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sj-jpg-1-jhs-10.1177_17531934221135985 - Supplemental material for
No full textSupplemental material, sj-jpg-1-jhs-10.1177_17531934221135985 for by Uri Farkash, Tal Kalimian, Moti Kramer and Ran Atzmon in Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume)</p
URI Open Access Policy
No full textLibGuide providing information on the University of Rhode Island Open Access Policy. Covers how to comply, how to get an author addendum or a waiver of the policy, and frequently-asked questions. Provides background on the policy and a list of additional resources
URI Diversity Week Keynote Speaker: Surveillance or Self‐Determination: Can Democracy and Diversity Co‐Exist in the Age of Google, Comcast, and the NSA?
No full textSponsored by the URI Multicultural Center and the URI Honors Colloquium, Heidi Boghosian, author of Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance (San Francisco: City Lights, 2013) will talk about “Surveillance or Self Determination: Can Democracy Exist in the Age of Google, Comcast, and the NSA?” on Tuesday, September 30 at 7:30 pm in Edwards Auditorium. The talk is free and open to the public.
In Spying on Democracy, she documents the disturbing increase in surveillance of ordinary citizens and the danger it poses to our privacy, our civil liberties, and to the future of democracy itself. Boghosian discusses how technology is being used to categorize and monitor people based on their associations, their movements, their purchases, their health histories, and their political beliefs. She shows how corporations and government agencies mine data from sources as varied as surveillance cameras and unmanned drones to iris scans and medical records and medical records, while combing websites, email, phone records and social media for resale to third parties, including U. S. intelligence agencies.
Heidi Boghosian is the executive director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute. She is the co‐host of the weekly civil liberties radio show Law and Disorder on Pacifica\u27s WBAI in New York and over 40 national affiliates. She received her JD from Temple Law School and served as the editor‐in‐chief of the Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review. She also holds an MS from Boston University and a BA from Brown University
URI Disambiguation in the Context of Linked Data
No full textThe Linked Data initiative has given rise to an increasing number of RDF datasets, many of which are freely accessible online. These resources often arise as a result of database exports; however sufficient consideration may not be given to the unseen implications caused when they are used in the wider context of the Semantic Web. This paper investigates two popular resources, DBLP and DBpedia, and discusses whether the issues regarding identity management and co-reference resolution have been suitably addressed. We find that a large percentage of authors in DBLP have been conflated, and that disambiguation pages have been incorrectly linked using owl:sameAs within DBpedia. Systems for dealing with these issues are presented, and directions are given for future research
Interviews with Freedom Summer Veterans
No full textVideo recordings of these interviews have been archived and made available at: http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/freedom_summer/
Interviews of Freedom Summer Veterans from New England. Dr. Rob Widell, Assistant Professor, History; Bruce Watson, Independent Journalist; and Dr. Julia Jordan‐Zachary, Director, Black Studies, and Associate Professor, Political Science, Providence College. Scheduled to be interviewed are: Gloria J. Clark, occupational therapist and community activist, New Bedford, MA; Malcolm Farmer III, attorney and partner, Hinckley, Allen, and Snyder, Providence, RI; Dr. Thomas N. Gardner, professor of communications, Westfield State University, Westfield, MA; David A. Gass, community developer and advocate for community gardens, Lynn, MA; James G. Kates, poet, literary translator, and co‐publisher, Zephyr Press, Fitzwilliam, NH; James P. Marshall, Author, “Student Activism and Civil Rights in Mississippi: Protest Politics and the Struggle for Racial Justice, 1960‐1965,” Brookline, MA; John M. (Jack) Pratt, former state representative and town selectman, Walpole, MA; David F. Riley, professional mediator, Providence, RI; Gary S. Rothberger, civil rights lawyer, Cambridge, MA; Nancy J. Schieffelin, independent artist and clinical social worker, Belmont, MA; E. Michael Thelwell, professor emeritus, W. E. B. DuBois Department of African‐ American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; Dr. David Trimble, clinical assistant professor, Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology, Boston University, Brookline, MA; Michael Van Leesten, urban planning and community development executive, Providence, RI; Bishop Arthur E. Walmsley, former Episcopal staff, Commission on Religion and Race, National Council of Churches, Deering, NH; Dan Lynn Watt and Molly Lynn Watt, poets, folksingers, and performing artists, Cambridge, MA; and Norman S. Zalkind, attorney and partner, Zalkind, Duncan, and Bernstein, Boston, MA. Mon, 9/29 @ 9am‐5pm
12th Annual Symposium on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Issues Brochure
Get PDFThis post contains the 12th Annual Symposium on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Issues Brochure and the Ms Word doc it was created in. 12th Annual Symposium on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Issues Brochure; The University of Rhode Island 12th Annual Symposium on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Issues; Pathways to Equality, Facets of Freedom; Schedule at a Glance April 19-22, 2006; Acknowledgements Our Symposium is free and open to public thanks to the contributions and support of the following: The Office of The Vice President for Student Affairs, The University of Rhode Island GLBT Center, URI Memorial Union, URI Multicultural Center, URI Women\u27s Center, URI Library, URI Dept. of Housing and Residential Life, URI Health Services, URI Catering Services, URI Parking Services, URI News Bureau, AIDS Project RI, AIDS Quilt RI, Options News Magazine, URI Student Life, URI Career Services, Santiago, Inc., Hillel, Women\u27s Studies, Edge Publications, Providence, Gay? fine by me, Sarah Mecca; Symposium Organizing Committee : Kiev-Tuen Atreides, Bekki Davis, Al Lott, Joseph A Santiago, Aja Van Dyke, Andrew Winters.; Mission: The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Center at the University of Rhode Island strives to create a welcoming and safe environment for people of all sexual orientations and gender identities. Prioritizing around dimensions of education, support, and advocacy, the GLBT Center works directly with students, faculty, staff and community members to provide related programs and services.; WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 7:30PM, HARDGE FORUM, MULTICULTURAL CENTER “The Case of Professor Martha Deane: Sexuality and Power at Cold War UCLA” In 1952, Martha Deane, a tenured UCLA professor of physical education, was forced into early retirement: she was accused by a neighbor of having sexual relations with another woman in her own home. Professor Deane’s expulsion from the University of California at Los Angeles illustrates the intertwining of Cold War hysteria, sexual anxieties, and homophobia that characterized life in the United States in the early 1950s. This talk will examine Martha Deane’s story in a past period of political repression as a way of thinking about our own time.; Kathleen Weiler is a Professor in the Department of Education at Tufts University. Her research has focused on the social, historical and political context of education in relation to questions of gender. She has published a number of books, including ethnographic studies of classroom teaching, theoretical discussions of feminist theory and pedagogy, and historical studies of women educators in the American West. Her teaching includes philosophy of education, gender and education, and the history of education.; THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 10:00AM TO 3:30PM, GALANTI LOUNGE, UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 10:00-11:30 “Locating the Marriage Movement in a Wider Queer Context” Jenn Steinfeld, Marriage Equality RI 11:30-12:30 “Understanding Down Low Phenomena” Curtis Ferguson, II 12:30-1:30 “Breaking the Boxes: An Open Spirituality“ Mary Latela, author: [email protected] 1:30-2:30 “Battling Bisexual Erasure: A Personal Struggle Against Invisibility” Ron Suresha, writer/ editor 2:30-3:30 “Beyond the Pathos of One-dimensional Relating: Re-conceptualizing Enmeshment in Lesbian Couples” A. Cassandra Golding; THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 7:30PM, HARDGE FORUM, MULTICULTURAL CENTER Reading from “The Legend of Bushistotle: History’s Greatest Philosopher-Warrior-King,” a satirical parody of the Bush Administration by author Steven Hanley, who will also discuss obstacles he has faced as a gay writer trying to publish a book critical of Bush and the Catholic Church. For further information about Steven Hanley and his upcoming book visit: http://www.stevenhanley.com; FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 10:00AM-4:00PM, GALANTI LOUNGE, UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 10:00-11:00 “Pride and Punishment: Why Prisons are a Queer Issue” Daniel Bassichis, Vanessa Huang, Justice Now 11:00-12:00 “Evaluation of a Safe Spaces Program for LGBTQ College Students” R. Steven Schiavo 12:00-1:30 Discussion of the Gay? Fine By Me Project with founder Lucas Schaefer : www.finebyme.org 1:30-3:00 “Lifelines: Critical Benefits of Harm Reduction Clinics and Transition Resources for Transgender and Transsexual Youth” Gavriel Ansara 3:00-4:00 “Is it Time to End ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’?” Peter Cassels, Edge Publications www.edgeprovidence.com; FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 7:30PM, ROBERT E. WILL THEATRE FINE ARTS CENTER The URI Theatre Department presents Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize, Tony-Award winning play, “Angels in America (Part I, Millennium Approaches).” This performance is dedicated to the Rhode Island Project AIDS Benefit and the Annual URI GLBT Symposium. Tickets for this performance will be 12 seniors, URI Faculty and Staff and $10 for students. Two dollars from each ticket will be donated to RI Project AIDS. A post-performance panel discussion will relate play themes to AIDS issues in Rhode Island.; Saturday, April 22, 12:00pm-4:30pm, Galanti Lounge, University Library “Queer Youth Issues.” Workshops and discussions presented by Youth Pride, Inc. (YPI) and the Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM). 5:00pm Rainbow Diversity House Dinner discussion and evening social activitie
09. Frank Newman, 1974-1983
No full textPortrait of Frank Newman, President of the University of Rhode Island from 1974 to 1983. The portrait hung in Green Hall on the URI Kingston campus until December 2021, and now resides in the University Libraries\u27 Distinctive Collections.
President Frank Newman navigated the University through troubled times and reversed a tide of declining enrollment. He created the College of Human Science and Services, revamped the general education curriculum to emphasize global perspectives, launched the research vessel Endeavor, and recognized the importance of higher education in the lives of older students. President Newman was considered a visionary in the world of education and his influence continued after he left the University. He was the lead author of the Newman Report, an influential document filled with innovative ideas that served as a national blueprint for federal legislation related to public education. He served as president of the Education Commission of the States, a non-profit, nonpartisan organization that helps governors, legislators and other state education leaders develop and implement policies that improve education.
President Newman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in naval science and economics and a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Brown University. He earned an M.B.A. from Columbia, worked on a P.h.D at Stanford, and held three honorary doctoral degrees.
The University of Rhode Island honored its eighth president in 2002 by naming the Office of Admission building on 14 Upper College Road in his honor.https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/uri-pres-portraits/1007/thumbnail.jp
\u27Erzuli Dahomey, Goddess of Love\u27 (poster)
Get PDFPoster for play, \u27Erzuli Dahomey, Goddess of Love,\u27 by Jean-René Lemoine. Performed at the University of Rhode Island on October 23, 2018.
Poster states: Jean-René Lemoine is an author, director, and actor whose plays have received the highest acclaim in France. His awards include the Grand Prix de la Critique and Le Prix Émile Augier from the Académie française. Lemoine, along with students and friends of the URI Language Department, will perform their English translation of his award-winning play, “Erzuli Dahomey, Goddess of Love.” This play summons a Haitian voodoo goddess, a lost African phantom, and the deceased Diana, Princess of Wales, in a Chekhovian melodrama that speaks to the historical anxieties of contemporary France
How the Freedom Summer Students Changed Mississippi
No full textJames P. Marshall, Independent Researcher. The author of Student Activism and Civil Rights in Mississippi: Protest Politics in Mississippi: Protest Politics and the Struggle for Racial Justice, 1960‐1965 (2013) assesses the success of the civil rights movement in Mississippi by describing changes in the state among the indigenous black leadership before and after 1965. Before 1965, the prevailing strategy sought to empower the indigenous African leaders and high school and college students of Mississippi to join forces with the civil rights organizations and the volunteering college students to confront the white power structure. It was asserted that black citizens were entitled to civil rights under the framework of the U. S. Constitution and federal law. After 1965, some felt that the time had come to realign goals. It was assumed that a national consensus for change in the South had emerged. Voter registration had mushroomed from less than 7% to nearly 60%. Empowerment of local individuals became the mantra. In many respects, the resistance of local whites was underestimated
Institutional Repositories and Academic Social Networks: Competition or Complement? A Study of Open Access Policy Compliance vs. ResearchGate Participation
Get PDFINTRODUCTION The popularity of academic social networks like ResearchGate and Academia.edu indicates that scholars want to share their work, yet for universities with open access (OA) policies, these sites may be competing with institutional repositories (IRs) for content. This article seeks to reveal researcher practices, attitudes, and motivations around uploading their work to ResearchGate and complying with an institutional OA Policy through a study of faculty at the University of Rhode Island (URI). METHODS We conducted a population study to examine the participation by 558 full-time URI faculty members in the OA Policy and ResearchGate followed by a survey of 728 full-time URI faculty members about their participation in the two services. DISCUSSION The majority of URI faculty do not participate in the OA Policy or use ResearchGate. Authors’ primary motivations for participation are sharing their work more broadly and increasing its visibility and impact. Faculty who participate in ResearchGate are more likely to participate in the OA Policy, and vice versa. The fact that the OA Policy targets the author manuscript and not the final published article constitutes a significant barrier to participation. CONCLUSION Librarians should not view academic social networks as a threat to open access. Authors’ strong preference for sharing the final, published version of their articles provides support for calls to hasten the transition to a Gold OA publishing system. Misunderstandings about the OA Policy and copyright indicate a need for librarians to conduct greater education and outreach to authors about options for legally sharing articles
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