The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to welcome several new professors on the tenure-track beginning in the fall 2019 semester. Assistant Professor Ying Xiong, Ph.D., joins the Harrington School of Communication and Media’s Public Relations Program.
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Christine Zozula, Associate Professor of Sociology, recently published her debut book. While offering a critique of the community court system, she explores the prosecution of quality-of-life crimes, the workings of individualized justice in community courts, and the idea that criminal justice reforms may not deliver on all they promise.
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Michael Antosh, assistant professor of physics, is hoping to improve cancer treatments through research on the use on nanoparticles to enhance radiation therapy and ultimately make it more effective at eradicating cancer.
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Kenny Greene ’19 graduated in May — 25 years after first starting his degree — to fulfill a promise to his mother and win a bet with his daughter. “The best advice I can give is to utilize all the resources that are offered to you,” he says. “Don’t be embarrassed or nervous to take up a professor’s time outside the classroom. Professors appreciate kids showing interest in their class and what they’re teaching. They’re caring and giving people, use them and their resources.”
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The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to welcome several new professors beginning in the fall 2019 semester. Assistant Professor Chelsea Farrell, Ph.D., joins the Criminology and Criminal Justice program.
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Driven by a fine-tuned affinity for the written word, Caelan Ernest fell in love with URI’s Writing and Rhetoric major through the curriculum’s commitment to academic writing.
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In this article, Dr. Venkatasubramanian explains his background; research agenda; and why he seeks to create learning environments that engage STEM with language, culture, and history. “I am driven by a strong desire to develop computational solutions that are useful for helping vulnerable populations in our society,” he says.
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Buddini Karawdeniya ’18 wrote advice for graduate students that was published on the website for Nature, a leading international scientific research journal. While at URI, Buddini worked in the lab of Dr. Jason Dwyer, who won the Arts and Sciences Graduate Mentoring Award in 2018.
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Richard Rivera graduated from URI in 1995 with a degree in Political Science. He now works as Vice President and Branch Manager of Charles Schwab in Boston, MA.
Continue reading "Q&A with Richard Rivera ’95"Holly Dunsworth, Associate Professor of Anthropology, is targeting a recurring popular evolutionary analogy that compares human races with dog breeds, one that may sound innocent and scientific on the surface but carries deep racist undertones.
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The College of Arts and Sciences welcomes its new Music Therapy undergraduate program beginning in the 2020 Academic Year. The Bachelor of Music in Music Therapy will be the first of its kind at a public New England institution. It is a five-year health-based degree program grounded in neuroscientific research. Students, who must display proficiency […]
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Growing up in URI’s hometown of Kingston, Rhode Island, John Vaccaro ’12 opted to attend the university closest to home for that and many other reasons. “It was convenient with my father working there,” he says, “and of course there was the family legacy since my older siblings attended. But I wanted to go to […]
Continue reading "Hitting the Streets: John Vaccaro ’12 on What Led Him to Working With the NYPD"The College of Arts and Sciences welcomes its new Global Languages and Area Studies (GLAS) undergraduate major beginning in the 2019/2020 Academic Year. This innovative program is an umbrella major for some of The University of Rhode Island’s smaller language programs: Arabic, Japanese, and Classical Studies (which encompasses both Ancient Greek and Latin). GLAS provides […]
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Assistant Professor Tatsushi Fukunaga joins us from Purdue University. He has the distinction of being URI’s first ever professor of Japanese, and he brings years of international teaching experience and distinction to his new appointment.
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Growing up calling Los Angeles and then New Hampshire home, Cassie Chartier had a multitude of colleges in her periphery. Though she ultimately chose URI for financial reasons, the largest public institution in the smallest state in the nation provided Chartier with the opportunity to explore a passion she’d held since high school: chemistry. “Chemistry […]
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