Patten named Salve’s first chief advancement officer
MAELYNN PATTEN has been named Salve Regina University’s first chief advancement officer. / COURTESY SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY NEWPORT – Salve Regina University announced Jan. 8 that it has brought on an experienced senior development professional and philanthropic fundraising consultant to be the university’s first chief advancement officer. According to the university, MaeLynn Patten worked for close to a decade in various leadership roles at Babson College and Northeastern University. She also worked…
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January 18, 2021 5:02 pm
NEWPORT, R.I. (WLNE) – College students across Rhode Island will be returning to campus for the spring semester amid a global pandemic where positivity rates and hospitalizations continue to climb.
At Salve Regina University in Newport, Monday marked the last move-in day as Tuesday is the first day of classes for the spring semester.
The university faired well in the fall, avoiding a large outbreak of coronavirus among students, unlike some colleges in the state that weren’t so lucky,
At Salve, students were ordered to quarantine at home for 10 days before coming back to campus. International students had to quarantine for 14 days.
Newport Daily News
NEWPORT With the spring semester starting Tuesday, Salve Regina University is welcoming students back to campus with COVID tests in hand.
“We made a concerted effort that, if we could do it safely, we really wanted to open, because it was so important that our faculty and staff and students have that community and be here in Newport,” said university President Dr. Kelly Armstrong on what the school has learned from the past two semesters.
Armstrong said the university is keeping the same level of safety precautions as when it reopened in the fall. With 95% of the student body returning to campus, students are required to bring a negative COVID test taken within 72 hours of their arrival, as well as get tested on campus at the Rodgers Recreation Center in order to regain access to dorms and class buildings.
The climate is changing so quickly, some species common to Aquidneck can’t keep up.
Todd McLeish
Newport Life magazine
At the Sweet Flag Preserve adjacent to Bailey’s Brook in Middletown, Jameson Chace and his students at Salve Regina University spend two days a week each autumn capturing and banding birds as they fly through the area on migration. They’ve found it to be a hotspot of activity, and one that many birds depend on for rest and refueling before continuing on their long journey south.
“If there’s a migratory bird that comes through the Northeast, it’s shown up there,” says Chace, associate professor of biology and chairman of Salve’s biology and biomedical sciences department. “These little bits of riparian conservation zones are doing a whole lot more for wildlife than we probably ever imagined. That’s the big takeaway from our research.”