With Joe Army ’86 at the helm of the company, there aren’t many COVID-19 hotspots in the world where Vapotherm’s respiratory care technology can’t be found.
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For online film courses this summer, URI’s Film/Media program is utilizing smartphone production kits that enable students to execute filmmaking and all aspects of production from their own personal cellphones.
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At URI, Angela Gonzalez ’16 found a home in the Department of Art and Art History. Now, she’s a social worker who works with children with disabilities and is also working on a pair of murals for Providence’s Hartford Park. “In my art, I’ve always focused on what connects us,” she says.
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The stories in this series include profiles in courage, integrity, and citizenship. They illustrate the importance of our freedom — and responsibility — to exercise our First Amendment rights.
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“Everybody comes to the world with their own lived experiences and their own biases,” Christiane Amanpour told several hundred viewers during the recent livestream discussion of the University of Rhode Island’s Taricani Lecture Series on First Amendment Rights. “Our job [as journalists] is not to say we don’t have biases. Our job is to report the truth and do it objectively, despite whatever biases we may have.”
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Christiane Amanpour ’83, H ’95, will deliver the second installment of the Taricani Lecture Series on First Amendment Rights, hosted by the Harrington School of Communication and Media, on Thursday, July 16, at noon.
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Michael DiNardi, assistant professor of economics, analyzed aggregated anonymous mobile device GPS location data from SafeGraph, Inc., and Google Community Mobility Reports to measure how much time Rhode Islanders were spending at home.
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Nicholas Kristof, with his wife and fellow Pulitzer Prize-winner, Sheryl WuDunn, kicked off the Taricani Lecture Series on First Amendment Rights presented Tuesday evening by the University of Rhode Island.
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The University of Rhode Island’s Harrington School of Communication and Media honors a courageous journalist with this summer’s Taricani Lecture Series on First Amendment Rights. The series, which will be streamed live, opens Tuesday, June 16, with award-winning journalists and authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.
Continue reading "Courageous journalists: URI’s Taricani Lecture Series honors late journalist with discussion on First Amendment"Poring over decades of existing research, Holly Dunsworth, Associate Professor of Anthropology, has reevaluated and rewritten the narrow, reigning theories for sex difference in height and pelvic width in a new paper, “Expanding the evolutionary explanations for sex differences in the human skeleton.”
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Catherine DeCesare, a senior lecturer in the University of Rhode Island Department of History, is an expert in Rhode Island history and currently serves as history coordinator and academic advisor for URI’s Feinstein Providence Campus. Here she discusses the Influenza pandemic of 1918 and its state impact.
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Professor of Chemistry Brett Lucht is undertaking a three-year study to improve battery performance at low temperatures as part of a $480,000 sub-contract with Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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Catherine DeCesare, Senior Lecturer in our Department of History, shares lessons from the 1918 flu pandemic in Rhode Island that can be applied to pandemic policy today.
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Chandra Womack ’04 was one of 1.2 million Southeast Asian refugees who fled Vietnam after the Vietnam War. After earning a B.A. in Communications Studies and later a Masters of Public Administration from URI, she founded the Alliance of Rhode Island Southeast Asians for Education.
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Our students made us proud with their flexibility and resilience during the unprecedented, unexpected changes this past semester. We’re thrilled to introduce you to some of our amazing seniors! They’re a distinguished group—published scholars, seasoned performers, multilingual interns, national scholarship winners, double and triple majors—all ready for what’s next.
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