Features – The University of Rhode Island

Sweet Success

During the pandemic, some people made sourdough starter. Ella Schneider ’26 made chocolate—and in 2021, she launched an award-winning bean-to-bar chocolate company with her father.

Fall 2023 Honors Colloquium

URI's premier public lecture series marks College of Business centennial, colloquium’s 60th anniversary, with ‘Not Business as Usual: Business for the Common Good.'

The 411 on URI 101

First years and transfer students: Uncertain about your future? We've got a class for that. URI 101 supports a successful transition to college, setting you up for success.

URI: A User’s Guide

Welcome to URI! We're glad you're here. Here's a brief guide to help you get started.

URI’s Shark Guy

Brad Wetherbee has studied shark evolution, migration patterns, and habitats for more than 30 years. He is also a dedicated teacher who creates opportunities for his students to learn about sharks through fieldwork and hands-on learning.

All that jazz

URI jazz students realized the dream of playing the Newport Jazz Festival. Performing jazz standards and songs from the Great American Songbook, they attracted an appreciative crowd to their side stage that grew during their three days at the iconic event.

A head for business, an eye for art

As a midfielder for the URI Women's Soccer Team, Laila Rosenthal '23 understood the push-and-pull of competition and her role in it: to negotiate the middle, to be ready to attack or defend, as the situation warranted.

Connecting people with animals

Your thinking about chickens is probably all wrong. Most of us see them first and foremost as a food source, a commodity, scientists say.

Hacking4Oceans

Sign up for Hacking4Oceans and you are looking for a problem. A big problem. A wicked-in-the-scientific-sense-of-the-word problem. Something impossible to solve.

Microplastics research

URI doctoral oceanography student Victoria Fulfer, a visiting scientist at U.K.'s National Oceanography Centre, has found high levels of microplastics in some of the most remote waters on the planet.

The activity of art

Milana Cepeda '23 explores how artists connect with their audiences emotionally—and the extent artists are able to convey the specific emotions they intend an audience to feel.

Perfecting the pitch

Quincy Clark '23, URI pitcher, public relations major, and entrepreneur sets up for business success with the help of URI Launch Lab.

Mission accomplished

Alison Taylor Hornung ’23 was just 12 when she began sewing and selling hair bows at her middle school, fundraising for a local family with a child diagnosed with cancer.

Congratulations, graduates!

The University of Rhode Island celebrated its 137th commencement, conferring degrees on 3,331 undergraduate students on May 20 and 769 graduate students on May 19.

Commencement 2023

We look forward to celebrating the University of Rhode Island Class of 2023 throughout the weekend of May 19–21, 2023, on the Kingston Campus. Here's everything you need to know!

Screening independent films

Professor Justin Wyatt’s forthcoming book surveys the full history of American independent film. We asked him to pick five must-see films.

Note by note

If you haven’t heard of 19th century composer Emilie Mayer, you’re probably not alone. While her work was popular in her time, it’s pretty obscure today. That's about to change.

Sea Change

In a decade’s time, Ebben Howarth ’23 will likely be the last lobsterman living and working on Block Island. What does this say about the future of Rhode Island’s lobster industry?