University Of Rhode Island: URI Program Helps Increase Tech Access, Decrease Isolationism Among Older Adults - Richmond, RI - However, the news generated mixed feelings. Before the COVID-19 vaccines had been developed, Fenton, like most people of a certain age, .
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Members of the URI Cyber Seniors program met via Zoom recently to discuss the progress they ve made becoming more tech-savvy.
During the height of the pandemic late last year, Warwick resident Patricia Fenton got the call she had been waiting for her new grandson had been born, a rare bit of joyous news during one of the most difficult years in recent memory for all of us.
However, the news generated mixed feelings. Before the COVID-19 vaccines had been developed, Fenton, like most people of a certain age, had to carefully avoid most people to avoid contracting the virus. She would be unable to hold her family s newest addition for the foreseeable future. But thanks in part to the University of Rhode Island s Engaging Generations Cyber-Seniors program, she was able to meet her infant grandson, Archer, and spend some time with him, if only virtually.
Elizabeth Lamark Hira Abid will venture to Turkey for graduate school as a Fulbright Scholar. The chemical engineering major is a 2021 recipient of the prestigious award.
Hira Abid crossed continents to come to RIT.
The chemical engineering student from Pakistan will make another global connection when she begins graduate school in Turkey as one of RIT’s newest Fulbright awardees.
Abid will begin orientation this summer at Koç University in Istanbul, taking classes in the Biomedical Sciences and Engineering program in the Graduate School of Sciences and Engineering. It is an adventure, a challenge and the next step toward a career in biotechnology to problem-solve some of the global health challenges today.
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