University of Rhode Island Blue MBA student Christine de Silva will appear in her third Shark Week episode in 2023.
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Watch the 2020 Graduate School Recognition, including remarks from GSO Dean Bruce Corliss, Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo, Senator Jack Reed and others.
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Sarah Nickford and Laura Glastra, two University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography students have been awarded Graduate Student Fellowships from the NASA Rhode Island Space Grant Consortium.
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After growing up barely a mile from URI’s Kingston campus, South Kingstown native Matthew Dunn is now a doctoral student at the URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography, which he calls “one of the best schools for oceanography.”
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NOAA Sea Grant and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced that Joe Langan, a student at URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography, was selected as one of seven 2018 NMFS-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship recipients.
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“It really touches every aspect of our lives, so if you don’t care about the research, we’re not going to learn about all of these different things that impact us every single day.”
Continue reading "This is GSO: Joe Langan, GSO Student"Corn syrup gets a bad rap from nutritionists for adding on the pounds, but University of Rhode Island researchers are using the gooey stuff to help solve Earth’s evolution.
Continue reading "URI oceanography student uses corn syrup to study Earth’s evolution"Anna Robuck is one of three recipients nationally It all started with the Little Mermaid, the charming Disney movie about a mermaid who dreams of becoming human. Anna Robuck’s endless childhood viewings led to an obsession for anything—books, videos, toys—about the ocean and its preservation. Now 29, Robuck is well on her way to protecting […]
Continue reading "GSO student receives national science scholarship to study pollutants in food chain, water, air"Hailey Simpson, a GSO master’s of oceanography (MO) student, is one of two URI students sailing to remote islands in the Pacific Ocean to study any damage to coral reefs from climate change. Simpson and Kyle Alvanas, who will graduate next year with a degree in marine affairs, are among 24 students from American colleges conducting research in […]
Continue reading "MO student Hailey Simpson sails to remote Pacific islands to study effects of climate change on coral reefs"Sean Duffey, URI master’s of oceanography (MO) candidate, has been awarded a 2017 NOAA Coastal Management Fellowship. Duffey was one of only five students selected nationally for the fellowship, out of 44 applicants from around the country. Duffey, a Watervliet, N.Y., native, will spend two years working in the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management on a […]
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