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April 2002
Keaney’ fond farewell
NE Basketball Hall of Fame at Keaney Gym
Ballentine Hall transformation under way
Bricks to mark Convocation Center entry
Quilting through black women’s history
Professor, student bond as Peacebuilders
Flashback: Robert Weisbord
New endowments help build for the future
I Spy
Kudos
URI student appointed to RI Board of Governors
Feinstein Center for a Hunger Free America calls URI home
Student survives rare cancer, keeps on track
Kingston Campus Transformations
Heart patients may breathe a little easier
Student research sampler
Patient simulator provides hands-on experience
Restored Steinway plays key role in monthly concerts
Fine arts at the URI Fine Arts Center
Other Spring Highlights
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 | It used to be that nabbing the bad guys meant having the fastest gun, the shrewdest detectives or getting the luckiest breaks. But these days, state-of-the-art crime fighting now requires the best scientific equipment and top-notch scientists to run it. The University now has both, thanks to the work of its scientists in the Sensors and Surface Technology (SST) and Forensic Science partnerships.
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I SpyOtto Gregory, professor of chemical engineering and co-director of the SST Partnership (shown in photo), and Michael Platek, electrical materials engineer and SST Partnership lab manager, have assembled one of the most advanced labs in the region. URI scientists have also pooled the technology and brainpower of the two partnerships to develop new tools for preventing terrorism, including bioterrorism. The newest arrival is a $245,000, high-resolution scanning electron microscope (SEM) manufactured by JEOL, which was in part purchased through a $170,000 National Science Foundation grant awarded to Gregory. The University provided matching funds.
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