Presidential News

Stay informed about important developments, strategic initiatives, community achievements, and other news from the President's Office.

Welcome to Presidential News, where we celebrate the great things happening at RWU and recognize the ways our strong community of students, faculty, staff, alumni, and partners help us realize our mission. There are so many people working across our university to strengthen society through engaged teaching and learning, and alumni who go off to make the changes our world needs next. Read along as we continue to find ways for RWU to be part of that difference.

Presidential Accomplishments

RWU and Narragansett Bay Estuary Program Receive $1.1 Million Federal Award to Fund Watershed Protection Projects

RWU-NBEP partnered projects enable preservation, restoration and improvement of R.I.’s waterways, estuaries and watersheds, as well as student internships to address coastal resiliency.

Roger Williams University Announces $20 Million Partnership with Cummings Foundation

University to rededicate architecture school as Cummings School of Architecture, in recognition of transformative partnership and new Real Estate program

Student Achievements

RWU Students Teach Fourth Graders About Wind Energy and the Engineering Design Process

Engineering and Education majors team up for KidWind, instructing fourth graders on engineering and how to design and build their own model-scale wind turbines.

Getting the International Business Experience of a Lifetime

Master of Business Administration students travel to Greece to serve as crisis management consultants to four businesses as part of their international learning opportunity.

Faculty Highlights

Gentles-Peart Receives Fulbright Scholar Award to Research Black Body Politics

Kamille Gentles-Peart’s reparative justice scholarship aims to center and amplify the lives and experiences of Black women in postcolonial Caribbean countries.