University of Rhode Island (URI)
The University of Rhode Island is the flagship public research university in the state of Rhode Island. Located in Kingston, the school was founded in 1892 and is home to over 14,000 undergraduate students.
Rhode Island is committed to enriching the lives of its students through its land, sea, and urban grant traditions.
URI offers over 80 majors through seven distinct undergraduate colleges. Students are able to study in a small, beautiful place with some of the biggest thinkers in the world.
The mission of URI emphasizes these traits:
- Intellectual and ethical leadership
- Diversity, fairness, and respect
- Creativity and scholarship
- Engaged learning and civic involvement
Students strive with faculty, staff, and alumni towards one common purpose: to learn and lead together.
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- Martin Luther King Week: Unity Luncheon
- The Unity Luncheon is a communal sharing of food, song, and reflection in celebration of the legacy of ideas espoused by Dr. King, and the application of the legacy at the University of Rhode Island. The URI Office of the Chaplains will present the Ninth Annual Peacemaker Award honoring a student, student organization, or member of the URI academic community whose goals and activities express a commitment to the pursuit of peace and nonviolence. Following the Award, the event will be keynoted by Kazu Haga, Program Coordinator, Peace Development Fund. The event will be concluded with a selection from the Civil Rights songbook. Unity Luncheon with keynote address by Kazu Haga, Program Coordinator, Peace Development Fund, Oakland, CA Co-sponsored by the Multicultural Center, the Office of the Chaplains, and the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies
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- Resilience: Adapting for Man-Made or Natural Disasters
- The Coastal Institute presents: Doug Ahlers Resilience: How do we learn to live with water, or earth, or wind, or fire? What is the theory? How do we measure resiliency? We can (and must) adapt to the changing environment. Learn about tsunami or storm surge mitigation and evacuation systems, floating cities, artificial barrier islands, land use restrictions, floodable environments and buildings. Examples are gleaned from work done in Christchurch, New Zealand, New Orleans, Chile and San Francisco. The speaker has done fieldwork in these locations and is in the forefront of resilience planning. Doug Ahlers, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, founded the Harvard Kennedy School Broadmoor Project, a collaborative redevelopment effort between the Katrina-devastated Broadmoor New Orleans neighborhood and the Kennedy School. Ahlers has been a Fellow at the Preventative Defense Project at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation where he worked on a plan for San Francisco in preparing to recover faster after a disaster strikes. A Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, and a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard, Ahlers teaches courses on the management of disaster recovery which blend case teaching with field-research (Community Recovery: Rebuilding Disaster Damaged Communities in Chile; Disaster Recovery Management ...
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- URI Professor Michael Greenfield, 2011 Global Road Award in Research...
- URI Professor Michael Greenfield, 2011 Global Road Award in Research
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That'd be a great question to ask the office of international students about, find their contact information here: http://www.uri.edu/iss/ Also, for more information on scholarships, you can find more information here: http://www.uri.edu/admission/payingforURI.html