{"id":365,"date":"2024-02-16T11:12:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T16:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve-draft\/?page_id=365"},"modified":"2024-02-16T11:12:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T16:12:09","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/masters-student-lands-dream-job\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2172\/658A3618-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2172\/658A3618-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2172\/658A3618-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2172\/658A3618-2-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2172\/658A3618-2-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/masters-student-lands-dream-job\/\">Master&#8217;s Student Lands Dream Job<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">It\u2019s no secret that an engineering degree often yields exciting and well-paid careers. The College of Engineering at the University of Rhode Island has long been producing global engineers that do just that. Carrie Ellis, MS \u201925, had many options, but chose to forgo an industry career and instead chase a dream to work for [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/issues\/fall-2024\/water-for-the-world\/\">Water for the World<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">These researchers say clean water is possible the world over. They are using and studying diverse technologies, from the simplest to the most advanced. But they all say changing the way we think about water is key.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/research\/cell-phone-app-helps-battle-cholera\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2172\/girl-drinking-water-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2172\/girl-drinking-water-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2172\/girl-drinking-water-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2172\/girl-drinking-water-364x364.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2172\/girl-drinking-water.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/research\/cell-phone-app-helps-battle-cholera\/\">Cell Phone App Helps Battle Cholera<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Professor Ali Akanda's research allows people in remote parts of the world to receive vital information about water sources contaminated with cholera.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/phd-student-receives-usgs-postdoc-fellowship\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2172\/farah-nusrat-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2172\/farah-nusrat-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2172\/farah-nusrat-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2172\/farah-nusrat-364x364.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2172\/farah-nusrat.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/phd-student-receives-usgs-postdoc-fellowship\/\">Ph.D. Student Receives USGS Postdoc Fellowship<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">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.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/uri-faculty-member-named-a-u-s-fulbright-scholar\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2172\/Joe-Goodwill-fulbright-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2172\/Joe-Goodwill-fulbright-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2172\/Joe-Goodwill-fulbright-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2172\/Joe-Goodwill-fulbright-364x364.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2172\/Joe-Goodwill-fulbright.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/uri-faculty-member-named-a-u-s-fulbright-scholar\/\">Fulbright Award Winner to Make Clean Water Access a Priority<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">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.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/uncategorized\/2022\/10\/clean-water-wasnt-always-a-given-for-uri-student\/\"><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/uncategorized\/2022\/10\/clean-water-wasnt-always-a-given-for-uri-student\/\">Clean Water Wasn\u2019t Always a Given for URI Graduate Student<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">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.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/uncategorized\/2022\/10\/wanting-to-be-engineers-without-borders-uri-students-attempt-to-form-chapter\/\"><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/uncategorized\/2022\/10\/wanting-to-be-engineers-without-borders-uri-students-attempt-to-form-chapter\/\">Seeking to be \u2018Engineers Without Borders,\u2019 URI Students Working to Form Chapter<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">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.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2022\/06\/uri-professor-wins-fulbright-nehru-academic-and-professional-excellence-award\/\"><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2022\/06\/uri-professor-wins-fulbright-nehru-academic-and-professional-excellence-award\/\">Prestigious Award Will Enable Professor to Teach and Conduct Research In India<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">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.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/uncategorized\/2022\/05\/schartner-farm-reimagined-by-civil-environmental-engineering-students\/\"><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/uncategorized\/2022\/05\/schartner-farm-reimagined-by-civil-environmental-engineering-students\/\">Schartner Farm Reimagined By Civil and Environmental Engineering Students<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">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.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/uncategorized\/2022\/05\/fresh-idea-wins-water-works-associations-student-poster-competition\/\"><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/uncategorized\/2022\/05\/fresh-idea-wins-water-works-associations-student-poster-competition\/\">\u2018Fresh Idea\u2019 By URI Students Wins Poster Competition at Regional Conference<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">A team of five URI engineering students won&nbsp;the poster competition at the New England Water Works Association Annual Spring Conference. The team\u2019s project was titled \u201cEmerging Technology for Determining the Speciation of Manganese Oxides.\u201d<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/uncategorized\/2022\/04\/civil-engineering-students-visit-asphalt-plant\/\"><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/uncategorized\/2022\/04\/civil-engineering-students-visit-asphalt-plant\/\">Students In Highway Engineering Course Visit Asphalt Plant<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Students in Professor K Wayne Lee&#8217;s Highway Engineering Laboratory course visited D&#8217;Ambra Construction Company&#8217;s asphalt plant to learn about their operations.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/uncategorized\/2022\/04\/from-an-early-age-uri-student-wanted-to-protect-the-environment\/\"><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/uncategorized\/2022\/04\/from-an-early-age-uri-student-wanted-to-protect-the-environment\/\">From an Early Age, URI Student Wanted to Protect the Environment<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">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.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/helping-eliminate-cholera-worldwide\/\"><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/helping-eliminate-cholera-worldwide\/\">Helping Eliminate Cholera Worldwide<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">URI&#8217;s Ali Akanda receives $600,000 to continue his work on Cholera By Frances Butler KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 29, 2022 \u2014 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 [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2022\/01\/antifragility-proposed-as-a-new-approach-to-water-treatment-by-uri-professor\/\">Antifragility Proposed as a New Approach to Water Treatment by URI Professor<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">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.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2021\/04\/nsf-career-award-will-help-uri-professor-close-the-clean-water-gap\/\"><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2021\/04\/nsf-career-award-will-help-uri-professor-close-the-clean-water-gap\/\">NSF CAREER Award Will Help URI Professor Close the Clean Water Gap<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">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. <\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/uncategorized\/2021\/02\/educating-a-new-generation-of-engineers-to-rebuild-puerto-ricos-infrastructure\/\"><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/uncategorized\/2021\/02\/educating-a-new-generation-of-engineers-to-rebuild-puerto-ricos-infrastructure\/\">Educating a New Generation of Engineers to Rebuild Puerto Rico<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Puerto Rico has been decimated by hurricanes and earthquakes in recent years. Alesandra Morales-V\u00e9lez, who earned a doctorate in civil engineering from URI in 2014, is helping Puerto Rico&#8217;s infrastructure become more resilient by teaching engineering students about sustainable practices.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/digging-for-quahogs-inspired-uri-student-to-study-geotechnical-engineering\/\">Digging for quahogs inspired URI student to study geotechnical engineering<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Wanting to learn more about soil mechanics, Timothy Keefe is now pursuing a master\u2019s degree in civil engineering at URI.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-365","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/365\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}