Lasers and iron may help the world treat contaminated water, University of Rhode Island (URI) researchers say. The first-of-its-kind study subjected ferrate — a form of iron — to a wide spectrum of light and analyzed how its electrons behaved.
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Mehrshad Amini, Assistant Professor, CVE/OCE Dr. Mehrshad Amini will join the University of Rhode Island in Fall 2023 as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Ocean Engineering. He completed his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Pennsylvania State University in 2021. […]
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The Biden administration has set a goal of deploying enough offshore wind turbines to produce 30 gigawatts—enough to power tens of millions of homes—by 2035. Key to that strategy is the development of floating wind turbines that can be built in vast areas of deeper water.
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Recent Ph.D. recipient Farah Nusrat has been selected as a USGS Climate Adaptation Postdoctoral Fellow. The work will take her to Utah State University where she will work with Prof. Michelle Baker in Biological Sciences. Prof. Ali Akanda said, “This is a very prestigious fellowship and Farah was hired through a long national level search.” […]
Continue reading "PhD Student Receives USGS Postdoc Fellowship"University of Rhode Island Associate Professor Samantha Meenach is the recipient of a federal grant that will help students from underrepresented groups pursue studies in undergraduate bioengineering and bioscience research programs and eventually apply to graduate school in these disciplines.
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Hi my name is Zachary Tourgee and I am a student from Rhode Island. I am doing an internship here at COPLAN AG and want to share my experiences with my time here at COPLAN and in Germany in general. I am 23 years old and am a native Rhode Islander. Rhode Island is the […]
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Mention the term 3D printing to the average person, and it’s fair to say many would think of a smallish, home use machine programmed to create dragons or orcs like those from fantasy gameplay. However, mention it to mechanical engineering major Sofia Lanzi and the term means much, much more. It means a year of […]
Continue reading "IEP Student Prints Her Career Path"By Hugh Markey One of the most popular uses for Smart Watches and other devices is cardio monitoring during exercise. Users can quickly check their pulse as they run down the road or bike around the block, giving feedback on physical stressors. But what about the rest of the time when things such as stress […]
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IEP alumni share some of their recent highlights and accomplishments.
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Several IEP students received prestigious awards this year, including one David L. Boren Award, a Fulbright Scholarship, a Barry Goldwater Scholarship, and a total of nine Beatrice S. Demers Fellowships.
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An interdisciplinary team at URI secured a NEH Humanities Connections Grant of over $149 thousand to provide a foundational liberal arts experience to a broader range of undergraduate engineering students, while also increasing the impact of the IEP curriculum.
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Several of our students sent us updates about their internships and lives abroad this year. Scroll through the postcard updates to learn more about where they interned and some of their experiences abroad.
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The International Engineering Program and URI’s College of Engineering joined forces this summer for a European tour intended to formalize and expand collaboration agreements with our partner universities and companies abroad.
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For Dr. David J. Parrillo (’89), his recent induction into the prestigious National Academy of Engineering is as much about mentoring people as developing technically advanced products. “You have to know people and what makes them tick so they can accomplish more. That’s the piece that I love.” “URI warmly congratulates David on this well-deserved […]
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Caroline Dowling is a Senior Mechanical Engineering student headed to WPI for her Ph.D. While at URI she was did her Capstone Design program for NASA, was heavily-involved with the Society of Women Engineers (SWE).
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Thirty-four students received Black Scholar and Onyx Society awards recently, said Dr. Chris Hunter, interim Dean of University College and chair of the event. Hunter says the awards recognize a blend of academic scholarship as well as community service. “It’s amazing to see what students do to contribute to the University of Rhode Island community […]
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Siena is from Providence, Biomedical Engineering major and math minor. Her lab work while an undergraduate led to her continued studies at Purdue.
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Meet biomedical, German (IEP) and math major Heather DiFazio, who is headed to Switzerland (Universitat Bern) to work on a biomedical device to help those with cancer on a Fulbright.
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Jessica is headed to Stanford University for her masters and wants to inspire others through teaching.
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Camila Cersosimo is an example of how you can do big things at URI!
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See our graduates walk across the stage and become URI Engineers!
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Tania Silva de Oliveira is a chemical engineer and an analytical research scientist at a Boston-based global pharmaceutical company that develops drugs to treat some of the world’s most serious conditions.
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By Hugh Markey Professor Joseph Goodwill of the College of Engineering will soon be bringing his teaching and researching skills to the University of Trento in Italy now that he has become a Fulbright scholar. Goodwill studies and teaches the application of physics and chemical principles to improve water quality, with the objective to improve […]
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These students will spend the 2023-24 academic year abroad studying and interning for their respective signature programs.
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By Hugh Markey For the past 42 years, Prof. Arun Shukla has been a part of the URI mechanical, industrial, and systems engineering department, supervising over a hundred graduate students, conducting research, and making substantial contributions to the engineering community. Those efforts were recently recognized with the awarding of the Daniel C. Drucker Medal, given […]
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