KINGSTON, R.I. – May 21 – It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of a beloved colleague, friend, and member of the URI community, Walter Von Reinhard, on May 12, 2025. Walter came to URI in 1990 as a key hire for the International Engineering and International Business Programs at URI. He […]
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Sara spent the last year studying abroad as a Biomedical Engineering/Spanish IEP Major in Santander, Spain.
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Students in a French course won a virtual environmental challenge hosted by URI’s partner institution, the University of Rennes 2 in Rennes, France, that was focused on how to make university communities more sustainable. It was conducted in French.
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Jack Ryan Mazzarelli is a senior double majoring in chemistry and Chinese. Here he writes about his experiences being a student in our Chinese Language Flagship Program. “Joining the Flagship program quite literally changed my entire life,” he says.
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As she considers Muslim women’s perspectives through the lens of French cinema, Dr. Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp’s research sparks an important inquiry into how cultural productions can bring often-silenced voices and perspectives to the fore, as well as shape perceptions.
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Julia Al-Amir ’23 is following the Arabic track of the Global Languages and Area Studies major, enamored with the small class sizes in her courses as well as the passion her professors display for engaging students in Arabic language and culture.
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The event was held to inform students of our new Japanese programs (through the Global Languages and Area Studies major and Japanese minor), the Japanese IEP program, and extracurricular activities that are available now and/or are beginning next semester.
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The 2nd annual Arabic Calligraphy and Letter Art Contest invited students to submit calligraphy, photography, paintings, drawings, and other creative works highlighting the beauty of Arabic writing.
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The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to welcome several new professors on the tenure-track who began in the fall 2019 semester. Assistant Professor Bing Mu, Ph.D., joins the University’s Chinese language program in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures. She is also the incoming Coordinator of Intercultural Communicative Competence
Continue reading "URI Welcomes New Assistant Professor of Chinese and Coordinator of Intercultural Communicative Competence"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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As a third generation Italian immigrant, it seemed only natural for Mike Videtta to want to study the language of his heritage. His formal foreign language studies, however, came about as part of one of URI’s unique academic programs. Hailing from Canton, MA — a small town just south of Boston — Videtta entered URI […]
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Since she was a small child, Johanna Leffler has been studying French. Her journey began in kindergarten when she was enrolled in a French immersion program. Later on, she took AP and IB French courses in high school. As such, it seemed only natural for her to perfect her linguistic capabilities in college. After URI […]
Continue reading "Johanna Leffler ‘21 on the new International Studies and Diplomacy Program"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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