University Honors Program
Advising
If you have any questions about the Honors Program,
please contact our advising team:
All students:
Deborah Gardiner, Program Administrator
Lippitt Hall, Room 300A
debg@uri.edu
Available Mo-Fr, 8.30am-4.30pm.
Prof. Richard McIntyre, Director
Lippitt Hall, Room 300B
To make an appointment, please email mcintyre@uri.edu.
Freshmen and sophomores:
Prof. Cheryl Foster, Associate Director
Lippitt Hall, Room 300F
To make an appointment, please email HonorsAdvising.uri@gmail.com.
Prof. Foster also offers regularly scheduled advising appointments in Roosevelt Hall (University College).
To sign up for one of these appointments, log on
to e-Campus, select "Advising" and
click on the far right tab for "Preprofessional Programs/Honors."
Juniors and seniors:
Prof. Carolyn Hames, Associate Director
Lippitt Hall, Room 300G
To make an appointment, please email chames@uri.edu.
Click here for detailed information about
the Senior Honors Project.
Pre-health students:
Kathleen Maher, Assistant Director
Lippitt Hall, Room 300C
to make an appointment, please email kmaher@uri.edu.
Departmental Liaisons:
Click here for a list of Departmental Liaisons. They can help you understand how participation in the Honors Program would “fit†with your specific major.
NEWS
CONGRATULATIONS to the following students:
Juniors Christopher Bobba (Chemical Engineering/Biological Sciences) and Russell Dauksis (Marine Biology) who have been named as Goldwater Scholars, and to Farid Topchiev (Chemical Engineering and German) who has received a Goldwater Honorable Mention! See their URI Press release to learn more.
Brian Stack (senior History/Philosophy) who has received a prestigious Humanity in Action Fellowship!
URI Honors Student Megan O'Brien has been awarded a 2012-2013 Fulbright Scholarship to Iceland. Read more about Meghan's story here, and follow her blog!
Brittany O'Brien has been awarded a 2012 National Security Education Program (NSEP) Boren Scholarship to study Swahili in Kenya for the fall semester. Brittany has also been granted an NSEP African Languages Initiative Summer Supplement to study Swahili at the University of Florida prior to her departure.
These six URI sophomores who won Hollings Scholarships from NOAA this year: Michael Canton, Eilea Knotts, Sarah Merolla, Benjamin Sevey, Callie Veelenturf and Brenton Wallin. Read more in their URI Press Release.
Farid Topchiev, who has been awarded two prestigious scholarships to study in Germany - the DAAD Undergraduate Scholarship and the Whitaker Undergraduate Scholarship!
CONTACT US
Honors Director:
Ric McIntyre, 874-4126
Associate Director:
Cheryl Foster, 874-4022
Associate Director:
Carolyn Hames, 874-2813
Assistant Director:
Kathleen Maher, 874-5875
Program Coordinator:
Deborah Gardiner, 874-2303
General inquiries:
honors.uri@gmail.com
