To all Marine Affairs students, faculty, staff, and alumni, 2020 has been and continues to be a challenging year. Among all the other things that are going on, we realize that police violence against black bodies has not abated. Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, Daniel Prude, Jacob Blake. We say their names […]
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Jessie Frazier and Amelia Moore have been collaborating with Maryann Gobern Mathews of Block Island and East Providence for two years to document the post-contact history of Native and African American residents of Block Island.
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Dr. Amelia Moore of Marine Affairs and Journalism professor, Dr. Kendall Moore have been awarded $300,000 from the National Science Foundation’s EAGER Program to make a documentary film entitled, “Decolonizing Science and Ethics in Informal STEM Contexts”.
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Dr. Carlos G. García-Quijano and colleague Dr. Hilda Lloréns published their article From Extractive Agriculture to Industrial Waste Periphery: Life in a Black-Puerto Rican Ecology in Black Perspectives, an award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS).
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Congratulations to Class of 2020 Academic Excellence Award in Marine Affairs recipient Declan O’Donnell.
Continue reading "2020 Academic Excellence Award Recipient Declan O’Donnell"Congratulations to Professor Dennis Nixon on being awarded with the degree of Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa from Roger Williams School of Law.
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Overviews of the Marine Affairs graduate thesis and dissertation research from the class of 2020.
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A team of fisheries scientists and marine policy experts, led by Professor Mendenhall, examined how climate change is affecting the ocean environment.
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Jessica Vandenberg, Ph.D. Marine Affairs, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright grant to continue her research in Indonesia.
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In 1970, the University of Rhode Island became the first academic institution in the world to create a graduate program in ocean and coastal policy, management, and law.
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