URI’s College of Arts and Sciences has selected Kamilah A’Vant as its new assistant dean for justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI).
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Collin Treacy ’22 double majored in applied mathematics and mechanical engineering. He says that his mathematics courses helped him understand engineering concepts on a deeper level. “The math department here includes very intelligent and knowledgeable professors that are passionate about what they do,” he says.
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Multilingual scholars. Seasoned performers. Winners of competitive national scholarships. Double—and triple—majors who have completed a myriad of internships and studied abroad across the globe. Our graduating class is a diverse, distinguished group ready for what’s next.
Continue reading "Class of 2022"Physics majors Samantha Adams and Oliver Carey have both been interning at the UMass-URI Research Consortium this semester. Adams is creating images of sources using radio data and Carey is looking specifically at the jets and X-Ray emissions produced by those sources.
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Gillian Hodge ’23 double majors in Chinese and International Studies and Diplomacy. She is currently interning at the Naval War College in Newport, RI. She’s working with the China Maritime Studies Institute where she has been able to study Chinese investment into ports in Southeast Asia and Africa.
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Emily Diamond, assistant professor of communication studies and marine affairs, was the recent recipient of the 2022 Research and Scholarship Excellence Award from URI’s Division of Research and Economic Development.
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Samantha Talbot ’22 is double majoring in anthropology and history and minoring in classical civilizations. This semester she’s been an intern at the Tomaquag Museum in Exeter, RI, honing her passion for museum curation before embarking on a master’s degree in history and museum studies at Tufts University.
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URI’s Theatre Department is doing the “Time Warp” again, returning to Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s spooky castle for “The Rocky Horror Show.” Richard O’Brien’s gender-bending spoof of horror and science fiction B-movies opens Thursday, April 21, in the Robert E. Will Theatre.
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Sarah Brown, an assistant professor of computer science, is examining how to prevent artificial intelligence from reinforcing biases. “My research is about how we can adapt machine-learning algorithms and the systems they are embedded in in order to prevent AI from reinforcing patterns of discrimination,” she says.
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Students in a French course won a virtual environmental challenge hosted by URI’s partner institution, the University of Rennes 2 in Rennes, France, that was focused on how to make university communities more sustainable. It was conducted in French.
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Linda Lotridge Levin, professor emerita of journalism at URI, is one of six journalists being inducted into the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame (NENPA) Hall of Fame. NENPA is the professional trade organization for newspapers in the six New England states, and its Hall of Fame recognizes the most outstanding newspaper professionals from the region.
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Lisa Wolpe will present “Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender,” an exploration of her experiences as an activist for inclusion, diversity, racial equality, access, trans and women’s rights, and gender exploration.
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After living in Spain for more than 12 years due to his father’s Air Force deployment, Dawson Miller ’23 returned to the U.S. for the first time since 2006 to study Chinese through URI’s Chinese flagship program.
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Ben Felag ’18 majored in English and minored in education. He now has a successful career as a drag queen called SemiSweet.
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Yasmin Hussein ’20 majored in political science and public relations after recognizing the need to help underrepresented and underserved communities. She now works as an underwriter assistant at Falvey Cargo.
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