Academic Department Graduate Directors

Accounting Department
Dr. Henry Schwarzbach
Graduate Director
Ballentine Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4327 
Fax: (401) 874-4312 
E-mail: henrys@uri.edu

 

Applied Math
Dr. Orlando Merino
Chair/Graduate Director
Tyler Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4442 
Fax: (401) 874-4617 
E-mail:  merino@cs.uri.edu

 

Biological Sciences
Dr. Cheryl Wilga
Graduate Director
Biological Sciences Center
Phone: (401) 874-9020  
Fax: (401) 874-4256  
E-mail: cwilga@uri.edu

 

Business Administration (MBA)
Ms. Lisa Lancellotta
Coordinator
Ballentine Hall
Phone: (401) 874-5000 
Fax: (401) 874-4312 
E-mail: hadz@uri.edu

Business Administration (PhD)
Dr. Paul Mangiameli
Graduate Director
Ballentine Hall
Phone: (401) 874-5000 
Fax:  (401) 874-4312 
E-mail: mangia@uri.edu

Cell & Molecular Biology
Dr. Jay Sperry
Chair/Graduate Director
Morrill Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2201 
Fax: (401) 874-2202 
E-mail: jsp2116u@postoffice.uri.edu

 

Chemical Engineering
Dr. Richard Brown
Graduate Director
Crawford Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2707 
Fax: (401) 874-4689 
E-mail: rbrown@egr.uri.edu

 

Chemistry Department
Dr. Brenton DeBoef
Graduate Director
Pastore Hall
Phone: (401) 874-9480 
Fax: (401) 874-5072 
E-mail: bdeboef@chm.uri.edu

 

Civil & Environmental Engineering
Dr. Christopher Hunter
Graduate Director
Bliss Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2818 
Fax: (401) 874-2786 
E-mail: hunter@egr.uri.edu

 

Clinical Lab. Science
Dr. Gregory Paquette
Graduate Director
Morrill Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2315 
Fax: (401) 874-4767   
E-mail: gregcls@uri.edu

 

College Student Personnel
- See Human Development & Family Studies

 

Communication Studies
Dr. Norbert Mundorf
Graduate Director
302 Davis Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4725 
Fax: (401) 874-4722 
E-mail: mundorf@uri.edu

Computer Science
Dr. Victor Fay-Wolfe
Graduate Director
Tyler Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2701  
Fax: (401) 874-6417  
E-mail: wolfe@cs.uri.edu

 

Education, School of
Dr. John Boulmetis
Graduate Director
604 Chafee Hall
Phone:  (401) 874-4159 
Fax: (401) 874-7610  
E-mail: johnb@uriacc.uri.edu

Education - PHD (joint with RIC)
Dr. Betty Young
Co-Director
Chafee Hall
Phone:  (401) 874-4150 
Fax: (401) 874-5471  
E-mail:  byoung@uri.edu

Dr. John Gleason
Co-Director
Rhode Island College, Horace Mann Hall
Phone: (401) 456-8024 
Fax: (401) 456-1983  
E-mail: jgleason@ric.edu

Electrical Engineering
Dr. Godi Fischer
Graduate Director
Kelley Hall
Phone: (401) 874-5879 
Fax:  (401)782-6442  
E-mail: fischer@ele.uri.edu

 

English Department
Dr. Josie Campbell
Graduate Director
Independence Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4664 
Fax: (401) 874-2580 
E-mail: graddir@etal.uri.edu

Dr. Stephen Barber
Associate Graduate Director
Independence Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4673 
Fax: (401) 874-2580 
Email: sba2515u@postoffice.uri.edu

Environmental & Natural Resource Economics
Dr. Christopher M. Anderson
Graduate Director
Coastal Institute Kingston
Phone: (401) 874-2471 
Fax: (401) 782-4766 
E-mail: cma@uri.edu

 

Environmental Science & Management - MESM
Dr. Frederick Meyerson
Graduate Director
Coastal Institute Kingston
Phone: (401) 874-4580 
Fax: (401) 874-4561 
E-mail: fmeyerson@uri.edu

 

Fisheries, Animal & Veterinary Science
Dr. Marta Gomez-Chiarri
Graduate Director
23 Woodward Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2917  
Fax: (401) 874-7575  
E-mail: gomezchi@uri.edu

Geosciences
Dr. Thomas Boving
Graduate Director
315 Woodward Hall
Phone:(401) 874-7053
Fax: (401) 874-2190 
E-mail: boving@uri.edu

History Department
Dr. Sharon Hartman Strom
Graduate Director
Washburn Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4080 or (401) 874-2528 
Fax: (401) 874-2595 
E-mail: shstrom@uri.edu

 

Human Development & Family Studies:  General Human Development & Family Studies
Dr. Barbara Newman
Graduate Director
Transition Center
Phone: (401) 874-7135 
Fax: (401) 874-4020 
E-mail: bnewman@uri.edu

 

Human Development & Family Studies:  Marriage and Family Therapy
Dr. Jerome Adams
Graduate Director
Transition Center
Phone: (401) 874-5962 
Fax: (401) 874-4020 
E-mail: jadams@uri.edu

Human Development & Family Studies:  College Student Personnel
Dr. Katie Branch
Graduate Director
Quinn Hall
Phone: (401) 874-5487 
Fax: (401) 874-4035 
E-mail: kbranch@uri.edu

 

Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Dr. Peter Dewhurst
Graduate Director
Gilbreth Hall
Phone: (401) 874-5194 
Fax: (401) 874-5540 
E-mail: dewhurst@egr.uri.edu

Kinesiology
Dr. Lori Ciccomascolo
Graduate Director
210 Flagg Road, Rm. 114
Phone: (401) 874-5454 
Fax: (401) 874-4215 
E-mail: Lecicco@uri.edu

Labor Relations & Human Resources
Dr. Richard Scholl
Graduate Director
Hart House
Phone: (401) 874-2239 
Fax: (401) 874-2954 
E-mail: rscholl@uri.edu

Library and Information Studies
Dr. Gale G. Eaton
Graduate Director
Rodman Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4641 
Fax: (401) 874-4964 
E-mail: geaton@uri.edu

 

Marine Affairs Department
Prof. Richard Burroughs
Graduate Director, Master's Program
Washburn Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4045 
Fax: (401) 874-2156 
E-mail: rburroughs@uri.edu

Prof. Seth Macinko
Graduate Director, PhD Program
Washburn Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4820 
Fax: (401) 874-2156 
E-mail: macinko@uri.edu

Mathematics Department
Dr. James Lewis
Graduate Director
Tyler Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2709 
Fax: (401) 874-4617  
E-mail: jlewis@uriacc.uri.edu

 

Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Martin Sadd
Graduate Director
208 Wales Hall
Phone: (401) 874-5548 
Fax: (401) 874-2355 
E-mail: sadd@egr.uri.edu

Music Department
Eliane Aberdam
Co-Director
Fine Arts Center
Phone: (401) 874-2794 
Fax: (401) 874-2772 
E-mail: eliane@uri.edu

Manabu Takasawa
Co-Director
Fine Arts Center
Phone: (401) 874-2790 
Fax: (401) 874-2772 
E-mail: takasawa@uri.edu

 

Natural Resources Science
Dr. Francis Golet
Graduate Director
Coastal Institute in Kingston
Phone: (401) 874-2916 
Fax: (401) 874-4561 
E-mail: fgswamps@uri.edu

Nursing/Nursing Practitioner
Dr. Donna Schwartz-Barcott
Graduate Director
White Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2766 
Fax: (401) 874-2061 
E-mail: dsb@uri.edu

Nutrition & Food Sciences
Dr. Geoffrey Greene
Graduate Director
Ranger Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4028 
Fax: (401) 874 - 5974 
Email:  GWG@URI.EDU

Ocean Engineering
Dr. Christopher Baxter
Graduate Director
Sheets Building
Narragansett Bay Campus
Phone: (401) 874-6575 
Fax: (401) 874-6837 
E-mail: baxter@oce.uri.edu

Oceanography
Dr. David C. Smith
Associate Dean
GSO Bay Campus
Narragansett
Phone: (401) 874-6246 
Fax: (401) 874-6889 
E-mail: assoc_dean@gso.uri.edu

 

Pharmaceutical Sciences
Dr. Paul Larrat
Associate Dean
Fogarty Hall
Phone (401) 874-5011 
Fax: (401)679-0329  
E-mail: larrat@uri.edu

Physical Therapy
Dr. Beth Marcoux
Graduate Director
Independence Square #2
Phone: (401) 874-5001 
Fax: (401) 874-5630 
E-mail: bmarcoux@mail.uri.edu

 

Physics Department
Dr. Leonard Kahn
Graduate Co-Director
212 East Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2053  
Fax: (401) 874-2380  
E-mail lkahn@uri.edu

Dr. Alexander Meyerovich
Graduate Co-Director
208 East Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2047 
Fax: (401) 874-2380 
E-mail: Alexander_Meyerovich@uri.edu

Plant Path/PlantSci/Entomology
Dr. Roger Lebrun   
Graduate Director
229 Woodward Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2934 
Fax: (401) 874-2494 
E-mail: lebrun@uri.edu

Political Science Dept.
Dr. Maureen Moakley
Chair/Graduate Director
Washburn Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2183 
Fax: (401) 874-4072 
E-mail: moakley@uri.edu

 

Psychology: Clinical
Dr. Ellen Flannery-Schroeder
Graduate Director
Chafee Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4219 
Fax: (401) 874-2157 
E-mail: efschroeder@uri.edu

 

Psychology:  Behavioral Science
Dr.  Kathryn Quina
Graduate Director
Chafee Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2777 
Fax: (401) 874-2157  
E-mail: kquina@uri.edu

 

Psychology:  School
Dr. Gary Stoner
Graduate Director
Chafee Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4234 
Fax: (401) 874-2157 
E-mail: gstoner@uri.edu

Public Administration
Dr. Francis J. Leazes Jr.
Graduate Director
URI Feinstein College of Continuing Education, Rm 208
Phone: (401) 456-8718 (RIC) & (401) 277-5166 (URI-CCE) 
E-mail: fleazes@ric.edu

 

Spanish Dept.
Dr. Clement White
Graduate Director
Independence Hall
Phone: (401) 874-5911 
Fax: (401) 874-4694 
E-mail: cblanco@uriacc.uri.edu

 

Speech Pathology & Audiology
Dr. Jay Singer
Chair/Graduate Director
Independence Square
Phone: (401) 874-5969 
Fax: (401) 874-4404 
E-mail: drjay@uri.edu

 

Statistics Department
Dr. Choudary Hanumara
Graduate Director
Tyler Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2701 
Fax: (401) 874-4617 
E-mail:  hanumara@cs.uri.edu

Textiles Dept.
Dr. Linda Welters
Chair/Graduate Director
Quinn Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4574 
Fax: (401) 874-2581 
E-mail: lwelters@uri.edu