The University of Rhode Island recently inducted 10 retirees with at least 40 years of service into its Lifetime Service Society during ceremonies outside the Robert L. Carothers Library and Learning Commons. The Lifetime Service Society was established three years ago to honor to those who have given much of their lives to the University. […]
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Brounce Wins Research Award
GSO’s Maryjo Brounce has won the University of Rhode Island Graduate School 2015 Excellence in Doctoral Research Award. This award recognizes excellence in dissertation research and is based on a letter, or letters of nomination for doctoral students who graduated in the previous year from the University of Rhode Island. Along with the nomination(s), the […]
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GSO congratulates its newest graduates – the class of 2015! The name of the major professor is listed in parentheses. Sarah Blackstock, MS (Jeremy Collie) Maryjo Brounce, PhD (Katherine Kelley) Michael Bueti, PhD (Isaac Ginis & Lew Rothstein) Kelly Canesi, MS (Tatiana Rynearson) Alison Cleary, PhD (Edward Durbin) Katie […]
Continue reading "21 to Graduate in the GSO Class of 2015"GSO Hockey Team Victorious
The URI GSO hockey team, the Bay Blades, faced their annual adversary, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution High Stickers, in a two game series dubbed the Niskin Cup. Game one was contested at URI’s Boss Ice Arena. GSO led 2-0 after first period goals by Conor McManus and Mike St. Laurent. However, WHOI responded in […]
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September, 2014 After enrolling at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography in 1964, Donald Gordon towed his wooden sloop from Woods Hole, Mass., to the URI Bay Campus in hopes of sailing it in his free time. When it arrived, the boat was beyond repair, so he offered to burn it as […]
Continue reading "50th Boat Burning"Head of Taiwan’s EPA Visits GSO
GSO alumnus Dr. Kuo-Yen Wei (PhD 1987), Minister of Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Administration, visited GSO during a trip to visit to Environmental Protection Agency labs in the U.S. Dr. Wei was a student of Professor James Kennett, as was GSO Dean Bruce Corliss, and studied Late Neogene foraminifera for his dissertation research. Photo of Dr. […]
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