Construction Management

Now that the academic year is coming to an end, it is time to reflect on all of the activities that took place in the construction management program. It was indeed a spectacular year - three top awards in the regional competition, and one award at the national competition.

Two of our students were recognized and awarded scholarships last month at the annual luncheon meeting of the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) - New England Chapter.

On May 7, our seniors presented their construction management capstone project before a panel of 6 external judges drawn from the industry and the public sector. Judges comments reflected a high degree of excellence and professionalism displayed by the students during the presentations.

It is because of these accomplishments that the CM program at Roger Williams University’s School of Engineering, Computing and Construction Management continues to attract students with keen interest in the construction management field.

Professor Ilyas Bhatti

Dr. Maling Ebrahimpour

Dear Accepted Students,

Today, I want to write about why RWU is a great place to be and why you should plan to join us. 

RWU is a very student friendly environment.  People here really care about students and they do their best to assure students receive a quality education while live in a very safe environment. 

Our campus is one most beautiful campuses in USA and you have to see it to believe it.  Most importantly it is the faculty of the university that makes this place the best.  Professors are really student centered and they do their best to make sure students learn and get a very good education.  This is a small university which means classrooms are small in terms of number of students and faculty and students get a chance to know each other well.  Faculty always welcome students to their offices and do their best to help them if students need help.  Staff are particularly caring.  They know you as student are the potential future leader whether you are business students, political sciences, psychology, languages, or whatever you major might be.  You are the most important in our university.  For all these reason, I think our school is a great and wise choice and you should join us.

Please email Mr. Wes Roy and let him know if you are planning to join us.  His email address is: wroy@rwu.edu

I am looking forward to meeting you all on our beautiful campus.

Have a marvelous day,

Maling
Dr. Maling Ebrahimpour
Professor of Management
2009 Program Chair, Decision Sciences Institute

Why should you come to study Mathematics at RWU

This year 15 new math majors have already decided to come to RWU to pursue mathematics. That will increase the number of math majors in the mathematics department to 40. Mathematics major at RWU is competitive and flexible at the same time. That means you can pursue a double major in mathematics and another field, such as Biology, Chemistry or even Dance. In your junior year you can opt to do mathematical research with a faculty member and in your senior year you can write a thesis. The math majors only have to take 10 math courses, so that leaves plenty of space to pursue a double major and do some intersting research which will open doors for you to go to graduate school or teaching or industry.

Why Choose Roger Williams?

Last week, I attended a reception for internship employers, students and faculty advisers where the business representatives spoke admiringly about the prepared-ness and professionalism of our student interns.  Many of them even offered permanent positions to the students after their graduation.  This response of employers is indicative of the high value placed on experiential learning at our institution.  The university also takes its mantra, “Bridging the World”, very seriously as it offers diverse opportunities for international students to study on its campus, and for students to study outside of the US.  Finally, Roger Williams is committed to a liberal arts curriculum where students will explore the natural and social sciences, humanities and the arts, creating a well-rounded individual.  If you are looking for an institution that esteems practical application of course material, fostering of global perspectives, and explorations of all facets of life, then Roger Williams University is for you. .

Kamille Gentles-Peart
Assistant Professor, Global Communication
Jamaica

Students Come to Life

Roger Williams students are a lot like students at other universities: Some are exceptional and really engaged with their college education while others need plenty of prodding to perform.  However, what amazes me the most about these students is the manner in which they come alive when allowed to apply their theoretical knowledge to real-life, real-world events.  I have seen previously recalcitrant and reticent students blossom as they help to make videos for a PBS sustainability website, or plan the annual Public Relations ball, or organize a university film festival.  While in a traditional class setting assignments seem arduous and time-consuming, students engaged in practical projects seem to forget time, and even desire to expend more time and effort to the project.  It is also in these moments of experiential learning that students’ creativity is exposed and refined.  It is this life, this spark that inspires me as an educator.  This may not be unique to Roger Williams students, but the university and its faculty foster this spark by encouraging practical application of class content through, for example, internship programs and student-led projects.

Kamille Gentles-Peart
Assistant Professor of Global Communication
Jamaica

RWU and My Students

The past Weekend was beautiful: sunny and warm. Many admitted students came with their parents to learn more about Roger Williams University and programs they were interested in. Looking at their exciting faces and answering their various questions, I thought of my own campus visit three years ago. Coming from the Midwest of the USA, I was so surprised to see the breath-taking ocean view from the campus, the Mount Hope bridge as well as the graceful town of Bristol. What also impressed me were students of languages that I taught and went to visit during the visit.

Roger Williams University does not have a language requirement. Students who take languages classes are truly interested in and passionate about learning another language and getting to know other cultures. Some of them spent quite some time abroad, some of them grew up speaking the target language at home and those who started at RWU are competitive and solid in grammar and vocabulary. It is great joy to see them grow everyday in the language, to talk with them in a non-English language, to laugh with them, and to be part of their life.

Min Zhou
Assistant Professor of Foreign Language
China

From Dr. Maling Ebrahimpour

One fo the most appealing things about working in RWU is flexibility and excimtment.  I was hired as the Dean of the School of Business with the goal of enhancing the quality of all programs within the business school .  We achieved this goal by all faculty and staff working together with focus on student edcuation and elarning.  Our goal was to achieve AACSB accreditation.  AACSB Accreditation is the highest lelve of approval for quality of Management/Business Educaiton in the world.  This is like getting seal of approval from a third party.  The process is long and takes about 5 years to finish.  With complete supoprt from faculty we did this in three years.  Our school ios mch better for it and we are now among top 5% schools of our type (undergradaute only) that have achieved AACSB accreditation.  Students, faculty and staff make business school very special.  We are like a big family and we all know each other.  It is a place that you can rely on other people to support you when you need support.  It is a place that you can come and feel at home.  Staff and faculty always smile and their goal is to make sure that students recevei the best and hihgest quality educaiton in business.

Maling Ebrahimpour
Professor of Management
IRAN and USA

Film Festival at RWU

The faculty and students of the Communication department are very excited this week.  We are sponsoring the first annual Roving Eye Film Festival on the Roger Williams campus.  Embodying its theme, “Bridging the World Through Film”, the festival will feature documentaries that were produced and created all over the world, and that address a wide variety of topics, ranging from overcoming racism and civil wars to the rise of advertising and film industries.  The festival was developed by George Marshall, the director of the Rhode Island International Film Festival, and a visiting professor in the Communication department.  Many students in the department helped in the planning and organization of the event, and student participation will continue to be a large part of the festival in the years to come.  Beyond helping in the planning and execution of future film festivals, students interested in delving further into the study of film will soon have the opportunity to do so by pursuing a minor in film that is currently being developed.  It is truly an exciting time to be a Roger Williams student in general, and a Communication major in particular.

Kamille Gentles-Peart
Assistant Professor, Communication
Jamaica

My International Background

I was born in the United Kingdom. My parents left UK when I was four years old and went back to their home country- Sri Lanka. Then when I was six years old, my dad joined the diplomatic service, and my family moved to the Former Soviet Union for 4 years, so I began my primary schooling in Russian in Moscow.

To this day I can read, write and speak a little bit of Russian. Most of my schooling was in Sri Lanka, but I did one year of High School in Tasmania, Australia. My parents travelled a great deal, and to this day so do I. I came to the United States as an international student in 1989.

Dr. Yajni Warnapala
Chair, Associate Professor,
Dept. Of Mathematics

Accepted Students Day

We just had our third and final Admitted Students Day at Roger Williams. Being a new faculty member, this was the first ASD I have participated in here. The fun part for me was when I and Dr. Michael Melton from finance did a presentation on our programs to the visiting students and parents. Everyone seemed impressed by the programs and facilities we have here at Roger Williams. This is the first big step out of home for many students – so both they and their parents are a bit apprehensive about the transition. We reassured them they will be in good hands here at RWU!

Why Roger Williams University

There are several characteristics about Roger Williams University that I admire, such as its small classes, its liberal arts curriculum, and its study abroad program.  However, I was drawn to Roger Williams for two specific reasons.  First, the University offers the unique opportunity to focus on teaching as well as scholarship.  This means that, unlike in many other institutions, I am able to pursue both my passion to be an educator and my desire to make valuable contributions to my field through research.  Second, being a relatively young institution, Roger Williams University facilitates faculty participation in the development of its departments and curricula.  Being able to contribute to the direction of the Communication department is stimulating, and provides the opportunity to make a lasting impact on the University.

Kamille Gentles-Peart
Assistant Professor of Global Communication
Jamaica

Douze

Douze. Quand je travaillais à Paris et à Berlin pour l’architecte Renzo Piano (RPPW) c’était le nombre minimum de nationalités représentées au sein de l’agence. Arrivant de ma province française plutôt monochrome, je peux dire que c’était une bouffée d’air frais particulièrement bienvenue. J’avais beaucoup à apprendre de tous ces autres avec leurs histoires personnelles, leurs cultures, et leurs façons d’aborder un projet d’architecture. Grad School au Massachusetts Institute of Technology, même chose, ça vaut la peine de se frotter à plus fort que soi, à différent de soi. Cette diversité de personnes, je la retrouve à Roger Williams, et ca me plait. Mon école d’architecture, d’arts et de préservation historique, elle-aussi se compose de d’individus aux racines très diverses. Un petit monde qui s’écoute mutuellement et s’entend plutôt bien. Pas une mauvaise image du monde d’aujourd’hui. Et bien entendu, ces influences diverses se manifestent dans les cours. Par exemple, moi qui enseigne la construction, l’architecture écologique et qui fait tout son possible pour intégrer les outils de simulation dans le projet (voir un papier que mon collègue ingénieur et moi avons présenté à Québec l’année dernière), je ne quitte pas des yeux ce qui se développe en Europe et je n’arrête pas d’y faire référence dans mes cours/mon interaction avec mes étudiants. Par exemple, hier, on parlait d’enveloppes de bâtiment qui respirent et qui utilisent des matériaux naturels renouvelables. Honnêtement, mes étudiants semblaient moyennent enthousiasmés par la physique de la vapeur d’eau qui se ballade dans un mur, mais ils se sont quant même réveillés quant on a regardé comment le phénomène se déroule dans le temps au moyen de WUFI-ORNL, un logiciel très instructif qui visualise les transferts de chaleur et d’humidité dans un mur pendant un intervalle de temps.
En résumé, confronter/aborder des expériences humaines et des façons d’appréhender le monde physique différentes pour enrichir sa connaissance. Et voila!

Me and My World

Born in the People’s Republic of China, I started learning German as a child, traveled to Germany as a teenager and fell in love with the country and its people. I went on to study German literature at Beijing University, and came to the United States to pursue my Ph.D degree at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Life in the USA turned me from a big city fan to one who loves peace and calmness of smaller towns. Whenever I travel to metropolises like Beijing, Berlin, Paris or Rome, I feel overwhelmed and have to overcome the initial culture shock. I love the bright and sunny sound of English with lots of vowels and shorter sentences, am yet more secure and at ease in German, which opened a door to the world for me. As for Chinese, it is the melody of home, of love and childhood memories….

Min Zhou
Assistant Professor of Foreign Language
China

School of Arts and Sciences

This semester among the classes I teach is Differential Equations. In this course students learn to incorporate mathematics into real life situations. The project the students are engaged in this semester is on Differential Equations and Climate. The topics we are exploring are Global Warming, Radioactive Decay, Rayleigh-Taylor instability, Melting Arctic, Alteration of Earth’s Energy Balance due to Albedo, Extinction of Polar Bears, Clapeyron Equation and Climate and Scorching Earth and its repercussions. All of these projects require a differential equation and a solution with a high degree of mathematical rigor. Further in the Mathematics department some students engage in individual research projects for their senior thesis. This semester my research student is working on the Helmholtz Equation (Modified Wave Equation) for the Oval of Cassini (the Peanut Shape). We are testing for a smooth surface which wave numbers are best for absorbing the wave into the surface and thus far small wave numbers gives good results.

Yajni Warnapala
Chair, Associate Professor Of Mathematics
United Kingdom/Sri Lanka

My Story

Though I have lived in the United States (U.S.) for about 11 years, and my relatives think I am Americanized, Jamaica is still home for me.  I was born and raised in the parish of St. Catherine.  I migrated to the U.S. to attend college, but also to be reunited with my parents who had emigrated several years before; I was a “barrel kid” (a youngster that had parents in “farine” who regularly sent barrels of goods back home for her).  Even though my official language is English, the first “language” I spoke was Jamaican patois, a hybrid idiom that fuses British English with Spanish and West African languages.  It is ironic that while in Jamaica I was always chastised and corrected when I spoke patois, but here in the U.S. my ability to understand and speak this vernacular has become one of my main connections to my homeland (that and soup on Saturdays, and rice and peas on Sundays).  When I first came to the U.S., I lived in New York City, a major West Indian enclave.  I also lived in Michigan where I studied (and received my Doctorate in Communication) from the University of Michigan.  Now I am in Rhode Island; I am a Jamaican-New Yorker-Mid-Westerner-New Englander!  I have travelled around the U.S. as well as the world (visiting Greece, Turkey and Germany, for example), but, paradoxically, I have not been home in eight years!  Nevertheless, Jamaica is the land I love and is still my home.

Kamille Gentles-Peart
Assistant Professor of Global Communication
Jamaica

School of Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation

I believe it is essential for today’s students to cultivate a global stance and a multicultural sensibility, to be able to function successfully in the world today. I personally have benefited enormously from this ability for which I am deeply grateful to my parents, who have diligently cultivated this important aspect in my own education. I was born to Turkish parents in America, who moved to London a couple of year later, where my brother was born. We then moved to numerous other countries such as Jordan, Czechoslovakia (as it was called then), and Belgium. While my parents were working in Brussels, I started college in Paris and ended up staying there for eleven years. I also lived in Tunisia for a number of years as I was doing research on my doctoral dissertation. Through travel, and learning to speak multiple languages (Turkish, English, and French), I feel I have become a world citizen of sorts, which has not only allowed me to enjoy, appreciate, and understand different cultures in the world, but also to acquire an ability to interact with people across the globe, find common grounds with them, and work together with them. I find these skills to be invaluable for today’s students in a global world where we are called upon to become more and more involved economically and also culturally with our international neighbors.

Nermin Kura
Associate Professor of Art and Architectural History
Turkey, France, Tunisia

A Little About Me!

I am originally form Iran (Persia) and lived in USA since 1978.  I studied in Florida when I arrived in USA.  But most of my study was done at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln where I received my doctorate in Operation Research/Operations Management.

I have traveled a lot.  I have visited, worked and taught in these countries:  Germany, Spain, Italy, France, England, Czech, Russia, India, and Brazil.  In every country I learned something new and wonderfully different.  This is one fo the reasons that I always encourage students to travel abroad.  It is a great cultural learning experience.  I am fluent in English and Farsi (Persian).  My German is at the elementary level. 

More later!

Maling

Economics at RWU

My students never cease to amaze me. In my macroeconomics principles class, I just gave them an assignment to compare and contrast the Panic of 1873, the Great Depression of 1929, and the current Financial Crisis. They had to work in groups of three or four on this assignment, and I was very impressed with the detail and insight almost every group managed to work into the project.
It is an exciting time to be an economics professor. The financial crisis, with its unprecedented implications for the US and global economy, has overturned some of the current economic paradigms and prompted a big rethink on part of the profession. As a teacher of undergraduate economics, with many of my students being freshmen taking an economics class for the first time, my challenge is convey this excitement to my students on an everyday basis. I try to bring the dramatic events facing our economy before my students, and train them to expertly analyze these events.  My macro principles class has another project coming up in a few weeks – they will be taking a current economic news story and do a rigorous analysis of the story from an economist’s perspective (and most probably it will be one or another aspect of the present crisis – you really cannot escape that these days).
I was invited by Prof. Sue Bosco the other day to talk to her International Organizational Behavior class about my cross-cultural perspective of American society, as a person from India who has now been in the US for just about ten years. I had planned on talking for about twenty minutes, but her students seemed so interested in the topic of discussion that I got carried away and spoke for the whole class period! It was great talking to them – they were very bright and I was impressed by their questions and openness. They were well informed about things going on around the world. I got some great questions ranging from how the introduction of the “Nano” car by the Indian company, Tata, might affect the Indian economy – to the present day evolution of the Indian arranged marriage system, the role of the Indian middle class, and the presence of women in Indian politics. I think it is important for societies to learn of their strengths and weaknesses, as perceived by others - certainly helps them evolve and promotes mutual cooperation among different cultures.

Rupayan Gupta
Assistant Professor of Economics
India

Art and Architectural History

The School of Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation (SAAHP) at Roger Williams University is a hub for interdisciplinary learning and creative activities, offering a rich program of cultural and intellectual exploration. SAAHP brings together students and faculty, practitioners and guest speakers with national affiliations and international interests to create a lively and diverse academic community dedicated to cultural and environmental concerns. It is the campus department that never sleeps – architecture students working in their design studios through the wee hours, artists and curators showing artworks in the gallery, as well as critics and historians presenting public lectures on a regular basis. Besides special film screenings, a large projection screen installed on the exterior of the building regularly showcases videos by students, faculty, and video artists.  For students on campus, SAAHP is the place for exploring and appreciating the arts, meeting and connecting with other cultural buffs.

Poyin Auyeung
Assistant Professor of Art and Architectural History
Hong Kong

Construction Management

Students in the Construction Management Program at Roger Williams University scored an impressive win in the National Student Championship held in San Diego in the first week of March 2009. The Commercial Build team came in third in a fierce competition in which some of the best construction schools from all across America took part. The competition was sponsored by the Associated General Contractors (AGC) of America at its 90th annual convention.

It should be pointed out that in the Regional Competition held in New Jersey in November of 2008, our three competing teams – Design/Build, Heavy Highway, and Commercial Build – had a complete sweep. They won the top position in all three categories beating all eleven major schools in the region.

M. Ilyas Bhatti
Assistant Professor of Construction Management
Pakistan

MORE from the School of Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation

Exciting news at the School of Architecture. In terms of admission, we are more selective than ever and we continue to attract the best students at the university. In the Master of Architecture program, the firm in residence studio position continues to bring stimulating fresh perspectives by practitioners from Boston and Washington. With the graduate thesis “gate review” date approaching fast, there is amazing student work emerging from every corner of the studios. 

I am very interested in the subject of sustainability and this semester brings interesting steps forward. To strengthen the university’s approach to sustainability, I with a number of other School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation faculty contributed ideas to the new university-wide minor in Sustainability Studies. Also, check this interview made by a group of students a RWU on the issue of sustainability: http://www.planetforward.org/videos/roger-williams-university-professor-talks-about-the-benefits-of-a-green-campus.

I am also, for the second time, teaching a course together with Dr Charlie Thomas from the School of Engineering to a group of advanced undergraduate architecture and engineering students. The course introduces tools and methods of sustainable design and looks into how to improve collaboration between architects and engineers.. Among other things, students have worked with a transient energy simulation tool to model a dormitory building on campus in which they also have been acquiring temperature, relative humidity and other data through a computerized system. In the coming week, the students will present their work to a guest critique from ARUP –the leading worldwide engineering consultancy firm- Boston’s office. The students will then collaborate with my studio students to propose design upgrade aimed at making the dormitory building more comfortable and more sustainable.

Patrick Charles
Assistant Professor of Architecture
France, Germany, China

School of Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation

The RWU School of Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation is truly a most exhilarating place to be. It is an exceptional educational institution where four related areas of creative activity have all come together in one school, which is rare. The resulting synergy in SAAHP is phenomenal! It is here that the lights stay on till the wee hours of the night while artists, architects, preservationist and historians hotly exchange ideas, and loose themselves in their projects. If you ever drive past the SAAHP building in the evening it looks like a glorious lantern illuminated from within by the power of creativity!! 

The SAAHP not only has an interdisciplinary curriculum but also an interdisciplinary faculty. The majority of our professors wear more than one hat. There are historian/architects, historian/visual artists, architect/painters, architect/preservationists, architect/writers, and the list goes on. The SAAHP’s interdisciplinary quality is further strengthened by one other major factor, and that is its multicultural and global character, essential for our times. The school not only offers interesting study abroad programs and projects, but it also boasts a large number of international faculty coming from countries as diverse as France, Mexico, Colombia, England, Turkey, China, Pakistan, Germany and more, who all bring their unique cultural experiences and perspectives to the SAAHP curriculum.

Nermin Kura
Associate Professor of Art and Architectural History
Turkey, France, Tunisia

Foreign Language at RWU

A student stopped by today, she just came back from Bermuda where she studied a semester.  I was happy to see her: she is tanned and different – I remember her as shy and reserved. But today, I could not help but notice how much she has changed: cheerful and more confident. She laughs and speaks louder than before.  I am not surprised by the transformation – a magic that I’ve seen with many RWU students who spent a semester or two abroad.  The language department not only offers many courses in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic, Latin and Greek. But RWU students also have a variety of possibilities to study abroad: a semester in Germany, Spain, Italy, China, Bermuda; a winter break in Egypt or Mexico, or a summer in London, Guatemala or Paris etc.  Students take full advantage of these opportunities and they come back with life experiences that would change their life, something I experienced myself: a native of China who is now teaching German in the USA…

Min Zhou
Assistant Professor of Foreign Language
China

School of Engineering, Computing and Construction Management

My name is Chunyan Bai, faculty of Computer Science in School of Engineering, Computing and Construction Management (SECCM) at Roger Williams University. A native of Xi’an, China, I completed my B.E. in Computer Communications and M.E. in Information Transmissions from China and obtained my PhD degree in Computer Science from US in Fall of 2004 before I joined RWU as an Assistant Professor. I am glad to take this opportunity, and in the continuous parts, to introduce you to SECCM, to the Computer Science program and to the life at RWU.

Five years of working at RWU has been great and pleasant for me! I have been teaching courses in Computer Science and Engineering which covers programming languages, data structures, operating systems, digital circuit design, etc… I have also been actively involved in faculty oriented research and have successfully integrated undergraduate research into our senior courses, which resulted in peer-reviewed publications and research/scholarship grants and awards.

I enjoyed every moment that I spent with my students, not only in the classroom, but during the advising s or even free-chat after the class.

If you have any questions regarding our programs or your application, please do not hesitate to contact me at cbai@rwu.edu . 

各位RWU的申请者，

大家好！

我是柏春燕，罗杰威廉大学，工程计算机建筑管理学院。很高兴借此机会向大家介绍我所在的工程 计算机建筑管理学院 以及我个人在罗杰威廉大学的工作和生活。

我本人出生于中国西安，于西安电子科技大学获得计算机通信本科学位和信息传输硕士学位。2004 年在美国完成计算机科学博士学位后加入罗杰威廉大学至今。五年的工作和生活对我来讲既是机遇又是挑战。教过的课程跨越计算机科学和电子工程，包括编程语言，数据结构，操作系统，数字电路等等。同时我也在积极从事科研并将本科科研引入我们大四的课程，并由此申请到科研基金并发表科研论文数篇。我喜欢教师这个神圣的职业并享受与学生在一起的每时每刻。

Chunyan Bai
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
China

New Happenings in Communications Department

Spring is in the air and it brings with it renewed life to nature as well as to the department of Communications at Roger Williams University.  The Global Communication program has been reborn as a major and a minor, giving students across the University the opportunity to study media in relation to international issues; and a magnificent interdisciplinary Film minor is being developed for the next academic year.  Our students are particularly excited this Spring as they bask in the success of the sustainability project directed by the Journalism students and faculty, and as the Roger Williams chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America prepares for its annual charity ball.  This is truly an exciting time in our department. 

Kamille Gentles-Peart
Assistant Professor of Global Communication
Jamaica

Gabelli School of Business

There is no dull week in the Gabelli School of Business (GSB) at Roger Williams University.  Almost every week there is one or more events.  It could be a well known guest speaker is giving a talk about the state of economy, a student presentation is going on, a student club is holding a charity event for a local or national charity organization, or some other activities.  GSB is a community of active students, faculty and staff.  Our students are active in various business related clubs or business fraternities and we encourage our students to join one or more of these groups.  Today the Delta Sigma Pi fraternity has a guest speaker who is the CEO of the Traveler Insurance Company one of the biggest companies in the USA.

Maling Ebrahimpour
Professor of Management
IRAN and USA

School of Arts and Sciences

The School of Arts and Sciences at Roger Williams University seeks meaningful and sustainable ways to build bridges among disciplines and scholars. Our faculty lead inter- and cross-disciplinary research and scholarship in the school and across the University.

The school is dedicated to interdisciplinary research and global issues and provides students with unique internship, research, and undergraduate educational opportunities.

Arts and Sciences faculty, staff, and students are engaged citizens through their contributions to communities in Bristol County, the City of Providence, the region, and the nation. Our faculty in the sciences and mathematics departments are involved in undergraduate research and our students present and publish in national and international venues. Our Political Science program, the Global Communications program, and programs in Music, Theatre, and English and Foreign language departments enhance the cultural and artistic life of the university. Our curriculum in the Arts and Sciences is enhanced by the priority given to global issues, undergraduate research and its diverse faculty.

Yajni Warnapala
Chair, Associate Professor Of Mathematics
United Kingdom/Sri Lanka