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Richard '83 and Debra '85 Siravo

Richard ’83 and Debra ’85 Siravo are the first Rhode Islanders ever to be named WebMD Health Heroes, and we couldn’t be more proud. WebMD, an American corporation that provides health information services, created the Heroes award to celebrate visionary Americans who have met a health challenge and have given back to others in an inspiring […]

Power the next wave of renewable energy

Helen Huang

Almost all of the lower limb prostheses on the market today are passive devices that generate movement through the motion of the user’s body. They are awkward when transitioning from level ground to stairs, or navigating rough terrain. URI Engineering Professor Helen Huang has a better, bigger idea. She wants to create a powered artificial […]

Justine Sauvage, M.S. '12

This past summer, oceanography grad student Justine Sauvage headed to sea aboard the Japanese Deep Sea Drilling Vessel (D/V) Chikyu for a two-month expedition studying life deep beneath the seafloor. She had no idea at the time that she’d become part of an international team of scientists who would dig deeper than humans ever have […]

Can you dig this? Yes, you can.

Vladimir Duthiers '91

“The key to immortality is living a life worth remembering.” These words, oft quoted and variously attributed to Bruce Lee, Jesus, and St. Augustine, are what led Vladimir Duthiers ’91 out of a successful career in finance and back to his true passion, a seed first planted when he was a student at URI. When […]

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Annemarie Vaccaro

There’s been an enormous climate change in recent years, but not one that can be measured in degrees. It’s been a shift in social climate affecting the lives and well being of all people, especially those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. This changing climate is the backdrop for Professor Annemarie Vaccaro’s work. The […]

Stefanie Olesen '13

All great ideas have an “aha” moment, and Stefanie Olesen’s came during a brisk winter day in New York. She was sipping coffee in a café across from Rockefeller Center when a young woman offered a compliment that changed her life: “I love your headband.’ Well that was a nice surprise. On a whim, she […]

Build communities from the ground up. Literally.

Chelsea Fredrikson '12

What do you get when you slather paint made of moss – yes, the deep green stuff that grows on stone fences – onto a giant carved image? If you’re as innovative as URI grad Chelsea Fredrikson, you get a stunning work of art that continues to grow and inspire. At URI, art major Fredrikson […]

Be an engineer of independence.

Dan Hurley

Rhody fans have some pretty big expectations for URI’s 19th head basketball coach Dan Hurley. So it’s a good thing he came to us with the kind of record that suggests he can meet them. For starters, in his own collegiate career, Coach Hurley eclipsed the 1,000-point mark while helping the Seton Hall Pirates advance […]

Sybil Seitzinger '82

Small of stature, Sybil Seitzinger ’82 is renowned for her big ideas and big ambitions. As her doctoral advisor, the late Oceanography Professor Scott Nixon once said, when she first came to the University, Seitzinger could have been a poster child for thinking big. Now, she’s an international leader investigating the causes and consequences of environmental change, […]