URI French students won a virtual environmental challenge hosted by URI’s partner institution, the University of Rennes 2 in Rennes, France. Focused on how to make university communities more sustainable and conducted entirely in French, the competition included two teams from URI and three teams from the University of Madrid.
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View a gallery of submissions for our 2020 Arabic Calligraphy Contest and help us by voting for your favorite.
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Arabic calligraphy as an art form has been developed and perfected for more than 1,500 years. We are proud to announce the winners of our second annual Arabic Calligraphy and Letter Art Contest.
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Six University of Rhode Island students – four undergraduates and two graduate students – have won Boren Awards to study foreign languages abroad – four in China and one each in Jordan and Taiwan.
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Sixteen University of Rhode Island modern language students have been named Beatrice S. Demers Foreign Language Fellows and have been awarded generous grants to pursue foreign language studies across the globe.
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In the third annual Languages Got Talent Show, students displayed their foreign language skills, their knowledge about other cultures, and–of course–pure talent.
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Conversation hours are a time in which students, whether they are taking a language or not, as well as people in the local community, could speak with a native or highly proficient speaker on campus to become better at the language themselves.
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The Good 5-Cent Cigar: According to the Modern Language Association’s preliminary report, enrollment in foreign language studies in the United States fell by 9.2 percent while it increased by over a hundred students at the URI.
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URI has become a unique training ground for a new generation of students who are immersing themselves in the study of language and culture with the goal of tackling some of the world’s toughest problems.
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