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From Harvard to URI: Professor Michelangelo La Luna Publishes Landmark Study of a Medieval Dante Manuscript<\/h2><\/div><\/div>
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Mathematics professor Irma Stevens secures National Science Foundation Career Award<\/h2>

Stevens will spend the next five years using the grant to support her latest research project on variable literacy in mathematics.\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Catherine John publishes Afroindigenization: A Theory of Grassroots Cultural Practice<\/h2>

The book is a follow up to her 2003 publication, Clear Word and Third Sight: Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing, published by Duke University Press and The University Press of the West Indies.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Boston, baseball, and busing: David Faflik\u2019s new book explores the making of Red Sox Nation <\/h2>

A cultural history of race, resistance, and representation in a city divided by politics and play.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Kendall Moore\u2019s Films Have an Afterlife<\/h2>

The multiple award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalism professor says success is measured by the trust she earns and the extent to which her films generate awareness, change, and opportunities to amplify the voices of the people in them.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Yu (Joyce) Wu \u5434\u745c<\/h2>

Chinese Language Flagship Program<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Kristine Bovy<\/h2>

Sociology & Anthropology<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Douglas Gobeille<\/h2>

Physics<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Valerie Karno<\/h2>

English, Creative Writing, GSLIS\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Nahoko Collins<\/h2>

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