Stefanie Vining will relocate to Bordeaux, France, after receiving an offer to remain at Unither Pharmaceuticals full-time, where she interned through the International Engineering Program.
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Freshman Hud Saeed of Barrington, Rhode Island, is double majoring in chemical engineering and Chinese. He has received a $5,000 American Chemical Society Undergraduate Scholarship designed to support the scientists of tomorrow who will use the transformative power of chemistry to address global challenges. Applicants were evaluated based on their achievements in chemical sciences, their ability […]
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Samantha Kipper, a senior at the University of Rhode Island in the College of Engineering, views the turbines through a different prism.
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The University of Rhode Island has launched the Institute for AI & Computational Research (IACR), a new initiative designed to position URI as a leader in artificial intelligence (AI), data science, high-performance computing, and quantum computing.
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Chemical Engineering senior Savanna Sheffield, of Weymouth, MA, has received an American Chemical Society Undergraduate Scholarship. The $5,000 scholarship is designed to support the scientists of tomorrow who will use the transformative power of chemistry to address global challenges. Applicants were evaluated based on their achievements in chemical sciences, their ability to recognize chemistry as […]
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A two-week pilot program designed by the URI Math Department to improve the math skills of incoming freshmen at the University of Rhode Island has produced impressive results.
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The award reflects years of cross-campus collaboration and positions URI as a national leader in transdisciplinary biomedical training.
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Carlos Fragoso Uriarte ’25 wanted a degree with which he could make a difference in the world while leaning into his academic interests. At URI, he found this and much more.
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The University of Rhode Island will host the Northeast Regional Higher Education Neurodiversity Coalition Conference for the first time this summer. The conference will be held on Aug. 29 and 30 at URI’s Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering at 2 East Alumni Ave., on the Kingston Campus.
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University of Rhode Island Assistant Professor Che-Wei Chang was recently awarded a National Science Foundation grant for his project titled Experimental Investigation of Vegetation Effects on Coastal Wave and Current Dynamics.
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