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URI held its
Annual Recognition Luncheon for Outstanding Research, Graduate Studies,
Outreach and Intellectual Property on May 8, 2002. Candidates were
nominated by the URI community.Recipients were selected by
the Council for Research, Council for Graduate Studies, Council for Outreach
and Intellectual Property Committee.
This years recipients
are as follows:
OUTSTANDING RESEARCH
2002
RICHARD BROWN
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Department of Chemical Engineering
Dr.
Richard Brown has an internationally recognized research group in the
Corrosion and Degradation of Materials area.
Agencies such as the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, URI
Transportation Center, RI Department of Transportation, and the US Army
have supported his research. His work in transportation is critical to
the State of Rhode Island and the national transportation system and is
of high profile. In addition, his work with NUWC is of national
importance in replacing chromates. His work is presented at major
international conferences such as the 6th World Congress on
Chemical Engineering in Australia in 2001.
Professor
Brown has a research group of ten graduate students at present. He also
has two undergraduate students working in his research group to provide
them with research experience. This semester he also has three high
school students working on a research project.
The facilities in his laboratory are used in teaching both
undergraduate and graduate classes. This enables the students to see the
operation of a research group and the best equipment. Dr. Brown also
provides the necessary funding for these projects and experiments from
his research efforts.
Dr.
Brown has several collaborative projects where students from other
departments and colleges at the University use his research facilities.
He has collaborative efforts with the Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Ocean Engineering and Chemistry
Departments as well as Brown University, U Mass Lowell and Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute. In addition, Professor Brown gives time to the
URI Transportation Center summer camps and the summer Bridge program to
stimulate young people into entering not only engineering but also the
research area. He regularly provides speakers to the Chemical
Engineering seminar series and quite often relates his research to the
students by conducting seminars.
DEBORAH
GROSSMAN-GARBER
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College of
Environmental and Life Science
Deborah Grossman-Garber
is the Director for Undergraduate Programs and Academic Outreach in the
College of the Environment and Life Sciences. Deborah developed, in
conjunction with others, URI's Coastal Fellows Program-a model for
integrating undergraduate students into an applied, hands-on association
with URI's dynamic research and outreach efforts in the environmental
and marine sciences.
Deborah is currently
responsible for the implementation of the CELS Experiential Learning
Initiative, which seeks to engage undergraduates in hands-on,
problem-based learning at all stages of their academic careers. She is also engaged in identifying assessment and evaluation
mechanisms for undergraduate programs and in developing a student
electronic portfolio system for use by CELS departments.
Deborah was a
co-coordinator for URI's Fall 2001 Honors Colloquium, "A Just and
Sustainable Future." During
the past five years, she has generated over $2.3 million in extra-mural
funding to support these various programs and student research
opportunities.
ANGELO LUCIA
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Department of
Chemical Engineerings
Dr.
Angelo Lucia is the Chester H. Kirk Professor of Chemical Engineering at
the University of Rhode Island and has held this position since 1996.
Prior to that, Dr. Lucia was a member of the faculty at Clarkson
University for fifteen years. His
research interests in chemical process modeling, simulation,
optimization, computational thermodynamics and numerical methods have
been supported by the National Science Foundation for the past twenty
years and, more recently, by New England industry.
Professor Lucia is also the recipient of the John Graham Research
Award as well as several other research awards during his career.
For over 20 years
Dr. Lucia has continuously received NSF support for his research. He was
invited in January 2000 to present a seminar series at the Instituto
Tecnologica de Celaya in Mexico, which has attracted some of the best
academics over the last 20 years. He received one of the first Slater
Foundation awards in 1998. He is in constant demand to give invited
papers at major conferences and institutions. In 1996 he was awarded the
“Best Paper” in the international journal “Computers in Chemical
Engineering”.
Professor
Lucia has maintained a high level research group here at the University
using NSF funds. He has also supported a number of undergraduate
students over the past few years using funds from industry such as
Amtrol, Slater Foundation and Teknor Apex funding. He is acutely aware
of the need to apply the results of his fundamental research to industry
and has been very successful in this endeavor.
Under
the guidance of Dr. Lucia as Chair of the Graduate Committee, the
academic standing of applicants to our graduate program has increased
dramatically and with it the general level of students in our Graduate
program has improved. This benefits not only the Chemical Engineering
department but also the standing of the overall University.
SCOTT MCWILLIAMS
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College of
Environmental and Life Sciences
Scott McWilliams'
scientific interest in wildlife originated as a child growing up on a
farm in Ohio that was surrounded by relatively wild places and Amish
farmers. He received his BSc from Hiram College (Ohio), MSc from Iowa
State University, PhD from University of California at Davis, and was a
Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Wisconsin at Madison prior to
joining the URI faculty in 1998.
His research focuses on
the interplay between the physiology and ecology of wild vertebrates,
with an emphasis on species of conservation interest. He has conducted
field research on wild vertebrates in quite diverse ecosystems
throughout the world: songbirds in the prairie "sandhill" area
of Wisconsin and the deciduous woodlands of Ohio, salamanders in the
flooded plains along the Mississippi River in Iowa, spring-migrating
geese in wetlands in the Great Basin Desert and interior valleys of
California and Oregon, subarctic-nesting geese on the Yukon-Kuskokwim
Delta in Alaska and along Hudson and James Bay in Canada, migratory
waterfowl in central India, Horned Screamers in the Amazon Basin of
Colombia, and wintering geese in coastal wetlands in the United Kingdom.
He readily admits that
he studies particular wildlife in part so he can visit where they live;
however, he also enjoys the challenges and rewards implicit in studying
the physiology and ecology of animals on their own turf."
ZAHIR SHAIKH
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Department of
Biomedical Sciences
Dr. Shaikh is the Professor
and Director of the Graduate Program of Pharmacology and Toxicology and
Chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences.
He is also the Director of the Biomedical Research Infrastructure
Network, a state-wide grant funded from NIH.
His
research interests are in biochemical
mechanisms of chemical toxicity in liver and kidney, as well as
biological roles of metal-binding protein, metallothionein. He additionally has researched mechanisms of metal transport
and the treatment of metal poisoning.
OUTSTANDING OUTREACH
2002
ANN DANIS
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Department of Music
College
of Arts and Sciences
Ann
Danis is an Associate Professor of Music and Director of Orchestral
Activities at URI. Ann is
also the conductor, music director and founder of both the Ocean State
Chamber Orchestra, and the Ocean State Youth Orchestra Symphony.
She has also served
as an assistant conductor for the Rhode Island Philharmonic and the
conductor of the Philharmonic’s Senior Youth Orchestra.
She has been a member of orchestras throughout the country and is
currently a member of several chamber ensembles.
She is in demand throughout the region as a guest conductor,
violinist, violist, and clinician and has conducted orchestras in all of
the New England states and Virginia, as well as a performer on viola and
violin, and clinician.
Ann has arranged
viola and string workshops, and conducts and performs for string groups
around RI, New England and Eastern United States.
She served for three years as the Associate Conductor of the RI
Philharmonic Orchestra and the RI Philharmonic Youth Orchestra.
She has taught literally thousands of talented string players and
is a noted performer on viola and violin. Ann, one of the few female
conductors of orchestras in the United States, conducted many other
orchestras such as the Quincy Orchestra and the Ocean State Lyric Opera
orchestra for a number of performances including their acclaimed
production of "The Gondoliers."
Ann has premiered orchestral works of contemporary composers,
most notably of "Rage of the Heart" by Dr. Enrico Garzilli.
She has also been featured as a conductor at "First
Night" festivities in Providence.
Ann has performed or conducted at hundreds of musical events to
raise funds for charity and scholarships and is an exceptional
representative of URI to the community through her exemplary volunteer
service.
DENNIS HILLIARD
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Forensic Science Partnership
Dennis Hilliard’s
outreach effort is a combination of his work as Director of the State
Crime Laboratory, and his co-Directorship of the three-year-old URI
Forensic Science Partnership (FSP).
He plays a key role in communicating to the general public about
some of the more unusual and exciting activities that take place here on
campus and the role that URI scientists play in fighting crime in the
State and beyond. He
provides much of the direction and contacts for the FSP and through him
many of the fine FSP seminar speakers have been recruited. Due to his
diligence this URI Partnership has become well known as a center of
forensic excellence throughout New England.
He
conscripted and coordinated the faculty for the well known ‘juiced
baseball’ study which has been referenced more than thirty times by
the local and national media and appeared in two nationally known
magazines. He is a perfect example of someone who is ‘out in front’
promoting the Partnership and the University at every opportunity.
Over the past three
years, he has given tours of the Crime Lab, lectured or been interviewed
by many diverse individuals, groups and media representatives both
inside and outside of RI. In
the past three years he has personally presented programs or interviews
on the Crime Laboratory and the FSP to over 170 groups and students. In
2001, according to the URI News Bureau, he was one of their most
requested speakers for groups ranging from the members of the RI
congressional delegation in Washington to high school presentations,
from the Cub Scouts to Police Officer Society meetings.
He also presented to the Kawanis Club, Lions Club, Rotary Club,
Masons and at senior citizen groups.
He serves as an
excellent spokesman when the media call seeking his insight into crimes,
crime-fighting, and even crimes on television shows. He is an excellent representative of the University by
communicating to the public about the many important roles played by URI
faculty and staff.
DIANE HORM-WINGERD
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College of Human
Science and Services
Diane Horm-Wingerd is a
professor of Human Development and Family Studies.
She specializes in child development and early childhood
education and serves as the Director of URI's two Child Development
Centers fulfilling teaching, research, service, and outreach missions
for the campus and region. Diane
conceptualized a model preschool program and the training of excellent
students who would carry this model to other communities, states, even
nations. Her role as Director also brought her into contact with the
Early Childhood leadership throughout the State, such as the State
Department of Education, the Department of Health, Head Start, and other
community agencies.
Working with these
agencies and recognizing a need for preparation of personnel "out
in the field," she developed, with their cooperation, the Rhode
Island Early Childhood Summer Institute, a program in its 8th
year, that is collaboratively sponsored by several offices at URI
working in partnership with numerous state agencies and non-profit
organizations. This institute has a unique format, where community
"teams" (such as a teacher, an administrator, a parent) enroll
for the course together and develop an action plan for the year, thereby
continuing their contact beyond the summer course.
Another component of
Diane's outreach contribution is through her role in the development of
the Family Resource Partnership, in which Diane is an active member.
The Family Resource Partnership is an interdisciplinary team
involving faculty, State Agency personnel, graduate and undergraduate
students, whose mission is to provide research, training and grant
development to help agencies improve their services to children,
families and communities. It involves faculty from human development,
psychology, nursing, communicative disorders and physical therapy.
Diane exemplifies what
is seen as an ideal "outreacher." She is not only active in
bringing new knowledge and best practices to the field but is also a
creator of new knowledge through her action-driven research.
DONNA M. HUGHES
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Department of
Women's Studies
Donna
M. Hughes is a Professor and holds the Eleanor M. and Oscar M. Carlson
Endowed Chair in Women's Studies at the University of Rhode Island. She has been involved in community work, education, and
research on violence against women and sexual exploitation for fifteen
years. She has done research on the trafficking of women in the United
States, Ukraine, and Russia. She is currently a consultant to the
Council of Europe on how new information technologies are used to
traffic women and children for sexual exploitation.
Her work on behalf of
women caught in the international trafficking is extensive, highly
respected, and critical. She
is often called upon by the governments of the United States, the
Ukraine, Russia, France and Spain to testify and consult.
She manages an international list “DIGNITY” which serves as
an educational and outreach effort to bring about relief and positive
change in the lives of women trafficked all over the world.
Professor Bang-Soon
Yoon of Central Washington University recently noted that when she met
with "activists and academics in Korea, Japan and the Philippines
in past years, they all expressed appreciation of Professor Hughes for
her pioneering work". Professor
of Social Work at San Francisco State University, Margo Okazawa-Rey
states that Dr. Hughes "consistently connects theory and practice,
recognizing the essential nature of grounded theorizing and
activism". Sheila Jeffreys of the University of Melbourne has noted
that Donna Hughes continues to make "a most significant
contribution to the development of international feminist citizenship
through the construction of the very impressive website ... enables
women to communicate and organize from Venezuela to Bangladesh".
Further, Professor Gail Dines of Wheelock College states that
"those of us involved in researching and writing about
international trafficking in women all owe an enormous intellectual debt
to Donna for her superb work and her unflinching commitment to feminist
social change."
LINDA SEBELIA
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College of
Environmental and Life Sciences
Linda Sebelia is the
Nutrition Specialist for the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences
and for the State of Rhode Island.
She has served the University and State of Rhode Island for
almost 28 years. Primarily,
Linda has developed and supervised the USDA Expanded Food and Nutrition
Education Program (EFNEP), a federally funded nutrition education
program for limited resource families and individuals.
The EFNEP and Food Stamp nutrition education programs are
outreach programs designed to better the lives and health status of poor
people, to enhance the nutritional status and food choices of Food Stamp
Program families. Through
this program, educational programs and materials have been provided to
those in greatest need- low-income families, young children and
high-health risk audiences, helping them to make better food decisions.
Linda has a strong regional and national reputation, as her
outreach materials have been adapted for use in several other states.
For 22 years, she has
written a weekly column on healthy eating for the Providence Journal
bringing state of the art nutrition information that reaches thousands
of Rhode Islanders. To
improve the health and the quality of life for limited resource families
in Rhode Island she has developed publications, videos and nutrition
social marketing campaigns. Her
current public service campaign, "Good Food, No Charge", the
nutrition message reaches the population in a unique way; they are
displayed on the advertising panels of public transportation vehicles
that move throughout the state daily.
In addition, Linda has
trained hundreds of nutrition students, emphasizing the importance and
essential nature of outreach in dietetics, and providing these students
with the skills to provide effective outreach in their professional
lives. She is, without a
doubt, one of the most productive faculty members in Extension and in
the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences.
Linda is a model for the integration of teaching and outreach
activities at the University. An
accreditation team reviewing our academic program this fall cited
Linda's Nutrition Education course as "innovative and one of the
best they had seen nationwide."
CHARLES LABASH,
ROLAND DUHAIME, ALYSON MCCANN and AIMEE MANDEVILLE
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GIS
Data Distribution and Training Program - Department of Natural Resources
Science
Charles
LaBash, Roland Duhaime, Alyson McCann and Aimee Mandeville have been
providing exceptional GIS technical training and data distribution
programs to the natural resource management community in southern New
England for almost a decade with outreach funds from the USDA RREA
program and other grant sources.
The Environmental
Data Center (EDC) web site (http://www.edc.uri.edu) is the on-line
repository of all GIS information for the state, and the source of
high-accuracy GPS data and digital imagery for RI. The Environmental
Data Center web site receives over one-half million hits a year and
users have averaged 50 gigabytes of downloaded GIS data per year over
the past three years. Charles
LaBash oversees the operation of the lab and web site. Roland Duhaime has been instrumental in designing and
operating the site from the inception.
In addition to providing data access to the extramural community,
the EDC web site is the source of GIS information used by all colleges
on campus for research and teaching endeavors.
Alyson
McCann and Aimee Mandeville provide GIS training through the Cooperative
Extension program. Over the
years, hundreds of businessmen, resource managers, town planners,
surveyors, citizens, teachers, and ecologists have taken their ArcView
GIS training course. Their
24-hour hands-on course is the only GIS instruction available outside
the URI academic curriculum. Their
students are the people in the trenches managing our coastal ecosystems.
The alumni of the CE GIS Training program are much more efficient
and effective in the practice of sustainable resource management, having
been empowered by the GIS technical tools McCann and Mandeville provide
them.
The
training and data distribution activities these exceptional scientists
conduct are a perfect example of how the science and technology we
develop in our research mission at URI can be put to use via effective
outreach programs for the greater good of current and future generations
of Rhode Islanders.
ROLAND DUHAIME
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College of
Environmental and Life Sciences
Roland Duhaime has been
a member of the Environmental Data Center at the University of Rhode
Island since 1991. During this time he has been providing project
support in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning
Systems (GPS). Away from
home, he worked with a coastal management agency in Ecuador to establish
a GIS and he trained geologists from the Azores, Portugal on how to use
GIS to model the landscape. Mr.
Duhaime pioneered the distribution of Rhode Island's GIS and GPS data
over the World Wide Web. Currently,
he is working with the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency to
mitigate natural disasters using GIS, and he is working with the
Regional Technical Support Center of the National Park Service to
support GIS data management and analysis for the New England Cluster.
CHARLES LABASH
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College of Environmental and Life Sciences
Chuck LaBash is
Director of the URI Environmental Data Center (EDC), a research
laboratory in the College of Resource Development, Department of Natural
Resources Science specializing in spatial data analysis, distribution,
and technology transfer. In
the past he has served as Database Manager for the Rhode Island GIS and
URI Global Positioning System Base Station.
AIMEE MANDEVILLE
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College of Environmental and Life Sciences
Aimee Mandeville has
been a Research Associate in the Environmental Data Center for the past
5 years. She is an ESRI
Authorized Instructor and co-teaches the Introduction to ArcView course
offered through the Cooperative Extension.
She has been involved in a variety GIS projects including
adjacent land studies, habitat restoration and other natural resource
related themes.
ALYSON MCCANN
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College of Environmental and Life Sciences
Alyson
McCann of the Department of Natural Resources Science and Cooperative
Extension Water Quality Program received her M.S. from the Department of
Natural Resources Science from URI in 1989 and her B.A. in Environmental
Studies from the University of Vermont in 1983.
She
has over 10 years experience working with GIS for natural resource
protection and management and has conducted numerous GIS training
programs for municipalities, businesses, state and federal agencies and
educational organizations. Specific
areas of interest include non-point source pollution, protection of
ground and surface water quality, use of geographical information
systems in natural resource management, and watershed-based land use
planning.
OUTSTANDING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
2002
BRETT LUCHT
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College of Arts and Sciences
Brett
L. Lucht is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry.
In 1996 he received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at Cornell
University. He graduated in Chemistry with Honors from the University of
Puget Sound and he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the
Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley,
1996-1998.
His
research interests include the synthetic, spectroscopic, and
electrochemical investigation of conjugated polymers and related organic
materials containing phosphorous. Additional research interests include
the synthesis of novel thermochromic
pigments, investigation liquid and solid electrolytes for lithium ion
batteries.
One of his current
inventions is Thermal Stabilizing Additives for Lithium Ioin
Batteries disclosed 12/21/2001.
Professor Lucht has a subcontract from the Air Force through
Technical Products for the development of new thermally stable lithium
ion battery electrolytes. This
research resulted in intellectual property that was jointly conceived
and developed at Yardney/Lithion and URI. Yardney Technical Products in Pawcatuck, CT, is filing for
the patent with Yardney and RI BOG as assignees.
YING SUN
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College of Engineering
Ying Sun is a Professor
of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Coordinator of Biomedical
Engineering at University of Rhode Island. He received a Ph.D. degree
from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1985. His research interest
includes biomedical instrumentation, medical imaging, modeling of
physiological systems, and assistive technology for persons with
disabilities. He has one issued and four pending US patents, authored or
co-authored over100 articles in conference proceedings and refereed
journals.
In
the latter part of 2001, Professor Ying Sun and his students disclosed
four new inventions, three of which were developed specifically to
assist people with disabilities.
Wearable
Switch Apparatus for Persons with Disabilities
Disclosed 10/19/2001
Sun, Ying; Duquette, Marc; Ducharme, Allan
Provisional patent application has been filed
Active Image Motion Seeking (AIMS) Camera System
Disclosed 10/19/2001
Sun, Ying; Han, Xu
Patent application being prepared
Multi-Port Sip-and-Puff Switch
Disclosed 11/16/2001
Sun, Ying
Provisional patent application has been filed
Apparatus for Neuromuscular Measurement and Control
Disclosed 12/21/2001
Sun,
Ying; Wu, Jiang
A standard US patent application has been filed.
OUTSTANDING GRADUATE STUDIES
2002
MICHAEL CORNELIUS top
College of Arts and
Sciences
Michael
G. Cornelius will graduate this year with his PhD in early British
literatures from the University of Rhode Island. He has served as the
Vice-President of the Graduate Student Association and has sat on over a
dozen university and department committees. He is also the author of the
novel _Creating Man_
(Vineyard Press, 2001) and the forthcoming _Wanderings_ (Vineyard Press,
2003). Next year Mr. Cornelius will be an assistant professor of English
at Wilson College in Chambersburg, PA.
MICHAEL DEMARIA
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College
of Arts and Sciences
Michael DeMaria's
achievements as a PhD candidate, teacher, creative writer, scholar and
leader in several major extra-curricular activities represent his unique
talent in providing leadership to not only the English Department but to
the Graduate School and the larger URI community as well.
From the first month
Mr. DeMaria started his graduate career he demonstrated his interest in
serving the university. When most graduate students are simply
attempting to navigate their coursework, he became immediately involved
in the Graduate Student Association. During his two years as President
of GSA, Mr. DeMaria worked tirelessly to improve conditions for students
in every department, raising the amount of reimbursement students could
receive for conference attendance, organizing social events to increase
a sense of a graduate community, and, eventually, organizing and
becoming chair of the Graduate Assistants Union to foster higher
standards for economical remuneration, a move that will widely benefit
the entire URI community.
At the same time that
DeMaria has pursued his PhD program of study, he has published several
important works. For example, he co-authored Teacher's Resource Manual
(Addison-Wesley-Longman, 1999), published two short stories (appeared in
Philae and North River Press), and Orient Revisited (published in The
Traveler). In addition to his exceptional publishing record at this
stage of his professional career, DeMaria has presented numerous papers
at professional conferences.
Of
equal importance, DeMaria has been a member of several groups and
organizations
He has served on
almost every committee open to students
in the department, and even now continues to serve on the department's
graduate committee. He organizes a very successful Conference on Popular
Culture that brings graduate students and professors from across the
country and from many disciplines to URI each fall.
In all of these activities, without exception, Michael emerges as
the natural leader that he is and also makes insightful and pertinent
ideas and strategies to move those projects he is progressing smoothly
toward fulfillment of the purpose and goals that the group wishes to
accomplish.
PAUL DE MESQUITA
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College of Arts and Sciences
Dr.
Bueno de Mesquita is currently Associate Professor of Psychology and
Director of Graduate Programs in School Psychology at the University of
Rhode Island.
Before
joining the faculty at URI in 1996, he was actively involved with the
implementation and evaluation of the Kentucky Education Reform Act.
He has been a lead investigator on federal and state funded
research projects designed to improve school-based psychological
services for young children and to examine the longitudinal effects of
school reform early intervention programs for at-risk children.
He has been actively involved with the implementation and
evaluation of school reform programs and has studied the impact of
educational reform efforts on school conflicts, racial tensions,
children's adjustment to school, and teachers' self-efficacy beliefs.
His experiences reflect his continued commitment to providing
services to at-risk youth, under-represented and under-served minority
and low-income school children and their families.
Professor
Bueno de Mesquita currently serves as the Director of Graduate Studies
for URI’s nationally accredited doctoral and masters degree programs
in School Psychology. His teaching has included courses in assessment
and intervention, school consultation, and prevention, child
development, and exceptionalities. His teaching is guided by an
experiential problem-based learning approach, which encourages the
development of critical thinking and applied professional problem
solving competencies. Since 1997, he has collaborated with the
Multicultural Center to improve the campus climate by organizing and
sponsoring an annual week of diversity trainings and workshops.
His
recent research and outreach efforts have been instrumental in
establishing the URI Family Resource Partnership in collaboration with
the Rhode Island Department of Health’s Early Intervention Program,
providing consultation and technical assistance to the Rhode Island
Department of Education’s Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools mental health
services initiative, the Rhode Island Character Education Partnership,
the Rhode Island Department of Mental Health’s Substance Abuse
Prevention efforts in schools, and the Rhode Island Coalition to Prevent
School Violence.
JOHN MERRILL
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Graduate School of Oceanography
John Merrill has
directed the academic program of the Graduate School of Oceanography for
the last five years, serving as Associate Dean. Working with his
colleagues on the faculty and staff he has fostered the transformation
of selected applicants with strong backgrounds into young scientists
with great capabilities and limitless potential. He has enjoyed doing
this, but admits that he is looking forward to returning to the trenches
of teaching, research and service as a regular faculty member.
DONNA SCHWARTZ-BARCOTT
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College of Nursing
Donna is a
well-respected scholar, who is an expert in qualitative methodology.
She is an extraordinary thinker, who always challenges her
students to think through research proposals.
She has a broad base of publications and is noted for her
collaborative work with Dr. Suzie Kim on the Hybrid Model.
This is an innovative methodology that has assisted both our
master's and doctoral students to answer qualitative questions.
The work using this methodology has been cited as thorough,
thought-provoking, and scientific.
An impressive number of scholars around the world are using the
Hybrid Model and credit Schwartz-Barcott and Kim for their work in this
area.
Donna spends hours
mentoring doctoral students through their dissertation work.
She "rolls up her sleeves" and helps them think through
research problem and analyze data.
She is also incredibly helpful with editing dissertations and
subsequent publications. She
actually seeks student out after graduation and helps them to publish
manuscripts from their work. She
is always committed to the science and gives students her full attention
when working with them. Donna
demands high standards and her students have been very successful due to
her dedication.
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