Department of Communications and Marketing
Division of University Advancement
Alumni Center, 73 Upper College Road, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881
Phone: 401-874-2116 / Fax: 401-874-7872

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 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

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