While an undergraduate physics major, Torrie Sutherland ’20 researched radio astrophysics and created images of active galactic nuclei jets to study the polarization of the light that is being ejected from black holes. She was also the trombone section leader in URI’s Marching Band and twice performed in the Newport Jazz Festival.
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Our Social Science Institute for Research, Education, and Policy’s Public Policy Lab engages students and faculty in policy and program analysis and evaluation for government and community-based organizations in the state of Rhode Island.
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URI is welcoming two students and a teacher from the renowned Alpha Boys Institute in Kingston, Jamaica, as part of an exchange program that supports music education. The program is supported by March for Music Education, which encourages youth music education and social development through creativity.
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Associate Professor of History Rae Ferguson is intentional about involving her students in projects that require introspection. “I want my students to see themselves as part of a historical thread that’s always moving, always changing,” she says.
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Christian Harder ‘05 discusses how his B.A. in art from URI prepared him to become a professional lifestyle photographer.
Continue reading "Perfectly Off-Center: Christian Harder ‘05 on Being a Lifestyle Photographer"URI’s first theater production of the semester, “Richard III,” has been transformed from Shakespeare’s second longest play into a 90-minute, fast-paced, action drama.
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Grammy award-winning performers, an International Guitar Festival, and a celebration of life through music are all part of our Department of Music’s spring season at the University of Rhode Island.
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Krishna Venkatasubramanian, assistant professor of computer science, is researching ways to help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities report sexual abuse with technology. “Our goal is to build a tool that makes reporting easier, but also teaches folks how to recognize abuse and what they should do,” he says.
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“Right now we live in an environment where we’re bombarded by information,” says Barry Burdick ’20. “Philosophy helps to discern through that information to see how it applies or doesn’t and how to argue in a non-threatening way. It helps you become a more well-rounded person.”
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Our International Studies and Diplomacy program is the only of its kind in the Northeast. It’s designed to provide students with essential knowledge and skills in international politics, economics, culture, and language.
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The University of Rhode Island’s Department of Art and Art History is anything but predictable or traditional. This spring season the department’s exhibits and showcases at the Fine Arts Center bring the university’s motto of “Thinking Big” to life.
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Cate McLaughlin ‘23 is pursuing our new dual major program, International Studies and Diplomacy (ISD), focusing on also earning a B.A. in French and two minors in Spanish and Arabic. “It allows you to be a really well-rounded person by studying so many disciplines and picking up so many more skills,” she says of the ISD major.
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Holly Dunsworth, associate professor of Anthropology, lent her expertise on the evolution of childbirth to a Netflix documentary series that was released in January and is available on YouTube and Netflix. “Sex, Explained” is a spinoff of the short-documentary series “Explained,” produced by Vox Media.
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Two of our faculty — Evelyn Sterne, an associate professor of history who studies the history of immigration in the United States, and Julie Keller, an assistant professor of sociology who studies migration from Latin America — weigh in on the impact of incarcerating children at the border.
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We welcomed several new professors on the tenure-track last fall. Assistant Professor Abdeltawab Hendawi, whose research focuses on issues in big data management and analytics, joined our Department of Computer Science and Statistics.
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