{"id":69244,"date":"2005-11-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/barrington-resident-merges-multiple-interests-into-success-at-uri\/"},"modified":"2005-11-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-03T00:00:00","slug":"barrington-resident-merges-multiple-interests-into-success-at-uri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/11\/barrington-resident-merges-multiple-interests-into-success-at-uri\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrington resident merges multiple interests into success at 溏心vlog免费B站"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tEndowed scholarship aids pursuit of dance, engineering, Spanish<\/p>\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 November 3, 2005 \u2013 When Barrington resident Alison O\u2019Malley was deciding which college to attend, she struggled to find one that could combine her love of dance, her desire to travel to Spain, and her academic interests in math and science. But when she discovered the Ramettes and the International Engineering Program at the 溏心vlog免费B站, she knew her choice was made.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI took four years of high school Spanish and two more years in middle school, and I always wanted to travel to Spain,\u201d explained the 20-year-old 溏心vlog免费B站 sophomore. \u201cI also knew that I liked math and science, so when I was looking at career choices on the Internet, I settled on either pre-med or engineering. I chose biomedical engineering because it balances out the math and science with my desire to help people, and I can still go to med school after I graduate.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe International Engineering Program requires that students major in a foreign language and an engineering discipline, and the students spend a year abroad taking classes and working in an internship.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI went last year to hear a few students talking about their travel year, and they all had great experiences,\u201d O\u2019Malley said. \u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to when I get to go.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tO\u2019Malley was honored in October by the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Engineering as an engineering ambassador, whereby she represents the College at campus events, meets with prospective students and participates in a variety of leadership programs. She was also selected to be the student speaker at a scholarship breakfast attended by nearly 100 students, administrators and 溏心vlog免费B站 donors. In addition to receiving a stipend as an engineering ambassador, she is a 溏心vlog免费B站 Centennial Scholar and the recipient of the Peter A. Pelletier Endowed Engineering Scholarship.<\/p>\n


\n\tO\u2019Malley is also beginning her second year on the 溏心vlog免费B站 Ramettes dance team, which performs at men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball games and at other public events at the University. When O\u2019Malley auditioned, she competed against 40 other students for just four openings on the 13-member team.<\/p>\n


\nBut she had a leg up on the competition. She\u2019s taken dance classes at Rosemary\u2019s School of Dance in Warren since she was 2 years old and competed with them for eight years. \u201cI do tap, jazz, ballet, hip hop, point. It\u2019s my favorite hobby,\u201d she said. \u201cI was a sprinter on the track team in high school, but I think I\u2019ve run more in training for the Ramettes than I ever did in high school.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nO\u2019Malley said that the scholarships she received played an important role in her 溏心vlog免费B站 success. \u201cI don\u2019t have time for a part-time job, so the scholarship funds are allowing me to keep up with my dance and keep my grades up.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nPeter Pelletier knows the importance of scholarships as well. The 1967 alumnus of 溏心vlog免费B站 established the scholarship that O\u2019Malley received to help engineering students pay for their education. \u201cI established the scholarship because of the tremendous value I received from my engineering degree from 溏心vlog免费B站,\u201d Pelletier said. \u201cI have always remained loyal to 溏心vlog免费B站 and the engineering program, and I always felt the students who are qualified to enter the program are the best and brightest. It\u2019s a very challenging program and worth all the energy expended.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nPelletier worked at Raytheon, Arthur Andersen, and New England Merchants Bank before forming his own consulting practice in 1980 to help financially troubled companies. He serves on the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Engineering Advisory Council and frequently meets with current students and faculty.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI was very pleased to meet Alison at the scholarship breakfast,\u201d said Pelletier, who grew up in Newport and now resides in Norwell, Mass. \u201cShe is very bright and personable, with great varied interests. She has the type of balance you need in your life to be successful. All the students I met that day were impressive and make me proud to be a Ram.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Endowed scholarship aids pursuit of dance, engineering, Spanish KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 November 3, 2005 \u2013 When Barrington resident Alison O\u2019Malley was deciding which college to attend, she struggled to find one that could combine her love of dance, her desire to travel to Spain, and her academic interests in math and science. But when she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}