Cell Phone App Helps Battle Cholera - Professor Ali Akanda's research allows people in remote parts of the world to receive vital information about water sources contaminated with cholera.
Ph.D. Student Receives USGS Postdoc Fellowship - Farah Nusrat, who recently received her Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at URI, will join a cohort at Utah State that will explore the effects of climate change on aquatic flows and aquatic ecosystem management.
Fulbright Award Winner to Make Clean Water Access a Priority - URI professor Joseph Goodwill will bring his teaching and researching skills to the University of Trento in Italy after being named a 2023 U.S. Fulbright Scholar.- Clean Water Wasn’t Always a Given for URI Graduate Student - Jacira Soares grew up in a poor community in Cape Verde. She had to walk a mile or more as often as three times a day to get drinkable water. As a graduate student at URI, Soares is studying how to make clean water accessible to rural communities around the world.
- Seeking to be ‘Engineers Without Borders,’ URI Students Working to Form Chapter - With the goal of helping communities worldwide improve infrastructure challenges that affect their health and safety, students at URI are attempting to form a chapter of Engineers Without Borders.
- Prestigious Award Will Enable Professor to Teach and Conduct Research In India - Thomas Boving, a professor of engineering and geosciences at URI, will teach and conduct research in India next year thanks to a prestigious Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award.
- Schartner Farm Reimagined By Civil and Environmental Engineering Students - Students in URI civil and environmental engineering capstone course were challenged to develop a plan for the 25-acre site of Schartner Farms in Exeter that would include a hotel, a roundabout and a solar energy field.
- ‘Fresh Idea’ By URI Students Wins Poster Competition at Regional Conference - A team of five URI engineering students won the poster competition at the New England Water Works Association Annual Spring Conference. The team’s project was titled “Emerging Technology for Determining the Speciation of Manganese Oxides.”
- Students In Highway Engineering Course Visit Asphalt Plant - Students in Professor K Wayne Lee’s Highway Engineering Laboratory course visited D’Ambra Construction Company’s asphalt plant to learn about their operations.
- From an Early Age, URI Student Wanted to Protect the Environment - URI civil engineering major Logan Beattie will spend 16 days this summer removing plastic pollution from the marine environment in Costa Rica, thanks to a Metcalf Memorial Fellowship. His interest in protecting the environment started at age 5.
- Helping Eliminate Cholera Worldwide - URI’s Ali Akanda receives $600,000 to continue his work on Cholera By Frances Butler KINGSTON, R.I. – March 29, 2022 — Ali Akanda, Associate Professor at The University of Rhode Island and Antarpreet Jutla, Associate Professor at the University of Florida recently won a $600,000, three-year grant from NASA to help combat the spread of […]
- Antifragility Proposed as a New Approach to Water Treatment by URI Professor - Joseph Goodwill, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at URI, has been conducting research on water treatment methods that move beyond resilience and actually improve the quality of water during difficult times.
- NSF CAREER Award Will Help URI Professor Close the Clean Water Gap - Through a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Joseph Goodwill, URI assistant professor of environmental engineering, is researching a water treatment method that could be especially useful for small, rural communities.
- Educating a New Generation of Engineers to Rebuild Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico has been decimated by hurricanes and earthquakes in recent years. Alesandra Morales-Vélez, who earned a doctorate in civil engineering from URI in 2014, is helping Puerto Rico’s infrastructure become more resilient by teaching engineering students about sustainable practices.
- Digging for quahogs inspired URI student to study geotechnical engineering - Wanting to learn more about soil mechanics, Timothy Keefe is now pursuing a master’s degree in civil engineering at URI.
