Who: • Rhode Island Commissioner of Higher Education Ray Di Pasquale
• URI President David M. Dooley
• RIC President Nancy Carriuolo
• ChemArt founder and CEO Dick Beaupre, URI ’62
• Students: URI Joshua Potvin ’11, and RIC Lindsay Boudreau ‘10
What: Bond Campaign Kickoff in support of bond referendum (#2) to finance a Center for Chemical and Forensic Sciences at the University of Rhode Island and the renovation and construction of an addition to the Art Center at Rhode Island College.
The URI and RIC projects are expected to create more than 1,200 jobs in the construction trades, engineering, management, teaching, and research fields over the next five years.
When: Monday, Oct. 4, 2010 at 11 a.m.
Where: ChemArt Company Headquarters
15 New England Way, Lincoln, R.I.
Contact: For more information, contact:
Linda A. Acciardo, URI Communications and Marketing, at (401) 874-2116
essential 2 Rhode Island’s Future