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News
URI scientist awarded Fulbright fellowship to conduct research on ‘evolution of parasitism’ in France - University of Rhode Island Professor Christopher Lane has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to spend six months at the University of Paris-Saclay in France to conduct research on the evolution of parasitism in marine organisms.
Sociology, gender studies professor awarded Fulbright to research, teach in southern Italy - Rosaria Pisa will research changes in rural communities and teach for six months in southern Italy.
International Engineering Program alumnus awarded Fulbright to study energy engineering in Taiwan - Zachary Smith '20, who graduated with degrees in electrical engineering, German, and Chinese, will pursue a master’s degree in at the National Cheng Kung University in Tainan City. 
URI senior awarded Fulbright fellowship to teach English, U.S. culture in Brazil - Africana Studies major Wila Matos, who studied Portuguese and mentored high school students is preparing to spend nine months in Brazil.
URI senior awarded Fulbright to research in Slovak Republic - Political science and history major, Jay Rumas will travel to the Slovak Republic to investigate the appeal of populism among the country’s Rusyn population.
URI advisor, advisee awarded Fulbright Fellowships to conduct research abroad - Assistant Professor Elizabeth Mendenhall will travel to Iceland to teach and research at the University of Akureyri and Eliya Baron Lopez will study South Korea’s strategies for managing marine litter.
URI doctoral student awarded Fulbright grant - Meg Jones will travel to Finland to research LQBTQ+ inclusive practices in teacher preparation programs
Five URI students awarded prestigious Fulbright grants - The students received the awards to conduct research abroad in a ranges of fields: environmental science, marine affairs, political science, and communication studies.
URI International Engineering Program alumna earns Fulbright Award - Cherish Prickett, who graduated summa cum laude from the URI with degrees in industrial and systems engineering and German received the award to pursue a master’s degree in risk, disaster and resilience at University College London
URI professor awarded Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research in Argentina, Czech Republic, South Africa - The award is Meyerson’s second Fulbright Fellowship and her first in the prestigious Global Scholar Program.
URI student and recent graduate awarded prestigious Fulbright grants - Sociology and elementary education major, Alexia Williams was awarded a grant to teach English in Spain and graduate student, Hilary Lohmann Barbados studied ways to balance the needs of the natural resources with the needs of the local people in a marine protected area.
URI herpetologist awarded Fulbright grant to study threatened turtle in Indonesia - Nancy Karraker has been awarded a Fulbright grant to travel to Indonesia to study declining populations of a turtle that is collected for food, traditional medicine and the pet trade, making it the most heavily traded turtle in the world.
Fulbright scholar from Tunisia teaching Arabic at URI - The 30-year-old Kingston resident is a professor of English literature in his homeland and is working on his doctorate in English Renaissance Studies at the University of Manouba in Tunis, the country’s capital.
URI grad student awarded Fulbright grant to teach English in South Korea - After completing a master’s degree in elementary education, Michael Roderick received a Fulbright grant to teach English in South Korea.
URI paleontologist wins Fulbright to study dinosaur extinction in Europe - URI paleontologist , and Professor of Geosciences, David Fastovsky was awarded a Fulbright scholarship grant to study the environmental conditions that existed in Europe when the dinosaurs went extinct.
International Business Program Graduate embraces a global path - Dan Belbey received a Fulbright that will fund two of the three semesters needed for a Masters of Arts in Business Administration and Logistics at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany.
URI political science professor wins Fulbright to study in Ukraine - Professor of Political Science, Nicolai N. Petro received a Fulbright research grant to study the role of the Russian Orthodox Church while living abroad in Ukraine.