Roger Williams University

Select students have been named to the Fall 2024 Dean's List at Roger Williams University in Bristol, R.I. Full-time students who complete 12 or more credits per semester and earn a GPA of 3.4 or higher are placed on the Dean's List that semester.

Select students have been named to the Spring 2024 Dean's List at Roger Williams University in Bristol, R.I. Full-time students who complete 12 or more credits per semester and earn a GPA of 3.4 or higher are placed on the Dean's List that semester.

Select students have been named to the Fall 2023 Dean's List at Roger Williams University in Bristol, R.I. Full-time students who complete 12 or more credits per semester and earn a GPA of 3.4 or higher are placed on the Dean's List that semester.

Select students have been named to the Spring 2023 Dean's List at Roger Williams University in Bristol, R.I. Full-time students who complete 12 or more credits per semester and earn a GPA of 3.4 or higher are placed on the Dean's List that semester.

The following students received their degrees in May as part of the Class of 2024.

The following students received their degrees in May as part of the Class of 2023.

The following students received their degrees in May as part of the Class of 2022.

The following local residents were among the students who received their degrees in May as part of the Class of 2021

After coming off of their first Inter-collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) Open Team Racing National Title since the 2011 season, six members of the Roger Williams University sailing team were named ICSA All-Americans for the 2023-24 season.

Construction Management and Architecture students at Roger Williams University attended the 34th annual Associated Schools of Construction (ASC) Region 1 Student Competition and Conference. The 18 RWU students' comprehensive construction and design solutions earned them second-place wins in the Heavy Civil and Design-Build categories and third place among the Commercial teams. The 18 students are Construction Management seniors Olivia Ahlborg, Brent Clemens, Sean Dwyer, Jayson Forneiro, Marielli Alifonso, Alivia DeGrotta, and Christina Marra and juniors Daniel Fontana, Danny Wilson, Brendan Wyllie, Kyle Menice, Bryce Riccitelli, Shane Royer, Evan VanDerVelden, Sal Cicale and Brendan Donovan as well as Architecture seniors Michael Bussinelli and Zack Wieners.

Three Roger Williams University students are interning with the Narragansett Bay Estuary Program, which is housed at RWU. The students contribute to protecting and improving the bay and surrounding watersheds, gain valuable real-world experience, and train to become the next generation of environmental leaders. Interns are senior Nathan Silveira, a Civil Engineering major from Bristol, R.I., who is studying how to create an environmentally friendly geotextile mesh made with soybeans (instead of conventional plastic) to minimize soil erosion; sophomore Mandi Greenhalgh, an Environmental Science major from Clinton, N.J., who is researching how the removal of a dam in Rhode Island will impact the local environment; and senior Michelle Kryl, an Environmental Engineering major from Westhampton Beach, N.Y., who is investigating how many and what types of microplastics are in Narragansett Bay.

Senior Michelle Kryl, an Environmental Engineering major from Westhampton Beach, N.Y., junior Ashlee Lewandoski, an Environmental Engineering major with minors in Mathematics and Sustainability Studies from Bristol, Conn., and Grace DiBlasio, a junior Chemistry major from North Andover, Mass., are part of a multi-year student research team, working to determine the volume and types of microplastics entering Narragansett Bay. Along with Lillian Jeznach, Associate Professor of Engineering at Roger Williams University, the students have been working on the long-term microplastic sampling campaign to develop a database of freshwater and atmospheric microplastic measurements in Rhode Island. Part of their work will also create sampling and analysis methods that are accessible to all Engineering undergraduate students in the program.

Senior Colton Pelletier, a Biology and Applied Mathematics double major from Bristol, Conn., used his interdisciplinary education to construct a robot that documents the life span of rotifers, as part of Roger Williams University's Molecular Longevity Laboratory. Pelletier's robot, which he dubbed the Roti-bot, documents the life span of rotifers, a microscopic aquatic invertebrate that has a genome relatively similar to humans, making them ideal model organisms to study in relation to molecular longevity.

Engineering students from Central Falls, R.I., and Schuylerville, N.Y., spent the summer working on cutting-edge research, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, at Roger Williams University's Lasers Lab. Senior Santiago Armas and junior Hunter Phillips, both Engineering majors with Electrical specializations and minors in Mathematics, received prestigious summer research scholarships from the NASA Rhode Island Space Grant Consortium.