Joseph Squillace, Multicultural Postdoctoral Fellow in our Department of Computer Science and Statistics, is interested in probabilistic applications in both pure mathematics and statistics.
Continue reading "Creating New Puzzle Pieces: Dr. Joseph Squillace on His New Position at URI"
While the pandemic has dropped the curtain on theater productions from Broadway to Kingston, the URI Theatre Department has come up with a creative alternative.
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Leah Hopkins ’20, an anthropology graduate and member of the Narragansett Indian Tribe, the Algonquian people native to Rhode Island, is now the first community engagement specialist at Brown University’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology.
Continue reading "Keeper of Her Culture"
Our newest Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Sarah Brown, is interested in adapting machine learning algorithms and the systems they are embedded in to prevent Artificial Intelligence from reinforcing patterns of discrimination.
Continue reading "Ones & Ohs: Assistant Professor of Computer Science Sarah Brown on Coming to URI"Students, faculty, administrators and staff are invited to nominate candidates for excellence awards. Please submit one-page nominations to the Dean’s Office in 260 Chafee or via email to Rhonda LaPorte by Friday, November 20, 2020.
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The Radio Television Digital News Foundation named Leah Crowley ’22, a journalism and political science double major, a 2020 President’s Scholar.
Continue reading "Coming to You Live: Leah Crowley ‘22 on Her Burgeoning Career in Journalism"
We are thrilled to welcome our new Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, Leah Heilig. Her research interests focus on technical communication, disability studies, and accessibility/accessible design. “I’m interested in how communication design can be used to promote equity and access to a variety of people and technologies,” she says.
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As a Biological Sciences, Italian, and Sociology major, Julia Santini ‘21 epitomizes the interdisciplinary approach we strive for at URI in today’s interconnected world. She was admitted to Brown-Alpert Medical School via the Early Identification Program.
Continue reading "Three’s A Charm: Julia Santini ‘21 on Triple Majoring"
On, Thursday, Oct. 29, Hilary Levey Friedman, author of Here She Is: The Complicated Reign of the Beauty Pageant in America, will explore the history of the suffrage sash and how it influenced the Miss America Pageant in a free, virtual lecture entitled.
Continue reading "Suffrage and Sashes: URI’s ‘Long Rhode to the Vote’ series continues"
Courtney Hawes ’19 signed up for GWS 320: Feminist Thought Into Action, a Gender and Women’s Studies course, to fulfill a general education requirement – and it led her to her dream job.
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For the 2020 Tony Awards, Andrew Burnap ’13 was nominated for BEST ACTOR in a leading role (play) for his role as Toby Darling in Matthew Lopez’s The Inheritance. The Broadway production received 11 nominations in total, including “Best Play.”
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Dr. Melissa Villa-Nicholas is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies.
Continue reading "Dr. Melissa Villa-Nicholas Wins Eighth Annual Library Juice Paper Contest"
New Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric and Natural Resources Science Madison Jones is the perfect example of how multiple disciplines can combine to further one another. He brings expertise in combining place-based writing with locative media for public environmental communication projects to URI.
Continue reading "The Science of Writing: Dr. Madison Jones on Joining the URI Community"
New Assistant Professor of Theatre Technology and Design James Horban says he’s always searching for ways to integrate interactive technologies into learning environments so that his students are exposed to the most current production methods.
Continue reading "Lighting the Way: Assistant Professor of Theatre James Horban on His New Position at URI"
Chase Hoffman ’20 speaks with Professor of English Mary Cappello on her new book, her upcoming (albeit postponed) keynote speech for NonfictioNow in New Zealand, and why English majors are particularly well prepared to “creatively respond to the challenges of our contemporary world.”
Continue reading "A conversation with Dr. Mary Cappello"