Professor Kathleen McIntyre and Emma Hayes ‘22 on RI Black Women’s Suffrage History

Professor Kathleen McIntyre teaches a course on Give me Suffrage: Voting Rights in the Americas. With her students, she is writing biographical sketches of twelve Providence Black suffragists from the early 1900s. Once finished, the sketches will be published in the Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the U.S.

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New master’s track in Library and Information Studies

Our Graduate School of Library and Information Studies launched a master’s track focused on “Information Equity, Diverse Communities, and Critical Librarianship.” This spring, the program is bringing conversations on race, gender, sexuality, class and information equality to the public forum by hosting a webinar series featuring national library and information science scholars.

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Professor exploring log-in solutions for people with upper extremity impairment

Professor Krishna Venkatasubramanian is researching computer authentication problems faced by people with upper extremity impairment with the goal of developing software that allows users to more easily access their devices. His work has the support of a three-year, $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

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