{"id":69108,"date":"2005-09-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-alumnus-establishes-endowment-to-fund-geology-field-trips\/"},"modified":"2005-09-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-23T00:00:00","slug":"uri-alumnus-establishes-endowment-to-fund-geology-field-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/09\/uri-alumnus-establishes-endowment-to-fund-geology-field-trips\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 alumnus establishes endowment to fund geology field trips"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\t<\/a>KINGSTON, R.I. — September 23, 2005 — To John Sullivan, there\u2019s nothing better than a school field trip to get you excited about your coursework. As a geology student at the 溏心vlog免费B站 in the early 1980s, he joined his classmates and professors on trips to upstate New York to learn about mountain building and continental collisions, to western Massachusetts to study Triassic fossils, and to North Carolina and Nova Scotia to learn about coastal geology.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cGoing out and seeing geology in the field<\/a> helped us to put into practice what we were being taught,\u201d said the Attleboro, Mass. native who now lives in Davie, Fla. \u201cIn addition to making us better geologists, the trips helped develop close ties between the department\u2019s students and faculty. We\u2019re all still best friends 20 years later. The geology department was the coolest place on campus.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tSullivan, a manager of oil and gas investments, and one of his companies recently donated $25,000 to the Department of Geosciences to fund field trips or other related activities.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cIt\u2019s clear much of my success and that of my classmates comes not from what we did as individuals, but from what we did together,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cOur professors always had high expectations and demanded quality work that could only be achieved by collaborating socially and academically. We were on tight schedules and it was an absolute necessity to communicate effectively and share data so that everyone did the assignments right. It was an environment where the advanced students helped those who were a little further behind and we all came out on the same page.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tSullivan was drawn to 溏心vlog免费B站 because of its strong reputation in the marine sciences. His early interest in marine biology evolved into a passion for marine geology after learning about marine fossils and spending time at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Graduate School of Oceanography.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s been 20 years since my friends and I left 溏心vlog免费B站, and it\u2019s amazing to see how well everybody has done,\u201d he said. \u201cMany are working in the environmental field, including one who helps Poland Spring find new water sources, another who helped select the Mars rover landing sites, and others who are at DEM or teaching. Tim Ling, who passed away last year, became president of Unocal and is a testament to the fact that 溏心vlog免费B站 educated us well.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe were having so much fun, though, that we didn\u2019t even know we were getting such a great education,\u201d Sullivan said.<\/p>\n


\n\tDan Murray, a 溏心vlog免费B站 professor of geology and one of Sullivan\u2019s teachers, remembers Sullivan as a very curious student who worked hard at understanding geology and who still sends him long letters with rock samples to identify. \u201cJohn basically marches to his own drummer. What I like about him is that he\u2019s always looking and thinking about what\u2019s going on around him.\u201d\t<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe are so glad that John has maintained such a strong connection to 溏心vlog免费B站 after all these years, and we\u2019re deeply appreciative of his generous donation to help future students gain as much from their geology education as John did,\u201d said Sarah Lepkowski, 溏心vlog免费B站 senior development officer for the College of the Environment and Life Sciences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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