GSO’s Annabelle Leahy among the four URI students and alumni to receive Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards.
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URI announces new quantum computing initiative on World Quantum Day
A new quantum computing initiative, supported with funding from GSO, is aimed to position URI students and the Rhode Island workforce at the forefront of the next great computing revolution.
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URI GSO assistant professor Keisuke Inomura is one of four in the nation to receive a 2022 Simons Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Award.
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The Ocean View Art Exhibition and Competition includes artworks from 25 area professional artists and more than 200 artworks by Rhode Island K-12 students.
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URI Professor James Miller answered several questions recently about whether wind turbines have an effect on whale safety and health.
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URI professor emeritus and oceanographer Tom Rossby used the data the Oleander gathered, with colleagues in URI’s GSO, to produce a report on circulation in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Several URI community members traveled to Indonesia to celebrate a half century of partnership and knowledge exchange in a number of fields, including oceanography.
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University of Rhode Island Blue MBA student Christine de Silva will appear in her third Shark Week episode in 2023.
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University of Rhode Island Professors J.P. Walsh and Rainer Lohmann discussed the wide-ranging impacts of ocean plastics and PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” in a recent public lecture at the URI Narragansett Bay Campus.
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elected Clinical Professor and GSO alum Sunshine Menezes (Ph.D. 2005) and Professor of Oceanography Steven D’Hondt to the rank of AAAS Fellow.
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