Amanpour tells Taricani Lecture audience: ‘My decision was to tell the truth, no matter how unpopular it made me’

“Everybody comes to the world with their own lived experiences and their own biases,” Christiane Amanpour told several hundred viewers during the recent livestream discussion of the University of Rhode Island’s Taricani Lecture Series on First Amendment Rights. “Our job [as journalists] is not to say we don’t have biases. Our job is to report the truth and do it objectively, despite whatever biases we may have.”

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Courageous journalists: URI’s Taricani Lecture Series honors late journalist with discussion on First Amendment

The University of Rhode Island’s Harrington School of Communication and Media honors a courageous journalist with this summer’s Taricani Lecture Series on First Amendment Rights. The series, which will be streamed live, opens Tuesday, June 16, with award-winning journalists and authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.

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URI anthropology professor challenges evolutionary narratives of big, competitive men and broad, birthing women

Poring over decades of existing research, Holly Dunsworth, Associate Professor of Anthropology, has reevaluated and rewritten the narrow, reigning theories for sex difference in height and pelvic width in a new paper, “Expanding the evolutionary explanations for sex differences in the human skeleton.”

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Class of 2020

Our students made us proud with their flexibility and resilience during the unprecedented, unexpected changes this past semester. We’re thrilled to introduce you to some of our amazing seniors! They’re a distinguished group—published scholars, seasoned performers, multilingual interns, national scholarship winners, double and triple majors—all ready for what’s next.

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Dawn French ‘93 on Working at White Plains Hospital During COVID-19

Dawn French ‘93, a graduate of our journalism program, now works as Senior Vice President for Marketing, Communication and Community Relations at White Plains Hospital in White Plains, NY. “We have news updates coming in every day,” she says of her work during the COVID-19 pandemic, “and every day we have to synthesize them. It’s really the ability to take the same message and slice it in a specific way for each individual audience, which is something I first learned how to do at URI.”

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Criminology and computer science senior enjoyed diverse opportunities and communities

One of Allegra Angell’s proudest accomplishments in her four years at the University of Rhode Island involved her honors project. She and another student created a video game to teach adolescents about unhealthy relationships using research on effective ways to teach young adults new concepts and different types of relationship abuse that they may encounter.

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