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SOUTH KINGSTOWN, RI -- The role of the University of Rhode Island is to educate students for the future -- "for careers that do not yet exist that are based on technology and knowledge not yet known," said David M. Dooley, a finalist for the presidency of Rhode Island's land grant institution.

"We're going to do that by engaging students in the process of acquiring the knowledge and the new technology," Dooley said Tuesday, describing the symbiosis between teaching and research, which has driven his academic career for more than 30 years.

Dooley, the provost and chief academic officer at Montana State University, began a day-and-a-half visit to URI Tuesday as one of three finalists for the chance to succeed Robert Carothers as president.

At Montana State, Dooley, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has helped build the research budget from virtually nothing to $100 million in the last nine years.

And he said he sees the importance of research intensifying at URI across all disciplines -- the humanities as well as the sciences -- if the university is to fulfill the modern-day mission of land grant institutions "to educate the common man for the common good."

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