KINGSTON, R.I. – March 16, 2022 – The University of Rhode Island is making several experts available to talk about topics related to the war in Ukraine.
Distinguished University Professor Bahram Nassersharif is director of URI’s Nuclear Engineering Program in the College of Engineering and can discuss nuclear engineering and power plant safety issues. A member of the Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Systems Engineering, he is also knowledgeable of and can speak about nuclear weapons physics, capabilities, effects, and impact.
Assistant Professor of Economics Nina Eichacker focuses on macroeconomics, financial economics, and European economics. Her research and teaching interests include the political and economic effects of financialization and globalization, interest groups’ influence on economic policy, and the evolution of banking practices in the U.S. and Europe.
Professor of Economics Richard McIntyre’s research and teaching areas are international economics, international studies and diplomacy. Professor McIntyre has lectured at the University of Le Havre, Euromed Marseille École de Management (now KEDGE Business School), Novgorod State University, the Université de Lyon II, and École Normale Superieure de Cachan (now École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay), where he was a visiting research professor in 2002, as well as at many universities and colleges in the U.S., most recently Texas Christian University in February 2021. He was in residence as the holder of the Chair of the Americas at the Institut des Ameriques-Rennes, University of Rennes 2 in spring 2017.
Professor of Political Science Marc Hutchison, department chair, specializes in international relations and foreign policy. He is interested in the causes and consequences of international conflict, as well as the relationship between state-level threats and domestic attitudes and behavior, such as political tolerance, trust, and participation. Other research interests include territorial conflict, terrorism, civil conflict, state development, and U.S. foreign policy.
Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management Koray Özpolat can offer his expertise in humanitarian logistics and disaster relief, international business and globalization, impact of the war and international sanctions on global supply chains, and emerging business/supply chain technologies. At URI, he teaches Global Supply Chain Management at the undergraduate and MBA levels and has engaged in research/teaching activities in China, S. Korea, Italy, France and Hungary. He serves the profession as the Vice President of Information Management for the Decision Sciences Institute and as an Editorial Board Member of the Transportation Journal. Prior to joining URI in 2011, he worked for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Jordan, for the National Research Institute of Electronics & Cryptology in Turkey and held teaching positions in the former Soviet Republics of Kyrgyzstan and Georgia.
Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management and Area Coordinator Dara Schniderjans focuses on the sustainability and societal factors and implications of supply chains. She has co-authored five books and published over thirty academic journal articles as well as numerous book chapters. Schniderjans has served as a guest co-editor for a special issue on “Business ethics in Social Sciences” in the International Journal of Society Systems Science. She has also served as a website coordinator and new faculty development consortium co-coordinator for Decisions Sciences Institute. She was recognized as a fellow and distinguished scholar by the International Institute for Applied Knowledge Management Program Committee. She has obtained CLTD (ASCM), CPP (American Purchasing Society) and LSS Black Belt (University of Southern California) certifications. She has also worked as a consultant for a medical data mining startup and in advertising for an end-to-end telehealth solutions organization in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Please contact Dave Lavallee at 401-874-5862 or dlavallee@uri.edu to arrange an interview.