New assistant professor of chemistry Dr. Daniel Thomas comes to us from the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin, Germany. He looks forward to continue his research on helium nanodroplets and infrared spectroscopy.
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“Seeing the way one entire math class would suddenly appear in a single physics problem, or using a physics application to explain the meaning of a mathematical concept began to feel like I was watching a beautiful dance,” says Stefanie Hersey ’20, a recent graduate who double majored in physics and applied mathematics.
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Professor Marc Hutchison took advantage of the summer — and multiple trainings offered by URI — to prepare the political science department for an effective semester utilizing new technologies for virtual learning.
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Kate Dubois is a junior double majoring in Chinese and international studies and diplomacy. Here she writes about her experience being in URI’s Chinese Language Flagship Program.
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This fall semester, Dr. J. Jennifer Jones will teach ENG 120: Poetry Out Loud synchronously online. “We will use digital technology – and use it well – in order to ensure the very best experience of Fall 2020 while also ensuring maximum safety and health for all members of URI, as well as their families and friends,” she says.
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Jack Ryan Mazzarelli is a senior double majoring in chemistry and Chinese. Here he writes about his experiences being a student in our Chinese Language Flagship Program. “Joining the Flagship program quite literally changed my entire life,” he says.
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With Joe Army ’86 at the helm of the company, there aren’t many COVID-19 hotspots in the world where Vapotherm’s respiratory care technology can’t be found.
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For online film courses this summer, URI’s Film/Media program is utilizing smartphone production kits that enable students to execute filmmaking and all aspects of production from their own personal cellphones.
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At URI, Angela Gonzalez ’16 found a home in the Department of Art and Art History. Now, she’s a social worker who works with children with disabilities and is also working on a pair of murals for Providence’s Hartford Park. “In my art, I’ve always focused on what connects us,” she says.
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The stories in this series include profiles in courage, integrity, and citizenship. They illustrate the importance of our freedom — and responsibility — to exercise our First Amendment rights.
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“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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Christiane Amanpour ’83, H ’95, will deliver the second installment of the Taricani Lecture Series on First Amendment Rights, hosted by the Harrington School of Communication and Media, on Thursday, July 16, at noon.
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Michael DiNardi, assistant professor of economics, analyzed aggregated anonymous mobile device GPS location data from SafeGraph, Inc., and Google Community Mobility Reports to measure how much time Rhode Islanders were spending at home.
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Nicholas Kristof, with his wife and fellow Pulitzer Prize-winner, Sheryl WuDunn, kicked off the Taricani Lecture Series on First Amendment Rights presented Tuesday evening by the University of Rhode Island.
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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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