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Meet URI’s Next President

University of Rhode Island is delighted to announce the selection of Professor Marc B. Parlange, provost and senior vice president of Monash University in Australia, as URI’s 12th president.

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Become a leader

The idea that only a certain personality type—you might be thinking extroverted, bold, headstrong, and loud—is suited for leadership is a myth.

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Flight School

For most students, it was the first time they had ever held a wild bird, and it was an experience they would not soon forget.

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Why I Teach: Kathleen Torrens

Kathleen Torrens, 2020 winner of the URI Foundation and Alumni Engagement Excellence in Teaching Award, believes civic engagement begins with critical thinking.

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A new COVID-19 test

“One of the things we set out to do was to develop a less invasive, more cost-effective, more accessible test. And I think we’ve done that."

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‘I wanted to pursue medicine’

Julia Santini ’21, a biology, sociology, and Italian major, will enter The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University come the summer.

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A bright future

Losing electricity was a daily event in Lagos, Nigeria, Jesse Duroha’s home. For several hours a day, his family had to contend without power in the steamy climate.

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Lessons in acting and life

Masked and wearing a baseball cap, 2020 Tony Award-nominee for Best Actor Andrew Burnap '13 easily passes for the students he teaches.

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The Kaleidoscope of Textiles

"Textiles tell stories. Color is not just incorporated into the cloth because it’s aesthetically pleasing—-it is there to serve a purpose and tell a story."

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A history of dissent in song

Music professor Emmett Goods gives history a soundtrack, and he shares it with his students in his class, Music as a Form of Social Protest.

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Documenting a history of resistance

Marcus Nevius's City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856 documents Black resistance communities and slavery-based economies.

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Tracking Microplastics

Marine biology majors investigate how microplastics disperse in Narragansett Bay in Coastal Fellows undergrad research project.

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Sustainability and food

All four of Bridget Craig’s grandparents were farmers, which instilled in her a longtime interest in agriculture and the nation’s food system.

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Engineering at URI

"Working in robotics is like the Wild West in terms its opportunities—always innovative, always changing, always something new to work on."

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Best of 2020

Best of 2020 (Re)discover our favorite homepage features of the year.

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Career goal: research scientist

As an undergrad, Avery McNamara learned that research is about being curious, hungry for knowledge, and open to intellectual challenges.

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Covering a presidential election

CNN’s John King ’85, Hon. ’10, has spent the year following the pandemic and covering one of the most divisive elections in U.S. history.

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Path to a vaccine

University of Rhode Island experts plot the steps in a vaccine's progress from the laboratory to the pharmacy.

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