In her award-winning book, anthropologist Hilda Lloréns chronicles the lives of women in Puerto Rico who draw on deep cultural knowledge to navigate myriad environmental challenges from industrial pollution to disasters like hurricanes Irma and Maria.
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URI research team launches world’s largest global human rights dataset
The massive new dataset, soon to be freely available online, aims to help researchers objectively evaluate respect for human rights the world over.
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New details about the chemical reaction that occurs when a form of iron called ferrate is exposed to light could broaden its application in water treatment systems.
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‘Some Food We Could Not Eat’ is on display in the URI Greenhouses through Dec. 13
Continue reading "Growing URI’s exhibit spaces: New show in the Greenhouses examines food through an artistic lens"Researchers explore the racial and gender politics of Barstool Sports
In a new paper, URI researchers argue that Barstool Sports helps to normalize racial exclusion and white male dominance in ways that parallel the rise of the alt-right in the U.S.
Continue reading "Researchers explore the racial and gender politics of Barstool Sports"Author, activist Terry Tempest Williams to address Environmental Humanities Lecture Series
The award-winning writer, naturalist, activist, and educator will wrap up the fall schedule of the University of Rhode Island Center for the Humanities’ year-long discussion, “Re-Envisioning Nature: An Environmental Humanities Lecture Series.”
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URI alumni return to campus to talk with students about how training in the humanities prepared them for successful careers.
Continue reading "‘Linking Humanities to Careers’ event shows students they have the skills for success"IGT, URI launch computer science scholarship program for women
Through the generous support of IGT, the University of Rhode Island’s Department of Computer Science and Statistics is launching a four-year scholarship program aimed at increasing the number of women who major in computer science.
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Researchers eradicate malignant tumors in mice by combining immunotherapy agent with molecular delivery system that targets tumor acidity.
Continue reading "Cancer-seeking molecular delivery system could boost immunotherapy drug, research finds"PBS NewsHour correspondent and renowned conflict reporter Jane Ferguson to deliver annual Amanpour Lecture
Ferguson’s lecture to focus on tools and techniques needed to capture the human side of global conflict.
Continue reading "PBS NewsHour correspondent and renowned conflict reporter Jane Ferguson to deliver annual Amanpour Lecture"Two language professors land ACTFL research priority awards
LeAnne Spino-Seijas and Yu (Joyce) Wu will receive Research Priorities Grants from ACTFL, a national organization that supports quality teaching and learning of languages at all educational levels.
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Funding provided by the A&S Student Fellows Program helped 16 students pursue research and creative projects over the summer.
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A total of nearly $15 million in renovations make Ranger Hall a dynamic new home for URI’s Harrington School of Communication and Media.
Continue reading "URI’s fully renovated Ranger Hall opens its doors to students"A&S welcomes a dynamic group of new tenure track faculty
With the start of a new academic year, the College of Arts and Sciences welcomes a cohort of 12 new tenure track faculty members with research and scholarship interests spanning topics from inorganic chemistry to Latin American art and feminist artistic practices.
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This academic year, the University of Rhode Island Center for the Humanities will focus its third annual lecture series on the contributions of environmental humanities scholars – such as environmental historians, literary scholars, writers, and musicians – to highlight the role of the humanities in understanding and addressing some of the most important issues we face.
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