{"id":15103,"date":"2024-11-14T12:13:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T17:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/?p=15103"},"modified":"2024-11-14T12:16:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T17:16:44","slug":"sustainable-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/issues\/fall-2024\/sustainable-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Style"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>\n.architecture .architecture-department:nth-child(1){\n    color: #999;\n    letter-spacing: 3px;\n    font-size: 1rem;\n    font-weight: 400;\n    margin-top: 2em;\n    margin-bottom: 0;\n}\n\n.architecture .architecture-department{\n\ttext-transform: uppercase;\n\tfont-family: Hind, Arial, sans-serif;\n}\n\n<\/style>\n\n<div class=\"architecture\">\n\t<p class=\"architecture-department\">Currents<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"architecture-department\">Rhody Scholars<\/p>\t\t\n<\/div>\n\n\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-panel-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-panel-super  \"><div class=\"cl-panel-super-blur\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/fa24_currents_avastanley.jpg)\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-panel-super-content\"><div class=\"cl-panel-super-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/fa24_currents_avastanley.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"Ava Stanley, an Alfred J. Verrecchia Business Scholar, stands smiling in a blue top under a large tree on the 溏心vlog免费B站 campus\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-panel-super-text\"><p>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sustainable Style<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"type-intro\">Ava Stanley \u201925 wants the fashion industry to be part of the solution, not part of the problem.<\/p>\n\n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n<p>Ava Stanley \u201925 wasn&#8217;t interested in 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stanley, originally from Hicksville, N.Y., on Long Island, wanted to expand her geographical horizons and head south for college. But an email from 溏心vlog免费B站 about the application deadline shifted her sights a bit northeast, and she decided to apply. \u201cWhy not?\u201d she thought at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She started talking to people she knew who were attending 溏心vlog免费B站, and they told her how much they loved it. So, when she got a phone call from Dean Libutti, associate vice president for enrollment management and student success, telling her she&#8217;d been awarded a Verrecchia Scholarship, her decision was made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initially, Stanley had planned to major in marketing but gradually realized that wasn\u2019t the right path for her. She changed her major to textiles, fashion merchandising, and design, with a minor in sustainability. Stanley found a kindred spirit\u2014and an academic inspiration\u2014when she enrolled in a course taught by Izabela Ciesielska-Wrobel, assistant professor of textiles, fashion merchandising, and design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cProfessor Ciesielska-Wrobel is interested in environmental waste and plastics leaching into the ocean,\u201d says Stanley. \u201cI wrote my application essay for 溏心vlog免费B站 on sustainability in the fashion industry, so immediately I thought this might be a good connection.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For her part, Ciesielska-Wrobel saw something special in Stanley, as well. \u201cI immediately recognized her inquisitive mind; she was always present, engaged, and asking interesting questions,\u201d says Ciesielska-Wrobel. \u201cMy impression was that she was particularly interested in fashion and various aspects of sustainability.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the spring 2024 semester, Stanley enrolled in an independent study with Ciesielska-Wrobel, working on ocean plastic waste and converting that waste into filaments that could become fibers for textiles. Stanley \u201cflourished as a young researcher,\u201d says Ciesielska-Wrobel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stanley incorporated the independent study in her entry for the annual Spring Splash fashion show. She made a three-tiered denim dress in which the curves of the denim skirt resembled ocean waves. \u201cI draped green lace on the arms and around the waist to symbolize ocean waste disrupting the natural beauty of the ocean,\u201d she says. \u201cSome people saw the lace as seaweed flowing in the waves. I see it as representing the idea that ocean waste has become so normalized, it is now part of the ocean and blends in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her \u201cfavorite opportunity\u201d as a Verrecchia Scholar has been getting the chance to talk with Alfred J. Verrecchia \u201967, M.B.A. \u201972, Hon. \u201904, and his wife, Geraldine Verrecchia, because of their knowledge about the business world and their \u201ctruly one-of-a-kind\u201d life experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Verrecchia Scholarship has shown me that hard work does not go unnoticed. Being awarded such an incredible scholarship made all the long nights of studying and extracurriculars worth it,\u201d says Stanley, who plans to spend the spring 2025 semester studying design at Parsons Paris, an American art and design school in Paris. \u201cThe Verrecchias have been huge role models for me. Their generosity and humility are inspiring, and I hope I can have an impact as great as theirs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014Gary E. Frank<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"feature-caption sans-serif\">PHOTO: SETH JACOBSON<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section>\n\n<div class=\"content-width\" id=\"uri-blue-breakout\">\n<h2>The Alfred J. Verrecchia Business Scholarship<\/h2>\n<p>The Alfred J. Verrecchia Business Scholars program provides full scholarships (tuition, fees, housing, food, books, and one global Winter J-Term travel experience with faculty) for four years for selected students interested in majoring in business. It also offers access to the University\u2019s Honors Program and Colloquium, Leadership Institute, an alumni business mentor, a personal career coach with internship mentoring and placement, yearly donor retreat and roundtable CEO meeting, priority course registration, and access to special University events.<\/p> \n\n<p>The scholarship is part of a $15 million gift from Alfred J. 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