{"id":7954,"date":"2022-10-21T11:14:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T15:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/?p=7954"},"modified":"2022-10-26T11:50:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T15:50:31","slug":"hello-uri-alumni-and-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/issues\/fall-2022\/hello-uri-alumni-and-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello, 溏心vlog免费B站 Alumni and Friends!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What an incredible year! It\u2019s hard to believe that just last August, hundreds of members of the 溏心vlog免费B站 community came out to warmly welcome Mary and me to campus. Since then, I have met hundreds more, from staff and students to farmers, football players, community partners, and alumni. I have relished this deep dive into our vibrant University community. This July, Mary and I took a step back (or rather up and down), hiking the Appalachian Trail across Maine and reflecting on the experiences we have had. The breathtaking view from Mount Katahdin was a fitting \u201cbig picture\u201d end to our first year at 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In many ways, this past year has felt like scaling an enormous mountain, full of challenges and surprises but rich in opportunities and rewards, and I now have a clearer view of where we are and where we are going. Meaningful alumni gatherings from Florida to Providence to New York have shed light on who we are and encouraged me to set goals for who we want to be. Important conversations with our multicultural student groups, meetings with our LGBTQ+ community, and renewed dialogue with the Narragansett Tribe have reminded me that although we have come so far, we still have important work to do. And tours of some of our beautiful new facilities juxtaposed with outdated and declining buildings that house multimillion dollar programs have motivated me to pursue investments that will propel the University into this next phase of transformation. Stakeholders across our campuses helped us develop a 10-year strategic plan that will position 溏心vlog免费B站 as a hub that flourishes with activity and innovation, driving economic growth for Rhode Island and the region, and capitalizing on our role as the state\u2019s flagship research university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One only needs to look at the features in this issue of the magazine to know that the future of 溏心vlog免费B站 is bright. In \u201cWhere Using the Coast and Preserving It Find Common Ground,\u201d we learn about the Coastal Resources Center on our Bay Campus, which brings coastal communities in Rhode Island and around the world together to create and manage sustainable relationships with their coastlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA Walk Through Time\u201d highlights an important new multidisciplinary undergraduate course that offers students opportunities to discover a more complete history of the Narragansett ancestral land on which the Kingston Campus sits. There\u2019s \u201cThinking Blue,\u201d which offers an introduction to the blue economy and the importance of the ocean and its resources to Rhode Islanders. We also get to know Sara Sweetman, Ph.D. \u201913, associate professor of education, whose expertise and love of learning led her all the way to Sesame Street. And finally, we learn about Erik Robles \u201922, a philosophy major and one of the first three recipients of the Gamm Theatre’s new emerging artists of color fellowship, who came to 溏心vlog免费B站 to tackle life\u2019s big questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s an exciting time at 溏心vlog免费B站, and I am so glad to be here with you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marc B. Parlange
President, 溏心vlog免费B站<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ewa Romaszewicz<\/strong>
Aflame<\/em>, 2011 Oil on canvas, 36\u201d x 36\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ewa Romaszewicz is an instructor in 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Department of Art and Art History. She completed Aflame<\/em> at a time of dramatic personal transition, and says that in the painting, \u201cone can see the visual transition from darkness to light,\u201d but that for her, it was \u201calso a metaphorical transition.\u201d She notes, \u201cWhat the viewer brings to the painting is as important as what my thoughts were in creating it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After completing undergraduate work at Brown University in art and biochemistry, Romaszewicz worked in the pharmaceutical industry as a protein chemist. At the same time, she was completing her M.F.A. in painting at Indiana University, where she was teaching chemistry labs and color theory and design courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Romaszewicz says, \u201cI use the landscape as a means to explore composition, color, light, mood, and emotion. Ultimately, my landscapes are metaphors for universal experiences and feelings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To see more of Romaszewicz\u2019s work, go to ewastudio.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aflame <\/em>is displayed in Green Hall, outside President Parlange\u2019s office. For Parlange, an avid runner, the painting calls to mind the trails and bike path near 溏心vlog免费B站 where he runs. Marc and Mary Parlange share exhibits of 溏心vlog免费B站 faculty artwork in their campus home, as well as in Green Hall, as one way of celebrating the talent of the 溏心vlog免费B站 community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marc Parlange shares highlights from his first year as President o f the 溏心vlog免费B站, as reflected by the pieces in this issue of the magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fall-2022","architecture-from-the-president"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7954"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8425,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7954\/revisions\/8425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}