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Reading the Walls: Susanna Prull ’03 on Her Lifelong Passion for Historic Preservation

“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.

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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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Arts and Sciences Alumni: We Want You!

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, […]

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URI’s Forensic Science Partnership celebrates 20 years of research, community service, renowned speakers

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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“As Is the Gardener”: Phil Pasco, ’20, on How Landscape Architecture Found Him

Phil Pasco

Phil Pasco decided to attend URI for three reasons: family history, cost, and Landscape Architecture. Though the first two might sound common, as Pasco is one of many with a grandfather who attended URI and opted to enroll at Little Rhody over Roger Williams based on tuition, one might not expect Landscape Architecture to be […]

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Arts and Sciences Fellows Program: A Summer Opportunity for Growth

Participating in a dig in Cyprus, cleaning, analyzing, and sorting Byzantine-era mosaics. Getting research published in a premier Chemistry journal. Creating and performing a piece of theatre with 15-18 year-olds to discuss issues of crime, violence, and sexual assault in their communities. These opportunities were among those afforded to twelve undergraduate students through the inaugural […]

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Arts and Sciences Student Achievement Leading to New Opportunities

This year, several Arts and Sciences students won prestigious, competitive national scholarships: the Boren, Truman, and Fulbright. Chase Hall ‘19, double major in Political Science and Chinese and minor in Theatre, was awarded $20,000 through a Boren Scholarship to subsidize the cost of the Chinese Flagship Capstone Year at Nanjing University. One of the most […]

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