Research – Page 9 – College of Engineering

Thomas Boving’s Research Profile

Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering 401.874.7053 Fax: 401.874.2190 tboving@uri.edu Office Location: Woodward 314 Recent Grants1 Grant 7/23/2018. PI. Strategic Environmental Research & Develop Program. “Innovative Treatment Approach for Investigation-Derived Waste Polluted with Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance.” 9/15/2017. Co-PI. RI Office of Housing & Commercial Development. “Assessment and Modeling of Saltwater Intrusion into Coastal Aquifers of […]

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Geoffrey Bothun’s Research Profile

Professor and Department Chair Chemical Engineering 401.874.9518 gbothun@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 303 Lab: Bionanotechnology Lab Recent Grants1 Grant 7/20/2023. PI. National Science Foundation. “Collaborative Research: Magnetic Clustering using Novel Poly(amino acid) Corrals to Advance Magnetic Particle Imaging” 7/20/2023. PI. National Science Foundation. “Collaborative Research: Magnetic Clustering using Novel Poly(amino acid) Corrals […]

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Arijit Bose’s Research Profile

Distinguished Engineering Professor Chemical Engineering 401.874.2804 bosea@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 305 Website: Laboratory for Colloids and Interfaces Recent Grants1 Grant Portion Amount 5/9/2018. PI. RI Science and Technology Advisory. “The Response of Marine Bacteria in Narragansett Bay to Microplastics – a Key Anthropogenic Stressor.” $80,000.00 (100%) 5/3/2018. PI. RI Commerce Corporation. […]

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Walter Besio’s Research Profile

Professor Electrical, Computer & Biomedical Engineering 401.874.4738 besio@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 392 Lab: Neural Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory Recent Grants1 Grant 9/7/2022. University of Connecticut “Louis Stokes Renewal STEM Pathways and Research Alliance: Northeast LSAMP 2021-2026” 9/14/2021. PI. National Science Foundation. “Louis Stokes Renewal STEM Pathways and Research Alliance: Northeast LSAMP 2021-2026.” […]

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Christopher Baxter’s Full Research Profile

Professor Civil & Environmental Engineering and Ocean Engineering 401.874.6575 Fax: 401.874.6837 cbaxter@uri.edu Office Location: Sheets, Narragansett Bay Campus Recent Grants1 Grant 2022-2024 PI. RI CRMC/ US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement “Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Pilot Structural Monitoring Project” 2019-2023 PI. RI CRMC/ US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement “Block Island Structural Monitoring […]

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Digging for Quahogs Inspired Student to Study Geotechnical Engineering

Tim Keefe’s interest in geotechnical engineering traces back to his childhood when his father taught him how to dig for quahogs in Narragansett Bay. As an engineering graduate student at URI, Keefe is still learning about the properties of soils and other materials

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Robert Ballard’s Research Profile

Professor Ocean Engineering 401.874.6169 rballard@uri.edu Office Location: Ocean Science and Exploration Center 103, Narragansett Bay Campus Website: Ocean Exploration Trust Recent Publications1 Citation Sudek M, Spathias H, Coward G, et al. Expedition to the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa EXPLORING THE DEEP SEA IN THE AMERICAN SAMOA ARCHIPELAGO. OCEANOGRAPHY, 2020; 33(1), 42-43 Carey […]

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Constantine Anagnostopoulos’s Research Profile

Adjunct Full Professor Mechanical, Industrial, & Systems Engineering 401.874.2524 agagnostopoulos@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 304 Recent Publications1 Citation Kumar A, Heidari-Bafroui H, Charbaji A, Faghri M, Anagnostopoulos C. Paper-Based Bi-Material Cantilever Actuator Bending Behavior and Modeling. Micromachines, 2023; 14(924). Doi: 10.3390/mi14050924 Kumar A, Heidari-Bafroui H, Charbaji A, Faghri M, Anagnostopoulos C. Development […]

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Ali Shafqat Akanda’s Research Profile

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Tao Wei’s Research Profile

Professor Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering 401.874.2874 tao_wei@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 419 Lab: Next Generation Sensing Technology Lab Lab: High Performance Computing Laboratory (HPCL) Recent Grants1 Grant 8/27/2022. Co-PI. National Science Foundation. “CYPHER: CISE-CCF-SHF: Introducing a New In-Sensor Computing Architecture for Intelligent 3-D Imaging Systems.” 7/29/2022. Co-PI. National Science Foundation. “CYPHER: […]

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NSF CAREER Award Granted to URI Chemical Engineering Professor for New Imaging Technique

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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