Roger Life

We all worked hard to uphold pandemic protocols, to protect our low positivity rate and remain on campus throughout the Spring 2021 semester.

This series highlights what 51��students decided to do with that opportunity: To be here, at this moment in history, together. You have engaged, while your peers at other schools may have had to retreat. You’re lifting one another up, making things happen, developing your leadership skills, maintaining community.

That’s Roger Life.

Roger Life: Making Multiple Plans for One Goal - Spring Week
April 29, 2021 By Anna Cohen
Sophomore Sydney Holmes and Senior Rees Harold, Campus Entertainment Network Traditions Chairs, have been working hard to plan RWU's annual Spring Week this week: “It’s been a huge learning experience. Every event has a Plan A, B, C, and D. It takes a lot of meetings, a lot of talking, and a lot of planning,” Harold said. “I really wanted to finish in person, graduate, and see all the events I wanted to do last spring come to fruition.”
Roger Life: Feminists Forging Ways to Connect, Inspire, Empower
April 29, 2021 By Anna Cohen
"I’ve learned the importance of still being able to connect with friends, peers, and club members. I’m grateful that we can meet in-person at Roger and have access to rooms that are COVID-friendly. It brings some normalcy back to college life. We can spread our mission statement across campus and educate others on intersectional feminism, and still put on events," Feminists United President Maggie McKinnon said.
Roger Life: Audrey Corcoran is Building a Strong Foundation for Women in Construction
April 23, 2021 By Anna Cohen
“Gathering as Women in Construction brings a strong force together. It gives women extra confidence to remember that we know what are doing and that we belong here. The stereotypical mentality in the field is that women don’t belong in construction, but here, we have a support system," says Sophomore Audrey Corcoran, president of RWU's Women In Construction club. "It helps to know that you have a supportive force behind you.”
Roger Life: Alexandra Welch Steps Up for Athletics
April 21, 2021 By Anna Cohen
Junior Alexandra Welch joined RWU's Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) during her freshman year. Welch progressed to become president of the Commonwealth Coast Conference SAAC, and, this
Roger Life: Alexis Eley on Sharing A Passion for Dance
April 21, 2021 By Anna Cohen
“It’s been really great to be able to dance in-person," 51��Junior Alexis Eley says. "I used to take interaction for granted, but the pandemic has really made me appreciate being able to be around people. When I go home, I don’t have a lot of access to a dance studio or dancing with other people. Once I come back to school, I appreciate being able to connect and share the love of dance. I feel like I’m a part of a dance family." Eley is Treasurer of Ballroom Dance Club, a member of Dance Club, and is minoring in Dance.
Roger Life: During DC Internships, Deepening Their Commitment to Create Change
April 16, 2021 By Anna Cohen
As part of RWU’s partnership with the Washington Internship Institute, sophomores Dominion Emmanuel and Blessing Pour are in the nation's capital this semester. Emmanuel is interning at Dzubow & Pilcher, PLLC, a D.C. immigration law firm specializing in asylum. Pour is interning for the Prisoners' Rights Initiative at the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs.
Roger Life: Grayson Scanlon is Here and Proud
April 14, 2021 By Anna Cohen
“Growing up, a lot of my queer identity was founded in an online community. To go to college and be able to celebrate my queer and trans friendships in-person means so much to me," says Junior Grayson Scanlon, Sexuality and Gender Alliance's Outreach Chair. "When we had to be remote in the spring of 2020, it felt like I had to regress to having that identity only be online. Being able to go back on campus is a big deal because we are still here and proud, despite everything that is going on.”
Roger Life: Using their Brains, for Science Communication
April 9, 2021 By Anna Cohen
Josh Abston and Mackenzie Seccombe, founders of RWU’s Brain Club, are bringing neuroscience to Rhode Island elementary, middle, and high school classrooms. They created a science experiment to virtually share with participating schools for Brain Week Rhode Island, which ran from March 15-20, 2021.
Roger Life: Finding the Fun Collaboratively, with CEN Organizers
April 8, 2021 By Anna Cohen
In case you missed it, Campus Entertainment Network (CEN) "Where’s The Fun" Committee Chairs Calvin Shimansky and Patrick Longval brought an exciting night of blacklight laser tag to the Field House in February. “We do a really good job of bringing events like this to campus. We collaborate with the students during our weekly committee meetings, collaborate with our advisors, and all the faculty and staff," Shimansky said. "It’s great to hear their ideas and get to actually put on events.”
Roger Life: Keeping Focus on Social Justice, with MSU Leaders
April 8, 2021 By Anna Cohen
“There has been so much going on in the world, and our members have been going through a lot. We need to talk about it," says Multicultural Student Union President Jeraldyn Ramirez. "These social justice topics affect me, so if I didn’t have an outlet to discuss them, how would I focus on school? The MSU has a group chat and we are constantly emailing, not just, ‘We have a meeting today at 5,’ but, ‘How is everybody doing? Does anyone have anything they want to talk to us about?’ It goes way beyond our meetings. At the end of the day we’re a community and a family.”