One of URI’s newest engineering professors, Kaushallya Adhikari, will be conducting research that will help the Navy maximize its sonar capabilities. The research will be funded by a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research.
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Congratulations to URI engineering students Vanessa Kamara and Jackson Sugar for being named to the 2020 Rhode Island Inno Under 25 list. Vanessa is an IEP student majoring in biomedical engineering and German. Jackson is a graduate student studying ocean engineering.
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While many of her peers had summer internships cancelled or changed to remote internships, Natalie Wilcox was fortunate to complete two in-person internships this past summer for companies in New York City.
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As a guest on The Peggy Smedley Show podcast, Assistant Professor Bin Li discussed how his research on mixed reality could be used to train first responders such as firefighters. He also described other potential applications for the technology.
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Working with a team of oceanographers, marine biologists and engineers at NUWC this summer, URI ocean engineering student Catherine Eno and mechanical engineering doctoral student Irine Chenwi studied the effects noise and shock loads have on marine mammals.
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Jason Gomez, who received a master’s degree and doctorate in mechanical engineering from URI in 1997 and 2000 respectively, was selected as the 2020 National Defense Industrial Association Bronze Medal winner. Gomez is the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport’s chief technology officer.
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URI chemical engineering professors Samantha Meenach and Jie Shen will be guest editors of a special issue of the journal Pharmaceutics. The issue, titled “Particle Engineering for Drug Delivery Applications,” will be published in 2021.
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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, 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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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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NASA legend and URI aeronautical engineering alumnus Donald D. Arabian was a NASA legend passed away on Aug. 11 at the age of 95. Arabian worked on all of the major U.S. manned space programs from Mercury through Apollo.
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URI spent the summer making sure safety measures were in place for the safest possible reopening of the campus in September.
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Featuring more than 20 live interactive sessions, round table discussions, networking opportunities and poster presentations, the 23rd Annual Colloquium on International Engineering Education will be offered online from Oct. 21-23.
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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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The University of Rhode Island Chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) has earned the URI Robert Rainville Team Excellence Award.
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Professor Ying Sun will be remembered just as much for his leadership, compassion and collaborative spirit as he will for his accomplishments as a researcher and educator
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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 and Alexa Leone, who recently received bachelor’s degrees in chemical engineering and ocean engineering respectively, are two of only five URI students to earn graduate research fellowships 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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The URI College of Engineering lost a gifted teacher who was beloved by his students and colleagues. Professor Ying Sun, who joined the URI faculty 35 years ago, sadly passed away on May 9.
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