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Dr.
J. Stanley Cobb
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Professor
Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Cobb has long been interested in the intersection of ecology, behavior and
fisheries management. His work on lobsters and crabs, funded primarily by the
RI Sea Grant Program, includes studies on how behavior affects growth, the
ecology and behavior of the youngest stages, bioeconomics of essential
habitat, and the effects of oil spills on lobster populations. He has a
long standing interest in coastal management and worked in several countries
for the Coastal Resources Center.
Dr.
K.
Wayne Lee top
Professor
Civil and Environmental
Engineering, College of Engineering
Dr. Lee’s research
work deals with the intelligent transportation infrastructure and system. It
includes performance-based engineering materials, pavement and infrastructure
design, integrated asset management system, and multi-disciplinary solutions
for engineering problems.
Dr.
Kathryn Moran
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Associate Professor
Ocean Engineering, Graduate School of Oceanography, College of Engineering
Dr. Moran successfully co-led the first scientific ocean drilling expedition
to the North Pole in summer 2004. The $12 million international expedition
involved three icebreakers, including a vessel that, for the first time ever,
recovered sediments from far below the seafloor revealing the climatic and
environmental evolution of the Arctic Ocean over the past 80 million years.
The expedition recovered materials (deep-sea sediments), which are now serving
as the basis for significant post-expedition research initiatives involving
three URI faculty members and a graduate student.
Dr.
Joan M. Peckham top
Professor
Computer Science and Statistics, College of Arts and Science
Dr.
Peckham is a conceptual data modeling researcher who is currently engaged in
multidisciplinary research and mentoring in bioinformatics, transportation,
women in the sciences, 3-D graphics, undergraduate research, and disaster
analysis. She is co-PI on three NSF grants, the bioinformatics core co-leader
on an NIH INBRE grant, and a participant in a grant from the New England
University Transportation Center.
Dr.
Colleen A. Redding
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Associate Professor
Cancer Prevention Research Center,
College of Arts and Sciences
Dr.
Redding
specializes in clinical health psychology and has been a principal or
co-investigator on at least 20 federally funded research projects studying
various health behavior changes in diverse populations and settings, totaling
more than $21 million dollars. She has accrued nearly 40 publications and
extensive experience developing and evaluating Transtheoretical Model-based
interventions across a wide range of problem behaviors. Her work has explored
TTM constructs as well as interpersonal influences on health behaviors and
predictors of change over time. She is especially interested in ways to
improve family health, sexual health, coping with illness, and adolescent
health.
Dr.
Dorothy F. Donnelly
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Professor
English, College of Arts and Sciences
Dr.
Donnelly is the co-founder, with the Rhode Island District Court, of the Rhode
Island Chapter of the nationally recognized and highly acclaimed Changing
Lives Through Literature (CLTL), a program designed to offer criminal
offenders the opportunity of participating in literature seminars rather than
going to jail. The major goal of the program is to attempt to redirect
the lives of offenders through reading literature with a message of
self-esteem and self-understanding. Offenders who participate in the program
are less than half as likely to commit new crimes as those not in the program. Professor
Donnelly further expanded the RI/CLTL by inviting Bryant University and Rhode
Island College as partners.
Dr.
Kathleen Guglielmi
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Assistant
Professor
School
of Education, College of Human Science and Services
Dr.
Guglielmi's sustained and excellent work includes the School of Education
graduate program in assisting in the development of new leaders in one RI
school district, the development of a charter school in another, the efforts
to develop a charter school for the RI Boys Training School, and her
leadership in the field of adult education internationally. As an adult
educator, the focus of Dr. Guglielmi’s outreach work has been on
professional development with a variety of school-based professionals,
particularly in urban partnership districts. The professional development
includes leadership development, improving student achievement, learning
style-focused instruction, induction/mentoring, and problem-based learning.
Dr.
Susan E. Roush
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Associate
Dean and Associate Professor
Physical Therapy, College of Human Science and Services
In 2004 the College of Human Science and Services embarked on a project to
sponsor and build a Habitat for Humanity House. Dr. Roush spearheaded the
project that embodies the values of the College and brought the issue of
affordable housing to the forefront for faculty, staff and students. Her
efforts were directed toward raising $40,000 and coordinating the numerous
volunteers who literally built the house. Recently the house was
dedicated and she was delighted to witness the Collins family --Jeff, Marie
and their 3 children-- realize their dream of homeownership.
Healthcare
Utilization Management Center
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College
of Pharmacy
The Healthcare Utilization Management Center (HUMC) provides expertise in
pharmacy benefit management, Medicaid and Medicare pharmacy issues and therapy
management to various State agencies in Rhode Island and in other states. The
HUMC manages the pharmaceutical care program for approximately 35,000 inmates
at the Rhode Island Department of Corrections.
HUMC also works with the Rhode Island Department of Administration,
reaching a diverse group of state agencies through their affiliation with
RIDOA, including the Rhode Island Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Elderly
program, the Medicaid program and the State employee health insurance program.
The HUMC utilizes a team approach,
involving experienced faculty, graduate students, post-docs and professional
degree pharmacy students and provides solutions to "real world"
problems that confront its client agencies.
OUTSTANDING
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 2005
(Due
to the confidential nature of inventions,
full
summaries are not available)
Dr.
Martin J. Bide
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Professor
Textiles,
Fashion Merchandising and Design, College of Human Science and Services
Dr.
Susan L. Hannel
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Assistant Professor
Textiles,
Fashion Merchandising and Design, College of Human Science and Services
Mr.
Matthew Phaneuf
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President
BioSurfaces
"Multifunctional
Bioactive Wound Dressing Surface"
Disclosed on10/1/2004.
Dr.
Ying Sun
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Professor
Electrical
and Computer Engineering,
College of Engineering
Dr.
Frederick J. Vetter
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Assistant
Professor
Electrical
and Computer Engineering,
College of Engineering
"Integrated Finite
Element and Circulatory Model for Predicting the Hemodynamic Effects of Left
Ventricular Impairment, Resynchronization and Remodeling."
Disclosed on
11/19/04.
Dr.
Donald W. Tufts. top
Professor
Electrical and Computer
Engineering, College of Engineering
"Signal
Processing Apparatus For Generating A Fourier Transform"
Licensed to Intellectual Ventures 10/6/2003.
“Signal
Processing Apparatus and Method for Iteratively Determining Arithmetic Fourier
Transform”
Licensed to Intellectual Ventures 10/6/2003.
“Discriminant
Neural Networks (DNN)”
Licensed to Intellectual Ventures 10/6/2003.
Dr.
Agustus K. Uht
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Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
“Automatic and Transparent
Hardware Conversion of Traditional Control Flow to Predicates”
Licensed to Intellectual Ventures
10/6/2003.
“Digital
System Performance Enhancement Via Error Toleration (Timerrtol)”
Licensed to Intellectual Ventures 10/6/2003.
“System for Extracting
Low Level Concurrency from Serial Instruction Steams”
Licensed to Intellectual Ventures 10/6/2003.
“Resource Flow
Computer”
Licensed to Intellectual Ventures 10/6/2003.
Dr. Qing Yan top
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
“Cache Memory System for
Vector Processing”
Licensed to Intellectual Ventures 10/6/2003.
“STICS—SCSI-to-IP
Cache System”
Licensed to Intellectual Ventures 10/6/2003.
“Distributed Web
Server”
Licensed to Intellectual Ventures 10/6/2003.
“Disk
Caching Disk; System for Destaging Data During Idle Time…”
Licensed to Intellectual Ventures 10/6/2003.
“Cost-effective
Approach for Realtime, Online, and Remote Data Back-up”
Licensed to Intellectual Ventures 10/6/2003.
“Redundant,
Asymmetrically Parallel Disk Cache for a Data Storage System”
Licensed to Intellectual Ventures 10/6/2003.
“BUCS—A
Bottom-Up Cache Structure for Networked Storage Servers”
Licensed to Intellectual Ventures 10/6/2003.
“Hardware
Environment for Low-overhead Profiling and Security”
Licensed to Intellectual Ventures 10/6/2003.
Dr.
E.
Gale Eaton
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Associate
Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Studies,
College
of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Eaton worked in public libraries for many years, and she mentors students
who go on to share the joy of books and intellectual inquiry with
readers—especially children—all over Rhode Island and New England.
Students in her public library services course have written funded grants;
students in her course on digital resources for youth have co-published their
research; the current presidents of the RI and New England Library
Associations were her advisees. To help working, out-of-state students (over
half of the GSLIS total), she has taught by e-mail and WebCT, and has
supported colleagues and adjuncts in adapting their courses to WebCT. She
created an online ethics orientation site for GSLIS students and developed
face-to-face and online programs for URI Diversity Week.
Ms.
Michelle Levreault
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Graduate
Assistant
Kinesiology, College of Human Science and Services
Ms.
Levreault has been a graduate assistant
athletic trainer with responsibilities that
include physician clinics, early morning treatments,
practice and game coverage, as well as traveling. Her main responsibilities
of this assistantship included working with the Rhode Island football
team, and the men’s and women's swimming and diving teams. While working as
an athletic trainer, Michelle has worked to
complete her master's thesis examining athletes who have been diagnosed with
inflammatory bowel disease. She has also assisted in data collection for the
National SAFE Kids Campaign and Defeat the
Heat, which concentrated on hydration status in young children.
Dr.
Seth S. Macinko
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Assistant Professor
Marine Affairs, College of the Environment and Life Sciences
Dr. Macinko is a highly valued mentor to many of his students, encouraging
their intellect and integration of individual research. His teaching
techniques are innovative and engaging, and he often goes above and beyond the
call of duty as a teacher. Professor
Macinko also serves on the North Pacific Fishery Management Council's
Scientific and Statistical Committee and integrates his experiences from the
committee with graduate students through individual research projects for
theses, conferences and in class lectures.
Dr.
Deborah E. Rosen
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Associate Professor
College of Business Administration
Dr. Rosen has worked closely with both masters and doctoral students as an
instructor, advisor, dissertation committee member, as well as collaborating
with them in over 20 research papers over the past 9 years. In addition, she
has been the director of the full time MBA Program since 1999 and has
initiated many curriculum changes most notably developing experiential
learning opportunities for non-profit organizations partnering with Slater
Center companies and Social Venture Partners of Rhode Island.
Dr.
Jerome A. Schaffran
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Professor
Human Development and Family Studies, College of Human Science and Services
Dr. Schaffran has been the Coordinator of the College Student Personnel
Program for almost 30 of his 34 years at URI. The program prepares
entry-level student and academic affairs professionals. Of the 350-400
students who have graduated from the program in these 30 years, 35-40 are in
positions here at URI, and approximately 100 others are in positions on other
campuses in Rhode Island, the remainder are scattered throughout the country.
Ms. Darshell Silva top
Graduate Assistant
Graduate School of Library and Information Studies,
College
of Arts and Sciences
Ms.
Silva is the graduate assistant for the Clearinghouse for Volunteers where she
links students, faculty, and the surrounding community with community service
opportunities and implements and organizes various community service
opportunities on campus. One such program was the successful Community Based
Research Connections Conference. Ms. Silva also started the First Book URI
Advisory Board, which has distributed approximately 6,500 free books to
children.
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