The announcement that former Duke University oceanographer Bruce Corliss would be the next dean of the Graduate School of Oceanography was met with great enthusiasm.  The news was reported by the Providence Business News, Providence Journal, and WRNI radio, and an Associated Press news brief on the appointment appeared in the New London Day, New England Cable News, Boston Globe, Albany Times-Union, Connecticut Post, Channel 6, WHJJ radio, and The Record in New Jersey, among others.  It also appeared in the newsletter of the Ocean Leadership Consortium.  The URI press release about the appointment can be found here.