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Category: Research

URI history professor’s new book outlines treacherous early 19th century voyage of trade vessel John Jay

Catherine DeCesare’s book ‘Risk in the Anglo-Atlantic World’ published on Jan. 8.

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URI visiting professor visits Berlin to research transnational Black history

K. Bailey Thomas’ grant-funded overseas work includes research on transnational Black history and theory within Germany.

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URI-based Global RIghts Project report spotlights continued troubling trends in worldwide inhumane treatment

Third annual study notes digital oppression by countries, atrocities reaching record levels.

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Refining the solitary confinement reform debate

URI criminology and criminal justice chair Natalie Pifer, fellow researchers publish study on solitary confinement and its impact.

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URI chemistry professor receives National Science Foundation grant for nanotechnology study

The three-year, $464,964 award to Jason Dwyer allows for research into how nanopores can potentially improve ability to detect serious medical conditions.

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Two URI chemistry professors awarded U.S. Department of Energy grants for separate studies

Grants from DOE’s Early Career Research Program, each totaling $875,000, will be spread out over the next five years.

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URI anthropology professor Hilda Lloréns to receive inaugural research award from Hispanic Health Council

Lloréns is to be recognized this December in Hartford for her groundbreaking contributions to scholarship and public engagement.

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University of Rhode Island faculty members named to Stanford University’s Top 2% Scientists 2024 list

2025 College of Arts and Sciences Fellows share their research 

A poster presentation was held in the Memorial Union on Friday, September 26th.

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URI Gravity Research group contributes to major black hole discovery, expands astrophysics program

The work of physics faculty Rob Coyne, Michael Pürrer, Deborah Ferguson, and Derek Davis aims to increase student participation and engagement.

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URI receives $5 million NSF grant aiming to broaden participation in quantum information science

URI professor part of a select group of French educators to visit Côte d’Ivoire thanks to a Fulbright-Hays grant

Lars Erickson, the director of the French International Engineering Program at the University of Rhode Island, participated in the research over the summer.

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URI Gravity Researchers featured in CNN article about black hole collision

The story features Deborah Ferguson, Derek Davis, and Rob Coyne.

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URI faculty Brittany Martin secures a Russell Sage Foundation Award 

The grant will support Martin’s research on reducing financial penalties for indigent people in the Rhode Island criminal court systems.

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URI physics professor receives NSF CAREER award for research in quantum information processing

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