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.
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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.
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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.
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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"The University of Rhode Island is hosting a yearlong virtual series focused on suffrage history and modern-day voting issues.
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New Assistant Professor of Public Relations, Dr. Joon Kim, discusses his past and current research interests, what motivated him to join the Harrington School of Communication and Media, and his advice to current students.
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We are now offering HIS/APG 392X: The URI Campus: A Walk Through Time. It is being co-taught by Lorén Spears, director of the Tomaquag Museum, Rhode Island’s first and only museum dedicated to educating the public and promoting thoughtful dialogue on Indigenous history, culture and arts as well as Native American issues of today.
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Shantia Anderheggen ’84 uses her art history degree as a historic preservation professional, working to restore beautiful, historic buildings that feel quintessential to New England’s landscape.
Continue reading "Rebuilding Stone Giants: Shantia Anderheggen ’84 on Where Her Art History Degree Has Taken Her"We’re excited to welcome Dr. Vanita Srinivasa, our newest assistant professor of physics and director of our new quantum information sciences research program. “URI is uniquely poised for growth in quantum information science and has a matching enthusiasm for expanding research and education in this field,” she says.
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In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, the National Archives Museum created “Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote.” You can see the pop-up display in-person during the next two months at URI’s Carothers Library.
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In response to current events, URI’s College of Arts and Sciences has created new additions to its typical roster of courses. These new 1-credit, S/U graded special topics courses are timely and cross-disciplinary with many team-taught by faculty from across the college.
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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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