What if a face mask could be used as much more than a mitigation strategy in the battle against COVID? A team of students at URI have developed a “smart mask” that can quantitatively monitor COVID-19 symptoms.
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Irene Andreu will deliver the first seminar of this fall’s Amgen-sponsored chemical engineering series. Dr. Andreu joined URI in 2018 as the director of the Rhode Island Consortium of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and an adjunct faculty in chemical engineering.
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Timo Kuester, an international URI student from Germany, is part of a team that is developing marine sensors to detect pollutants in Narragansett Bay. A doctoral candidate in chemical engineering, Kuester has attended several science communication programs to become a more effective communicator.
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Timo Kuester, who is a doctoral candidate in chemical engineering, is part of a team that is developing marine sensors to detect pollutants in Narragansett Bay. Motivated to become a more effective communicator, Kuester has attended several science communication programs.
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Appearing on an episode of National Geographic’s series X-Ray Earth, URI Ocean Engineering Professor Stephan Grilli shared the modeling work he’s done on tsunamis and the devastation they can cause.
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Jacqui Roush, a sophomore majoring in ocean engineering and marine biology at URI, spent half the summer researching the location, concentration and movement of microplastics in Narragansett Bay.
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URI Professor Gretchen Macht’s research on voting process layouts is expected to improve safety and efficiency at voting locations during the upcoming election.
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URI Associate Professor Valerie Maier Speredelozzi shared what it’s like to conduct online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic with five children at home.
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Kotachi Liu, a doctoral student in ocean engineering, won honorable mention in the URI Research and Scholarship Photo Contest for an image of a cross section of the housing tube of a marine parchment worm.
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The discovery of sharks living in an active underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean by Brennan Phillips, an assistant professor of ocean engineering at URI, was the subject of a documentary on National Geographic.
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Navatek and the University of Rhode Island College of Engineering have been awarded a $3.8 million contract for cyber-physical systems research by the U.S. Office of Naval Research.
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URI has purchased a $2.3 million scanning-transmission electron microscope that will be used to visualize and characterize a broad variety of materials in high-resolution at sub-nanoscales.
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When URI switched to remote learning in March due to COVID-19, 53 students who were studying and working abroad through URI’s International Engineering Program were brought back to the United States, where research and internship opportunities were arranged for them.
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Recent URI industrial and systems engineering graduate Power Kanga shared his inspiring story of overcoming adversity and ultimately achieving success at URI.
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Justin Hayes, who just earned bachelor’s degrees in chemical engineering and Spanish through URI’s International Engineering Program, is one of five URI students to attain a graduate research fellowship from the National Science Foundation.
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Alexa Leone, who just earned her bachelor’s degree in ocean engineering from URI, is one of five URI students to attain a graduate research fellowship from the National Science Foundation.
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Excellence Award Winners Biomedical Engineering Dylan Kennedy, North Kingstown, RI Dylan is receiving bachelor’s degrees in biomedical engineering and Chinese through URI’s International Engineering Program. He was named to the Dean’s List throughout his four years at URI. Dylan was a member of Tau Beta PI, Order of Omega Greek Honor Society and Phi Beta […]
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Sarah Koenig was featured in a series highlighting Asian American women engineers by the Society of Women Engineers. Sarah graduated from URI in 2007 with bachelor’s degrees in industrial engineering and French through the International Engineering Program.
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Sarah Koenig, a French IEP and industrial engineering alumna, was featured by SWE in a series highlighting Asian American women engineers with leadership experience.
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URI students, such as Dominik Brysch, who will complete his master’s degree in industrial and systems engineering in August, have put in long hours to fabricate face shields for first responders.
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Lukas Duwe’s research an “All Solid Lithium Ion Battery for Safety and Stability” earned him the 2020 Excellence in Master’s Thesis Research Award from the URI Graduate School.
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After a shoulder injury ended Power Kanga’s football career at URI, he focused his energy on his industrial and systems engineering studies and URI’s ROTC.
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