Seven undergraduate engineering students from URI are spending 10 weeks conducting intensive research through the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program. The program provides valuable hands-on experience, as well as instruction and feedback from faculty and graduate students.
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New sensors developed by URI Professor Otto Gregory and chemical engineering doctoral student Peter Ricci are so powerful that they can detect threats at the molecular level, whether it’s explosive materials, particles from a potentially deadly virus or illegal drugs entering the country.
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The University of Rhode Island announced the establishment of the Raymond M. Wright Fast Track Master’s Engineering Endowment. The $2.5 million gift comes from anonymous donors to honor College of Engineering Dean Raymond M. Wright, who plans to retire at the end of the academic year.
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For students who wish to pursue a career in sustainable energy, the University of Rhode Island’s Energy Fellows Program provides paid experiential learning opportunities. Six of the 14 energy fellows this year are engineering students.
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Social distancing and the pandemic forced seniors in the College of Engineering’s capstone design program to overcome obstacles in order to collaborate with each other and communicate with their professors.
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The University of Rhode Island is actively recruiting for a visionary dean to lead the College. The resources below are designed to give the applicant a snapshot of the College. Position Resources Recruitment Flyer (PDF) Official Position Description / Application December CYPHER Newsletter National Institute for Undersea Vehicle Technology (NIUVT) Flyer College of Engineering Strategic […]
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By embedding nanosensors in the fibers of a bandage, URI Assistant Professor Daniel Roxbury and former URI graduate student Mohammad Moein Safaee have created a “smart bandage” to detect and monitor an infection in a wound.
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How does someone go from dropping out of high school to becoming a CEO of a successful company? Learn how URI helped Brian begin a journey that would result in him running a most unique company in Arkansas.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Akram Abbasi earned the 2020 Excellence in Doctoral Research Award from the URI Graduate School for her research on different applications for nanomaterials.
Continue reading "Research on Nanomaterials Earns URI Student Doctoral Research Award"The Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Rhode Island has an opening for a full-time, tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level in the broadly defined area of Biomaterials.
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Researchers in URI’s College of Engineering are developing a device for detecting the explosive triacetone triperoxide (TATP) in its vapor form. Their new detection system, which pairs a conductance sensor with a traditional thermodynamic sensor, confirms the presence of TATP at the level of parts per billion.
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More than 500 people joined URI President David M. Dooley and College of Engineering Dean Raymond Wright on Oct. 7 to officially celebrate the opening of the Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering.
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The Southeastern New England Defense Industry Alliance (SENEDIA) awarded a $1,500 scholarship to URI chemical engineering student Emma Sudduth on Aug. 26 at the SENEDIA Defense Conference in Newport.
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Amgen Seminar Series in Chemical Engineering are free and open to the public.
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The Langer Prizes for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Excellence will award unrestricted grants of up to $100,000 to assist researchers — particularly those working in chemical and biological engineering — in pursing ideas that may lead to technical and commercial innovations.
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University of Rhode Island chemical engineering assistant professor Daniel Roxbury received a five-year grant for $500,000 from the National Science Foundation to develop an entirely new approach to imaging within live cells. The funding was awarded to Roxbury through NSF’s Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER).
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URI assistant professor of chemical engineering Daniel Roxbury talks about the support the NanoBio Engineering Laboratory has received from the RI IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (RI-INBRE).
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URI assistant professor of chemical engineering Daniel Roxbury talks about the support the NanoBio Engineering Laboratory has received from the RI IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence.
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