Aidan Kindopp one of URI’s three Goldwater recipients this year
Aidan Kindopp, a fourth-year French IEP and chemical engineering student from West Chesterfield, New Hampshire, recently won a prestigious Goldwater scholarship along with two other URI peers.
View ArticleCOE Alum Tania Silva de Oliveira Gives Graduate Commencement Address May 19
Tania Silva de Oliveira is a chemical engineer and an analytical research scientist at a Boston-based global pharmaceutical company that develops drugs to treat some of the world’s most serious...
View ArticleMeet Goldwater Scholar Camila Cersosimo, Chemical Engineering
Camila Cersosimo is an example of how you can do big things at URI!
View ArticleDavid J. Parrillo, ’89, Inducted into National Academy of Engineering
For Dr. David J. Parrillo (’89), his recent induction into the prestigious National Academy of Engineering is as much about mentoring people as developing technically advanced products. “You have to...
View ArticleIEP Student Prints Her Career Path
Mention the term 3D printing to the average person, and it’s fair to say many would think of a smallish, home use machine programmed to create dragons or orcs like those from fantasy gameplay. However,...
View ArticleURI Awarded $1.14 Million to Attract Under Represented Students to Engineering
CHE Associate Professor Samantha Meenach has won a federal grant that will help students from underrepresented groups pursue studies in engineering.
View ArticleURI Engineering Researchers Awarded $750k Grant on Floating Wind Turbines
The Biden administration has set a goal of deploying enough offshore wind turbines to produce 30 gigawatts—enough to power tens of millions of homes—by 2035.
View ArticleLasers and Iron Could Revolutionize Water Treatment
Lasers and iron may help the world treat contaminated water, URI researchers say. The first-of-its-kind study subjected ferrate — a form of iron — to a wide spectrum of light and analyzed how its...
View ArticleURI Chemical Engineering Professor Granted NSF CAREER Award
Ryan Poling-Skutvik, assistant chemical engineering professor at the University of Rhode Island (URI), was granted a 5-year $589,933 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct...
View ArticlePh.D. engineering student at URI receives ISSS Scientific Achievement Award
Part-time Ph.D. chemical engineering student Michael Jones was awarded the 2024 Scientific Achievement Award by the International System Safety Society (ISSS) for contributions to the advancement of...
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