URI alum, wife donate $5M to help student-athletes earn business degrees

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DAVID E. BARRETT, managing partner of health care and technology venture capital firm Polaris Partners, and his wife, Kristen Cobb Barrett contributed $5 million to the University of Rhode Island to help student-athletes pursue business degrees. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND
DAVID E. BARRETT, managing partner of health care and technology venture capital firm Polaris Partners, and his wife, Kristen Cobb Barrett contributed $5 million to the University of Rhode Island to help student-athletes pursue business degrees. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A 1978 University of Rhode Island graduate and his wife have made a multi-part, seven-figure gift to the state land-grant school to help student-athletes pursue business degrees. The university announced Thursday that David E. Barrett, managing partner of health care and technology venture capital firm Polaris Partners, and his wife, Kristen Cobb

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