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Expert Sources Directory 1 | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y | Z | Search | View All 11 11 Title: 11 Department: 11 College: 1 Topics: Phone: 12   Email: 121@ds.asd   Website: 12   Back to top David Abedon Title: Professor, Cooperative Extension Specialist Department: Community Planning and Area Development College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: The Atlantic Forest of Brazil; Coffee & international development; Environment; Environmental education; International development; Mountain goats in Crete, Greece Phone: 874-2981/4655   Email: david@uri.edu   Website: http://nrs.uri.edu/people/faculty/abedon.html   Back to top Jerome Adams Title: Professor/Department Chair Department: Human Development and Family Studies College: Human Science and Services Topics: A licensed practitioner in Family Psychology Adams' primary research interest is investigating factors in the therapy process that lead to more successful outcomes for couples and families. He has a particular interest in two related areas that inform thi Phone: 401-874-5962   Email: jadams@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/hdf/faculty/JeromeAdams.htm   Back to top Pete Adamy Title: Assistant Professor Department: School of Education College: Human Science and Services Topics: Technology and assessment in education, technology integration in teacher education, the use of computers in educational research. Phone: 874-7036   Email: adamy@uri.edu   Website: www.soe.uri.edu/faculty/adamy.asp   Back to top Peter Alfonso Title: Vice President for Research, Professor Department: College: Research, Graduate Studies and Outreach Topics: Research innovations and education; Corporate outreach, internships; Speech-language pathology and audiology Phone: 874-4576   Email: peteralfonso@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/research/tro/   Back to top Steven Alm* Title: Professor, Department Chairman Department: Entomology, Plant Science College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Insect pest management; Entomopathogenic nematodes, bacteria, and fungi for control of turf and ornamental pests Phone: 874-5998   Email: Stevealm@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/pls/alm.html   Back to top Horace Amaral, Jr.* Title: Director Department: Enrollment Services College: Topics: Financial aid Phone: 874-2314   Email: harrya@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/es/   Back to top Joan Anderson Title: Professor Department: Human Development & Family Studies College: Human Science & Services Topics: Personal Finance, Consumer Economics, Debt Management, Retirement Planning, and Financial Issues Phone: 874-4567   Email: grayanderson@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/hdf/index.html   Back to top James Anderson* Title: Professor Department: Resource Economics College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Aquaculture economics & policy Fishery economics; Seafood marketing and trade; Seafood safety and inspection policy Phone: 874-4568/2471   Email: jla@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/enre/ENRE_staff.html   Back to top Paul Arakelian Title: Professor Department: English College: Arts & Sciences Topics: English language; Linguistics Phone: 874-5931/4670   Email: arakelian@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/eng/english_NEW/Faculty/Arakelian.html   Back to top Farhad Atash* Title: Department Chair, Professor Department: Community Planning College: Graduate School Topics: Community planning, urban design; Land use planning, transportation planning, International planning Phone: 874-2982/2249   Email: atash@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/cpl/atash.html   Back to top Peter August* Title: Director Department: Coastal Institute College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Bat conservation; Coastal Institute Initiative; Conservation biology; Conservation of biodiversity; Geographic information systems; Landscape ecology; Public access to environmental data Phone: 874-4794   Email: pete@edc.uri.edu   Website: http://nrs.uri.edu/people/faculty/august.html   Back to top Robert Ballard Title: Professor Department: Geological Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Marine scientist and explorer; discoverer of the Titanic; geology of continental margins; volcanic and hydrothermal processes at the mid-ocean ridge; development of ROV systems; founder of "The Jason Project" for schoolchildren. Phone: 874-6222   Email: ballard@gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Ballard_Robert_D.dir/index.html   Back to top Pranab Banerjee Title: Adjunct Professor Department: Electrical Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Fiber optics Hard coatings; Optical materials (ultra low loss, non- linear); Radiation damage on devices & materials; Special surface coatings; Thin film semiconductors; Thin film sensors Phone: 874-5849   Email: baner@ele.uri.edu   Website: www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/banerjee.html   Back to top Harold Barnett Title: Professor Department: Economics College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Corporate compliance; Economics of crime; Economics (general); Environmental policy; Finance; Government regulation; Superfund, history, policy, & economics Phone: 874-2070/2212   Email: hbarnett@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/ecn/Barnett.html   Back to top Stanley Barnett* Title: Professor Department: Chemical Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Biochemical engineering Drinking water; availability of new technology; Energy, alternative sources ; Pollution prevention; Polymer chemistry and engineering; Reactors and purification systems Phone: 874-2443   Email: barnett@egr.uri.edu   Website: www.egr.uri.edu/che/Faculty/barnett.html   Back to top Robert Beagle* Title: Vice President Department: Division of University Advancement College: Topics: Organizational Leadership in the New Century; Fund Raising Campaigns and Non-Profit Organizations; Higher Education--Do the Issues Ever Change? Phone: 874-2291   Email: rbeagle@advance.uri.edu   Website: http://advance.uri.edu/   Back to top Laura Beauvais* Title: Professor Department: Management College: Business Administration Topics: Gender issues in management Organizational motivation and commitment; Organizational theory and culture; Work/family role management Phone: 874-4341   Email: beauvais@uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/Faculty/Beauvais/   Back to top Judy Beckman Title: Assistant Professor Department: Accounting College: Business Administration Topics: Accounting policies; Auditing; Contracting and agency theory; Financial accounting; Takeovers Phone: 874-4321   Email: beckman@uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/Faculty/beckman/mainpage.html   Back to top Allan Berman Title: Professor Department: Psychology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) Children, behavior problems; Learning disabilities; Neuropsychological assessment Phone: 874-4257   Email: alberman@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psy/ugresearch/faculty.htm   Back to top Martin Bide* Title: Professor Department: Textiles, Fashion Merchandising & Design College: Human Science & Services Topics: Dyeing, finishing, printing, color science; Environmental impact of textile finishing; Textiles Phone: 874-2276   Email: mbide@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/tmd/Martin.htm   Back to top Henry Biller Title: Professor Department: Psychology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Fathering; Parent-child relationships, effects on personality development and cognitive functioning Phone: 874-2193   Email:   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psy/ugresearch/faculty.htm   Back to top Peter Blanpied Title: Associate Professor Department: Physical Therapy College: Human Science & Services Topics: Orthopaedics, Research Methods, Biomechanics; Arthritis; Rehab following ACL reconstruction; General Orthopaedics; Active muscle stiffness Phone: 874-4065   Email: blanpied@uri.edu   Website: www.ptp.uri.edu/people/ppage.asp?jumpTo=Research&id=5&ShowResearch=yes&ShowStudentResearch=#Research   Back to top Bryan Blissmer Title: Assistant Professor Department: Kinesiology College: Human Science & Services Topics: Sport Psychology; Exercise Psychology; Physical Activity Epidemiology; Test & Measures (Basic & Applied Statistics) Phone: 874-5435   Email: blissmer@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/physical_education/BryanBlissmer.html   Back to top Lorraine Bloomquist Title: Professor Emerita Department: Physical Education College: Human Science & Services Topics: Aquatics and physical activity for the disabled; Sports for the disabled; Adapted physical education Phone: 874-2975/2470   Email: lbloomy@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/physical_education/pex_bos.html   Back to top Dale Blumen Title: Coordinator, Family Therapy Clinic Department: Human Development, Counseling & Family Studies College: Human Science & Services Topics: Introductory counseling skills, family interaction, marriage and family therapy, child play therapy, adoptive family dynamics Phone: 874-5551   Email: dblumen@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/hdf/faculty/DaleBlumen.htm   Back to top Susan Boatright-Horowitz Title: Director of Undergraduate Program, Assistant Professor Department: Psychology, Behavioral Sciences College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Undergraduate research and education, primate learning and cognition, animal behavior, domestic violence, teaching antiracism Phone: 874-4231   Email: suboath@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psy/ugresearch/faculty.htm#Ber   Back to top Jon C. Boothroyd* Title: Professor Department: Geosciences and State Geologist College: The Environment and Life Sciences Topics: Alaska, coastal glaciers and rivers; Beach erosion and replenishment; Coastal geological hazards; Glacial geology, RI and New England ; Mapping of coastal and glacial geology Phone: 874- 2265/2191   Email: jon_boothroyd@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/geo/boothroyd.htm   Back to top Arijit Bose Title: Department Chair, Professor Department: Chemical Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Colloidal and interfacial engineering; Nanoparticles material synthesis; Thermodynamics; Colloidal magnetic separations Phone: 874-2804   Email: bosea@egr.uri.edu   Website: www.egr.uri.edu/   Back to top G. Faye Boudreaux-Bartels* Title: Professor Department: Electrical Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Digital filter design; Digital signal processing; Mixed Time-Frequency Representations; Women in engineering Phone: 874-5805   Email: boud@ele.uri.edu   Website: www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/boud.html   Back to top John Boulmetis* Title: Professor Department: School of Education College: Human Science & Services Topics: Adult Education (adults as learners); Competency-based education; Curriculum development; Program evaluation; Training and development; Vocational Education Phone: 874-4159   Email: johnb@uriacc.uri.edu   Website: www.soe.uri.edu/faculty/boulmetis.asp   Back to top Thomas B. Boving Title: Associate Professor of Hydrology Department: Geosciences College: Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Environmental Hydrogeology; Fate and Transport of Organic and Inorganic Contaminants; Innovative Remediation Technologies; Applications of Cyclodextrin for aquifer remediaton Phone: 874-7053   Email: BOVING@URI.EDU   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/geo/boving.htm   Back to top Lisa Bowleg Title: Assistant Professor Department: Psychology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Psychosocial perspectives related to: Women and HIV/AIDS prevention; Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues; Women of color and body image; Coping and resilience among multiply marginalized populations Phone: 874-4597   Email: bowlegl@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psy/   Back to top Terence M. Bradley Title: Professor Department: Aquaculture & Fishery Technology College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Aquaculture and pathology; Atlantic salmon, cod, haddock, black sea bass; Fish physiology and biochemistry; Aquaculture biotechnology Phone: 874-5404   Email: tbradley@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/favs/tb.html   Back to top Susan Brady Title: Professor Department: Psychology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Developmental psychology; Language and cognition; Literary crisis in America; Reading disability; Reading research & reading development; The need for changes in teacher preparation in the area of reading Phone: 874-4258   Email: sbrady@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psy/ugresearch/faculty.htm   Back to top Stephen Brand Title: Assistant Professor (Research) Department: School of Education College: Human Science & Services Topics: Social organization of schools Phone: 874-5681/4877   Email: sbrand@uri.edu   Website: www.soe.uri.edu/faculty/brand.asp   Back to top Jody Brown Title: Assistant Professor Research Department: Psychology/Family Violence Research Program College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Domestic violence; Family violence; Process of change in incarcerated women; Process of change in abused women Phone: 874-7782   Email: jbrown@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psy   Back to top Barbara S. Brown Title: Professor Emeritus Department: Dental Hygiene College: Human Science & Services Topics: Dental Hygiene Disease transmission Phone: 874- 4096/2155   Email: bsb@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/dhy/   Back to top Winifred Brownell Title: Dean Department: College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Aging and the media, aging, dying, and death, assessment of hearing and health, Communication technologies and older adults, Gender differences in communication technologies Phone: 874-4101   Email: winnie@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/com/faculty/brownell.html   Back to top Frank Budnick* Title: Professor Department: Management Science College: Business Administration Topics: Business/management education at URI; College of Business Administration: A resource for the state Phone: 874-2337   Email: fbudnick@uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/faculty/inbrief/budnick/   Back to top Robert Bullock Title: Professor; Associate Dean Department: Biological Sciences College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Marine invertebrates; Biology of mollusks; sea shells; Studies on the ecology, reproductive biology, functional morphology, or systematics of marine mollusks and other invertebrates Phone: 874-4107   Email: rbullock@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/bio/bio_bullock.html   Back to top Patricia Burbank Title: Associate Professor Department: Nursing College: Nursing Topics: Chronic illness; Gerontological Nursing; Health behavior change; Home care for the elderly; Meaning in life for the elderly; Thanatology Phone: 874-2766/5314   Email: Pburbank@uri.edu, Pburbank@cox.net   Website: http://autocrat.uri.edu/1887.html   Back to top John Burkett Title: Professor Department: Economics College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Bayesian econometrics; Decision making under uncertainty; Health economics; International economics; Macroeconomics. Phone: 874-4122   Email: burkett@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/ecn/Burkett.html   Back to top Richard Burroughs Title: Professor Department: Marine Affairs College: The Environment and Life Sciences Topics: Marine affairs; Marine resources Phone: 874-4045   Email: Rburroughs@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/maf/burroughs.htm   Back to top David Byrd Title: Director, Professor Department: School of Education College: College of Human Science and Services Topics: Teacher Quality Enhancement, effective teaching methods, impact of standards in education, research in teacher education Phone: 874-5484   Email: dbyrd@uri.edu   Website: www.soe.uri.edu/faculty/byrd.asp   Back to top James Campbell Title: Director; Adjunct Professor Department: Counseling Center College: Topics: Crisis intervention, Traumatic stress, Hostages and their counseling and recovery, Non-violence training, Diversity training, Emergency Management. Phone: 874-2288   Email: campbell@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/coun/   Back to top Josie Campbell Title: Professor Department: English College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Editing; Journalism; Mass communication; Popular American studies & culture Phone: 874-4660/2576   Email: jcampb@uriacc.uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/eng/english_NEW/Faculty/Campbell.html   Back to top Norman A. Campbell* Title: Professor Department: Applied Pharmaceutical Sciences Department College: Pharmacy Topics: Drugs; Ethics; Health Law Insurance plans; Law, Pharmaceutical Phone: 874-2789/5005   Email: nca4902u@postoffice.uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/pharmacy/   Back to top Steven Carey Title: Professor Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Petrology of subduction zones magmas ; Sedimentation of volcaniclastics at convergent margins; Volcanology Phone: 874-6209   Email: scarey@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Carey_Steven_N.dir/index.html   Back to top Robert Carothers* Title: President Department: College: University of Rhode Island Topics: Alcohol/substance abuse and students; Higher education; Herman Melville; Poetry; Total Quality Management Phone: 874-2444/4462   Email: muskrat@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/president/bio.html   Back to top Emily Carrington Title: Assistant Professor Department: Biological Sciences College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Biomechanics of marine organisms; Botany; Marine biology; Mussels; Seaweeds Phone: 874-2667   Email: Carrington@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/bio/index.html   Back to top Leo Carroll* Title: Professor Emeritus Department: Sociology & Anthropology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Corrections Crime; Deviant behavior; Discrimination in criminal justice; Law and society; Race and ethnic relations; Violent crime, police brutality Phone: 874-2587   Email: Lcarroll@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/soc/   Back to top Richard Casagrande Title: Professor Department: Plant Science College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Biological controls of insects; Pests of households, lawns and gardens Phone: 874-2924   Email: casa@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/pls/casagrande.html   Back to top Kathleen Castro* Title: Research Associate Department: Fisheries Center College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Fisheries; gear, science, specifically behavior of animals around gear; Fishing vessel safety; lobster ecology, behavior; Shellfish; Artificial reefs; Sea grant Phone: 874-5063   Email: kcastro@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/favs/   Back to top Joel Chandlee Title: Associate Professor Department: Plant Science College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Biogenetic engineering Phone: 874-2529   Email: joel_chandlee@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/pls/chandlee.html   Back to top Guo-Ming Chen Title: Professor Department: Communication Studies College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Intercultural communication Phone: 874-4731   Email: Gmchen@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/com/faculty/chen.html   Back to top Shaw Chen Title: Professor Department: Management Science College: Business Administration Topics: Econometric modeling; Business forecasting; Statistics; Telecommunications demand; Time series analysis Phone: 874-4339, 2089   Email: chenshaw@uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/faculty/inbrief/chen/   Back to top Clinton Chichester III* Title: Professor Department: Biomedical Sciences College: Graduate School of Pharmacy Topics: Alterations in drug metabolism in septic shock; Arthritis, collagen diseases and treatment; Collagen degradation in osteoarthritis; Connective tissue pharmacology; Technology in pharmacy education Phone: 874-5027   Email: chichester@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/pharmacy//departments/bps/faculty/chichester.html   Back to top Phillip Clark Title: Professor Department: Gerontology College: Human Science & Services Topics: Aging and developmental disabilities; Ethical issues in aging; Health care policy; Health care teams; Health promotion with older adults Phone: 874-2689   Email: aging@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/hdf/faculty/PhillipGClark.htm   Back to top Frances Cohen Title: Director Department: Student Life College: Student Affairs Topics: Substance abuse on college campuses; College student life issues; Substance abuse policy issues Phone: 874-2101   Email: franc@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/student_life/   Back to top Jerry Cohen Title: Professor Department: Psychology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Cognition; Experimental-social motivation; Methodology Phone: 874-4222   Email: dr.j.l.cohen@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psy/ugresearch/faculty.htm   Back to top Joel A. Cohen Title: Professor Department: History College: Arts & Sciences Topics: American history; Colonial & Revolutionary America Phone: 874-5077   Email: jacohen@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/his/Cohen.shtml   Back to top Jeremy Collie Title: Professor Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Adaptive fisheries management; Benthic ecology; Dynamics of marine fish populations; Mathematical models of marine populations; Predator-prey interactions; Processes governing the abundance and distribution of marine fish and invertebrate Phone: 874-6859   Email: jcollie@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Collie_Jeremy_S.dir/index.html   Back to top Charles Collyer* Title: Professor Department: Psychology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Experimental-perception and cognition; Psychophysical modeling; Timing and biological clocks; Psychology of violence and non-violence Phone: 874-4227/2193   Email: collyer@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psy/ugresearch/faculty.htm   Back to top Robert Comerford* Title: Professor Department: Management College: Business Administration Topics: Entrepreneurship Marine/boatyard industry; Marine business and economics; Small business management; Strategic management; Value chain analysis of firms Phone: 874-4315   Email: bobcom@uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/faculty/inbrief/comerford/   Back to top Elizabeth Connors Title: Assistant Professor Clinical Department: Communicative Disorders College: Human Science & Services Topics: Child language; English as a Second Language Phone: 874-4741   Email: billie@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/cmd/bconnors.html   Back to top Spiros Constantinides Title: Professor Emeritus Department: Food Science & Nutrition College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Living in Saudi Arabia Preserving seafood; Quality and safety of food worldwide; Seafood utilization and issues around the world; Well-fed vs. underfed countries Phone: 874-2963/2466   Email:   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/fsn/index.html   Back to top Elizabeth Cooper Title: Associate Professor Department: Management College: Business Administration Topics: Deaf in the workplace; Organizational behavior; Personnel compensation; Women in management Phone: 874-2068   Email: ecooper@uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/faculty/inbrief/cooper/   Back to top Denise Coppa* Title: Assistant Professor, Director of Family Nurse Prac Department: Nursing College: Nursing Topics: Adolescent health care; Alternative health care; Newborn pain; Nurse practitioners; Pediatrics; Political action for nurses; Primary health care Phone: 874-2766/5306   Email: dcoppa@uri.edu   Website: http://autocrat.uri.edu/1885.html   Back to top Peter Cornillon Title: Professor Department: Oceanography, Ocean Engineering College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Air-sea interaction across the sub- tropical convergence; Development of distributed systems for oceanographic data; Dynamics of the Gulf Stream; Gulf Stream mesoscale-eddy interactions Mesoscale phenomena in the Sargasso Sea; Remote sen Phone: 874-6283   Email: pcornillon@gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Cornillon_Peter_C.dir/index.html   Back to top Lois Cuddy Title: Professor Emerita Department: English and Women's Studies College: Arts & Sciences Topics: 19th and 20th century American Literature; Realism, naturalism, and modernism in literature; Women in literature; Women writers and feminist writing Phone: 364-0173   Email: Lcuddy@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/   Back to top Donald Cunnigen Title: Associate Professor Department: Sociology & Anthropology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Race and ethnic relations; Social inequality; Social movements; Social history Phone: 874-4302   Email: dcunn@uriacc.uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/soc/   Back to top Steven D'Hondt* Title: Professor Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Biological and environmental effects of large-body impacts; Biological and environmental recoveries from mass extinctions; Buried biosphere of deep-sea sediments ; Evolutionary ecology of marine plankton; General geobiology; Mass extincti Phone: 874-6808   Email: dhondt@gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/DHondt_Steven_L.dir/index.html   Back to top Joel Dain Title: Department Chair, Professor Department: Chemistry College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Chemistry, Biochemistry; Diabetes & Galactosemia; Genetic disease; Neurochemistry; Role of sugars in accelerating aging Phone: 874-5942   Email: jdain@chm.uri.edu   Website: www.chm.uri.edu/urichm/brochure/people/jd.html   Back to top Gordon Dash Title: Associate Professor Department: Finance & Insurance College: Business Administration Topics: Banking Corporate finance; Financial theory; Quantitative methods Phone: 874-2086   Email: ghdash@uri.edu   Website: www.ghdash.net/   Back to top Philip Datseris Title: Professor Department: Mechanical Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Artificial intelligence as applied in engineering design ; Jewelry assembly apparatus; Mechanical Engineering; Robotics and automation Phone: 874-2514   Email: datseris@egr.uri.edu   Website: www.mce.uri.edu/people/faculty.htm   Back to top Paul Bueno de Mesquita* Title: Associate Professor Department: Psychology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Prevention of childhood; psychopathology; Educational reform; Early intervention; Child development; Parent consultation/teacher consultation; School psychology Phone: 874-4216   Email: pauldem@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psy/ugresearch/faculty.htm   Back to top Joseph DeAlteris Title: Professor Department: Aquaculture & Fishery Technology, Animal and Veter College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Aquaculture; Fisheries, general; Fisheries technology Phone: 874-5333/5063   Email: jdealteris@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/favs/jd.html   Back to top Terry Deeney Title: Assistant Professor Department: School of Education College: Human Science and Services Topics: Phonology and dialect in African-American students with reading disabilities, intervention for struggling readers and writers, reading difficulties, teaching literacy in elementary schools Phone: (401) 874-2682   Email: tdeeney@uri.edu   Website: www.soe.uri.edu/faculty/deeney.asp   Back to top Donald DeHayes Title: Provost & Vice President of Academic Affairs Department: Office of the Provost College: Topics: Higher education; Chief Academic Officer providing leadership, support, energy, and innovation for all of URI's academic, admissions, enrollment, and support programs. Phone: 874-4410   Email: ddehayes@uri.edu   Website:   Back to top Albert DellaBitta* Title: Professor Department: Marketing College: Business Administration Topics: Consumer behavior Marketing; Marketing research; Pricing Phone: 874-4232   Email: dbitta@uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/faculty/inbrief/dellabitta/   Back to top John Dempsey Title: Professor Department: Music College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Chamber music; Music appreciation; Music theory; Pedagogy; Violin & viola performance Phone: 874-2782   Email: jdempsey@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/mus/faculty/dempsey.html   Back to top Peter Dewhurst* Title: Professor Department: Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Design for efficient manufacturing; Design of minimum-weight structures; Manufacturing industry issues and manufacturing education; Principals of assembly automation; Theory of metal deformation Phone: 874-5194   Email: dewhurst@egr.uri.edu   Website: www.egr.uri.edu/ime/Faculty/dewhurst.htm   Back to top Nikhilesh Dholakia Title: Professor Department: Marketing College: Business Administration Topics: Business telecommunications Evolution and transformation of global consumption culture; Transformation of global marketing systems; Global competition; Industrial development, marketing aspects; International marketing Strategic and behavi Phone: 874-4172/5056   Email: nik@uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/faculty/inbrief/ndholakia/   Back to top Ruby Dholakia Title: Director, RITIM, Professor Department: Marketing College: Business Administration Topics: Advertising and marketing communication; Consumer behavior and consumer socialization; Electronic marketing; Internet marketing; Telecommunications & information systems Phone: 874-4390   Email: ruby@uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/faculty/inbrief/rdholakia/   Back to top Robert Dilworth Title: Professor Department: Art and Art History College: Arts & Sciences Topics: African & African American Studies Program Painting, Drawing, African-American Art History Phone: 874-2779/5821   Email: nazara@uriacc.uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/art/URI_Art_Faculty.html   Back to top Thomas Dougan* Title: Vice President Department: Student Affairs College: Campus Life Topics: College students, general; Fraternities; Student life Phone: 874-2427   Email: tdougan@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/student_affairs/campus_life.html   Back to top Marlene Dufault* Title: Associate Professor Department: Nursing College: Nursing Topics: Evaluation and outcomes research; Nursing ; Pain management; Patient education; Research based standards and policy development; Research utilization and research based practice Phone: 874-5307   Email: marlened@uri.edu   Website: http://autocrat.uri.edu/1882.html   Back to top John Dunn Title: Associate Professor Department: Management College: Business Administration Topics: Corporate law; Corporation bankruptcy law; Interaction of US Constitution on business and banking enterprises Phone: 874-4393   Email: jdunn@uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/faculty/inbrief/dunn/   Back to top Lynne M. Dunphy Title: Routhier Endowed Chair of Practice, Professor Department: Nursing College: Nursing Topics: Adult and family nurse practitioners; Nursing history; Practice contributions of nurses Phone: 874-5323   Email: ldunphy@mail.uri.edu   Website: http://autocrat.uri.edu/1979.html   Back to top Edward Durbin Title: Professor Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Fish ecology; Marine food chain dynamics; Zooplankton interactions, ecology and population dynamics Phone: 874-6695/6850   Email: edurbin@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Durbin_Edward_G.dir/index.html   Back to top Maling Ebrahimpour Title: Professor, Department Chair Department: Management Science & Information Systems College: Business Administration Topics: Computers and their application with management; ISO 9000; Japanese manufacturing management techniques; Production operations management; Total Quality Management Phone: 874-2089   Email: maling@ uri.edu   Website:   Back to top Joanne Eichinger Title: Professor Department: School of Education College: Human Science and Services Topics: Special education, inclusion of students with disabilities in general education classes, job stress and satisfaction among special educators, changing attitudes toward people with disabilities Phone: (401) 874-7420   Email: eichinge@uriacc.uri.edu   Website: www.soe.uri.edu/faculty/eichinger.asp   Back to top Joy Emery* Title: Director, Commercial Pattern Archive, Prof Emerita Department: Theatre College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Costume designs; History of the swimsuit; • Dress maker patterns & pattern company histories Phone: 874-2713   Email: jemery@ uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/the/faculty.html   Back to top Larry Englander Title: Associate Professor Department: Plant Sciences College: Environment and Life Sciences Topics: Root-disease fungi and mycorrhizal fungi in woody ornamentals; Modern Flowering Crabapples with disease tolerance Phone: (401) 874-2933   Email: Lenglander@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/pls/englander.html   Back to top Mohammad Faghri Title: Professor Department: Mechanical Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Computer modeling of flow and heat transfer problems; Electronic cooling; Filtration Phone: 874-5180/2524   Email: faghri@egr.uri.edu   Website: www.mce.uri.edu/faghri/   Back to top David M. Farmer Title: Dean Department: College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Application of acoustical techniques to ocean research; Coastal flows; Fjord circulation; Lakes; Measurement of fish populations and related topics; Sea-ice; Upper ocean physics Phone: 874-6222   Email: TheDean@gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Farmer_David_M.dir/index.html   Back to top James Fasching Title: Professor Department: Chemistry College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Biological elements; Computers in education; Computers, minicomputers; Pollution; Trace elements Phone: 874-2298   Email: jfasching@uri.edu   Website: www.chm.uri.edu/urichm/brochure/people/jlf.html   Back to top David Fastovsky* Title: Professor Department: Geosciences College: The Environment and Life Sciences Topics: Sedimentary petrology Stratigraphy; Terrestrial sedimentology; Vertebrate Paleontology; Dinosaurs; Geobiology of critical intervals in Earth history; Paleobiology of Mesozoic; Pre-Quaternary Paleopedology Phone: 874-2185/2265   Email: defastov@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/geo/fastovsky.htm   Back to top Roberta Feather Title: Associate Professor Department: Nursing College: Nursing Topics: Adult psychotherapy; Behavior, eating disorders-bulimia, anorexia nervosa; Legal aspects of nursing practitioner; • Medical malpractice; Nursing negligence Phone: 874-2766   Email: rfea1490@uri.edu   Website: http://autocrat.uri.edu/1879.html   Back to top Marshall Feldman Title: Associate Professor Department: Community Planning College: Graduate School Topics: Computers in planning; Economic development; General urbanization; Housing and economic development; Planning research methods; Planning education; Political economy; Technology and society Phone: 874-5953/2248   Email: marsh@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/cpl/marsh.html   Back to top Rae Ferguson Title: Assistant Professor Department: History College: Arts and Sciences Topics: African-American history, black women, African diaspora in the Americas Phone: 401.874.4079   Email: ferguson@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/his/ferguson.shtml   Back to top Nancy Fey-Yensan* Title: Associate Professor Department: Nutrition and Food Sciences College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Nutrition & aging; Food & culture; Public health nutrition/education; Food behavior measurement; Cross cultural nutrition Phone: 874-2978/2466   Email: fey@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/fsn/ny.html   Back to top Donna Figueroa* Title: Assistant Director; NSE Coordinator Department: Office of International Education and NSE College: Topics: Study abroad; National Student Exchange; International Internships; Peace corps Phone: 874-5546   Email: donna_figueroa@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/international/NSE/index.htm   Back to top James Findlay Title: Professor Department: History College: Arts & Sciences Topics: 1960's (domestic especially) Civil Rights; History; Oral history, local and national; Protestant Religion; Revivalism Phone: 874-2528/4085   Email: Findlay@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/his/faculty.shtml   Back to top Godi Fischer* Title: Professor Department: Electrical Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Artificial neural networks Electronics; Integrated circuit design; Signal Processing; VLSI Phone: 874-5879   Email: fischer@ele.uri.edu   Website: www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/fischer.html   Back to top Mona Florea Title: Assistant Professor Librarian Department: Public Services College: University Library Topics: Education and Curricular materials Phone: 874-9433   Email: mflorea@mail.uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/library/pubserv/index.html#florea   Back to top Paul Florin Title: Associate Professor Department: Psychology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Community psychology; Substance abuse Phone: 874-4234   Email: pflorin@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psy/ugresearch/faculty.htm   Back to top Cheryl Foster Title: Associate Professor Department: Philosophy College: Arts & Sciences Topics: 19th century philosophy; Aesthetics; Ethics; Philosophy of sports; Philosophy of environmental aesthetics, Honors program, Prestigious scholarships Phone: 874-2206/2418   Email: cherylf@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/phl/foster.html   Back to top Howard Foster, Jr. Title: Associate Professor Department: Community Planning and Landscape Architecture College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Community development; Economic development; Growth management; History of American city planning; Strategic planning; Urban problems Phone: 874-4306/2249   Email: howard@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/cpl/howard.html   Back to top Reinhard Frohlich Title: Associate Professor Department: Geology College: Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Contaminant Hydrology; Groundwater geophysics; Nuclear waste disposal and groundwater; Remote sensing Phone: 874-2198   Email: reinhard_frohlich@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/acaddept/geolocean.html   Back to top John Gates Title: Professor Department: Environmental and Resource Economics College: College of the Environment and Life Sciences Topics: Research interests include aquacultural and fisheries economics. Current focus is on fisheries management, policy and order of magnitude economic effects of global climate change in fisheries. Phone: 401-789-0518   Email: jgates@mail.uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/enre/ENRE_Jgates.html   Back to top Sandra Geletko* Title: Associate Professor Department: Pharmacy College: Pharmacy Topics: Pharmaceutical care of HIV/AIDS patients Phone: 874-2734   Email: sandgel@aol.com   Website: www.uri.edu/pharmacy/   Back to top Marc Genest* Title: Associate Professor Department: Political Science College: Arts & Sciences Topics: American foreign policy; American politics; Elections and campaigns, media coverage of; Media's impact on foreign policy; Media and international relations; National security; International terrorism Phone: 874-2183/4054   Email: Genest@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psc/faculty/genest-home.htm   Back to top Timothy George Title: Associate Professor Department: History College: Arts & Sciences Topics: East & Southeast Asian history; Japanese history; postwar Japan; Minamata mercury poisoning tragedy; constitutional thought of Tanaka Shozo, an environmental activist in Japan's Meiji period. Phone: 874-4091   Email: tgeorge@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/his/george.shtml   Back to top Diane Gerzevitz Title: Lead faculty, Assistant Clinical Professor Department: Nursing College: Nursing Topics: Adult internal medicine; Advanced physical assessment and advanced pathophysiology; Disease prevention and health promotion in inner-city areas, overseas, and the Balkan nations Phone: 874-5310   Email: dgerzevitz@uri.edu   Website: http://autocrat.uri.edu/1876.html   Back to top Geoffrey Gibbs Title: Professor Emeritus Department: Music College: Arts & Sciences Topics: American music; Classical and modern music; Music theory and composition Phone: 874-2794/2431   Email: geoffgibbs@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/mus/faculty/gibbs.html   Back to top Dian Gifford Title: Associate Marine Research Scientist Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Biological oceanography; Ecology & physiology of planktonic protozoa & their roles in oceanic ecosystems; Grazing process in oceanic ecosystems; Laboratory culture of planktonic ciliates; Planktonic protozoa; Trophic interactions between Phone: 874-6690/6145   Email: gifford@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/index_net_big.html   Back to top Robert Gillis Title: Director Department: Affirmative action, equal opportunity and diversit College: Topics: Affirmative action; Equal opportunity programs; Human relations/personnel administration; Mediation and dispute resolution Phone: 874-2442 Fax: 401-874-71   Email: Gillisr@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/affirmative_action/   Back to top Gitahi Gititi Title: Associate Professor Department: English & African/African-American Studies College: Arts & Sciences Topics: African studies; African-American studies; American literature; Post-colonial studies Phone: 874-4661/2536   Email: nyiri@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/eng/english_NEW/Faculty/Gititi.html   Back to top Deborah Godfrey-Brown Title: Assistant Professor Department: Nursing College: Nursing Topics: Care of families at home Community health; Gerontology; Health care delivery system; Health policy; Health promotion; Medical sociology; Nursing leadership Phone: 874-2766/ 5352   Email: debgbrown@msn.com   Website: http://autocrat.uri.edu/1888.html   Back to top Marion Gold* Title: Research Associate Department: College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Composting; Environmental landscaping; Horticulture; Insects Phone: 874-2900/5705   Email: mgold@uriacc.uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/index.htm   Back to top Arthur Gold* Title: Professor Department: Natural Resources Science College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Non-point source pollution Riparian zones; Watershed hydrology Phone: 874-2903   Email: agold@uri.edu   Website: www.nrs.uri.edu/Arthur_J__Gold.gold.0.html   Back to top Francis Golet Title: Professor Department: Natural Resources Science College: The Environment and Life Sciences Topics: Ecology and land use aspects of freshwater and saltwater wetlands; Wetland definition and delineation; Wetland classification and wildlife habitat evaluation; Wetland restoration and impact mitigation ; Wetland values to society Phone: 874-2916   Email: fgswamps@uri.edu   Website: www.nrs.uri.edu/Francis_C__Golet.golet.0.html   Back to top Kathleen Gorman* Title: Director Department: Feinstein Center for Hunger-Free America College: Topics: Infant development and malnutrition; Hunger studies; Risk and resilience in a context of poverty Phone: 277-5427   Email: Kgorman@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/endhunger   Back to top John Grandin* Title: Professor, German, Director Department: International Engineering Program College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Business-language program; Germany; International Engineering Program (IEP), national model for international engineering; Languages across the curriculum Phone: 874-4700   Email: grandin@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/iep/german/faculty_staff/grandin.htm   Back to top Linda Green Title: Research Associate IV Department: Natural Resources Science College: The Environment and Life Sciences Topics: Non-point source pollution of freshwater lakes; Water quality monitoring; Watershed Watch-volunteers Phone: 874-2905   Email: lgreen@uri.edu   Website: www.nrs.uri.edu/Linda_Green.694.0.html   Back to top William Green* Title: Associate Professor Department: Community Planning and Landscape Architecture College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Landscape architecture; Sustainable design & development; Community Design & planning; Streetscape improvement; Service learning in landscape architecture Phone: 874-2142   Email: wagre@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/lar/green.html   Back to top Otto Gregory Title: Co-Director, Sensors and Surface Technology Partne Department: Chemical Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Engineering failure analysis, microstructural analysis (Microscopy), and Forensic Engineering; Materials Engineering/Metallurgy; Metallurgy/Ceramics processing-ceramic/electronic materials processing; Novel-semiconductor devices and sensor Phone: 874-2085   Email: gregory@egr.uri.edu   Website: www.egr.uri.edu/   Back to top Thomas Grigalunas Title: Professor Department: Resource Economics & Commerce College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Container Port Development: Economic and Environmental Issues; Economic damages of marine pollution; Environmental economics and policy; Environmental regulations; Natural resource damage assessment ; Offshore oil and gas ; Offshore oil- Phone: 874-4572/2472   Email: grig@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/enre/ENRE_Tgrigalunas.html   Back to top Stephan Grilli* Title: Professor and Department Chair Department: Ocean Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Coastal modeling; Computational wave and fluid mechanics; Multi-phase flows; Numerical modeling; Surf-zone dynamics; Underwater acoustic propagation; Wave-structure interaction Phone: 874-6636   Email: grilli@mistral.oce.uri.edu   Website: www.oce.uri.edu/~grilli/   Back to top Walter Gross* Title: Livestock Specialist Department: Fish, Animal, & Veterinary Sciences College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Farm animals; Poultry Phone: 874-4183   Email: wagross@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/favs/   Back to top Stephen Grubman-Black* Title: Professor Department: Women's Studies College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Sexual abuse of children Phone: 277-5035   Email: shalom@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/com/faculty/grubman.html   Back to top Carolyn Hames* Title: Assistant Professor Department: Nursing College: Nursing Topics: Crisis intervention response teams in the schools; Death, dying, loss, and grief -especially in children & teens; Death education in the schools; Pediatric Nursing; Thanatology Phone: 874-5330   Email: chames@uri.edu   Website: http://autocrat.uri.edu/1874.html   Back to top Cynthia Hamilton* Title: Associate Professor Department: African & Afro-American Studies College: Arts & Sciences Topics: African studies; Afro-American studies; Civil Rights movement Phone: 874-2536/4547   Email: chamilton@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psc/faculty/hamilton-home.htm   Back to top Paul Hargraves Title: Professor Department: Oceanography/Botany College: Graduate School of Oceanography, Arts & Sciences Topics: Biogeography; Effects on UV on marine ecology; Morphology and biogeography of plankton diatoms; Phytoplankton; Phytoplankton life cycles; Red Tide blooms; Systematic and ultrastructure of marine phytoplankton and protoplankton Phone: 874-6241/6698   Email: pharg@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Hargraves_Paul_E.dir/index.html   Back to top Lisa Harlow* Title: Professor Department: Psychology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Causal/structural equation modeling; Friendly (Quantitative) science curriculum; Multivariate statistics; Promoting equity and diversity in learning environments; Psycho-social characteristics: self-esteem, self-efficacy, hope, meaning in life Phone: 874-2193/4242   Email: lharlow@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psy/ugresearch/faculty.htm   Back to top Yvette Harps-Logan Title: Associate Professor Department: Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design College: Human Science & Services Topics: Fashion merchandising, marketing, and minority consumer behavior Phone: 874-2871   Email: ylogan@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/tmd/yvette.htm   Back to top Shanette Harris Title: Associate Professor Department: Psychology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Body image attitudes and eating behaviors of African American and minority females; Gender role behavior and attitudes of African Americans; Psychological and physical health issues and concerns of minorities Phone: 874-4591   Email: sharris@uriacc.uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psy/ugresearch/faculty.htm   Back to top Sharon Hartman Strom Title: Professor Department: History and Art College: Arts & Sciences Topics: History of US women and nineteenth & early twentieth century social history; Office labor; Womens political movements; Historical construction of race and gender; Womens Studies Phone: 874-2528/4080   Email: shstrom@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/his/strom.shtml   Back to top Alejandro Hazera* Title: Associate Professor Department: Accounting College: Business Administration Topics: NAFTA; Latin American finance Phone: 874-2073   Email: hazera@uriacc.uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/faculty/hazera/   Back to top David Hebert Title: Associate Professor Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Dynamics of small-scale mixing processes and their effects of larger scale dynamics; Physical oceanography Phone: 874-6610   Email: david.hebert@uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Hebert_Dave.dir/index.html   Back to top Brian Heikes Title: Associate Professor Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Atmospheric science; Influence of the oceans on the composition of the atmosphere; Photochemistry of ozone and oxidants, heterogeneous processing of chemical species on aerosol or cloud particles, exchange of material at air-land or air- Phone: 874-6638   Email: zagar@notos.gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Heikes_Brian.dir/index.html   Back to top James Heltshe Title: Professor Department: Statistical Science College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Environmental monitoring; Statistics Phone: 874-2701   Email: heltshe@uri.edu   Website: www.cs.uri.edu/people/heltshe.php   Back to top Timothy Hennessey Title: Professor Department: Political Science College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Administrative theory Environmental policy and politics; Law of the sea; Public policy and administration; Regulations vs. Industry Phone: 874-4052   Email: hennessey@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psc/faculty/hennessey-home.htm   Back to top Frank Heppner* Title: Honors Professor Department: Zoology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Teaching of first year biology; Effects of lowered level of preparation on first-year science instruction; Organized flight in birds; Brunei: Gilded Anomaly of Borneo (travel includes very pretty pictures); Rail travel around the world. Phone: 874-2600/874 4399   Email: birdman@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/bio/bio_heppner.html   Back to top Don Hermes* Title: Department Chair, Professor Department: Geology College: The Environment and Life Sciences Topics: General geology; Geology of New England and Rhode Island; Age-Dating methods & ages of rocks in New England; Geoarchaeology (use of geologic principles to solve archaeological problems); Processes involved in the origin & evolution of Phone: 874-2192/2265   Email: dhermes@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/geo/hermes.htm   Back to top Charles Hickox Title: Professor Department: Management College: Business Administration Topics: Environmental Law; Taxation Phone: 874-4318   Email: st.john@uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/faculty/inbrief/hickox/   Back to top Mark Higgins Title: Dean, Professor Department: Accounting College: Business Administration Topics: Tax and financial accounting Phone: 874-4244   Email: markhiggins@uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/faculty/inbrief/higgins/   Back to top Dennis C. Hilliard* Title: Director, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department: RI State Crime Lab College: Biomedical Sciences Topics: Forensic Science/Criminalistics: trace (fire debris, gun shot residue, hair, fiber & paint) evidence; drugged and drunk driving evidence; DNA evidence; latent print evidence and firearm & toolmark evidence. Phone: 874-2893   Email: dch@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/pharmacy/crime_lab/   Back to top Kenneth Hinga* Title: Assistant Dean Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Fates and effects on chemicals in the marine environment; Marine eutrophication; Marine pollution Phone: 874-6888/6222   Email: khinga@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/index_net_big.html   Back to top Mary Hollinshead Title: Associate Professor Department: Art and Art History College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Ancient, Medieval Art History Hellenistic monumental steps and staircases Phone: 874-2770   Email: MARY.HOLLINSHEAD@URI.EDU874-2770   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/art/URI_Art_Faculty.html   Back to top Michael Honhart Title: Department Chair, Associate Professor Department: History College: Arts & Sciences Topics: German social history; History of German labor movement Phone: 874-4075   Email: honhart@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/his/honhart.shtml   Back to top Diane Horm-Wingerd* Title: Director of the Child Development Centers, Profess Department: Human Development and Family Studies College: Human Science & Services Topics: Assessment in early childhood settings; Child development; Developmentally appropriate practice in early childhood settings Phone: 874-2403diane@uri.edu   Email: diane@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/hdf/bachelors/index.html   Back to top Richard J. Horn Title: Executive Director Department: Transportation Center College: Topics: Principle transportation modes; Transportation economics and policy Phone: 874-9091 Fax: 401-874-22   Email: Hornr@uri.edu   Website: www.uritc.uri.edu/   Back to top Sau-Lon Hu Title: Associate Professor Department: Ocean Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Coastal and offshore structures; Random ocean waves; Structural dynamics Phone: 874-6688   Email: hu@oce.uri.edu   Website: www.oce.uri.edu/faculty_pages/hu/hu.html   Back to top Linda Hufnagel* Title: Professor, Director of RICMS Department: Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics College: Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Bhutan-Asia's true Shangri-La; Hand-woven textiles of Bhutan, Guatemala & Southeast Asia; Chinese minority textiles/ crafts; RI coastal Micrograzers; RI Quilts Phone: 874-5914 Fax: 401-874-22   Email: lhufnagel@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/cmb/people/faculty/lhufnagel/   Back to top Donna Hughes Title: Professor, Eleanor M. and Oscar M. Carlson Endowed Department: Women's Studies College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Gender in the curriculum; The Internet for global sexual exploitation of women and children; Media and violence against women; Sexual exploitation and the internet; Trafficking in women; Women in Science and Engineering Phone: 874-5150/2757 Fax 401-87   Email: dhughes@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/hughes.htm   Back to top Richard Hull* Title: Professor Emeritus Department: Plant Science College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Psycological and physiological impact of plants on people; Plant nutrition and soil fertility; Recognizing plants by their family characteristics Turfgrass ecological physiology; Woody ornamentals-physiology Phone: 874-5995/2931, 783-0083 (   Email: rhu6441u@postoffice.uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/pls/hull.html   Back to top Anne Hume* Title: Department Chair, Professor Department: Pharmacy Practice College: Pharmacy Topics: Preventive cardiology; Hypertension and dyslipidemia drugs; Women's health; Osteoporosis drugs; Herbal products; Geriatrics Phone: 874-2734   Email: alhumeri1@aol.com   Website: www.uri.edu/pharmacy//departments/php/faculty/hume.html   Back to top Alan Humphrey* Title: Professor Department: Management Science & Information Systems College: Business Administration Topics: Distance Learning; Geographic information systems; Health services marketing; MS-DOS and Macintosh microcomputers; Multimedia applications; Statistical analysis Phone: 874-4175   Email: humphrey@uriacc.uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/academics/undergraduate/departments/managementinformationsystems/   Back to top Thomas Husband Title: Professor Department: Natural Resource Science College: The Environment and Life Sciences Topics: Mammalogy; Mammals of NE Brazil; Mountain goats of Greece; Small mammals in RI red maple swamps Phone: 874-2912   Email: tom@uri.edu   Website: www.nrs.uri.edu/Thomas_P__Husband.husband.0.html   Back to top Jeffrey Jarrett* Title: Professor Department: Management Science & Information Systems College: Business Administration Topics: Decision supports systems; Economic and business forecasting; Financial policy issues; Health insurance; Lotteries and gambling; Manufacturing and service industries; Management science Statistical analysis; Total Quality Management Phone: 874-2089 874-4169   Email: jeff1@uriacc.uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/Faculty/jarrett/page3.htm   Back to top H. Perry Jeffries Title: Professor Emeritus Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Bicycling the European Alps and Canadian Rockies; Fish of Narragansett Bay; Stability and pattern of distribution in marine communities Phone: 874-6281   Email: jeffries@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Jeffries_Perry_H.dir/index.html   Back to top Marie Jenkins Schwartz* Title: Associate Professor Department: History College: Arts & Sciences Topics: 19th century social history; History of slavery; History of the family; US history Phone: 874-4090   Email: Schwartz@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/his/schwartz.shtml   Back to top Galen Johnson Title: Professor, Director University Honors Program Department: Philosophy College: Arts & Sciences Topics: American philosophy (esp. George Berkley of Newport, RI); Existentialism; modern and postmodern philosophy; French philosophy; Phenomenology; Philosophies of friendship; Philosophy of painting; Philosophy of psychology Phone: 874-2209/4790   Email: gjohnson@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/phl/johnson.html   Back to top Eugene Johnson* Title: Professor Department: Marketing College: Business Administration Topics: Management; Marketing Marketing planning; Professional selling; Telemarketing; Sales management; Services marketing Phone: 874-4362   Email: EJohnson@uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/academics/undergraduate/departments/marketing/   Back to top Dayle Joseph Title: Dean of Nursing, Associate Professor Department: Nursing College: Nursing Topics: Client and nurse decision-making; Nursing practice; Nursing strategies Phone: 874-2766   Email: dayle@uri.edu   Website: http://autocrat.uri.edu/1872.html   Back to top Peniel Joseph Title: Assistant Professor Department: History-African & African American Studies College: Arts and Sciences Topics: Social, political, cultural and intellectual origins of the Black Power Movement. Phone: 874-4085   Email: PJOSEPH@URI.EDU   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/afr/faculty.htm   Back to top Lawrence Juda Title: Professor, Department Chair Department: Marine Affairs College: Environment & Life Sciences Topics: National and international marine affairs; United States Ocean Policy and Organization; Ocean use management and governance; Politics of Ocean Space Phone: 874-4041/2596   Email: ljuda@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/maf/juda.htm   Back to top Mary Kalymun* Title: Associate Professor Department: Human Development, Counseling & Family Studies College: Human Science & Services Topics: Aging; Environmental gerontology; Interior Designer, specializing in settings for elderly (residential and commercial) Phone: 874-4176   Email: mkalymun@uriacc.uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/hdf/faculty/MaryKalymun.htm   Back to top Dimitrios Karamanlidis Title: Associate Professor Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Computational mechanics; Computer-aided analysis of engineering structures; Structural analysis Phone: 874-2783   Email: karamand@egr.uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cve/facKaramanlidis.htm   Back to top Robin Katzanek Title: Assistant Professor, Academic Coordinator Department: Clinical Education College: Human Science & Services Topics: Arthritis Aquatic physical therapy Phone: 874-5002   Email: robink@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/   Back to top Steven Kay Title: Professor Department: Electrical Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Digital signal processing; Linear systems and signals; Reverberation simulation; Design of Magnetic Anomaly Detectors Phone: 874-5804   Email: kay@ele.uri.edu   Website: www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/kay.html   Back to top Robert Kenney Title: Associate Marine Research Scientist Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Biology of whales, dolphins, seals, and sea turtles; Biological oceanography; Conservation of marine endangered species; Human impacts (pollution, fisheries, whaling) Phone: 874-6664   Email: rkenney@gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Kenney_Robert_D.dir/index.html   Back to top George Kent Title: Professor Department: Music College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Conducting; Music; Organ-Baroque trumpet; Applied organ and harpsichord; mMsic appreciation Phone: 874-2796   Email:   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/mus/faculty/kent.html   Back to top Claudia Kerbel Title: Director of Outreach Department: Transition Center College: Human Science & Services Topics: Academic advising, instructional support; Personal financial behavior; Administration, marketing, and grant development Phone: 874-7436   Email: cmkerbel@etal.uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/hdf/faculty/ClaudiaKerbel.htm   Back to top Dana Kester Title: Professor Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Chemical oceanography Changes and trends in RI coastal waters; Chemistry of seawater; Global changes and the oceans; Physical chemistry of sea water; Water quality conditions in Narragansett Bay Phone: 874-6527   Email: dkester@gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/index_net_big.html   Back to top Alfred Killilea Title: Professor Department: Political Science College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Ethics in public administration; Relation of attitudes on death and politics Phone: 874-4056   Email: hookshot@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psc/faculty/killilea-home.htm   Back to top Keith Killingbeck Title: Professor Department: Biological Sciences College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Desert ecosystems; Fall foliage; Nutrient cycling; Forest ecology Phone: 874-2624   Email: keith@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/bio/bio_killingbeck.html   Back to top Yong Kim Title: Professor Emeritus Department: Philosophy College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Comparative religion; Korean religion and philosophy; Oriental philosophy and religion Phone: 874-2208   Email: yongkim@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/phl/kim.html   Back to top Sook-Hyun Kim Title: Assistant Professor Department: Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design College: Human Science & Services Topics: Textile and apparels in global economy; Retail evolution (causes and effects), Retail management (problem solving), New retail formats, Internet retailing, Consumer behavior in apparel distribution channel, International trade, and Product development Phone: 874-2881   Email: kimsh@mail.uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/tmd/Sook-Hyun.htm   Back to top Chai Kim* Title: Professor Department: Management Information Systems College: Business Administration Topics: Business and foreign languages; Cross-cultural communication; Distance learning - computers; International business education -using the internet Phone: 874-4205   Email: chaikim@uriacc.uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/Faculty/Kim/   Back to top Thomas Kim* Title: Director of Student Service Center, Professor Department: Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics College: Engineering Topics: Engineering education Engineering research & service at URI; High pressure waterjet technology; Mechanical seals; Mechanics of material processing; Waterjet machinery Phone: 874-5991   Email: tomkim3@egr.uri.edu   Website: www.mce.uri.edu/kim/   Back to top Christopher Kincaid Title: Associate Professor Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Coastal oceanography: dynamics of coastal waters; Geophysical fluid dynamics; Mantle convection and plate tectonics; Marine geophysics; Modeling interaction between estuary and shelf waters; Modeling of mantle flow in island areas and Phone: 874-6571   Email: kincaid@lighthouse.gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Kincaid_Christopher_R.dir/index.html   Back to top John King* Title: Professor Department: Research Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Geomagnetic field source modeling; Paleomagnetism; Paleoenvironmental reconstruction; Palynology ; Rock magnetism and pollen analysis; Stratigraphic correlation and dating using magnetic techniques; Marine pollution & trace metal geoch Phone: 874-6594   Email: jking@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/King_John_W.dir/index.html   Back to top Louis Kirschenbaum Title: Professor Department: Chemistry College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Free radicals; General chemistry; Metal ions; Solutions; Hair and textiles. Phone: 874-2340   Email: Kirschenbaum@chm.uri.edu   Website: www.chm.uri.edu/urichm/brochure/people/lou.html   Back to top M. Serpil Kislalioglu* Title: Professor Department: Applied Pharmaceutical Sciences, Director Cosmetic College: Pharmacy Topics: Characterization of oils, waxes, polymers; Cosmetic Formulation & substantiation; Evaluation of pharmaceutical and cosmetic raw materials; Topical and transdermal dosage forms Phone: 874-5017   Email: skis@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/pharmacy//departments/bps/faculty/kislalioglu.html   Back to top Maury Klein* Title: Professor Department: History College: Arts & Sciences Topics: 19th Century social and industrial history; Civil War; Industrial Revolution; The "Robber Barons," history of; U.S. railroads, history of; 20th century social & cultural history; Late 19th and 20th century business history Phone: 874-5486   Email: mauryk@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/his/klein.shtml   Back to top Harold Knickle Title: Associate Dean, Professor Department: Chemical Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Coal liquefaction; College of Engineering; Industry design; Multiphase flow Phone: 874-5984   Email: knickle@egr.uri.edu   Website: www.egr.uri.edu/   Back to top Winston Knight Title: Graduate Program Director, Professor Department: Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Design for Manufacture and for Recycling; CAD/CAM of Dies and Molds; Computer-Aided Process Design; Group Technology Phone: 874-5188   Email: knight@egr.uri.edu   Website: www.egr.uri.edu/ime/Faculty/knight.htm   Back to top Gene Knott* Title: Associate Professor Department: Human Development and Family Studies College: Human Science and Services Topics: College student development; Grief and bereavement; Group dynamics and leadership; Learning communities; Organization development Phone: 874-7426   Email: gknott@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/hdf/faculty/GeneKnott.htm   Back to top Bobbi Koppel* Title: Director Department: Career Services College: Topics: Career advising; Graduate school advising; Technology in job search Phone: 874-5177   Email: bkoppel@uri.edu   Website: http://career.uri.edu/staff.shtml   Back to top Richard Koske Title: Professor, Department Chair Department: Biological Sciences College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Physiological ecology of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi Phone: 874-2629/2373   Email: rkoske@uri.edu, jgemma@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/bio/bio_koske.html   Back to top William Kovacs Title: Professor Department: Civil Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Earthquake engineering; Site investigations & characterization; Soil mechanics and foundation engineering (Geotechnical engineering); Static & dynamic soil properties Phone: 874-2500   Email: kovacsw@egr.uri.edu   Website: www.egr.uri.edu/   Back to top James Kowalski Title: Department Chair, Professor Department: Computer Science College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Artificial intelligence systems; Formal logic; Philosophy of science Phone: 874-2510   Email: kowalski@cs.uri.edu   Website: www.cs.uri.edu/people/kowalski.php   Back to top Tadeusz Kowalski Title: Professor Emeritus Department: Ocean Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Acid rain prevention; Clean-up systems; Fish and fishing; Fishing vessel safety and construction; Oil spills; Ship hydrodynamics Phone: 874-2550   Email:   Website: www.egr.uri.edu/   Back to top Gerald Krausse* Title: Associate Professor Department: Marine Affairs College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Ecotourism in developing countries; Wildlife/nature videography; Marine conservation and ecotourism; Sustainable development off islands; Waterfront revitalization; Politics of US waterfront development Phone: 874-4043   Email: gkrausse@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/maf/krausse.htm   Back to top William Krul* Title: Professor Emeritus Department: Plant Science College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Plant biotechnology; Plants-cell tissue and organ culture, growth and development Phone: 874-4555   Email: mrbill@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/pls/   Back to top Don Kunz* Title: Professor Department: English College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Drama; Film; Creative writing; Short story; Poetry. Available to read works Phone: 874-5931 874-4337   Email: dkunz@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/eng/index.html   Back to top Gerasimos Ladas* Title: Professor Department: Mathematics College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Difference equations; Global asymptotic stability, boundedness character, and periodic behavior of solutions of rational difference equations Phone: 874-5592   Email: gladas@math.uri.edu   Website: www.math.uri.edu/~gladas   Back to top Bernard LaFayette, Jr. Title: Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence; Director of NPS Department: Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies College: Topics: Centers for nonviolence; Civil Rights Movement; International nonviolence training Nonviolence; Nonviolence education; Nonviolent social change Phone: 874-2875   Email: doc@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/nonviolence/popup/biography.html   Back to top Robert LaForge Title: Professor Research Department: Cancer Prevention Research Center College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Behavioral epidemiology; Measurement and evaluation; Policy and program analysis; Research methods and data analysis; Substance abuse studies; Survey research Phone: 874-5571   Email: rlaforge@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/research/cprc/Faculty/RLaforge.htm   Back to top Edmund Lamagna* Title: Professor Department: Computer Science & Statistics College: Arts & Science Topics: Computers in math; Educational use of computers at college level; Internet; Software industry in Rhode Island Phone: 974-2701   Email: eal@cs.uri.edu   Website: www.cs.uri.edu/people/lamagna.php   Back to top Linda Lamont Title: Professor Department: Kinesiology College: Human Science & Services Topics: Health and Fitness, Exercise Science, and Clinical Exercise Physiology; Amino Acid and Protein Metabolism; Various topics in Clinical Exercise Physiology Phone: 874-5449   Email: LAMONT@URIACC.URI.EDU   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/physical_education/LindaLamont.html   Back to top Michael N Laprey Title: Assistant Director, Atheltic Communication Department: Athletics College: Topics: Women's soccer, men's basketball, cross country, indoor track, outdoor track. Phone: 874-2401   Email: mlaprey@uri.edu   Website: http://gorhody.cstv.com/genrel/laprey_mike00.html   Back to top Leonard Lardaro Title: Professor Department: Economics College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Manufacturing employment, productivity, and performance; National economic trends; The "New" Economy: The effects of technology and the internet; New England regional economic trends and forecasting Rhode Island economy; Unemployment insur Phone: 874-4128   Email: lardaro@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/ecn/Lardaro.html   Back to top E. Paul Larrat* Title: Professor Research Department: Applied Pharmaceutical Sciences College: Pharmacy Topics: Drug benefit design issues; Drugs, economics of ; Formulary compliance strategies; Health reform; Managed care; Pharmacoepidemiology; Prostate cancer Phone: 874-2789   Email: larrat@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/pharmacy//departments/php/faculty/larrat.html   Back to top Joan Lausier Title: Associate Dean; Professor Department: Pharmacy College: Pharmacy Topics: Cosmetics, contents; Drug delivery systems; Microencapsulation; Pharmaceutical processing Phone: 874-5888   Email: ladyjoan@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/pharmacy//departments/bps/faculty/lausier.html   Back to top David Laux Title: Professor Department: Microbiology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Immunology, bacterial-mucosal surface interactions Phone: 874-2201/5947   Email: laux@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/cmb/people/faculty/dlaux/index.html   Back to top Marquisa LaVelle Title: Professor Department: Anthropology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Physical anthropology; Human variation; Growth, development and aging; Obesity Phone: 874-4077   Email: mlavelle@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/soc/anth/faculty/lavelle.htm   Back to top Roger LeBrun* Title: Professor Department: Plant Sciences Center for Vector-borne Disease College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Eastern equine encephalitis; Insect-borne diseases; Insects; Lyme disease, biocontrol of; Microbial insect control; Mosquitoes; West Nile Virus Phone: 874-2934 874-5408   Email: lebrun@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/pls/lebrun.html   Back to top Ronald Lee Title: Professor, Department Chair Department: Music College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Music education, arts education, portfolio, music convocation, Introduction to the music profession Phone: 874-2431   Email: rlee@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/mus/faculty/lee.html   Back to top K. Wayne Lee Title: Professor, Director of Transportation Center Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Highway design and transportation infrastructure; Asphalts and engineering materials; Pavement design and management; Traffic and Transportation engineering Phone: 874-2695   Email: leew@egr.uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cve/facLee.htm; www.uri.edu/uritc/lee/   Back to top Chong Lee* Title: Professor Department: Food Science & Nutrition College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Composite food and biomaterials Seafood processing/development; Surimi Phone: 874-2862   Email: uricml@uriacc.uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/fsn/chongl.html   Back to top K. Wayne Lee* Title: Director of Research and Development, Transportati Department: Civil Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Asphalt & engineering materials ; Pavement design and management; Traffic and transportation engineering; Transportation infrastructure and systems Phone: 874-2695/5498   Email: Leekw@uri.edu, lee@egr.uri.edu   Website: www.egr.uri.edu/   Back to top Gabriel Lengyel* Title: Professor Emeritus Department: Electrical Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Fiber Optics, components of; Germany & German technology; Optical communication; Semiconductor devices in fiber optic communication; Semiconductor injection lasers Phone: 874-5871   Email: lengyel@ele.uri.edu   Website: www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/lengyel.html   Back to top Stephen Letcher Title: Professor Department: Physics College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Fiber-optic sensors; Seafood, quality testing; Ultrasonics Phone: 874-2060   Email: sletcher@uri.edu   Website: www.phys.uri.edu/people/letcher.html   Back to top Linda Levin Title: Professor Department: Journalism College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Journalism; Media criticism; Open-records laws; The Russian media Women in journalism Phone: 874-4287   Email: lllevin@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/jor/contact.htm   Back to top George Loomis* Title: Researcher IV, Director of the Onsite Wastewater Training Center Department: Natural Resource Science College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Pollution movement and abatement; Septic management; Soils Phone: 874-4558/2495   Email: gloomis@uri.edu   Website: www.nrs.uri.edu/NRS_Faculty_and_Staff.859.0.html#927   Back to top Bernice Lott Title: Professor Emeritus Department: Psychology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Feminist psychology; Interpersonal attraction; Social learning and motivation; Social psychology; Women's studies Phone: 874-4248   Email: blott@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psy/ugresearch/faculty.htm   Back to top James Loy* Title: Professor Department: Sociology & Anthropology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Charles Darwin and 19th century science; Development of evolutionary thought; Human evolution; Physical anthropology; Primatology Phone: 874-4131   Email: jimloy@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/soc/anth/faculty/loy2.htm   Back to top Angelo Lucia* Title: Chester H. Kirk Endowed Professor Department: Chemical Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Complex domain numerical methods; Process engineering; Computer-aided process design; Computational thermodynamics; Phase equilibrium; Equation solving Phone: 874-2814   Email: lucia@egr.uri.edu   Website: www.egr.uri.edu/   Back to top Barbara F. Luebke Title: Professor Department: Journalism, Women's Studies College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Design; Editing; Gender issues in journalism; History of journalism; Journalism relearch; Media performance and critique; Women and sports Andrea Phone: 874-5490   Email: Bfluebke@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/jor/luebke.htm   Back to top Louis Luzzi Title: Professor Department: Pharmaceutics College: Pharmacy Topics: Drug delivery; Health care industry; Microencapsulation Phone: 874-2761   Email: lal@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/pharmacy/   Back to top Yan Ma Title: Associate Professor Department: Graduate School of Library & Information Studies College: Topics: Organization of information; Computer systems in library automation; Chinese-American press in the US; Information science and visual literacy Phone: 874-2819   Email: yanma@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/lsc/web/People/YanMa/YanMa-new.htm   Back to top Leslie Mahler Title: Assistant Professor Department: Communicative Disorders College: Human Science and Services Topics: Cognitive disorders, voice disorders, dysphagia, motor speech aspects of communication, phonetics, and special problems. Phone: 874-2490   Email: lesliemahler@mail.uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/cmd/lmahler.html   Back to top Thomas Manfredi Title: Professor, Co-Chairperson Department: Physical Education and Exercise Science College: Human Science & Services Topics: Physiology of Aging; Exercise science Phone: 874-5439   Email: manfredi@uriacc.uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/physical_education/TomManfredi.html   Back to top Robert Manteiga* Title: Director, Professor Department: Hispanic Studies College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Comparative literature Contemporary Spanish literature; Spanish feminine narrative; 20th century Spanish poetry ; 20th century Spanish novel Phone: 874-5911 874-4701   Email: roberto@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/film/faculty.html#rmanteiga   Back to top Shmuel Mardix Title: Professor Department: Electrical Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Electronic materials; X-Ray technology Phone: 874-5851   Email: mardix@ele.uri.edu   Website: www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/mardix.html   Back to top Spencer Martin Title: Professor Department: Accounting College: Business Administration Topics: Financial accounting theory Forecasting; Valuation of closely-held corporations Phone: 874-4335   Email: smartin@uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/faculty/inbrief/martin/   Back to top David Maslyn* Title: Interim Dean of Libraries, University Archivist Special Collections Librarian Department: Administration College: University Library Topics: Archives and historical collections Phone: 874-2594   Email: dcm@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/library/contact_information/staffdept.html#admin   Back to top I. Rod Mather Title: Assistant Professor Department: History College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Underwater archaelogy; Maritime history; History of early modern Europe; British imperial history; Geographic information systems application to submerged cultural resource mangagement Phone: 874-4093   Email: Roderick@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/his/mather.shtml   Back to top Thomas Mather* Title: Professor Department: Plant Science College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Deer ticks; Emerging infectious diseases; Lyme disease & prevention; Tick-borne diseases; Vector-borne diseases; West Nile Virus; Other mosquito-transmitted viruses Phone: 874-5616/2928   Email: tmather@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/pls/mather.html   Back to top Joseph Matoney Title: Professor Department: Accounting College: Business Administration Topics: Federal income tax accounting for businesses and individuals; Income taxes; Tax laws Phone: 789-4380   Email: taxman@uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/faculty/inbrief/matoney/   Back to top Peter Maynard Title: Professor Department: Human Development, Counseling & Family Studies College: Human Science & Services Topics: Families under stress or trauma; Family counseling and research; Family therapy with elderly; Legal and ethical issues in family therapy Phone: 874-5958   Email: peterm@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/index.html   Back to top Edward Mazze* Title: Professor Department: College: College of Business Administration Topics: Advertising; Consumer issues Corporate governance International business; Marketing strategy; Mergers and acquisitions; Retailing; Strategic planning Phone: 874-2337   Email: emazze@uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/home/prospective/   Back to top John McCray Jr. Title: Vice Provost Department: Urban Programs College: ASF CCE Topics: Finance and Industrial economics International Trade Phone: 874-5474   Email: Drmccray@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/mcc/DiversityAwards/2004/index.html   Back to top Richard McIntyre Title: Associate Professor Department: Economics College: Arts & Sciences Topics: International finance; General, national economic trends & issues; Labor and international trade; Regional and national labor markets Phone: 874-4126   Email: rmc8875u@postoffice.uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/ecn/McIntyre.html   Back to top Wm. Lynn McKinney Title: Dean Department: College: Human Science & Services Topics: Service learning and education; Management of non-profit organizations; Volunteerism Phone: 874-4014/2244   Email: lynnm@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/   Back to top Arthur Mead* Title: Professor Department: Economics College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Demographics; Economic forecasting; Economics of higher education; National economic conditions; Rhode Island/New England economy Phone: 874-4123   Email: acmead@uriacc.uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/ecn/Mead.html   Back to top Helen Mederer Title: Professor, Department Chair, Sociology Program Coordinator Department: Sociology & Anthropology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Family; Aging; Work and society; Gender inequality; Domestic violence Phone: 874-4144   Email: hmederer@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/soc/   Back to top Judith Mercer Title: Clinical Professor Department: Nursing College: Nursing Topics: Cord clamping/newborn recovery; gentle birth practices, nurse-midwifery Phone: 874-5327   Email: jmercer@uri.edu   Website: http://autocrat.uri.edu/1865.html   Back to top John Merrill* Title: Professor Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Analysis and modeling of the structure and dynamics of the atmosphere; Atmospheric science; Meteorological analysis of long range transport Phone: 874-6715   Email: jmerrill@boreas.gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Merrill_John_T.dir/index.html   Back to top James Miller Title: Professor Department: Ocean Engineering College: Engineering Topics: SONAR; Acoustical engineering; Whale acoustics; Marine mammal acoustics Phone: 874-6540   Email: miller@uri.edu   Website: www.oce.uri.edu/faculty_pages/miller/miller.html   Back to top Maureen Moakley* Title: Associate Professor Department: Political Science College: Arts & Sciences Topics: American government; Ethics in public administration; Political culture; Rhode Island politics; Women and politics Phone: 874-4055   Email: moakley@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psc/faculty/moakley-home.htm   Back to top Scott Molloy* Title: Associate Professor Department: Labor & Industrial Relations College: Graduate School Topics: Contemporary labor movement; Labor, industrial & ethnic history; Rhode Island history; Structure of organized labor; Transportation history Phone: 874-2239/2569   Email: molloy@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/research/lrc/faculty.htm   Back to top S. Bradley Moran Title: Associate Professor Department: Chemical Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Arctic oceanography; Radionuclides; Russian lakes, toxins present in; Solid-solution interactions of trace metals in seawater Phone: 874-6530   Email: moran@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Moran_S_Bradley.dir/index.html   Back to top Patricia Morokoff Title: Professor Department: Psychology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: AIDS research; Health psychology; Human sexuality; Women's studies Phone: 874-4239   Email: morokoff@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psy/ugresearch/faculty.htm   Back to top Norbert Mundorf* Title: Professor Department: Communication Studies College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Electronic media communications European telecommunications; Information Superhighway; World Wide Web; Electronic commerce; Health & multimedia" Phone: 874-4725   Email: mundorf@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/com/faculty/mundorf.html   Back to top Daniel P. Murray Title: Professor Department: Geosciences College: Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Appalachian Tectonics; Application of GIS and GPS to Geology; Granite Petrogenesis; Formation of the New England Appalachians; Late Paleozoic tectonothermal evolution of New England; Metamorphism of carbonaceous materials; Alleghanian and Avalonian orogen Phone: 874-2197   Email: DPMURRAY@URIACC.URI.EDU   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/geo/murray.htm   Back to top Bahram Nassersharif Title: Dean Department: College: Engineering Topics: Nuclear systems, heat transfer, computational mechanics, and non-destructive testing Phone: 874-2186   Email: dean@egr.uri.edu, bn@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/iep/colloquia/2004/bios/nassersharif.htm   Back to top Thomas Needham* Title: Professor Department: Applied Pharmaceutical Sciences College: Pharmacy Topics: Development of pharmaceutical products for regular and biotechnology drugs; High costs of developing new drugs, expenses in bringing generic drugs to market, issues involved in R&D Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP's) Phone: 874-5016   Email: tneedham@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/pharmacy//departments/bps/faculty/needham.html   Back to top Peter Nightingale* Title: Professor Department: Physics College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Critical phenomena; Condensed Matter Theory; Physics (Quantum) Monte Carlo; Surfaces transitions; Wetting Phone: 874-5882   Email: nightingale@phys.uri.edu   Website: www.phys.uri.edu/people/nightingale.html   Back to top Murn Nippo Title: Professor Emeritus Department: Fish, Animal and Veterinary Science College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Animal ethology and nutrition; Livestock Phone: 874-2940   Email: murn@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/favs/mn.html   Back to top Dennis Nixon Title: Professor, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Department: Marine Affairs College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Admiralty law, with particular reference to research and fishing vessels ; Coastal zone law; Fisheries law and management ; Marine insurance; Marine pollution law Scott Phone: 874-2147   Email: dnixon@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/maf/nixon.htm   Back to top Anthony Nunes* Title: Professor Department: Physics College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Bicycle science and history Crystallography; Magnetism; Nuclear war; Neutron optics; Neutron scattering; Solid state physics Phone: 874-2048/4170   Email: acnunes@uri.edu   Website: www.phys.uri.edu/people/nunes.html   Back to top Leo O'Donnell* Title: Associate Professor, Associate Dean Department: College: Human Science & Services Topics: Health promotion; Physical fitness; School physical education; Youth sports Phone: 874-2125 874-2244   Email: leo@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/   Back to top William Ohley Title: Professor Department: Electrical Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Analog image processing Computer based instrumentation; Image processing; Medical instrumentation; Science education for Native Americans Phone: 874-2505   Email: ohley@ele.uri.edu   Website: www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/ohley/ohley.html   Back to top Felix Okeke-Ezigbo Title: Professor Department: English College: Arts & Sciences Topics: African- and African-American Studies; Comparative Literature Phone: 874-5931/4680   Email: foez@uriacc.uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/eng/english_NEW/Faculty/Okeke-Ezigbo.html   Back to top Stephen Olsen* Title: Director; Affiliated Professor Department: Coastal Resources Center College: Oceanography Topics: Coastal ecosystems; Coastal planning and management; International assistance; International marine ecosystems; Planning/management Phone: 874-6224   Email: solsen@gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Olsen_Stephen_B.dir/index.html   Back to top Ronald Onorato Title: Professor Department: Art and Art History College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Architecture; history & American architectural history; Modern & contemporary art, Film Studies Phone: 874-2769   Email: rononorato@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/art/URI_Art_Faculty.html   Back to top James Opaluch Title: Professor Department: Resource Economics & Commerce College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Environmental economics; Hazardous waste; Decision Research and Policy Simulation; Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Phone: 874-4590   Email: jimo@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/enre/ENRE_Jopaluch.html   Back to top Henry Oppenheimer Title: Associate Professor, Area Coordinator Department: Finance & Insurance College: Business Administration Topics: Corporate finance; Investments; Portfolio management; Municipal finance Phone: 874-4193   Email: henryO@uriacc.uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/faculty/inbrief/oppenheimer/   Back to top Margaret Ordonez Title: Associate Professor Department: Textiles College: Human Science & Services Topics: Historic garment conservation; Historic quilts; Wedding dress preservation Phone: 874-5481/4574   Email: Mordonez@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/tmd/margaret.htm   Back to top Craig Overton Title: Professor Department: Management College: Business Administration Topics: Arbitration; Collective bargaining Dispute resolutions; Industrial relations; Labor relations; Personnel administration Phone: 874-4208/2086   Email: overton@uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/Faculty/overton/   Back to top Candace Oviatt* Title: Professor Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Benthic-water column interaction Carbon cycling; Ecosystem Studies; Functional role of higher trophic levels; Marine Ecosystem Research Laboratory (MERL) experimentation; Marine ecology; System production and respiration as measured by Phone: 874-6661   Email: coviatt@gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Oviatt_Candace_A.dir/index.html   Back to top Barbara Pagh Title: Professor, Department Chair Department: Art and Art History College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Printmaking Intaglio processes, Lithography Phone: 874-2131   Email: BPAGH@URI.EDU   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/art/URI_Art_Faculty.html   Back to top William Palm Title: Professor Department: Mechanical Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Control systems; Dynamic systems and vibrations; Robotics Phone: 874-2531/2524   Email: palm@egr.uri.edu   Website: www.mce.uri.edu/palm/   Back to top Mary Louise Palm* Title: Assistant Professor Department: Nursing College: Nursing Topics: Computers in nursing; Parent-child health; Pediatric nursing Phone: 874-5341/2766   Email: mlpalm@uri.edu   Website: http://autocrat.uri.edu/1860.html   Back to top Joseph Parillo* Title: Director of Jazz Studies, Associate Professor Department: Music College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Jazz; Music composing & performing; Music for film/video; Recording Phone: 874-2765/2431   Email: jparillo@uri.edu, joeparillo@neogamusic.com   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/mus/faculty/parillo.html   Back to top Lynn Pasquerella Title: Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Professor Department: Philosophy College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Theoretical and applied ethics; Medical ethics; Metaphysics; Philosophy of law; Public Policy Phone: 874-2207   Email: paski@uri.edu, paski@snet.net   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/phl/pasquerella.html   Back to top Peter Paton Title: Department Chair, Professor Department: Natural Resources Science College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Avian ecology; Applied conservation biology; Population ecology of neotropical migratory birds; effects of restoration of New England’s salt marshes on Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrows; impacts of oil spills on birds; Piping Plover Phone: 874-2986   Email: ppaton@uri.edu   Website: www.nrs.uri.edu/Peter_W_C__Paton.paton.0.html   Back to top Rosa Maria Pegueros Title: Assistant Professor Department: History College: Arts & Sciences Topics: History of Latin America; Latin American womens history; Central America; U.S. foreign policy in Latin America; Womens studies Phone: 874-4092/2528/2595   Email: pegueros@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/his/pegueros.shtml   Back to top Calvin Peters Title: Professor Department: Sociology, Anthropology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Cultural sociology; Social theory; Sociology of knowledge; Sociology of religion; Teaching Phone: 874-4296   Email: cbp@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/soc/   Back to top Nicolai Petro Title: Professor Department: Political Science College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Eastern Europe, politics of; Former Soviet empire; Russian affairs; U.S.- Russian relations Phone: 874-2290 874-2183   Email: kolya@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psc/index.php?id=33&fromtable=Page   Back to top Michael Pilson Title: Professor Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Biochemistry and physiology of marine organisms; Chemistry of seawater; Nutrient cycling; Marine biochemistry; Use of microcosms for experimental studies of chemical ecology Phone: 874-6104   Email: pilson@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/index_net_big.html   Back to top John Poggie* Title: Professor Department: Anthropology & Marine Affairs College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Cultural anthropology; Cultural theories; Maritime anthropology; Social & cultural change; Social & cultural research methodology; Modernization; Latin America Phone: 874-5666   Email: gke101@uriacc.uri.edu or jpoggie@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/soc/anth/faculty/poggie.htm   Back to top Richard Pollnac Title: Professor Department: Anthropology and Marine Affairs College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Maritime anthropology; Cognitive anthropology; Language and culture; Africa; Central America; Asian Pacific Phone: 874-4140   Email: rpo4903u@postoffice.uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/soc/anth/faculty/pollnac2.htm   Back to top Nancy Potter* Title: Professor Emeritus Department: English College: Arts & Sciences Topics: American literature; Creative writing; Overseas English language teaching Phone: 539-2156   Email:   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/eng/   Back to top James Prochaska Title: Professor Department: Psychology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Behavioral change, the science of; Distress; Addictive and health related behaviors; Marital therapy; Modes for behavioral changes; Psychotherapy issues; Smoking cessation Phone: 874-2830   Email: jop@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/research/cprc/Faculty/JProchaska.htm   Back to top Vanessa Quainoo* Title: Associate Professor Department: Communication Studies College: Arts & Sciences Topics: African-American communications, esp. in the African American church; African-Americans, media portrayal of; Contemporary communications Phone: 874-4730   Email: vquainoo@mail.uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/com/faculty/quainoo.html   Back to top Kathryn Quina Title: Professor Department: Psychology and Women's Studies College: Continuing Education; Arts & Sciences Topics: AIDS research; Psychology of women & women’s studies; Recovered memories of child sexual abuse, "false memory syndrome"; Sexual harassment & rape; Incarcerated women Phone: 874-2777, 277-5164 (FCCE)   Email: kquina@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psy/ugresearch/faculty.htm   Back to top James Quinn* Title: Professor Emeritus Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Biogeochemistry of organic pollutants in the marine environment; Environmental organic pollutants; Marine organic chemistry; Organic geochemistry of seawater and sediments Phone: 874-6219/6612   Email: jgquinn@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Quinn_James_G.dir/index.html   Back to top Kenneth Rahn Title: Professor Emeritus Department: Research Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Acid rain causes and effects; Air transport of pollutants; Arctic air pollution; Atmospheric chemistry; Contaminants in Rhode Island streams; Dry deposition; Elemental tracers; Environment pollution-acid rain; Long range transport Phone: 874-6713   Email: krahn@uri.edu, kra0235@postoffice.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Rahn_Kenneth.dir/index.html   Back to top Glenworth Ramsay Title: Professor Department: Economics College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Application of economics National economic trends; New England regional economic trends & forecasting; Rhode Island economy Phone: 874-4129   Email: ramsay@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/ecn/Ramsay.html   Back to top Colleen Redding Title: Associate Professor, Research Department: Cancer Prevention Research Center College: Research and Publications Topics: Health psychology; Cancer prevention; Cervical cancer prevention; Transtheoretical model; Sexual behavior change; HIV prevention; Female health issues; Medication adherence; Adjustment to illness; Behavior change technologies; Models of health promotion Phone: 874-4316/2830   Email: credding@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/research/cprc/Faculty/CRedding.htm   Back to top Mary Ellen Reilly Title: Professor Emeritus Department: Women’s Studies and Sociology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Sexual harassment; Sexual inequality; Women in Irish society; Women's studies; Sex roles; Race and ethnic relations; Welfare institutions Phone: 874-5547/5150   Email: mereilly@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/   Back to top Richard C. Rhodes III* Title: Vice Provost, Professor Department: Fisheries, Animal & Veterinary Science College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Animals-physiology of reproduction; Animals-stress and welfare; Biology-reproduction-endocrinology Phone: 874-4184   Email: rcr3@uriacc.uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/favs/rr.html   Back to top Michael Rice* Title: Professor Department: Fisheries, Animal & Veterinary Science College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Aquaculture and fisheries of bivalve mollusks; quahogs & oysters in RI; Biology of quahogs & oysters; Issues related to RI shellfisheries; Sewage treatment and impact on shellfisheries; Water quality impact on shellfish. Phone: 874-2943/2477   Email: rice@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/favs/mr.html   Back to top Deborah Riebe* Title: Associate Professor Department: Physical education & Exercise Science/Kinesiology College: Human Science & Services Topics: President's Health Promotion Partnership ; Weight management ; Weight loss maintenance; Exercise & health; Obesity Thermoregulation; Perceptual responses to exercise; Fitness appraisal Phone: 874-5444   Email: debrieb@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/physical_education/DebRiebe.html   Back to top Jan Rines Title: Assistant Marine Research Scientist Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Distribution of microscopic plants in ocean; Marine phytoplankton; Fluid and optical environment; Evolutionary ecology Phone: 874-6691   Email: jrines@uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Rines_Jan.dir/index.html   Back to top Mark Robbins Title: Assistant Research Professor Department: Cancer Prevention Research Center College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Health Psychology, Transtheoretical Model, Organ donation and transplantation, Cancer prevention, Coronary heart disease risk factor reduction, Stress management and relaxation training. Phone: 874-5082   Email: markrobb@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/research/cprc/Faculty/MRobbins.htm   Back to top Kenneth Rogers* Title: Professor Department: French and Linguistics College: Arts & Sciences Topics: French Linguistics; Medieval French; Romance Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Geolinguistics and Language Policy Phone: 874-4791/5911   Email: rqg101@uriacc.uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/ml/durand/french/rogers.shtml   Back to top Pamela Rohland* Title: Director of Disability Services for Students (DSS), Assistant Director for Office of Student Life (OSL) Department: Office of Student Life Disability Services College: Topics: Students with disabilities Phone: 874-2098   Email: rohland@uri.edu   Website: http://autocrat.uri.edu/disability.html   Back to top Joelle Rollo-Koster* Title: Associate Professor Department: History College: Arts & Sciences Topics: The papacy and its rituals; Medieval southern French history; Women; Rituals; Anthropology of space; Death and memorialization Phone: 874-4089/2528   Email: joelle@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/his/koster.shtml   Back to top Deborah Rosen* Title: Associate Professor Department: Marketing College: Business Administration Topics: Internet marketing; Inter-organizational relationships; New product development Phone: 874-4393   Email: drosen@uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/Faculty/Rosen/   Back to top Hans Tom Rossby* Title: Professor Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Dynamics and kinematics of ocean currents with special interest in the Gulf Stream and the circulation of the North Atlantic; Instrumentation development; Ocean circulation and instrumentation; Physical oceanography Phone: 874-6521   Email: tom@rafos.gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Rossby_H_Thomas.dir/index.html   Back to top Joseph Rossi* Title: Professor and Director of Research Department: Psychology, Cancer Prevention Research Center College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Addictive behaviors; Behavior change; Cancer prevention; Expert computer systems; Health promotion; Meta-analysis; Multiple risk behavior; Psychometric methods; Radon gas; Scale development; Skin cancer; Smoking cessation; Statisti Phone: 874-5983   Email: jsrossi@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/research/cprc/Faculty/JRossi.htm   Back to top Lawrence Rothstein* Title: Professor Department: Political Science, Associate of the Labor Research College: Arts & Sciences Topics: American legal system; Civil liberties; Comparative & international labor law and politics; Constitutional law; Privacy and genetic information; Privacy in the workplace; Professional ethics for lawyers in government service Phone: 874-2730   Email: ler@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psc/faculty/rothstein-home.htm   Back to top Lewis Rothstein* Title: Professor Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Computer simulation of ocean physics; El-Nino research; Equatorial dynamics; Geophysical fluid dynamics; Hurricane forecasting; Large-scale ocean circulation theory; Physical oceanography Phone: 874-6517   Email: lewisr@awepu.gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty/rothstein.html   Back to top Susan Roush* Title: Associate Dean, Assistant Professor Department: Physical Therapy College: Human Science & Services Topics: Attitudes toward persons with disabilities; Portfolios in education; Professional practice Phone: 874-5001/5626   Email: roush@uri.edu   Website: www.ptp.uri.edu/people/ppage.asp?id=13#   Back to top Mark Rowinski* Title: Director, Professor Department: Physical Therapy College: Human Science & Services Topics: Aquatic therapy; Arthritis, nutrition, and exercise; Back injuries; Physical therapy; Prevention of musculoskeletal problems; Work-related injuries; Physical self-awareness Phone: 874-5001/5249   Email: Rowinski@uri.edu   Website: www.ptp.uri.edu/people/ppage.asp?id=14#   Back to top Wendy Roworth Title: Professor Department: Art and Art History, Women's Studies College: Arts & Sciences Topics: 17th and 18th century European art; women artists; faculty and professional ethics (serve on National AAUP Committee on Professional Ethics). Phone: 874-2773/2131   Email: wroworth@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/art/URI_Art_Home_Page.html   Back to top Bridget Ruemmele* Title: Associate Professor Department: Plant Science College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Golf courses, athletic fields, parks, etc.; Grass seed; Turfgrass establishment, renovation, management; Turfgrass - lawns Phone: 874-2481   Email: bridgetr@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/pls/   Back to top Andrea Rusnock Title: Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies Department: History College: Arts and Sciences Topics: Science and medicine in the Enlightenment, quantification, public health.Current research project: History of vaccination. Phone: 401-874-9021   Email: rusnock@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/his/rusnock.shtml   Back to top Martin Sadd Title: Professor, Department Chair Department: Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics College: Engineering Topics: Computational methods; Computer-aided engineering & education; Continuum mechanics; Mathematical modeling; Micro mechanics; Wave propagation Phone: 874-5548   Email: sadd@egr.uri.edu   Website: www.mce.uri.edu/sadd/   Back to top Abran J. Salazar Title: Associate Professor Department: Communication Studies College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Communication proceses in small groups and health contexts; Social support networks; ole of tacit knowledge in the transmission of cultural values Phone: 874-9015 Fax 401-874-4   Email: abran_salazar@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/com/faculty/salazar.html   Back to top Brian Savage Title: Associate Professor Department: Geosciences College: Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Complex seismic velocity structures within the solid earth; Seismic signals resulting from exotic sources and/or complex seismic wave propagation; Computation of synthetics seismograms; Low Velocity Zones at the base of the Lithosphere; Global Attenuation Phone: 874-5392   Email: SAVAGE@URI.EDU   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/geo/savage.htm   Back to top Jerome Schaffran* Title: Department Chair, Associate Professor Department: Human Development, Counseling & Family Studies College: Human Science & Services Topics: Research Methodology; Outcomes Assessment; Higher education and student personnel services Phone: 874-2270/4080   Email: schaf@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/hdf/faculty/JeromeSchaffran.htm   Back to top Jean-Guy Schilling Title: Professor Emeritus Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Mantle dynamics; Mantle geochemistry; Mantle plumes; Mid-ocean ridge and ocean island volcanism; Nd-Sr-Pb isotope; Rare earth and trace element geochemistry; Volatile outgassing; Volcanology Phone: 874-6628   Email: jgs@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Schilling_Jean-Guy.dir/index.html   Back to top Richard Scholl Title: Professor Department: Management College: Business Administration Topics: Compensation management Motivation and commitment; Power and negotiations Phone: 874-4347   Email: rscholl@uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/academics/undergraduate/departments/management/   Back to top Karen Schroeder Title: Professor Emerita Department: Human Development & Family Studies College: Human Science & Services Topics: Career and family roles; Family life/sexual education; Family studies; Intergenerational relationships Phone: 874-4038   Email:   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/   Back to top Stephen Schwarz Title: Professor Department: Philosophy College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Abortion: moral and legal issues Ethics, ethical questions and theory; Existentialism; Metaphysics; Religion, faith Phone: 783-8265/2418   Email: schwarz@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/phl/schwarz.html   Back to top Linda Sebelia Title: Adjunct Associate Professor Department: Food Science & Nutrition College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Maternal and infant nutrition; Nutrition, nutrition education; Nutrition in the media; Weight management; Childhood obesity; Food behavior management Phone: 277-5270; 874-4024   Email: sebelia@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/fsn/lindas.html   Back to top Jeffrey Seemann Title: Dean Department: College: The Environment and Life Sciences Topics: Biotechnology,research and the economy, biochemistry of plants, photosynthesis Phone: 874-2957   Email: jseemann@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/deptsoffices/deans.html   Back to top Anne Seitsinger Title: Associate Professor Department: School of Education, National Center on Public Ed College: Human Science & Services Topics: Mathematics education (elementary) ; School improvement Service-learning; Parent involvement; Standards-based classroom practices Phone: 874-4877/4975   Email: anneseitsinger@uri.edu   Website: www.soe.uri.edu/faculty/seitsinger.asp   Back to top Zahir Shaikh Title: Department Chair, Professor Department: Biomedical Sciences College: Pharmacy Topics: Metal poisoning; Toxicology; Transcription factors and apoptosis; Nephrotoxicity and hepatotoxicity Phone: 874-5036/2362   Email: zshaikh@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/pharmacy//departments/bps/faculty/shaikh.html   Back to top Linda Shamoon Title: Director, College Writing Program, Professor Department: English College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Rhetoric and composition; Writing across the curriculum Phone: 874-4203/5932   Email: shamoon@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/eng/index.html   Back to top Mohammed Sharif Title: Professor Department: Economics College: Arts & Sciences Topics: International economic development; Poverty; Subsistence; Nutrition; Labor supply; Unemployment; Fertility; Population; Environment; Advertising in less developed countries Phone: 874-4119   Email: sharif@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/ecn/Sharif.html   Back to top Rosanne Sherry* Title: State Master Gardener Coordinator, Research Assist Department: Cooperative Extension Education Center College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Gardening & consumer hotline; Homeowner gardening issues Phone: 874-2929/2900   Email: mastergardener@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/ce/ceec/   Back to top Yuzuru Shimizu* Title: Professor Department: Biomedical Sciences College: Pharmacy Topics: Drugs from the sea (Anti-cancer, anti- viral compounds); Marine natural products; Plants, medicinal; Plants, poisonous; Red Tide; Seafood toxins; Toxins Phone: 874-2751   Email: yshimizu@uri.edu   Website: www.chm.uri.edu/urichm/brochure/people/ys.html   Back to top Arun Shukla* Title: Professor Department: Mechanical Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Composite materials Experimental mechanics; Fracture mechanics; Impact mechanics; Smart materials; Wave propagation Phone: 874-2283   Email: shukla@egr.uri.edu   Website: www.mce.uri.edu/shukla/   Back to top Haraldur Sigurdsson Title: Professor Emeritus Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Volcanoes, Volcanic eruptions, Environmental impact of volcanism; Geochemistry and petrology of igneous rocks in island arcs and mid-ocean ridges; Geology; Mineralogy; Petrology Phone: 874-6596   Email: haraldur@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Sigurdsson_Haraldur.dir/index.html   Back to top Armand J. Silva* Title: Professor Emeritus Department: Ocean and Civil Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Desalination Disposal of dredge material Engineering, ocean and civil; Landslide-induced tsunamis; Marine geoacoustics ; Marine geomechanics, Seabed processes Albert Phone: 874-6191/6194   Email: silva@oce.uri.edu   Website: www.oce.uri.edu/faculty_pages/silva/silva.html   Back to top Antone J. Silvia Title: Associate Professor, Department Chair Department: Communication Studies, Journalism College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Broadcast journalism; Contemporary issues in media; Free speech issues; Media ethics; News management; News media Phone: 874-2330   Email: tony@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/com/faculty/silvia.html   Back to top Jay Singer Title: Professor, Dept. Chair Department: Communicative Disorders College: Human Science & Services Topics: Hearing aids; Central auditory processing Phone: 874-4742/5969   Email: drjay@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/cmd/jsinger.html   Back to top Theodore Smayda Title: Professor Department: Oceanography/Botany College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Coastal ecosystems; Factors regulating growth, production, and population dynamics of phytoplankton in the sea with emphasis on physiological ecology; Marine phytoplankton; Narragansett Bay; Red Tide Phone: 874-6171   Email: tsmayda@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Smayda_Theodore_J.dir/index.html   Back to top Nelson Smith Title: Professor Department: Psychology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Behavior, management techniques; Behavior, theory and therapy; Behavioral self change; Behavior change through multimedia; Conditioning processes Phone: 874-4219   Email: nsmith@ui.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psy/ugresearch/faculty.htm   Back to top Martha Smith Patnoad* Title: Cooperative Extension Associate Professor Department: Food Science & Nutrition College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Food safety education issues; Food safety issues Phone: 874-2960   Email: mpatnoad@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/fsn/   Back to top David Smith* Title: Assistant Professor, Associate Dean Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Food web dynamics; Marine microbial ecology; Global carbon flux; Bacteria & viruses in the sea Phone: 874-6172   Email: dcsmith@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Smith_David_C.dir/index.html   Back to top Manbir Sodhi Title: Professor Department: Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering College: Engineering Topics: De-Manufacturing and Bulk Recycling Modeling; Lights-Out Manufacturing; Computer Vision Applications for Manufacturing; Developing algorithms for small industries Phone: 874-5189   Email: sodhi@uri.edu   Website: www.egr.uri.edu/ime/Faculty/sodhi.htm   Back to top Carolyn Sovet* Title: Assistant Director Department: Student Life/ Women's Center College: Topics: Date Rape education; Women's issues; Sexual harassment Phone: 874-2101   Email: sovet@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/student_life/   Back to top Malcolm Spaulding* Title: Department Chair, Professor Department: Ocean Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Computational fluid dynamics; Environmental monitoring systems; Marine pollution; Modeling coastal circulation & pollutant transport; Oil spill dynamics & transport; fates and effects; Tides, coastal circulation Phone: 874-6139 874-6666 Fax 874   Email: spaulding@oce.uri.edu   Website: www.oce.uri.edu/faculty_pages/spaulding/spaulding.html   Back to top Jennifer Specker Title: Professor Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Fish physiology; Flounder - growth, metamorphosis Phone: 874-6858/6885   Email: jspecker@gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Specker_Jennifer_L.dir/index.html   Back to top Jay Sperry* Title: Department Chair, Professor Department: Microbiology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Anaerobic bacteria; Medical microbiology; Microbiology Phone: 874-5908   Email: jsp2116u@postoffice.uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/cmb/sperry.html   Back to top James Starkey Title: Professor Department: Economics College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Socio-economics; Women & labor force participation; Ecological economics Phone: 874-4117   Email: starkey@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/ecn/Starkey.html   Back to top Karen Stein* Title: Professor, Director of Women's Studies Department: English, Women's Studies College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Contemporary Gothic literature Modern literature; U.S. Women writers (esp. Toni Morrison, & Canadian author Margaret Atwood); Women's literature; Women and science; Women in literature; Women's studies Phone: 874-9018   Email: wmsdir@etal.uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/eng/english_NEW/Faculty/Stein.html   Back to top Peter Stepanishen Title: Professor Department: Ocean Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Acoustics; Biomedical ultrasonics Noise; Structural acoustics; Sound & vibration; Underwater sound Phone: 874-6577/6193   Email: stepanishen@oce.uri.edu   Website: www.oce.uri.edu/faculty_pages/stepanishen/stepanishen.htm   Back to top John Stevenson* Title: Professor Department: Psychology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Evaluation of alcohol and other drug abuse prevention programs; Personality and social; Psychology Phone: 874-4240   Email: jsteve@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psy/ugresearch/faculty.htm   Back to top Richard Sullivan Title: Associate Professor Department: School of Education College: Human Science & Services Topics: Experiential learning; Field-based learning; Teacher education Phone: 874-4200   Email: rsully@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/education/default.htm   Back to top Barbara Sullivan* Title: Senior Marine Research Scientist, Adjunct Professor Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Predator-prey interactions of jellyfish with plankton and larval fish; Zooplankton ecology in coastal marine systems; Georges Bank plankton ecology Phone: 874-6659   Email: bsull@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Sullivan_Barbara_K.dir/index.html   Back to top W. Michael Sullivan* Title: Professor Department: Plant Science College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Golf course siting and management environmental issues; Agriculture; Environmental/land use; Farming; Farm crops and soils Phone: 874-4540, Fax 401-874-249   Email: senmike@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/pls/sullivan.html   Back to top Ying Sun* Title: Professor Department: Electrical Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Biomedical engineering; Computer based instrumentation; Computer engineering; Computer vision; Medical imaging; Microprocessor-based instrumentation; Physiological systems modeling Phone: 874-2515   Email: sun@ele.uri.edu   Website: www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/sun/sun.html   Back to top Harish Sunak Title: Professor Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Engineering, lasers; Engineering, sensors; Engineering, telecommunications; Optical communication systems; University/industry interaction in fiber optics Phone: 874-5859   Email: sunak@ele.uri.edu   Website: www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/sunak.html   Back to top Carol Surprenant Title: Professor Department: Marketing College: Business Administration Topics: Buyer-seller dyads; Consumer behavior; Consumer satisfaction; Information processing; Marketing research; Service marketing Phone: 874-4196   Email: csu6038u@postoffice.uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/academics/undergraduate/departments/marketing/   Back to top Jon Sutinen* Title: Professor Department: Resource Economics and Commerce College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Economics, fisheries; Fisheries management; Regulatory compliance Phone: 874-4586   Email: jsutinen@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/enre/ENRE_Jsutinen.html   Back to top Gilbert Suzawa Title: Associate Professor Department: Economics College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Economics of technological change; Economic development; International trade; Micro and macro economic theory Phone: 874-4125   Email: gssuzawa@cs.com   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/ecn/Suzawa.html   Back to top Elijah Swift Title: Professor Emeritus Department: Oceanography/Botany College: BotanyGraduate School of Oceanography Topics: Bioluminescence, physiology, and behavior analysis of oceanic dinoflagellates and zooplankton; Marine phytoplankton; Ocean bioluminescence Phone: 874-6146/6525   Email: lige@uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Swift_Elijah.dir/index.html   Back to top Judith Swift* Title: Professor Department: Communications, Theatre College: Arts and Sciences Topics: Nonverbal and subtextual communication; Humor in communication; Theatre, nonverbal acting, improvisation, and directing Phone: 874-4809   Email: jswift@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/com/faculty/swift.html   Back to top Alvin Swonger Title: Professor Department: Biomedical Sciences College: Graduate School of Pharmacy Topics: Development of instructional material for teaching pharmacology; Drugs, psychotropic Phone: 874-5037   Email: aks@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/pharmacy//departments/bps/faculty/swonger.html   Back to top Michael Tammaro* Title: Lecturer Department: Physics College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Computer modeling of physical processes.; Diffusion of atoms in metals and on metal surfaces; Modeling of far-from-equilibrium systems; Electricity and magnetism Phone: 874-2079   Email: tammaro@phys.uri.edu   Website: www.phys.uri.edu/people/tammaro.html   Back to top Leon Thiem Title: Associate Professor Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Industrial waste treatment; Groundwater contamination modeling/remedation; Drinking water treatment, refinery wastewaters; Absorption processes Phone: 874-2693   Email: lt@uri.edu   Website: www.egr.uri.edu/   Back to top Kathleen Torrens Title: Assistant Professor Department: Communication Studies, Women's Studies College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Gender and communication, Social Movements; Public discourse; Social constructions of identity and gender Phone: 874-4809   Email: kmtorrens@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/com/index.html   Back to top Remo Trivelli* Title: Professor Department: Italian College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Business as a reflection of culture Contemporary Italy; Food in Italian civilization; Italy; - literature Phone: 874-2383/5911   Email: mtc4767u@postoffice.uri.edu    Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/ml/index   Back to top Susan Trostle Brand Title: Professor Department: School of Education College: Human Science and Services Topics: Storytelling, Emergent Literacy, Children's Play, Play Therapy, Comprehension/Vocabulary Acquisition Phone: (401) 874-2426   Email: susant@uri.edu   Website: www.soe.uri.edu/faculty/Sbrand.asp   Back to top Mario Trubiano* Title: Professor, Director Department: Spanish URI Summer Programs in Salamanca, Spain College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Contemporary Italian society; Don Juan theme; Languages; Spanish literature; Spanish society since Franco; Study abroad Phone: 874-4717   Email: trubim@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/ml/pages/info/Trubiano   Back to top George Tsiatas Title: Professor Department: Civil Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Control and identification of earthquakes; Deterministic and stochastic structural dynamics; Structural reliability and structural mechanics Phone: 874-5117   Email: gt@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cve/faculty/Tsiatas/Tsiatas_Info.htm   Back to top Donald Tufts Title: Professor Department: Electrical Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Computer understanding speech Design of special purpose computers; Digital filtering; Digital signal processing for communications; Distributed Computing; Radar; Sonar Phone: 874-5812   Email: tufts@ele.uri.edu   Website: www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/tufts.html   Back to top Robert Tyce Title: Professor Department: Ocean Engineering and Oceanography College: Engineering Topics: Deep-ocean vehicles; Marine physics and instrumentation; Oceanographic instrumentation; Sea floor properties and topographic mapping; Underwater acoustics Phone: 874-6853 874-6879   Email: tyce@oce.uri.edu, rtyce@email.msn.com   Website: www.egr.uri.edu/   Back to top Gerry Tyler Title: Professor, Department Chair Department: Political Science College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Higher education, undergraduate curriculum development; Nuclear issues; Public opinion Phone: 874-2183/4053   Email: gtyler@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psc/faculty/tyler-home.htm   Back to top Eleanor Uhlinger Title: Director Department: Marine Science Information Services College: Graduate School Oceanography Topics: Library & information services relating to marine science Phone: 874-6546   Email: uhlinger@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/index_net_big.html   Back to top Daniel Urish Title: Professor Department: Civil Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Coastal groundwater; Ground water hydrology; Groundwater pollution Groundwater exploration; Island & coastal hydrology Phone: 874-2267   Email: urishd@uri.edu   Website: www.egr.uri.edu/   Back to top Richard Vangermeersch* Title: Professor Emeritus Department: Accounting College: Business Administration Topics: Accounting history; Cost accounting; Financial accounting theory; History of College of Business Phone: 874-4338   Email: rvang@uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/academics/undergraduate/departments/accounting/   Back to top Anne Veeger Title: Department Chair, Associate Professor Department: Geology College: The Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Hydrogeology; Isotope Hydrology; Aqueous Geochemistry; Numerical Modeling of Ground-Water Flow; Groundwater chemistry Phone: 874-2187   Email: veeger@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/geo/veeger.htm   Back to top Wayne Velicer* Title: Professor, Co-Director Cancer Prevention Research Department: Psychology, Cancer Prevention Research Center College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Applied multivariate statistics; Factor/component analysis; Expert system interventions; Time series analysis; Smoking cessation ; Health psychology; Behavior change Phone: 874-4254   Email: velicer@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/research/cprc/Faculty/WVelicer.htm   Back to top M. Ven Venkatesan Title: Professor Department: Marketing College: Business Administration Topics: Health care marketing International marketing; Marketing strategy; Services marketing; Time and consumer behavior Phone: 874-2083/4363   Email: ven@uri.edu   Website: www.cba.uri.edu/academics/undergraduate/departments/marketing/   Back to top George Veyera Title: Professor, Department Chair Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Liquefaction of Saturated Soils; Dynamic Behavior of Soils; Unsaturated Soil Mechanics; Marine Geomechanics; Geosynthetics; Experimental Geomechanics Phone: 401-874-2692   Email: veyerag@egr.uri.edu   Website: www.egr.uri.edu/   Back to top Michael Vocino* Title: Collection Management Officer, Professor Department: University Library, Political Science, Information Sciences College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Management of libraries and information centers; Information Ethics; Ethics in public life; gay studies. Political theory, film theory, and political ideology. Phone: 874-4605   Email: vocino@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psc/vocinopscfac.html   Back to top Melvin Wade* Title: Director of Multicultural Student Services Department: Division of Student Affairs College: Topics: Multiculturalism; Diversity issues Phone: 874-2851   Email: chakaw@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/mcc/   Back to top Y.Q. (Yeqiao) Wang Title: Professor Department: Dept. of Natural Resources Science College: Environment and Life Sciences Topics: Terrestrial Remote Sensing and quantitative methods in natural resources mapping. Particular areas of interest include remote sensing of the dynamics of landscape and land-use/land-cover change. Phone: 874-4345   Email: yqwang@uri.edu   Website: http://nrs.uri.edu/people/faculty/wang.html   Back to top D. Randolph Watts* Title: Professor Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Antarctic circumpolar current and North Atlantic current programs; Dynamics of Gulf Stream meanders; Fluctuations and eddy variability of currents and their dynamical role in ocean circulation; Observations and dynamical studies of majo Phone: 874-6507   Email: randy@drw.gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Watts_D_Randolph.dir/index.html   Back to top Robert Weisbord Title: Professor Department: History College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Africa, history; Afro-American and Jewish relations; Afro-American history; Arab-Israeli conflict; Civil Rights; Holocaust Phone: 874-2528/4086   Email: robweis@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/his/Weisbord.shtml   Back to top Linda Welters* Title: Professor Department: Textiles, Fashion Merchandising & Design College: Human Science & Services Topics: Fashion history; Quilt history; Textile history Phone: 874-4525/4574   Email: lwelters@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/hss/tmd/Linda.htm   Back to top Niels West Title: Professor Emeritus Department: Marine Affairs College: Environment & Life Sciences Topics: Coastal Management, Environmental Impact Assessment, Coastal Demographics, Coastal Management Education & Training, Marine Affairs, Marine Recreation & Tourism. Phone: 789-7741   Email: nielsmaf@uri.edu   Website: http://cels.uri.edu/maf/MAF_West.aspx   Back to top Lisa Weyandt Title: Associate Professor Department: Psychology College: Arts and Sciences Topics: A leading researcher on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in college students. Weyandt's research includes the study of ADHD in children and young adults as well as the study of executive functions in clinical and nonclinical populations. Phone: 401-874-2087   Email: lisaweyandt@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psy/school_faculty.shtml   Back to top Cheryl Wilga Title: Assistant Professor Department: Biological Sciences College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Sharks, shark feeding behaviors Phone: 874-9020 FAX: 401-874-4   Email: Cwilga@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/cels/bio/bio_wilga.html   Back to top Cynthia Willey Temkin* Title: Professor Department: Applied Pharmaceutical Sciences College: Pharmacy Topics: Medication compliance, drug utilization, cancer prevention, use of automated health services databases for pharmacoepidemiologic research. Phone: 874-5012   Email: cwilley@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/pharmacy//departments/php/faculty/willey.html   Back to top W. Grant Willis Title: Professor Department: Psychology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Learning disabilities Neuropsychology; Neuropsychological assessment and consultation; Psycho-educational diagnosis Phone: 874-4245   Email: wgwillis@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psy/ugresearch/faculty.htm   Back to top Alan Willoughby Title: Professor Emeritus Department: Psychology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Alcoholism Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD); Substance Abuse Phone: 874-4252   Email: awill@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psy/ugresearch/faculty.htm   Back to top Mark Wimbush Title: Professor Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Benthic boundary layer Equatorial phenomena; Equatorially trapped waves; Influence of western boundary currents on shelf circulation; Kuroshio; Ocean bottom boundary layer, interaction of flow with sediments Oceanography, physical Phone: 874-6515   Email: markw@ono.gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Wimbush_Mark.dir/index.html   Back to top Karen Wishner* Title: Professor Department: Oceanography College: Graduate School of Oceanography Topics: Arabian Sea; Biological oceanography; Deep sea biology; Marine zooplankton ecology; Open-ocean ecology; Oxygen minimum zones; Use of submersibles; Zooplankton distributions and processes, feeding rates, and food webs. Zooplankton/whale Phone: 874-6402   Email: kwishner@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu   Website: www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Wishner_Karen.dir/index.html   Back to top Mark Wood Title: Assistant Professor Department: Psychology College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Alcohol-related aggressive behavior; Early interventions to reduce alcohol misuse; Etiology of alcohol use and misuse; Research methodology; Social psychology Phone: 874-4252   Email: mark_wood@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/alcohol/Mark-Wood/   Back to top Stephen Wood* Title: Department Chair, Professor Department: Communication Studies College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Debate Gender communication; Political Communication Phone: 874-4030/2552   Email: docwood@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/com/faculty/wood.html   Back to top Bryna Wortman Title: Assistant Professor Department: Theater College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Acting; Directing; Theatre Phone: 874-2705   Email: bryna@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/the/faculty.html   Back to top Raymond Wright Title: Professor Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering College: Engineering Topics: Environmental impact of nonpoint source pollution; Modeling of surface water systems; Water pollution; Water quality monitoring and investigations Phone: 874-2785   Email: wrightr@egr.uri.edu   Website: www.egr.uri.edu/   Back to top Betty Young Title: Professor Department: School of Education College: Human Science & Services Topics: Gender issues in teaching and technology ; Inquiry-based learning; K-12 assessment/testing; Science education Phone: 874-4150   Email: byoung@uri.edu   Website: www.soe.uri.edu/faculty/young.asp   Back to top Norman Zucker* Title: Professor Department: Political Science College: Arts & Sciences Topics: Immigration and refugee policy Politics, American politics and policy; Politics, Israel Phone: 874-4059   Email: nlzucker@uri.edu   Website: www.uri.edu/artsci/psc/faculty/zucker-home.htm   Back to top