The University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography will bring together marine architects, boat designers and builders, and the operators of research and commercial vessels April 8 and 9 to discuss strategies for promoting the environmental sustainability of boats and ports.
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Pharmacy students take on drug interactions and more in simulation lab
Step into the CVS Caremark Interdisciplinary Health Delivery Laboratory at the University of Rhode Island’s College of Pharmacy, and be prepared for the unexpected as teaching and learning tools come to life. They breathe, they blink, and they have heartbeats. Some of them even bleed. Are they having trouble breathing? Secure the airway and breathe […]
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Ralph Perfetto, co-founder of QualityMetric, Inc. and Response Technologies Inc., will discuss his “unanticipated entrepreneurial journey” in a lecture on innovation and entrepreneurship at the University of Rhode Island on March 27.
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An opportunity for executives at local marine industry firms to learn about URI engineering research on material composites and how that research may help the companies develop new products and expand new markets. Faculty will discuss their research on such topics as design of lightweight structures, marine composites in extreme environments, composites resilient to impacts, […]
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Toray Plastics America, Inc., the North Kingstown-based manufacturer of polypropylene films and other products, has pledged $2 million toward the proposed construction of new facilities for the University of Rhode Island’s College of Engineering. The pledge is the first commitment of corporate support for the $125 million project that Gov. Lincoln Chafee’s proposed budget recommends […]
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Rhode Island government, educators and businesses have work to do in concert with each other if the state is to reach the goal of being a nationally known center of digital-media excellence and entrepreneurship by 2020, a new report concludes.
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One month after the launch of the University’s Business Engagement Center, designed to be a central portal for businesses to connect with URI resources, ocean technology firm Navatek Limited announced the opening of its first East Coast office in South Kingstown. When the Hawaii-based company chose its new location in the Palisades mill complex in […]
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A national expert on the role of nurses in improving health care asked two tough questions of the 200 participants at a nursing summit in Providence earlier this month. “Do we have the best health care in the world?” asked Susan B. Hassmiller, senior adviser for nursing at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. “No. Do […]
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University of Rhode Island officials, pharmacy faculty and pharmacy students joined CVS Caremark Corp. leaders yesterday at 11 a.m. for a ribbon-cutting to formally celebrate and dedicate new facilities at the College of Pharmacy supported by the Woonsocket-based corporation.
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URI Professor Terry Bradley and Peter Mottur, director of Rhode Island-based Greenfins, are taking the first steps in developing the techniques to raise tuna from egg to harvest size while creating a new sustainable industry in Rhode Island. According to Bradley, some in Australia, Mexico and several Mediterranean countries are doing what he calls “tuna ranching” […]
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