The three-year project is backed by a $500K grant from National Science Foundation.
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University of Rhode Island President Marc Parlange welcomed more than 200 guests to celebrate progress on the $300 million, multi-phase transformation of the Narragansett Bay Campus.
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Part-time Ph.D. chemical engineering student Michael Jones was awarded the 2024 Scientific Achievement Award by the International System Safety Society (ISSS) for contributions to the advancement of system safety.
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The Office of Naval Research has awarded a three-year, $418,300 grant to University of Rhode Island mechanical engineering assistant professor Ashutosh Giri
Continue reading "URI engineering professor awarded Office of Naval Research grant to study heat transfer"Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship Dakota Watjen (GIBP) Beatrice S. Demers Foreign Language Fellowship Alexi Andresky (GIEP) Ethan Carpio (GIEP) Laura Colón Peña (SIEP) Ian Colson (GIEP) Jacob Cultrera (GIEP) Brinik Erickson (FIEP) Nicholas DeFranzo (IIEP) James Joubert (SIEP) Erik Lagace (SIEP) Michaella Junge (GIEP) Anna Li (CIEP) Bert Moklebust (GIEP) Nathaniel Nichols (GISCP) Matthew Tibbits […]
Continue reading "2024 IEP Student Award Winners"Sara Hamada Mohamed ’24 spent the last year studying abroad as a biomedical engineering/Spanish IEP major in Santander, Spain.
Continue reading "IEP Study Abroad Spotlight: Sara Hamada Mohamed ’24"It was wonderful to see some of our seasoned alumni all the way back to class of ’01 at our May 4, 2024 IEP alumni get-together, where they shared memories and solved IEP trivia with our graduating ’24 seniors. For a number of our alumni guests, it was a chance to tour the Fascitelli Center […]
Continue reading "IEP Alumni Updates Fall 2024"It is always a highlight to see our IEPers in action at their internship sites, and this summer was no exception. The feedback IEP received from host companies and/or interns at Bischof & Klein, BMW, Bosch, Coplan, DLR, Mercedes and Porsche was overwhelmingly positive. IEPers highlighted the open and welcoming environment, the feeling of being […]
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As climate change causes increasingly catastrophic river flooding in Rhode Island, URI scientists are fighting back.
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The University of Rhode Island has received a three-year, $2.5 million grant from Ørsted to monitor biodiversity and address historically lost or abandoned fishing gear surrounding Ørsted and Eversource’s Revolution Wind.
Continue reading "URI receives $2.5M Ørsted grant to monitor biodiversity and ‘ghost gear’"About half of the 38 recipients are IEP/ICSP students going abroad in summer/fall 2024 for their signature year abroad.
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In high school, Anna Cetera knew she wanted to make an impact in the health field, however, as a first-generation college student, she was unaware of the broad array of options available to her. Knowing that she had a passion for biology, mathematics, and physics she put those keywords in a search engine and […]
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Ten undergraduate students at the University of Rhode Island have been selected to receive the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, including Spanish IEP student Sara Hamada Mohamed.
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Andrik Puentes’ journey to graduation at the University of Rhode Island has been an extraordinary blend of academic rigor and leadership that significantly shaped his path to become an engineer. What distinguished the College of Engineering at URI and solidified his decision to attend were its state-of-the-art facilities and a strong emphasis on research and […]
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One trip to the Kennedy Space Center was all it took for Mycarthy Newton to decide she wanted to be an engineer and work on rockets. It is that dream that has kept her motivated through a very challenging undergraduate career, which she successfully traversed leading to the prestigious Edison Engineering Development Program GE Aerospace […]
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Four University of Rhode Island engineering professors have been awarded a $4.7 million grant from the Office of Naval Research to advance the security and resilience of AI-enabled power grids, promote workforce development, and secure manufacturing environments. The three-year project, “Advancing Research on Cyber-Physical Security and Resilience: A Multifaceted Approach,” will be led by principal […]
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The University will honor graduates May 18th, in formal ceremonies at the Ryan Center. The ceremonies will recognize both undergraduate and graduate degree candidates from the respective colleges.
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University of Rhode Island (URI) computer engineering assistant professor Weiwei Jia was selected for a National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Award for his groundbreaking proposal, “A Novel Address Translation Architecture for Virtualized Clouds.” This award supports early-career scientists in computer and information science engineering, enabling them […]
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University of Rhode Island (URI) received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy in partnership with the University of Kentucky to develop an ocean-faring electrochemical direct ocean capture system for carbon. This technology would be using renewable energy to drive a device that removes carbon dioxide (CO2) from ocean water. Climate change is driven by […]
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Story by Krysta Murray Ryan Poling-Skutvik, assistant chemical engineering professor at the University of Rhode Island (URI), was granted a 5-year $589,933 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct research and education activities for “Telechelic Triblock Copolymers As a Platform to Design Functional Colloidal Gels.” The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program […]
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University of Rhode Island Professor Sungho Kim is developing technology that could be part of NASA’s next-generation telescope that will allow the space agency to observe and study phenomena that occurred 13.7 billion years ago.
Continue reading "Technology for NASA’s Next-Generation Telescope"Through their JPN 302 class, a group of URI students, including 3 IEP/ICSP students, helped connect with middle schoolers at Davisville Middle School to introduce them to Japanese language and culture.
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Professor Geoffrey Boothroyd, internationally renowned for breakthrough research in design for manufacturing assembly (DFMA), passed away peacefully on January 3 at the age of 91. The British educator joined University of Rhode Island’s (URI) then mechanical and industrial manufacturing engineering department in 1985. He was brought on to head the Advanced Manufacturing Institute, coordinating the […]
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URI Engineering professors Richard Vaccaro and Musa Jouneh received a $75,000 innovation grant from RI Commerce Corporation for engineering development work with a startup company, Kinesia. The grant, which runs from January to August 2024, will pay for the creation of a prototype for an aid to human rehabilitation from orthopedic and neurological injuries. Mechanical […]
Continue reading "Engineering Professors, Business Receive $75,000 Grant from RI Commerce Corp."The U.S.-French relationship has long been positif, since Lafayette visited Rhode Island, and the French government sent a statue across the sea to recognize shared connections. That well-established connection between countries was celebrated recently at the University of Rhode Island, marking continuing collaborations across borders.
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