“URI is fruitful ground for making something of your own interest,” Nate Vaccaro ’19 says.
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URI Center for the Humanities turns 25
The URI Center for the Humanities celebrates its 25th year. It not only serves as an important source of funding for academic research among faculty and graduate students, it has opened the door to new possibilities for a generation of students and empowered them to pursue their dreams.
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After graduating in 2012 with a B.A. in Political Science, Christopher Arena moved to Washington, D.C., with no job offer and a few hundred dollars in his pocket. He took the first job he could get and said yes to any opportunity that came his way. By 2015, he worked in political campaign management and […]
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Former WPRI Eyewitness News anchor Karen L. Adams H’10 has made a $1 million commitment toward her endowment to support female students at URI’s Harrington School of Communication and Media.
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Chemistry Professor Mindy Levine has hosted Sugar Science Day since 2016 as way of empowering girls to explore chemistry and other STEM fields. Research has shown that girls start losing interest in science around middle school, and while the majority of college graduates and master’s level graduates are women, their numbers lag in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics professions.
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Amanda Downing Carney, South Kingstown, RI, native, entered URI as an undecided major. She states that her advisor encouraged her to take a diverse courses in help her find her niche. She enrolled in Professor David Howard’s costume history class, influenced by the artsy shows she watched on television and memories of her grandmother had […]
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“I was unsure of what I wanted to concentrate on for my undergraduate degree, so I chose URI because of its great range of undergraduate options and affordable instate tuition. I knew that, once I had an excellent undergraduate foundation and manageable student loans, I could pursue a graduate degree in one of my fields of study,” Prull ’03 says.
Continue reading "Reading the Walls: Susanna Prull ’03 on Her Lifelong Passion for Historic Preservation"Dilip Datta’s New Book “Transforming Math Anxiety to Math Agility” is a Scholarly Opus that Discusses Ways on how to Overcome Math Anxiety
ilip Datta, an emeritus professor of mathematics at the URI, has completed his new book “Transforming Math Anxiety to Math Agility”: an in-depth book that tackles specific points on how to achieve an understanding of math and prevent anxiety from taking over when exploring the topic.
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The University of Rhode Island will host its fourth annual Guitar Festival April 5-7, 2019. A schedule is available online. Events will take place at both the URI Fine Arts Center and Pump House Music Works at 1464 Kingstown Road in South Kingstown.
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“I believe that URI has provided me with role models who have been immensely influential in the time I’ve spent here so far. These people push me to do as much as I can, and I know it will be beneficial in obtaining the dreams I have for myself,” Levenson ’21 says.
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Joëlle Rollo-Koster, a history professor at the University of Rhode Island, is heading an international team of scholars that is creating a landmark work on the history of the papacy commissioned by Cambridge University Press.
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Thanks to a seed grant awarded by the Infosys Foundation USA, URI’s Graduate School of Library and Information Studies is collaborating with the national FamilyCodeNight.org initiative to bring family coding events to several diverse Rhode Island communities through public libraries.
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In October, seven A&S alumni returned to campus to facilitate a career workshop for students. Thanks to Elizabeth Berman ‘09, Michele Caprio ‘90, Jim Ferrara ‘89, Tonya Glantz ‘90, Jason Kirkpatrick ‘92, Caitlin O’Donnell ‘10, Kathleen P. O’Donnell-White ‘90, thirty students spent 90-minutes gaining advice on interviewing, resume building, finding that first job, discovering internships, […]
Continue reading "Arts and Sciences Alumni: We Want You!"Meg Hamblen, ’19, dreams of a more arts-accessible future
Growing up in New Hampshire, Megan “Meg” Hamblen had countless opportunities to explore her love for the stage. At first only a hobby, Hamblen quickly acquired a liking for the theatrical arts when she started working as a stage manager at a local theater company. She loved the atmosphere, and she knew that theatre was […]
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Hundreds of forensic science experts have come to the Kingston Campus to discuss everything from crime scene investigation to evidence analysis to such famous cases as the O.J. Simpson trial, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist and the investigation into the Boston Strangler.
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