URI/ RIC Ph.D. Program in Education

Please join me in congratulating our Ph.D. program's alum and diversity leader Shontay Delalue, Brown’s vice president for institutional equity and diversity since 2017. She leaves a legacy of continued momentum at Brown University to become Senior Vice President and Senior Diversity Officer at Dartmouth College starting in July 2021. Read more about her accomplishments here:

Diversity leader Shontay Delalue to become senior vice president and senior diversity officer at Dartmouth Brown’s vice president for institutional equity and diversity since 2017, Delalue leaves a legacy of continued momentum toward creating a fully diverse and inclusive academic community at Brown.

Congratulations to Dr. Amy Grattan, cohort 2013, on her new position as Executive Director of the Sherlock Center on the RIC campus! Well-deserved!

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Thupten Tendhar! He successfully defended his dissertation about online compassion education from our program and his extraordinary findings are featured on URI's website:

Can compassion be learned online? URI faculty find it can KINGSTON, RI -- April 30, 2019 -- The University of Rhode Island offered an innovative learning opportunity this semester for students to develop greater compassion for others, and improve their sense

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Nicole Hersey, a 2018 graduate of our Ph.D. in Education program, who has been selected by the New England Educational Research Organization (NEERO) as the recipient of the John Schmitt Award. This award is presented for outstanding research at the graduate level based on her dissertation, Investigating Beginning Secondary Mathematics Teachers’ Perceptions and Development of Their Pedagogical Content Knowledge. Nicole will be formally presented this award at a luncheon on Thursday, April 25, 2019 at the Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside Hotel in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Nicole, you make us proud!

Thank you to everyone who attended our colloquium last Thursday! Please tag yourselves and your friends!

Congratulations to Dr. Thalia Wood, a 2013 graduate from the our program and head of Toll Gate High School's Social Studies Department in Warwick, RI. Thalia just returned from a week in Normandy with upcoming junior Rebecca Carcieri after winning one of the coveted spots among 15 student-teacher teams selected to learn more about the sacrifices that soldiers made during WWII. Among other things, they delivered a eulogy at the gravesite of an American soldier who died in the campaign to liberate France. http://warwickonline.com/stories/toll-gate-teacherstudent-team-help-remember-wwii-silent-hero,126882

Toll Gate tandem helps remember WWII silent hero By ETHAN HARTLEY -- One Toll Gate High School student and teacher team has made sure that the story of Warwick-born Sergeant Donald H. Rubery will be heard, and that his sacrifice will never be forgotten.