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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“Change starts with having a personal environmental ethic, and that ethic is to do no harm. Take care of what you have.”
Continue reading "Richard Rhodes, former Associate Dean, Research, College of the Environment and Life Sciences featured in URI ‘Blue Minds’ Series"Assistant Professor Elizabeth Mendenhall joined three alumni of the Marine Affairs Masters program on an educational oceanographic cruise through the Rhode Island Teachers-at-Sea program.
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