KINGSTON, R.I., Sept. 4 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news release:
KINGSTON, R.I. - Sept. 4, 2026 - A water scientist at the University of Rhode Island, Soni Pradhanang is balancing the professional and the personal, watching her home country of Nepal make news after the recent glacial collapse and flooding there.
As a hydrologist with expertise in environmental geology, flooding, and hazard communication, the events in her home nation are the subject she has made her career in since she left Nepal in 2001. Pradhanang, in URI's College of the Environment and Life Sciences, conducts research in runoff, flood, drought, and water quality modeling, and has served as a point of contact in URI's prior work with Nepal. ...