University of Rhode Island Professor James Miller was hired by the town of East Greenwich to help settle a dispute between bar owners and residents over the sound level of music that is being played at the waterfront bars.
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The 2019 HealthHacksRI event, held at the University of Rhode Island on Oct. 5-6, challenged students to identify a specific issue related to sleep, design a solution that would alleviate the problem and pitch the idea/product to a panel of judges.
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Researchers in URI’s College of Engineering are developing a device for detecting the explosive triacetone triperoxide (TATP) in its vapor form. Their new detection system, which pairs a conductance sensor with a traditional thermodynamic sensor, confirms the presence of TATP at the level of parts per billion.
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URI Assistant Professor Gretchen Macht and three URI students appeared before the Rhode Island Board of Elections recently to present a report on voter data that could be used in an app.
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Barbara Morse Silva visited the URI College of Engineering to do a feature for Channel 10’s Health Check segment on the smart glove. The glove has been developed by Associate Professor Kunal Mankodiya and students in his lab to monitor patients with Parkinson’s disease.
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More than 500 people joined URI President David M. Dooley and College of Engineering Dean Raymond Wright on Oct. 7 to officially celebrate the opening of the Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering.
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According to a Parkinson’s Foundation study, 1.2 million people in the United States will have Parkinson’s disease by 2030. A smart glove that can collect data based on the movements of those living with the disease and other movement disorders is being developed by URI Associate Professor Kunal Mankodiya.
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URI Assistant Professor of Ocean Engineering Brennan Phillips and a team of researchers discovered fish in the depths of the sea off the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific that were using bioluminescent flashes for “schooling.”
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Tim Keefe’s interest in geotechnical engineering traces back to his childhood when his father taught him how to dig for quahogs in Narragansett Bay. As an engineering graduate student at URI, Keefe is still learning about the properties of soils and other materials
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A hydroponics system for plants that was built by the University of Rhode Island student chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) was recognized as the Project of the Month by ESW’s umbrella organization.
Continue reading "Hydroponics System Named Project of the Month by ESW"URI civil and environmental engineering alumnus Frank Marinaccio was honored with the Rhode Island Society of Professional Engineers’ (RISPE) Young Engineer of the Year Award on May 23. Marinaccio is a project engineer for BETA Group, Inc.
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Engineering students from the University of Rhode Island and UCONN recently presented their senior capstone design projects at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) in Newport.
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Majoring in biomedical engineering at URI has allowed Corvah Akoiwala to combine his interests in medicine and engineering. It also enabled him to make a prosthetic arm for a 9-year-old amputee in Colombia.
Continue reading "Designing Prostheses has Prepared URI Senior for Career in Medical Device Industry"Ellie Dunkle ’19 plans to start her own company to create technologies to help remote communities be self-sustaining and connected to society.
Continue reading "Passion for Oceans Inspires URI Student to be an Entrepreneur"Daniel Hartman, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from URI, was named to BusinessWest magazine’s 40 Under Forty list for 2019. The list recognizes rising stars in Western Massachusetts. Hartman is a principal engineer at Mott MacDonald.
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Cherish Prickett, who graduated summa cum laude from the URI’s International Engineering Program in 2018, with bachelor’s degrees in industrial and systems engineering and German, was recently awarded a prestigious Fulbright award. She will pursue a master’s degree in risk, disaster and resilience at University College London’s Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction.
Continue reading "German IEP Alumna Receives Fulbright Award"John M. Grandin, the founding director of URI’s International Engineering Program, will receive an honorary degree at URI’s commencement ceremony on May 19.
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URI researchers take part in an engineering study of the Block Island Wind Farm. The results will be utilized worldwide.
Continue reading "URI Engineering Professors Conducting Wind Farm Support Structure Study"URI Ocean Engineering Professor Stephan Grilli led the effort to produce a new simulation model which illustrates the collapse of Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano and its subsequent tsunami.
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Rachel Bellisle, who graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rhode Island’s biomedical engineering program in 2018, is conducting research in bioastronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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Professors Haibo He and Yan Sun gave a presentation to the Southeastern New England Defense Industry Alliance (SENEDIA) on the vulnerability of the electric grid to cyber and physical threats.
Continue reading "URI Professors Give Tech Talk on Cyber-Physical Security"URI assistant professor of ocean engineering Brennan Phillips is leading a team of researchers in a survey of the ocean floor just off Stonington Borough in Connecticut to look for artifacts from the 1814 Battle of Stonington during the War of 1812.
Continue reading "Phillips Leads Search for Submerged Artifacts"URI Assistant Professor Kunal Mankodiya, along with the students in his Wearable Biosensing Laboratory, are developing wearable technology to monitor, treat, and help people with Parkinson’s disease and other medical conditions.
Continue reading "A Perfect Fit: The Human Side of Wearable Technology"Malcolm Spaulding, professor emeritus of ocean engineering at the University of Rhode Island, referred to the design of Providence’s hurricane barrier as a “conservative design” for its time. Given the sea level rise, he now considers the design “not so conservative.”
Continue reading "Spaulding Comments on Hurricane Barrier, Given Sea-Level Rise"An ope-ed in The New York Times described the University of Rhode Island’s International Engineering Program as a program “for students looking to become truly global engineers.”
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