Features

Harnessing brain power

Eat green (and we don't mean veggies).

Elaina Goldstein

Health care insurance is a hot topic, from the White House to legislative chambers to boardrooms and kitchen tables. Everyone’s trying to make it work. Enter Associate Research Professor Elaina K. Goldstein, J.D., M.P.A., an expert in the field of public policy and health care. Having worked for decades in support of adults with cognitive […]

China. One of our Majors.

Stephen Craveiro '13

Nero didn’t fiddle while Rome burned because the fiddle hadn’t yet been invented. But the emperor did play the cithara, an ancient musical instrument that history major Stephen Craveiro replicated last spring. Assistant Professor of History Bridget Buxton encouraged him to combine his passions for music and history in an independent study project researching and […]

Peter Solomon '86

Peter Solomon was 15 years old when he started spending all his free time with his Uncle Anthony at Anthony’s Drug Store in Providence. It was an experience that formed his own passion for a similar career. “I saw firsthand the endless possibilities when you are part of an independent pharmacy, and that inspired me […]

Some problems need a new major

Our new pharmacy building = home.

Kathleen Melanson

News media around the world have really bitten into URI Professor Kathleen Melanson’s ideas about the connection between speed and obesity. The speed of eating that is. Professor Melanson is an associate professor of nutrition and food sciences and director of URI’s Energy Balance Laboratory. Her landmark study in 2007 confirmed the popular dietary belief […]

Jenna Broccolo '12

Although Jenna Broccolo ’12 loved to act in plays when she was in high school, she didn’t actually know what a stage manager was until she enrolled at the University of Rhode Island. And what a discovery it’s been for her. During her four years at URI, this energetic theatre major played a behind-the-scenes role in […]

Welcome Home.

Cherry Arnold '87

In independent film circles, Cherry Arnold is known for her story-telling abilities and passion for her projects. These are traits she said first helped years ago when she was a marketing and business development executive with technology start-up companies in New York City. “Filmmaking is one of the coolest artistic processes because it has to […]

Take the bite out of this

Abraham Kovoor

We’re just too fat. Obesity in the United States is common and the health problems it causes are enormous. It’s something that doctors, psychologists, teachers, parents, scientists, and so many others have long struggled to understand: What regulates our body weight? Professor Abraham Kovoor, a molecular biologist at the University of Rhode Island’s College of […]

On call in the Middle East

A campus with stories to tell

Matin Amani '11 M.S. '12

Matin Amani’s big idea is recycling… recycling the heat from jet engines, that is, to power sensors that monitor the performance of jet engines in their harsh, risk-laden environment. And he’s been working side-by-side with URI Distinguished Engineering Professor Otto Gregory to do exactly that. Apparently NASA thinks it’s a pretty good idea, because it […]

Wes Card '70

Thanks to Wes Card ’70, CEO and Director of The Jones Group Inc., the URI women’s rowing team was decked out in style last month at events surrounding England’s historic Henley Regatta. Not only did he make it possible that their outfits, designed by URI students, were produced by Jones New York, he hosted a […]