Christopher Kiernan, coordinator of the American Studies department and history professor at Salve, is extremely passionate about education. Not only has he worked in higher education for 40 years, but he was the first Northeast regional director of the National Assessment of Educational Progress – an ongoing project that monitors how students are performing at ages nine, 13, 17, and post-college groups.

NEWPORT, R.I.-Jim Sharkey can still hear the deafening chants and shouts, still feel the acrid and frenzied air, and still see the fleeting silhouettes of thousands of Bostonians as they flooded the city streets in a riotous mob.

Sharkey witnessed the uncontrollable insurrection of Red Sox fans after the Beantown team won the 2003 American League Division Series (ALDS).

After seven years in the restaurant business, Jason Viteri decided to open a restaurant that served food that he was used to eating at his parents’ home using his Ecuadorian heritage and cooking experiences.

This past summer, at the age of 22, Viteri opened La Balandra, a restaurant that focuses on South American cuisine located on Farewell Street, off Broadway, in Newport.

The Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy presents Hugh Gusterson, Professor of Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Gusterson’s lecture “Nuclear Nightmares: The Culture Proliferation in Today’s World” will address issues of nuclear proliferation in the world, why states are failing to come to agreement on non-proliferation, and why there is reason to be afraid for the future.

I touched it and it was like a bolt of lightning went through me. I just knew,” explained a close work associate of Editor-in-Chief of SELF magazine, Lucy S. Danziger. “If your breasts usually feel like a bag of grapes, this felt like a pebble. It was that hard.