The books, all published within the same week, highlight the European financial crisis, business impacts on economics, and ‘Marxism without guarantees.’
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Last semester, Hall, who is majoring in gender and women’s studies and political science, devoted her Sunday mornings to cold calling Rhode Island residents about reproductive rights issues. A volunteer for the advocacy nonprofit The Woman Project, Hall also collected signatures of URI community members and supporters of reproductive rights on fabric squares that will be stitched together in a quilt to be delivered to the Rhode Island State House.
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Andrew Burnap, ’13, will star in a major new play on one of London’s most influential stages, the Young Vic, directed by Stephen Daldry, the man behind “The Crown.”
Continue reading "Andrew Burnap, ’13, one of New York Times’ “3 Young People to Watch in Theater”"Brianna Blank, ’14, dished out advice about weight loss and healthy eating on the “Today” show in a spirited interview that put her on the national stage.
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Tara Granahan, ’88, has outlasted the male competition, and for good reason.
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The students accompanied social workers on home visits, watched hearings in Family Court in Providence, observed teachers and students at Ocean Tides—a residential facility for boys in Narragansett—and attended presentations by social service agencies, including the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth and Families, or DCYF.
Continue reading "URI students reach out to help troubled teens"After an exhaustive audition process, Derek Nikitas was invited to co-author two novellas with literary superstar James Patterson, Diary of a Succubus and You’ve Been Warned – Again. The first is about a supernatural assassin; the other concerns the mysterious presence of a girl’s dead brother. Both titles were published as e-books and are part of Patterson’s “BookShot” series.
Continue reading "English professor teams up with literary superstar James Patterson"Writing & Rhetoric professors at URI are rethinking how they teach some first-year composition classes to give students an opportunity to write in new ways that incorporate technology, personal experience and public awareness. In this semester’s classes, students are offered a variety of projects, including opportunities to join citizen science projects and write about them for the public; to consider their out-of-school writing practices—such as on social media—inside the classroom; to identify fake news, fact-check those items and then write accurate accounts; and to raise awareness and create change on social justice issues they are passionate about.
Continue reading "URI professors explore new ways to teach writing"A new collaborative program between the University of Rhode Island and the Ocean Tides School at the Christian Brothers Center in Narragansett and Tides Family Services in Providence, two Christian Brothers/LaSallian child welfare ministries, is hoping to show sociology students the vast array of career options in the field of sociology, while also assisting at-risk teens and youth simultaneously.
Continue reading "URI collaborates with Ocean Tides on sociology course"The University of Rhode Island’s Landscape Architecture Lecture Series continues next month with a talk March 8 by Peter Trowbridge, principal of Trowbridge Wolf Michaels Landscape Architects in Ithaca, N.Y. and professor emeritus at Cornell University. Other talks to follow in April.
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Theo Greenblatt’s story, “Solitaire,” was rejected 22 times before winning first place recently in a short story contest in “The London Magazine,” so prestigious it’s known as “The New Yorker” of England. The prize—$700 and publication in the magazine—will be bestowed at a celebration in the House of Commons in mid-March.
Continue reading "URI graduate, writer wins short story contest in prestigious The London Magazine"Professor Ronald J. Onorato was named the inaugural winner of The Winnie, a URI grant named after Winifred Brownell, former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and a loyal supporter of the arts
Continue reading "URI art history professor recreates 17th century neighborhood in Newport with 3-D printing"Linden Wyatt says his company, Optera Diagnostics, is developing an instrument that can evaluate tissue biopsies in about 15 minutes. He launched the company in August and is preparing to reach out to investors.
Continue reading "Grad. student launches business to speed up biopsy results"Just a few weeks ago, Connor Rogers had no idea how he would pay for his final class at the University of Rhode Island. Then goodness swept in by way of a URI alumnus who also understands the pain of losing a parent at a young age. With a scholarship he created recently, Jonathan Herman gave Rogers $3,000—more than enough to reach the finish line and get his degree.
Continue reading "Student receives scholarship for students who have lost parents"This fall, Robert Coyne joined the University of Rhode Island as a physics lecturer, and he expects to bring with him membership in an exclusive club: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, whose founders won the Nobel Prize in physics earlier this month.
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