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Dr. Stephen Barber
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Department of English
College of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Barber’s research encompasses Nineteenth-
and Twentieth-Century British Literature, Virginia Woolf, Modernist Literature
and Comparative Literature.
Dr.
Judith S. Mercer top
College of Nursing
Dr. Mercer’s research investigates the effects of Delayed Cord Clamping (DCC)
in Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW) infants (< 1500 grams birth weight) and
explores physiologic and developmental detrimental effects of Immediate Cord
Clamping (ICC). DCC allows for
more red blood cells to pass into the infant, thereby improving the neonatal
outcomes in VLBW infants.
Dr.
Katherine Scheil
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Department
of English
College
of Arts and Sciences
Dr.
Scheil is an asset in bringing her innovative research into the classroom.
It comes alive with attention to historicism while reaching her
students. She recently completed a book on Shakespeare in the
eighteenth century. Her current
research project is a book on women and reading groups of Shakespeare in
America.
Dr.
Yeqiao Wang
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Department
of Natural Resources Science
College
of the Environment and Life Sciences
Dr.
Y.Q. Wang conducts research in natural resources management and mapping. He
has been using satellite and airborne remote sensing data to study and model
the dynamics of landscape. His research demonstrates how human-induced land use and land
cover change and impact ecosystems and how it can be effectively modeled.
NASA, USAID, and USDA have funded his projects. His study includes selected
areas in the United States, East Africa and China.
Ms.
Diane R. Gerzevitz
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College
of Nursing
The
focus of Ms. Gerzevitz’s outreach activities has been to expose graduate
students and others to cross-cultural health care.
Annually she takes a group of students to Honduras, where they live and
work among the villagers, conducting primary health care. This enables
students to learn about the culture, the health care system, the people and
themselves. Here in RI Ms. Gerzevitz is deeply involved with the Rhode Island
Free Clinic. She has sought to bring the resources of the University through
the Colleges of Nursing and Pharmacy, to meet the health care needs of the
immigrating and disenfranchised minority populations. She also has a small
inner city church-based clinic in South Providence that serves a small group
of uninsured, impoverished clients.
Ms.
Lisa Gould
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Department
of Natural Resources Science
College
of the Environment and Life Sciences
Lisa
Gould is executive director of the Rhode Island Natural History Survey (RINHS),
an umbrella organization for the gathering of ecological data in Rhode Island.
RINHS projects include: cataloguing the State's flora, fauna, and ecological
communities; holding conferences and seminars on the State's biota and
habitats; publishing original natural history monographs; coordinating
information on invasive species; and providing inventory, monitoring, and
stewardship services to Rhode Island's land conservation agencies.
Dr.
Gregory E. Paquette
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Department
of Cell and Molecular Biology
College
of the Environment and Life Sciences
Dr.
Paquette has been instrumental in the planning, development, funding and
implementation of several new undergraduate biotechnology programs in the
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology.
He has done this in consultation and collaboration with the rapidly
emerging biopharmaceutical industry in Rhode Island, especially Amgen in West
Greenwich and Dow Biopharmaceuticals in Smithfield.
He has also collaborated with Governor Carcieri's office, The Rhode
Island Economic Policy Council, and The Rhode Island Human Resource Investment
Council.
Mr.
Joseph M. Parillo
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Department
of Music
College
of Arts and Sciences
Joe
Parillo, Steinway Artist, recording artist, composer/arranger and producer,
coordinates and directs various widespread community programs and concerts.
He conducts and directs the award-winning URI Big Band in diversified
locales, runs the URI Jazz and World Music Festival annually, and coordinates
the RI High School Jazz Competition. Mr.
Parillo is a well-known mentor to students of all ages as well as the
community at large. He is
an active, encouraging, and distinguished professor while also maintaining a
productive and fulfilling professional career as an artist.
Dr.
Martha S. Patnoad
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Cooperative
Extension Center
College
of the Environment and Life Sciences
The
goals of the URI Cooperative Extension Food Safety Education Program are to
reduce the risk of food borne illness and assist food businesses in
maintaining their economic viability. These goals are achieved through outreach educational
programs and consultations targeting the food industry, school-age children,
their caregivers and consumers. The
program has been in existence for 12 years, its activities have been developed
and implemented in collaboration with nonprofit community agencies, RI State
departments including DEM, Division of Agriculture, Education and Health,
Division of Food Protection, school districts, industry groups and the
industry.
Pharmacy
Outreach Program
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College
of Pharmacy
The Pharmacy Outreach Program is committed to responding to the
medication needs of the Rhode Island Community, resulting in improved quality
of life for all residents. This
is accomplished through its three distinctive components. The Medication for
the Needy Program assists low income Rhode Islanders and their physicians
in accessing the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Assistance Programs that
provide free or low cost medications. The Medication Information Hotline is a
toll-free resource for medication information; answering concerns regarding
medications, drug therapy and current health care issues. The Medication
Education Resource Center focuses on supplementing Rhode Islanders'
knowledge of their medications through educational programs, medication
counseling (Brown Bag Programs) and health screenings.
OUTSTANDING
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 2003
(Due
to the confidential nature of inventions,
full
summaries are not available)
Dr.
James O. Prochaska
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Dr.
Joseph S. Rossi
Dr.
Wayne F. Velicer
Cancer
Prevention Research Center
College
of Arts and Sciences
"Pathways
to Change" (Smoking Cessation)
Behavior
Change Systems; License Agreement with J & J, earns substantial royalties
for the University.
Mr.
Christopher E. Kreuter
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Mr.
Peter T. Obuchowski
Department
of Ocean
Engineering
College
of Engineering
"Radial
Thruster System"
Disclosed
in 2002; currently a patent search is being conducted by the University Patent
Attorney.
Mr.
Tyler D. Albert, Mr. Richard J. Cacchiotti II,
Ms. Amber M. Halteman, Mr.
Carlos J. Pena, Mr. Lancelot J. Pinnock,
Mr. Arash Razavinejad, Dr. Robert A.
Comerford, Dr. Musa K. Jouaneh, Dr. Ying Sun
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Departments
of Biomedical Engineering,
Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
College
of Engineering
College
of Business Administration
"Motorized
Retrofitable Cabinet Shelf Lowering System"
Disclosed
in February this year; prior art search being conducted by our patent
attorney.
Mr.
Amr J. Hana, Mr. Tristen S. Raynes, Mr. Arash Razavinejad,
Mr. William G. Scott, Mr. Jason VanBuren,
Dr. Robert A. Comerford, Dr. Musa K. Jouaneh,
Dr.
Ying Sun
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Departments
of Biomedical Engineering,
Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
College
of Engineering
College
of Business Administration
"Portable
Window Opener "
Disclosed
in February this year; prior art search being conducted by our patent
attorney.
Dr.
Laura L. Beauvais
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College
of Business Administration
Dr.
Beauvais has worked closely with both masters and doctoral students across
multiple colleges, advising them on internships and independent studies,
serving on thesis committees, as well as collaborating with them in over 20
research papers over the past 10 years. In
addition, she was the first Ph.D. Director in the College of Business
Administration from 1992-1995, and directed the full time MBA Program from
1996-1999. She also has served on
the Graduate Council, on the Graduate Fellowship Committee for several years,
and currently serves as Chair of the Graduate Affairs and Research Committee
in the College of Business Administration.
Dr.
Vincent C. Rose,
Jr.
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Department
of Chemical Engineering
College
of Engineering
Professor
Vincent C. Rose, Associate Dean of the Graduate School for more than 20 years,
having been closely associated with the development of graduate education at
URI and carries much of the University's institutional memory in this area.
Professor Rose continues to be active in matters dealing with graduate
education and is an invaluable University resource.
Dr.
William Rosen
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Department
of Chemistry
College
of Arts and Sciences
William
Rosen has been interested in Graduate Education for an extensive period of
time. He has served on the URI Graduate Council several times, and has served
as Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Chemistry for the past
ten years. He has been a research
advisor for more than twenty students over the past thirty years. He has
taught numerous graduate level courses in a variety of subject areas related
to chemistry and he has pushed the URI community to accept the idea that
Graduate Education is the hallmark and the foundation for defining the essence
and unique qualities of a Research University.
Mr.
Holger Donath
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College
of Business Administration
Mr.
Donath has contributed to graduate studies through his selfless activities on
the GSA, serving as President and office manager.
He was driven to improve the conditions under which graduate students
lived, studied and worked. He tried to foster an atmosphere of social
and
intellectual exchange among new scholars. His vision of exchange was
multidisciplinary, bringing together groups from different fields who
wouldn’t normally communicate with each other. Mr. Donath played an
influential role in organizing the new graduate student union, which has
helped students negotiate a contract with the University which provides better
pay and health insurance, making URI more competitive with other universities.
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Stephen
M. Barber
Judith
S. Mercer
Katherine
Scheil
Yeqiao
Wang
Diane
R. Gerzevitz
Lisa
Gould
Gregory
E. Paquette
Joseph
M. Parillo
Martha
S. Patnoad
Pharmacy
Outreach Program
"Pathways
to Change" (Smoking Cessation)
Dr.
James O. Prochaska,
Dr. Joseph S. Rossi,
Dr. Wayne F. Velicer
"Radial
Thruster System"
Mr.
Christopher E. Kreuter,
Mr. Peter T. Obuchowski
"Motorized
Retrofitable Cabinet Shelf Lowering System"
Mr.
Tyler D. Albert, Mr. Richard J. Cacchiotti II, Ms. Amber M. Halteman,
Mr.
Carlos J. Pena, Mr. Lancelot J. Pinnock,
Mr. Arash Razavinejad, Dr. Robert
A. Comerford, Dr. Musa K. Jouaneh,
Dr. Ying Sun
Dr.
Laura
L. Beauvais
Dr.
Vincent
C. Rose, Jr.
Dr.
William
Rosen
Mr.
Holger Donath
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