Jake Burton Carpenter,occasionally also known as Jake Burton or Jakie,was an American snowboarder founder of Burton Snowboards and one of the inventors of the modern day snowboard. A native of New York,he grew up in Cedarhurst,New York.
RV Endeavor is a research vessel owned by the National Science Foundation and operated by the University of Rhode Island (URI) under a Charter Party Agreement as part of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) fleet. The vessel is homeported at the Narragansett,Rhode Island at the URI Bay Campus.
The Rhode Island Rams are the athletic programs of the University of Rhode Island,based in Kingston,Rhode Island,United States. The Rams compete in the NCAA's Division I as a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference. The football team,however,competes in the Colonial Athletic Association of the NCAA's Football Championship Subdivision,as the A-10 does not sponsor football. The program's athletic director is Thorr Bjorn.
Francis Julius LeMoyne was a 19th-century American medical doctor and philanthropist from Washington,Pennsylvania. Responsible for creating the first crematory in the United States,he was also an abolitionist,founder of Washington's first public library,co-founder of the Washington Female Seminary,and an instrumental benefactor to the LeMoyne Normal and Commercial School,to which he made a $20,000 donation in 1870.
General John Nelson Abrams was a United States Army four-star general who commanded the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command from 1998 to 2002.
The University of Rhode Island (URI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Kingston,Rhode Island,United States. It is the flagship public research as well as the land-grant university of the state of Rhode Island. Its main campus is located in the village of Kingston in southern Rhode Island. Satellite campuses include the Feinstein Campus in Downtown Providence,the Rhode Island Nursing Education Center in Providence's Jewelry District,the Narragansett Bay Campus in Narragansett,and the W. Alton Jones Campus in West Greenwich.
Michael Alan Rice,is an American professor of fisheries and aquaculture at the University of Rhode Island and former state representative from South Kingstown,Rhode Island. A Democrat,he served in the Rhode Island House of Representatives,representing the 35th district,encompassing the village of Kingston and West Kingston,and parts of the neighborhoods of Tuckertown,Wakefield and Peace Dale. Rice was first elected on November 4,2008,and served from January 3,2009,to January 3,2011.
Alexander Valentino "Tino" Acebo was an American politician who served for over 20 years as Vermont State Auditor.
Frank James Newman,Jr. was a US education reformer and administrator who produced the Newman Reports,two ground-breaking reports on higher education in the United States that were published in 1971 and 1974. He served as the eighth President of the University of Rhode Island (1974–1983).
Robert Price Higgins is an American systematic invertebrate zoologist and ecologist,specializing in the unusual taxa of kinorhynchs and tardigrades.
Benjamin Franklin Cooling III is a professor of national security studies at Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy at the National Defense University in Washington DC. He is the author of more than a dozen books on the American Civil War,including a trilogy on the defense of District of Columbia,a biography of Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Franklin Tracy,and most recently Jubal Early:Robert E. Lee's Bad Old Man.
Luella Mae Bare Voogd Klein-Colquitt was an American obstetrician-gynecologist. She was the Charles Howard Candler Professor at Emory University School of Medicine. She became the first female department chair in at Emory School of Medicine on March 1,1986. She was the first female president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Klein was an advocate for equality in healthcare for adolescent,low-income,incarcerated,and LGBTQI+ women,women of color,women with disabilities,women with HIV,and other underserved populations.
Richard John McCormack is a political figure in the state of Vermont. A Democrat,He represented the three-member at-large Windsor County district in the Vermont Senate from 1989 to 2003. In 2006,he was again elected to the State Senate,and he has been reelected every two years from 2008 to 2018.
Christopher A. Bray is a Vermont businessman and politician. A Democrat,he served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011. Since 2013,he has represented the Addison District in the Vermont Senate.
The University of Rhode Island,College of Pharmacy is a pharmacy school located in the URI’s Kingston campus in southern Rhode Island,United States. Founded in 1902 as the Rhode Island College of Pharmacy and Allied Sciences in Providence,Rhode Island,the College relocated to the University of Rhode Island in Kingston in 1957.
Erik Heyl (1887–1973) was an American maritime historian and illustrator. He is best known as the author of Early American Steamers,a six-volume work that incorporates illustrations,technical details and service histories of almost 800 steamboats and steamships built mainly in the United States between 1807 and 1870.
David Marlin Dooley is an American chemist with expertise in organometallic compounds,and university administrator who has served as Provost of Montana State University and the eleventh President of the University of Rhode Island.
John Hosea Washburn (1859-1932) was an American chemist with expertise in agricultural chemistry,and university administrator who served as the founding president of Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts from 1892 to 1902,and director of the National Farm School from 1902 to 1917.
Howard Edwards (1854–1930) was an American educator with expertise in American literature,and university administrator who served as the third president of Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts from 1906 to 1930;at 24 years,he was the longest-serving president of the university.
Raymond George Bressler,Sr. (1887-1948) was an American educator with expertise in American literature and agricultural extension who served as a university administrator in Texas and Pennsylvania,and served as president of Rhode Island State College from 1931 to 1940. While serving as president during the Great Depression,Bressler managed decreasing student enrollments and ambitious building projects on campus primarily funded by the Works Progress Administration. Despite his success in guiding the numerous building projects and his popularity among students and faculty,he fell into political disfavor with the college's board of trustees,leading to his forced retirement in 1940. Despite Bressler's disfavor with the trustees,the newly elected Rhode Island Governor,J. Howard McGrath upon his inauguration in January 1941 granted Bressler an appointment to his cabinet as Director of Agriculture and Conservation,where he remained in office through the following gubernatorial administration of John O. Pastore until his death on 9 May 1948.
