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Student Ryan Casey along with URI alumni created I’ll Be Seeing You, a short film with a twisted time travel plot. Ryan solicited support from sponsors who bought tickets to the grand premiere at the Park Theater after seeing a teaser trailer at the Film 445 Advanced Production course.

The Beauty Salon is a weekly, half-hour look at everyday aesthetics in and around Rhode Island, with hosts Karen de Bruin, Ian Reyes and Cheryl Foster.

Ms. Dacia Maraini, an Italian writer, poet, journalist and scholar came to the University for a series of readings and performances. She discussed women thinkers and writers in the Middle Ages, focusing on three 16th-century Italian courtesan writers: Veronica Franco, Gaspara Stampa and Tullia D'Aragona. Ms. Maraini's emphasis is in interdisciplinary scholarship and multiple forms of interdisciplinary scholarship and multiple forms of creative work with a social and political focus on women's rights and prevention of violence against women worldwide.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Harrington School of Communication and Media aims to bea distinctive and nationally recognized program whosegraduates are well prepared for citizenship, careers and life in arapidly changing global economy. We enroll more than 1,350undergraduates and 350 graduate students in interdisciplinaryprograms in communication studies, film/media, journalism,library and information studies, public relations, and writing andlibrary and information studies, public relations, and writing andrhetoric. Established by a generous gift from URI alum andformer CEO of Thomson/Reuters, Dick Harrington, our missionis to work together to use the power of the information andcommunication to make a difference in the world.

ABOUT THE HARRINGTON SCHOOL

Professor, Founding DirectorHarrington School of Communication and Media

University of Rhode Island

And faculty and students were thrilled to meet nearly 70 media professionals, librarians and technology entrepreneurs who came to campus on January 16 – 17 for the “Convergence and Community” invitational conference. We learned how programs in Journalism and Library and Information Studies can develop fresh synergy in preparing future workers as information managers and content creators for jobs in the fast-growing global digital economy.economy.

Putting students and media professionals together just makes sense. This spring, students are helping to create an online community to support Rhode Island libraries. Writing and Rhetoric instructor Frank Romanelli is working with Harrington School students in collaboration with former Providence Journal reporter Brian Jones to develop the RhodeIslandLibraryReport.com.

We’re doing plenty of renewal of our own, with new courses, new programs and activities, and new opportunities springing up all over. I was especially proud of the student leadership demonstrated by the Harrington Rangers, who created Cast and Crew Connections on February 28th, an event to engage students from across the University in collaborating with the many Film/Media students now producing their short films.

The longer days of Spring 2013 semester are helping brighten the mood here on campus, as students and faculty await the flowers and blooms that are beginning to signal the earth’s renewal.

Dear Colleagues:

www.uri.edu/harrington

FROM THE FOUNDING DIRECTOR

theRANGERSVolume 2 / Issue 1 / March 2013