JOR 221 Project 8
Ari Samayoa is a psychology major at the University of Rhode Island and volunteers his time working at Rhode Island Hospital working with patients with mental illnesses.
While the University of Rhode Island was celebrating Holocaust Remembrance week anti-Semitic fliers were discovered on printers around the campus.
In high school at La Salle Academy, Dimitri Ashby was nicknamed Truth, which ended up sticking and turning into his rap name.
“My parents wanted to pull me out of school, I had to make a deal with them I would never get a grade below a C+ the rest of my time in college.”
Standing barely 5’1’’ with a tiny frame, Rapunzel-like hair, and deep blue marble eyes that reflect her future as a travel writer, Cassandra O’Bryan talks me through her journey as a future travel writer.
“I died and I came back, I am reborn” were the words from Omar Bah, a refugee from The Gambia who hit rock bottom on countless occasions throughout his journey from the Gambia to America. Through each trial and tribulation, he cracked, but never broke, all leading to his
Dr. Isaac Ginis, a world-renown scientist, has been studying the relationship between our oceans, atmosphere and hurricanes; while, Dr. Jason Box has been studying and surveying our atmosphere and the rising carbon dioxide levels in Greenland, and carefully measuring annual glacier levels.
Brice Loose is an assistant Professor of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island’s GSO campus. He has devoted his most recent project and time to restoring the mangrove ecosystems in Africa.
Growing up for Grant Gillis was not easy. Born and raised in Jamestown, Rhode Island, he was expected to have a cookie cutter life.