’t want to diagnose and treat patients. Her big idea back then? ...
Jim Cafone ’88, M.S. ’90
When a Ministry of Health in Africa wanted to vaccinate thousands of children against meningitis, it was URI alumnus Jim Cafone '88, M.S. '90, who delivered the vaccines from manufacturing ...
Gabriella Cortes ’13
Senior Gabriella Cortes, 22, started her internship at the R.I. Coalition Against Domestic Violence on the same day a group of 15 women who’d survived abuse were starting to write ...
Tags: domestic violence, psychology, SOAR, women's studies
Scott Molloy
Professor of Labor and Industrial Relations Scott Molloy is an award-winning scholar, author and teacher who's well known and loved for telling his story of labor while teaching about labor ...
Tags: Irish heritage, Labor relations, revolution, unions, working class
Binfang Yan
Two health issues are ever-present in America. One is the seasonal flu and the other is being overweight. So when people see ads for medications that may fix these conditions, ...
Tags: biomedical, College of Pharmacy, DNA, drug interactions, genetics, immunology
Marie Ghazal ’77
A framed newspaper photo of her at the Jenks Park playground in Central Falls commemorates the moment Marie Ghazal’s big idea to improve lives was born. She was a nursing ...
Tags: nursing
Shirley Cherry M.L.S. ’75
Shirley Cherry M.L.S. '75 grew up poor in the segregated South, banned from attending school or walking into a library. On a 100-acre farm where peaches and cotton grew in ...
Tags: civil rights, Jr., library science, Martin Luther King, museum
Emma Kilbane ’13
How do you get kids excited about school when you don’t speak their language? You can start by singing popular Hannah Montana and Beyoncé songs with them, like Emma Kilbane ...
Marie Jenkins Schwartz
Have you seen the movie Lincoln? Do you think it tells the whole story? When Marie Jenkins Schwartz watched Lincoln, she kept a close eye on some of the most ...
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