Students and faculty from our Department of Theatre participated in the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre (KC/ACTF) 2021 Region 1 Festival.
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Documenting a history of resistance
Marcus P. Nevius, assistant professor of history, spent a month in the the Great Dismal Swamp, a tract of marshland situated between Norfolk, Virginia, and Elizabeth City, North Carolina, researching his first book, City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856.
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Jason Phillips ’23, a triple major in Journalism, Writing and Rhetoric, and English, discusses the importance of community in organizations and taking advantage of the opportunities URI has to offer, especially in the humanities.
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In late December every year, we announce our Dean’s Excellence Awards. They are chosen based on nominations from students, faculty, administrators, and staff.
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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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Ximena Sevilla, Multicultural Postdoctoral Fellow in our Department of History, discusses her time at URI, is an environmental historian of Latin American.
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In this story, our new Assistant Professor of Music Emmett Goods discusses his teaching background, his research interests in the hard bop trombone style of jazz, and his advice to current students.
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Logan Giroux ’20 is combining his love for yoga, meditation, and fitness with his degree in computer science to launch a startup, Meditation Athlete, an online platform offering yoga and meditation classes to athletes and other patrons.
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Joseph Squillace, Multicultural Postdoctoral Fellow in our Department of Computer Science and Statistics, is interested in probabilistic applications in both pure mathematics and statistics.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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