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Banner Photo Provided by Family of Mandy Jenkins It wasn’t just Mandy Jenkins’s innovative career in digital news that made her an exceptional alumna of ������Ƶ State’s School of Media and Journalism. The way she continued to touch students and graduates who came after her — connecting them to internships, mentoring them through their emerging journalism careers, returning to campus to share her wisdom — cemented a legacy that will have a lasting influence on generations of media students. Jenkins died after four years of cancer treatments at age 42 on Feb. 26, 2023. At ������Ƶ State...

Walking down the streets of Manhattan, surrounded by 49 college students of diverse backgrounds, ������Ƶ State student Rafael Guedes Bonacin, ’23, felt at home, even though he was far from it. A Brazilian international student and advertising major, Guedes Bonacin was in New York City for the American Advertising Federation’s “Most Promising Multicultural Students” multi-day workshop and immersion program, Feb. 13-16, 2023. He was one of 50 students from across the U.S. named to the program, now in its 26th year. “For four days we visited different agencies and different businesses in the a...

A recent trip to Israel gave a leader of ������Ƶ State’s Black United Students (BUS) a deeper understanding of the Jewish culture and insight into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  Senior Brian Johnson traveled to Israel Jan. 3-13 with a group of 19 student leaders with the Student Leaders Trip to Israel sponsored by Hillel, a Jewish campus organization. The trip takes Jewish and non-Jewish students of various religious and political beliefs to travel the land and talk with influential leaders there.   Before traveling to Israel, Johnson had no previous exposure to Israel’s ...

Design Innovation welcomes its 1,000th collaborator, reaching the milestone in just under two years. The owned by all, shared by all makerspace started as a mission to bring together students, faculty, community and leading experts from diverse disciplines for intersectional problem-solving and collaboration. Whether someone wants to dive into a technology they’ve never used before or has an idea they’ve been tinkering with, Design Innovation and its open-access spaces provide the tools and support to do so. Tracy Silcox, a sophomore theater production major, became the 1,000th collabora...

The School of Peace and Conflict Studies is pleased to present the following event as part of the Spring 2023 Colloquia Series.   Monday March 6th: 11:00 am - 12:15 pm (Zoom event) Arms Control: Crisis, Challenges and Opportunities Dr Nina Tannenwald - Department of Political Science, Brown University   Summary of Talk: Today, we are on the verge of a world without nuclear restraint. In the absence of formal arms control, how do we proceed? What broad principles and norms would we want? What measures might nuclear-armed states take, even without formal agreement, th...