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Roger Williams University

2019

FEINSTEIN SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES

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Rwu Hosts 250 Fourth-Graders For Lesson On Wind Energy, Edward Fitzpatrick, Courtney Dell'agnese Apr 2019

Rwu Hosts 250 Fourth-Graders For Lesson On Wind Energy, Edward Fitzpatrick, Courtney Dell'agnese

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Nearly 250 fourth-graders from the Bristol-Warren Regional School District built wind turbines as part of the KidWind project and came to Roger Williams University on Friday to test their pint-sized turbines in wind tunnels.


Faculty Lead Classroom Equity Initiatives Across Campus, Julia Rubin Apr 2019

Faculty Lead Classroom Equity Initiatives Across Campus, Julia Rubin

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For the last 400 years that higher education institutions have existed in North America, they have mainly served white men. Even after they started to accept women and people of color – for most that occurred just within the last century – the curriculum, teaching practices and faculty of many institutions still reflect this history.


Rwu Visual Arts Senior Exhibition Coming To Bristol Art Museum, Edward Fitzpatrick Mar 2019

Rwu Visual Arts Senior Exhibition Coming To Bristol Art Museum, Edward Fitzpatrick

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Roger Williams University Visual Arts senior majors and minors will exhibit their work in the light-filled spaces in the Bristol Art Museum’s galleries in May 2019.


A Conversation With Filmmaker Mike Formanski `12, Julia Rubin Mar 2019

A Conversation With Filmmaker Mike Formanski `12, Julia Rubin

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This February, Mike Formanski `12 returned to the place where he first discovered the magic of filmmaking.


How To Build A Wind Turbine: Introducing Fourth Graders To Engineering In Kidwind Project, Courtney Dell'agnese Mar 2019

How To Build A Wind Turbine: Introducing Fourth Graders To Engineering In Kidwind Project, Courtney Dell'agnese

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With colored construction paper, Styrofoam cups, coffee filters, cereal boxes, empty toilet paper rolls, and straws splayed across the desks, Mrs. McCanna’s fourth grade classroom filled with excited chatter as her students constructed small-scale wind turbines from recycled materials with the help and guidance from some of RWU’s engineering and education majors.


In Children’S Literature Course, Students Of All Majors Learn Unexpected Skills For The Future, Julia Rubin Feb 2019

In Children’S Literature Course, Students Of All Majors Learn Unexpected Skills For The Future, Julia Rubin

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The education curriculum lab is a sea of colorful construction paper, glue sticks, scissors, and students reliving childhood memories of arts and crafts. At their tables, they cut out shapes and paste them onto poster board. Some work in groups, planning out their designs together, like senior marketing majors Justin Mills and Ryan Stefens.


Artist In Residence Raphael Xavier Inspires Rwu Dance Students, Kindell Brown, Julia Rubin Feb 2019

Artist In Residence Raphael Xavier Inspires Rwu Dance Students, Kindell Brown, Julia Rubin

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In the basement of the performing arts barn, music blasted. Sneakers tapped against the wooden floor and then kicked the air. Arms lifted and glided. Fingers snapped.


More Than A Superhero Movie: In Wakanda Forever Course, Students Unpack Marvel's 'Black Panther', Kindell Brown Feb 2019

More Than A Superhero Movie: In Wakanda Forever Course, Students Unpack Marvel's 'Black Panther', Kindell Brown

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Roger Williams University Assistant Professor of American Studies Aaron C. Allen clearly remembers when Black Panther came to theaters last February and he went to go see it with a group of friends.


Exploring Vonnegut And “Slaughterhouse-Five”, Jill Rodrigues Feb 2019

Exploring Vonnegut And “Slaughterhouse-Five”, Jill Rodrigues

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The Birss Memorial Program at RWU celebrates Kurt Vonnegut’s famous anti-war novel with a series of events open to the public.


Rwu To Host Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Training On Feb 9, Julia Rubin Jan 2019

Rwu To Host Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Training On Feb 9, Julia Rubin

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On Saturday, Feb 9, Roger Williams University will host a nonviolent civil disobedience training to provide community members with tangible tools for dissent.


In The Roger Seminar, First Year Rwu Students React To The Past, Kindell Brown, Justin Wilder, Julia Rubin Jan 2019

In The Roger Seminar, First Year Rwu Students React To The Past, Kindell Brown, Justin Wilder, Julia Rubin

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A fisherman with a giant sea turtle, an elderly gentleman with a cane, and a pastor walk into a church.