Peter Covino, associate professor of English, recently published a book chapter and eight poems.
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Stacey Pietrowicz ’02 on Finding Fruitful Futures with Philosophy
Stacey Pietrowicz ’02, a graduate of philosophy and psychology, is now a partner and one of five principal attorneys at a civil litigation law firm in Boston, MA.
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Vianka Brito ’20 double majored in Communication Studies and Human Development and Family Studies, and now works as a work readiness coach with Skills for RI’s Future.
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Jessica Frazier, associate professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and History, is working on a book titled “Creating Transnational Feminist Networks, 1940-2000,” which traces the genealogy of transnational feminist praxis through a collective biography of three non-state feminist activists from South Asia, North Africa, and North America.
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Kim Smith ’15 majored in public relations and minored in communication studies. She’s now in her fifth season working in the National Football League and her third working as Media Relations Coordinator for the Tennessee Titans.
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The study was conducted by Media Literacy Now Rhode Island and Renee Hobbs, professor of communication studies, in collaboration with our Social Science Institute for Research, Education and Policy.
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The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies (GWS) is thrilled to welcome the inaugural Visiting Carlson Scholar this semester, P. Carl. This semester at URI, Carl will engage with students in GWS classes, as well as the broader URI community, to provide trans-awareness programming.
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URI’s Department of Physics celebrated the launch of its new M.S. degree program in Quantum Computing with the inaugural conference in Quantum Computing and Quantum Information Science (QIS) in October.
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The Harrington School of Communication and Media hosted a virtual event with the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author, Clint Smith III, author of How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, in September.
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CNN anchor and senior political correspondent Abby Phillip, a veteran journalist who has covered three presidential administrations, will deliver URI’s 14th annual Christiane Amanpour Lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 10, at 5 p.m.
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University of Rhode Island Professor of Physics Gaurav Khanna has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Khanna is also the University’s founding Director of Research Computing.
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Mathematics. Philosophy. Computer Science. Anthropology. Art. Zara Blum ’14 studied it all on her way to becoming the Marketing Program Manager of A.I. Events at Facebook.
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The University of Rhode Island appointed Catherine John-Camara, Ph.D., an English professor who specializes in African American and Caribbean literature, chair of the Department of Africana Studies. John-Camara started at URI in July. John-Camara, who served as interim chair of the English department at the University of Oklahoma, took over an interdisciplinary program that draws […]
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Julie Keller, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Rhode Island, has been named director of the College’s Social Science Institute for Research, Education and Policy.
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Professor Ashish Chadha’s new book “Bureaucratic Archaeology: State, Science, and Past in Postcolonial India” was published by Cambridge University Press.
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