Ashish Chadha has been making films for decades, but they are not the kind you might see at, say, a Showcase cinema. Chadha’s films are experimental or, as one critic puts it, “deliberately incomprehensible,” yet “visually seductive.” They explore themes of death, time, and ritual rooted in the religion, history, and philosophy of India, where he grew up.
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Alumnus Creates Unique Scholarship For Students
Thanks to an incredibly generous gift from Jonathan Herman ’99, students who have unfortunately lost a parent either before or during their studies at URI are now eligible for scholarships from the Arthur and Helen Herman Scholarship Fund, named for Jonathan Herman’s parents, both of whom passed on while Jonathan was very young. Adam Roth, interim director […]
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Christiane Amanpour, a URI alum and Chief International Correspondent with CNN, accepts the prestigious Burton Benjamin award with humility and grace. She begins by addressing his daughter with warmth, reverence and compassion, expressing her desire to do justice to the honorable memory of her father, Burton Benjamin.
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Everywhere we turn, we are reminded it is election year – even at URI. Students enrolled in PR courses this semester participated in a fast-moving social media campaign to facilitate “Rock the Vote”.
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Librarian Heidi Blais accepted the “Library of the Year” award for Cranston High School East at the URI Graduate School of Library and Information Studies Annual Gathering on April 16, 2016.
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Our Students Live And Learn in World-Class Facilities And Travel The World As Part Of Their Curriculum
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Kim DeWall (’13) is the Head of Technical Services at the Falmouth Public Library. This April, her director, Leslie Morrissey, stated that “Ms. DeWall has made a number of positive changes and created a team spirit in her department [and that] DeWall has been an innovator and that the public gets materials faster and accesses them […]
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