URI Today

Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Check the QuadCams

Jack Lovell

Art gallery Studio Blue opens at Bay Campus

Oceanography Dean Bruce Corliss presided over the recent opening of Studio Blue, a multimedia coastal and ocean learning commons designed to exhibit creative works in a variety of media that are inspired by and imbue the research of marine and coastal scientists. The artists and their scientist counterparts were in attendance to discuss their works, both to the audience as a group, and individually after the formal program.

Studio Blue, a gallery showcasing the intersection and interaction of science and art, is a collaboration between student and faculty artists from the URI Art Department and the Rhode Island School of Design with scientists from the Graduate School of Oceanography and the College of the Environment and Life Sciences. The artists works range from the traditional to the technical with the use of papermaking to oils to computer...

more...

Today's Top Stories

[films] thumbnail placeholder Lecturer�s film about Kenyan schools to premiere on Providence campus, March 1: A documentary about a local non-profit group that trains teachers in the slums of Kenya will debut March 1 on the URI Providence campus.

[whales] thumbnail placeholder URI science writer authors book on iconic Arctic whale: Natural history writer Todd McLeish sometimes must go to extremes to conduct research for his books. For his latest volume, Narwhals: Arctic Whales in a Melting World, he spent time at a whale hunting camp near the northern tip of Greenland with Inuit hunters who spoke little English and who ate little but raw whale blubber, uncooked bacon, and bread.

[engineering] thumbnail placeholder There's no better place to go for undersea technology internships: At the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, the U.S. Navy develops its most advanced and classified underwater technologies. Since 1985, scores of University of Rhode Island students and alumni have played a key role in that research thanks to engineering Dean Emeritus Thomas Kim.