URI alumni donate $2M for engineering scholarships, ocean engineering building

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – University of Rhode Island alumni Barry and Sandra Gertz have donated $2 million to support engineering student scholarships and construction of a new ocean engineering building at the university’s Narragansett Bay Campus. The gift will benefit the university’s College of Engineering Future Fund and the Gertz Family Engineering Scholarship Fund. University officials […]

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