Academic Department Graduate Directors

Accounting Department
Dr. Henry Schwarzbach
Graduate Director
Ballentine Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4327  Fax: (401) 874-4312  E-mail: henrys@uri.edu

Applied Math
Dr. Orlando Merino
Chair/Graduate Director
Tyler Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4442  Fax: (401) 874-4617  E-mail:  merino@cs.uri.edu

Biological Sciences
Dr. Cheryl Wilga
Graduate Director
Biological Sciences Center
Phone: (401) 874-9020   Fax: (401) 874-4256  E-mail: cwilga@uri.edu

Business Administration (MBA)
Ms. Lisa Lancellotta
Coordinator
Ballentine Hall
Phone: (401) 874-5000  Fax: (401) 874-4312  E-mail: hadz@uri.edu

Business Administration (PhD)
Dr. Paul Mangiameli
Graduate Director
Ballentine Hall
Phone: (401) 874-5000  Fax:  (401) 874-4312  E-mail: mangia@uri.edu

Cell & Molecular Biology
Dr. Jay Sperry
Chair/Graduate Director
Morrill Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2201  Fax: (401) 874-2202  E-mail: jsp2116u@postoffice.uri.edu

Chemical Engineering
Dr. Richard Brown
Graduate Director
Crawford Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2707  Fax: (401) 874-4689  E-mail: rbrown@egr.uri.edu

Chemistry Department
Dr. Louis Kirschenbaum
Graduate Director
Pastore Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2340  Fax: (401) 874-5072  E-mail: lkirschenbaum@chm.uri.edu

Civil & Environmental Engineering
Dr. Kang-Wong W. Lee
Graduate Director
Bliss Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2695  Fax: (401) 874-2786  E-mail: leekw@uri.edu

Clinical Lab. Science
Dr. Gregory Paquette
Graduate Director
Morrill Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2315  Fax: (401) 874-4767    E-mail: gregcls@uri.edu

College Student Personnel
- See Human Development & Family Studies

Communication Studies
Dr. Kevin McClure
Graduate Director
Independence Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4726  Fax: (401) 874-4722  E-mail: kmc8433u@uri.edu

Computer Science
Dr. Victor Fay-Wolfe
Graduate Director
Tyler Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2701   Fax: (401) 874-6417   E-mail: wolfe@cs.uri.edu

Education, School of
Dr. John Boulmetis
Graduate Director
604 Chafee Hall
Phone:  (401) 874-4159  Fax: (401) 874-7610   E-mail: johnb@uriacc.uri.edu

Education - PHD (joint with RIC)
Dr. Betty Young
Co-Director
Chafee Hall
Phone:  (401) 874-4150  Fax: (401) 874-5471   E-mail:  byoung@uri.edu

Dr. John Gleason
Co-Director
Rhode Island College, Horace Mann Hall
Phone: (401) 456-8024  Fax: (401) 456-1983   E-mail: jgleason@ric.edu

Electrical Engineering
Dr. Godi Fischer
Graduate Director
Kelley Hall
Phone: (401) 874-5879  Fax:  (401)782-6442   E-mail: fischer@ele.uri.edu

English Department
Dr. Josie Campbell
Graduate Director
Independence Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4664  Fax: (401) 874-2580  E-mail: graddir@etal.uri.edu

Dr. Stephen Barber
Associate Graduate Director
Independence Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4673  Fax: (401) 874-2580  Email: sba2515u@postoffice.uri.edu

Environmental & Natural Resource Economics
Dr. Christopher M. Anderson
Graduate Director
Coastal Institute Kingston
Phone: (401) 874-2471  Fax: (401) 782-4766  E-mail: cma@uri.edu

Environmental Science & Management - MESM
Dr. Frederick Meyerson
Graduate Director
Coastal Institute Kingston
Phone: (401) 874-4580  Fax: (401) 874-4561  E-mail: fmeyerson@uri.edu

Fisheries, Animal & Veterinary Science
Dr. Marta Gomez-Chiarri
Graduate Director
23 Woodward Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2917   Fax: (401) 874-7575  E-mail: gomezchi@uri.edu

Geosciences

Dr. Thomas Boving
Graduate Director
315 Woodward Hall
Phone:(401) 874-7053 Fax: (401) 874-2190  E-mail: boving@uri.edu

History Department
Dr. Sharon Hartman Strom
Graduate Director
Washburn Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4080 or (401) 874-2528  Fax: (401) 874-2595  E-mail: shstrom@uri.edu

Human Development & Family Studies:  General Human Development & Family Studies
Dr. Karen McCurdy
Graduate Director
Transition Center
Phone: (401) 874-5960  Fax: (401) 874-4020  E-mail: kmccurdy@uri.edu

Human Development & Family Studies:  Marriage and Family Therapy
Dr. Jerome Adams
Graduate Director
Transition Center
Phone: (401) 874-5962  Fax: (401) 874-4020  E-mail: jadams@uri.edu

Human Development & Family Studies:  College Student Personnel
Dr. Katie Branch
Graduate Director
Quinn Hall
Phone: (401) 874-5487  Fax: (401) 874-4035  E-mail: kbranch@uri.edu

Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Dr. Peter Dewhurst
Graduate Director
Gilbreth Hall
Phone: (401) 874-5194  Fax: (401) 874-5540  E-mail: dewhurst@egr.uri.edu

Kinesiology
Dr. Linda S. Lamont
Graduate Director
Tootell Center
Phone: (401) 874-5449  Fax: (401) 874-4215  E-mail: lla4983u@uri.edu

Labor Relations & Human Resources
Dr. Richard Scholl
Graduate Director
Hart House
Phone: (401) 874-2239  Fax: (401) 874-2954  E-mail: rscholl@uri.edu

Library and Information Studies
Dr. Gale G. Eaton
Graduate Director
Rodman Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4641  Fax: (401) 874-4964  E-mail: geaton@uri.edu

Marine Affairs Department
Prof. Richard Burroughs
Graduate Director, Master's Program
Washburn Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4045  Fax: (401) 874-2156  E-mail: rburroughs@uri.edu

Prof. Seth Macinko
Graduate Director, PhD Program
Washburn Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4820  Fax: (401) 874-2156  E-mail: macinko@uri.edu

Mathematics Department
Dr. James Lewis
Graduate Director
Tyler Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2709  Fax: (401) 874-4617   E-mail: jlewis@uriacc.uri.edu

Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Martin Sadd
Graduate Director
208 Wales Hall
Phone: (401) 874-5548  Fax: (401) 874-2355  E-mail: sadd@egr.uri.edu

Music Department

Eliane Aberdam
Co-Director
Fine Arts Center
Phone: (401) 874-2794  Fax: (401) 874-2772  E-mail: eliane@uri.edu

Manabu Takasawa
Co-Director
Fine Arts Center
Phone: (401) 874-2790  Fax: (401) 874-2772  E-mail: takasawa@uri.edu

Natural Resources Science
Dr. Francis Golet
Graduate Director
Coastal Institute in Kingston
Phone: (401) 874-2916  Fax: (401) 874-4561  E-mail: fgswamps@uri.edu

Nursing/Nursing Practitioner
Dr. Donna Schwartz-Barcott
Graduate Director
White Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2766  Fax: (401) 874-2061  E-mail: dsb@uri.edu

Nutrition & Food Sciences
Dr. Geoffrey Greene
Graduate Director
Ranger Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4028  Fax: (401) 874 - 5974  Email:  GWG@URI.EDU

Ocean Engineering
Dr. Christopher Baxter
Graduate Director
Sheets Building
Narragansett Bay Campus
Phone: (401) 874-6575  Fax: (401) 874-6837  E-mail: baxter@oce.uri.edu

Oceanography
Dr. David C. Smith
Associate Dean
GSO Bay Campus
Narragansett
Phone: (401) 874-6246  Fax: (401) 874-6889  E-mail: assoc_dean@gso.uri.edu

Pharmaceutical Sciences
 Dr. Paul Larrat
 Associate Dean
 Fogarty Hall
 Phone (401) 874-5011  Fax: (401)679-0329   E-mail: larrat@uri.edu

Physical Therapy

Dr. Beth Marcoux
Graduate Director
Independence Square #2
Phone: (401) 874-5001  Fax: (401) 874-5630  E-mail: bmarcoux@mail.uri.edu

Physics Department
Dr. Leonard Kahn
Graduate Co-Director
212 East Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2053   Fax: (401) 874-2380   E-mail lkahn@uri.edu

Dr. Alexander Meyerovich
Graduate Co-Director
208 East Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2047  Fax: (401) 874-2380  E-mail: Alexander_Meyerovich@uri.edu


Plant Path/PlantSci/Entomology
Dr. Roger Lebrun   
Graduate Director
229 Woodward Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2934  Fax: (401) 874-2494  E-mail: lebrun@uri.edu

Political Science Dept.
Dr. Maureen Moakley
Chair/Graduate Director
Washburn Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2183  Fax: (401) 874-4072  E-mail: moakley@uri.edu

Psychology: Clinical
Dr. Allan Berman
Graduate Director
Chafee Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4257  Fax: (401) 874-2157  E-mail: alberman@uri.edu

Psychology:  Behavioral Science
Dr.  Kathryn Quina
Graduate Director
Chafee Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2777  Fax: (401) 874-2157   E-mail: kquina@uri.edu

Psychology:  School
Dr. Gary Stoner
Graduate Director
Chafee Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4234  Fax: (401) 874-2157  E-mail: gstoner@uri.edu

Public Administration
Dr. Francis J. Leazes Jr.
Graduate Director
URI Feinstein College of Continuing Education, Rm 208
Phone: (401) 456-8718 (RIC) & (401) 277-5166 (URI-CCEE-mail: fleazes@ric.edu

Spanish Dept.
Dr. Clement White
Graduate Director
Independence Hall
Phone: (401) 874-5911  Fax: (401) 874-4694  E-mail: cblanco@uriacc.uri.edu

Speech Pathology & Audiology
Dr. Jay Singer
Chair/Graduate Director
Independence Square
Phone: (401) 874-5969  Fax: (401) 874-4404  E-mail: drjay@uri.edu

Statistics Department
Dr. Choudary Hanumara
Graduate Director
Tyler Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2701  Fax: (401) 874-4617  E-mail:  hanumara@cs.uri.edu

Textiles Dept.
Dr. Linda Welters
Chair/Graduate Director
Quinn Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4574  Fax: (401) 874-2581  E-mail: lwelters@uri.edu