{"id":64762,"date":"2009-05-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-names-raymond-wright-dean-of-the-college-of-engineering\/"},"modified":"2009-05-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T00:00:00","slug":"uri-names-raymond-wright-dean-of-the-college-of-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2009\/05\/uri-names-raymond-wright-dean-of-the-college-of-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 names Raymond Wright dean of the College of Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tLong-time professor served as interim dean since 2007<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 21, 2009 \u2013 Raymond Wright, a respected environmental engineering professor at the 溏心vlog免费B站 who has served as interim dean of the College of Engineering since 2007, has been appointed dean of the college on a permanent basis, effective May 17.<\/p>\n


\n\tHe succeeds Bahram Nassersharif, who stepped down as dean in June 2007.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cDr. Wright has served in numerous leadership roles and has always been a valuable contributor to the University community,\u201d said Don DeHayes, 溏心vlog免费B站 provost and vice president for academic affairs. \u201cHe is an admired and respected member of the faculty, one who will lead the College of Engineering during a critical time in the University\u2019s history. Equally important, Dr. Wright gets it \u2013 he understands that 溏心vlog免费B站 can and must excel in undergraduate and graduate education as well as research and that these missions are complementary and not competitive. I look forward to working with him as he leads our College of Engineering into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tWright has served as associate dean of the College of Engineering, chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, interim director of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Transportation Center, acting director of the Rhode Island Water Resources Center, and in 1997 he was named a Distinguished Engineering Professor in the College of Engineering. He also received the Albert E. Carlotti Award and the Vincent and Estelle Murphy Award for Faculty Excellence in Engineering. He joined the 溏心vlog免费B站 faculty in 1981.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI feel honored to be selected as dean, and I look forward to working with our students, faculty and staff, and to enhancing relationships with valued alumni and friends of the College,\u201d said Wright, a resident of Wakefield. <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe times we live in also represent incredible opportunities for leadership that can provide innovative solutions to help shape the future,\u201d he added. \u201cThe College of Engineering is poised to provide this leadership, and to be a catalyst that stimulates long-term sustainable economic growth in Rhode Island and beyond. This will require the development and coordination of integral partnerships between academia, government, private enterprise and the general public.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tDuring his 溏心vlog免费B站 career, Wright has been awarded $4.5 million in funding as the principal investigator on 47 environmental research projects in the areas of water quality monitoring, identification of non-point source pollutants, storm water monitoring and modeling, and the investigation of wet weather pollutant sources and their impact on receiving waters. He undertook a decade-long analysis of the water quality of the Blackstone River and authored a comprehensive report on the subject for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.<\/p>\n


\n\tWright has earned degrees from Tufts University and Pennsylvania State University, and he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in hydraulic engineering and stream and estuarine analysis.<\/p>\n


\n溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Communications & Marketing photo by Michael Salerno Photography.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long-time professor served as interim dean since 2007 KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 21, 2009 \u2013 Raymond Wright, a respected environmental engineering professor at the 溏心vlog免费B站 who has served as interim dean of the College of Engineering since 2007, has been appointed dean of the college on a permanent basis, effective May […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}