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Nonprofit Gather RI set to launch in June

News Story 12/10/2024

PROVIDENCE – A new local nonprofit that will offer women and gender-expansive people space to connect with others across multiple industries and age demographics...

RESEARCHERS from the University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island School of Design have been awarded $3.4 million in federal funding for research projects to study climate change and enhance resilience, Rhode Island’s congressional delegation says. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

URI, RISD awarded $3.4M federal grant for climate change research

Economic Activity 08/01/2024

PROVIDENCE – Researchers from the University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island School of Design have been awarded $3.4 million in federal funding for...

TOUBA GHADESSI recently started her new role as provost at the Rhode Island School of Design. / COURTESY CAT LAINE

Ghadessi appointed new RISD provost

Education 09/01/2023

PROVIDENCE – About a year after she began the same full-time position at Wheaton College, Touba Ghadessi shifted her sights to Rhode Island to...

TOUBA GHADESSI has been named Wheaton College's new provost and vice president of academic affairs. / COURTESY WHEATON COLLEGE

Ghadessi named Wheaton College’s new provost

Education 06/06/2022

NORTON – Touba Ghadessi, an art history professor at Wheaton College who has been the college’s interim provost for the past year, has been...

NEW CONSORTIUM: Touba Ghadessi, left, co-founder of the Wheaton Institute for Interdisciplinary Humanities, speaks with Alison Ricco, administrative associate office of the provost. Ghadessi hopes to encourage more students to pursue the humanities as a career path by partnering with 10 other New England-based higher education institutions with humanities centers to form the New England Humanities Consortium./PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO.

Schools form consortium to encourage students to pursue humanities degrees

Education 01/04/2019

As co-founder of the Wheaton Institute for Interdisciplinary Humanities at Wheaton College in Norton, Touba Ghadessi knows all too well how the humanities have...

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