Please join us in congratulating the

2024 Research and Scholarship
Excellence Awards Recipients

For their commitment to their studies, their College, the University community in general, and for serving as a positive role model and resource to all, The University of Rhode Island recognizes the 2023 Research and Scholarship and Intellectual Property Excellence Award recipients.

Undergraduate Student Research and Scholarship Excellence Award
Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities
STEPHEN COUTU
Department of Psychology, College of Health Sciences

 

Undergraduate Student Research and Scholarship Excellence Award
Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Engineering
ANNA CETER 
Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering

 

Graduate Student Research and Scholarship Excellence Award
Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities
EMMANUEL THOMAS
Department of Psychology, College of Health Sciences

 

Graduate Student Research and Scholarship Excellence Award
Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Engineering
LEAH RYNEARSON 
Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences

 

Research and Scholarship Staff Excellence Award
Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Engineering
CORINNA BREUSING, Ph.D. 
Graduate School of Oceanography 

 

Early Career Faculty Research and Scholarship Excellence Award
Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MADISON JONES, Ph.D.
Departments of Writing and Natural Resource Economics, College of Arts and Sciences, and College of the Environment and Life Sciences

 

Early Career Faculty Research and Scholarship Excellence Award Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Engineering 
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KAUSHALLYA ADHIKARI, Ph.D.
Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering 

 

Advanced Career Faculty Research and Scholarship Excellence Award
Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities
PROFESSOR JULIE L. COIRO, Ph.D.
Department of Education, Feinstein College of Education 

 

Advanced Career Faculty Research and Scholarship Excellence Award Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Engineering
PROFESSOR GRETCHEN MACHT, Ph.D.
Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering  

 

Faculty Intellectual Property Excellence Award
PROFESSOR YANA RESHETNYAK, Ph.D., and PROFESSOR OLEG ANDREEV, Ph.D.
Department of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences 

 

Student Intellectual Property Excellence Award
VIGNESH RAVICHANDRAN
Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering