Professor Hilda Lloréns’ new book, Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice (U. of Washington Press), will be published in November.
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Leah Hopkins ’20, an anthropology graduate and member of the Narragansett Indian Tribe, the Algonquian people native to Rhode Island, is now the first community engagement specialist at Brown University’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology.
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As a Biological Sciences, Italian, and Sociology major, Julia Santini ‘21 epitomizes the interdisciplinary approach we strive for at URI in today’s interconnected world. She was admitted to Brown-Alpert Medical School via the Early Identification Program.
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Holly Dunsworth, associate professor of Anthropology, lent her expertise on the evolution of childbirth to a Netflix documentary series that was released in January and is available on YouTube and Netflix. “Sex, Explained” is a spinoff of the short-documentary series “Explained,” produced by Vox Media.
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Two of our faculty — Evelyn Sterne, an associate professor of history who studies the history of immigration in the United States, and Julie Keller, an assistant professor of sociology who studies migration from Latin America — weigh in on the impact of incarcerating children at the border.
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Dogs wag their tails. Does that behavior separate them from wolves? Kate Fish spent her summer at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City gathering data to test her theory that it might.
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Her plan originally was to never go to college. Both indecisive and reluctant, Hunter Bastan looked towards a possible future in either beauty school or the Marines before ever considering getting a traditional college education. But one letter changed all of that for the Providence native. What Bastan found in her mailbox filled her with […]
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To hear James King ’06 tell of how he came to work for Madeleine Albright brings to mind that J.R.R. Tolkien line: “Not all those who wander are lost.”
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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"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"Extreme weather events attributed to climate change are devastating societies whose vulnerability is the product of a harsh social calculus — the poor are left to bear the climatic brunt of the wealthy’s overconsumption of energy and resources. This panel will explore how the recent destruction in Houston, Florida and Puerto Rico partly stemmed from social and economic disparities — and how those inequalities may affect recovery and reconstruction.
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