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Rhode Island College Digital Commons @ RIC What's News? Newspapers 4-21-2004 What's News At Rhode Island College Rhode Island College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/whats_news Recommended Citation Rhode Island College, "What's News At Rhode Island College" (2004). What's News?. 48. https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/whats_news/48 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspapers at Digital Commons @ RIC. It has been accepted for inclusion in What's News? by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ RIC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. What’s News at Rhode Island College Vol. 23 Issue 10 Circulation over 46,000 April 21, 2003 Highlights RIC to award 1,300 degrees in 2003 In the News commencement exercises 1,300 degrees to be Rhode Island College will award viduals, with 52 successfully com- participants; their total combined awarded in 2003 approximately 1,300 degrees in sep- pleting the program. Significantly, absences dropped from 1,017 days commencements arate graduate and undergraduate two drug-free babies were born to prior to the program to just 108 commencement exercises Thursday, program participants. Another proj- after participating. Most recently, RIC honors former May 15, and Saturday, May 17, ect is the Family in March of 2003, Judge Jeremiah respectively. T r e a t m e n t announced the establishment of the residents of State Home Graduate ceremonies will begin Drug Court, Domestic Violence Court to receive and School for Children at 5:30 p.m. in The Murray Center; which has requests for restraining orders and undergraduate at 9:30 a.m. on the r e c e n t l y to provide services to victims, chil- Murray Center dedicated esplanade in front of The Murray received a $1.2 dren, and abus- Center. million federal ers. The Court April 16 In case of inclement weather on grant. The goals will initially take Saturday, the ceremony will be of the Family cases from Features moved inside of The Murray Center T r e a t m e n t Providence and and carried via closed circuit TV in Drug Court are Bristol Counties From Peace Corps to Gaige Hall auditorium, Clarke Science to protect with the hope RIC—Frank Krajewski’s Building and Roberts Hall audito- DIPRETE infants and of later expan- children whose sion. journey rium. Four honorary degrees will be health and wel- Examples of awarded. Recipients and their degrees fare may be adversely affected other initiatives Senior Jeff Ahern to are: Jeremiah S. Jeremiah Jr., Doctor by parental substance abuse, to of Judge instruct ROTC cadets of Laws (graduate commencement); strengthen the family unit, and to J e r e m i a h enhance parental capacity to meet include creation James A. DiPrete, Doctor of Pedagogy; MCSALLY Martha E. McSally, Doctor of Civil the health and developmental needs and implemen- Dialogue on Diversity Law; and Sarah T. Dowling, Doctor of of their children. Judge Jeremiah’s tation of the Rhode Island Adoption lecturer John Artis Public Service (undergraduate com- school-based Truancy Courts — Registry, institution of the Child mencement). a first for New Support Enforcement Collection England — have Registry, and the establishment of Alumni News been exception- a 24-hour domestic violence hotline Jeremiah S. Jeremiah, Jr. ally successful in for the issuance of ex parte restrain- Outstanding Alumni Graduate Commencement Speaker, addressing tru- ing orders. Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) and Honor Roll inductees ancy issues and Judge Jeremiah was first appointed named the wayward- to the Family Court in 1986 and has As Chief Judge of the Rhode Island ness of which served as Chief Judge since 1987. He Sports Family Court, Jeremiah S. Jeremiah, truancy is symp- holds a B.A. from Boston University, Jr. is considered tomatic. During a J.D. from the Boston University the 2001-2002 Barron and Schimmel nationally as an School of Law, and is also a graduate innovator for school year, of the National Judicial College. named Hetherman and Truancy Court developing and DOWLING Murphy winners implementing served over 480 judicial inter- participants, with James A. DiPrete vention pro- 81 percent demonstrating increased Undergraduate Commencement, Arts/Entertainment grams aimed at attendance and 67 percent showing Doctor of Pedagogy (Ped. D.) Rambleshoe hoedown addressing the an increase in grade point average. root causes of After one year in the program, a par- James A. DiPrete is chair of the April 26 some of soci- ticipating school in a large urban Rhode Island Board of Regents for ety’s most trou- school district that had one of the Elementary and Secondary Education, RIC Choirs concert JEREMIAH blesome prob- lowest attendance rates among all having been appointed to the Board public schools in the city posted an celebrates ‘Pioneers’ lems. His Family in 1997 by Governor Almond and and Juvenile Drug Court has been attendance rate in excess of 90 per- subsequently named as chair in successful in diverting youthful par- cent, a gain of 25 percentage points 1999. He was recently re-appointed Dance Planet troupe ticipants from substance abuse. In its in just one year. Another school in Continued on page 16 formed at RIC first year, the program served 78 indi- a metropolitan community had 27 An Evening in 3/4 Time — Alumna of Year; four other awardees, and 32 honor RIC Symphony April 28 roll inductees named The outstanding Alumni Awards named Alumna of the Year by the alumni awards are: Arthur J. Patrie Index are presented annually in May RIC Alumni Association. ’85, associate director of College to graduates and community lead- She was cited for “her energetic Dining Services, Alumni Staff Award; Foundation & ers whose personal and profes- pursuit of funds” for the Shinn Patricia Hincapie Martinez ’86, direc- sional attainment and service to Study Abroad Program and for a tor of community relations in the Alumni News 4 the College and the community “leading role” in the Annual Fund in Office of the Governor, Charles B. bring honor upon themselves and years past. Willard Achievement Award; Michael Sesquicentennial upon Rhode Island College. Holder of a masters degree in edu- Integlia Jr., past president of the cation from RIC, she served as an RIC Foundation, Alumni Service Memories 5 laire M. Giannamore ’64, a for- assistant director of admissions for Award; and Amritjit Singh, profes- Academically Speaking 5 mer member of the College 12 years before leaving the College sor of English and African-American Cadmissions staff and Rhode to engage in business ventures and Studies, Alumni Faculty Award. Alumni Awards 8-9 Island College Foundation board, to raise a family. Patrie is credited with being the who has been an effective fund- She has served several terms on “behind the scenes” figure in the Sports 13 raiser for several of her alma the RIC Foundation and remains an success of events that have served thousands who have come to the Arts/Entertainment 14-15 mater’s programs since her gradu- active trustee. ation nearly 40 years ago, has been Other winners of this year’s Continued on pages 8-9 Page 2– What’s News, Monday, April 21, 2003 Then and now… Focus on the Faculty and Staff In keeping with the upcoming Sesquicentennial celebration, we feature a series of paired photos showing the College “Then” and “Now.” Faculty and staff are encouraged to submit items of information about their professional endeavors to What’s News, Office of News and Public Relations, Building 10 or email them to [email protected]. Then Mathematics and Computer Science Documents-Mania as Engine in Later Professor Barry Schiller has written Muscovite Social Development and the lead chapter, “Environmental Mentalite” and “Uralic-Slavic Contacts News Teaches Mathematics,” in the and Strategems of Dominance in book recently published by the Northern Rus’ 800-1700 A.D. in Mathematical Association of America, the Light of Comparative Medieval Environmental Mathematics in the History.” Classroom. The book’s editors include Michael S. Casey, associate profes- Dr. Patricia Kenschaft whose weekly sor of management, presented the radio show “Math Medley” airs locally results of some on WALE 990. recent research Mark Motte, associate professor at the 2003 of geography, has had three co- N o r t h e a s t authored articles recently published: D e c i s i o n “Renaissance City: By Accident or Sciences annual Design?” written with Francis Leazes, meeting in a professor of political science, appears paper entitled in the Proceedings Journal of the “An Analysis of International Society for the Study A d v a n c e of European Ideas (Aberystwyth, Manufacturing Wales, UK, July 2002); ”Twenty Years Technology of Redevelopment in Providence's MICHAEL CASEY Transfer Via Commercial Core, 1980-2000,” also A d v a n c e d written with Leazes, appears in Manufacturing Centers.” His paper Now the Proceedings Journal of the was also published in the confer- New England and St. Lawrence ence proceedings. He also served as Valley Geographical Society (Montreal, the discussant for a paper entitled October 2002); and “In Our Own “Adoption of Pollution Prevention Backyards: Institutional Collaboration Techniques: The Geographic for Teaching Urban Policy in Two New Dimension” by V.N. Bhat. England Cities,” written with Steven Corey, associate professor of urban Jeannine Olson, professor of his- studies at Worcester State College, tory, recently contributed a chapter appears in the forthcoming issue of in a book dedicated to faculty mem- Political Science and Politics (Sage ber Carter Lindberg upon his retire- Publications/Cambridge University ment from Boston University, and Press, July 2003).