If you ask what motivates him, award-winning filmmaker and photographer Jason Jaacks will say he’s chasing awe and wonder.
Brad Wetherbee said the idea for the URI Shark Camp came to him after noticing he wasn't seeing a whole lot of diversity in his first-year classes.
As a teenager, Kevin Suggs loved anime, electronics, and engineering. At URI, he's studying computer engineering and heading to Japan.
Justin Cole ’22 didn't want to wait till he graduated to begin his writing career. Turns out, he didn’t have to.
URI’s fifth annual Research and Scholarship Photo Contest attracted a stunning collection of photos from URI students, staff, and faculty. Take a look.
Eight URI sophomores have been awarded the Hollings Scholarship, the most prestigious scholarship awarded to undergrads in marine sciences.
Headlines change quickly in a 24/7 news cycle, but reports of mass violence in the United States are having a long-lasting effect on the collective American psyche.
The University of Rhode Island celebrated its 136th Commencement with in-person ceremonies on the Kingston Campus May 20-22, 2022.
The University of Rhode Island extends heartfelt congratulations to all graduates of the Class of 2022.
A new exhibit in the Quinn Hall Textile Gallery asks the question, “What’s in a [Designer’s] Name? An Investigation of Twentieth-Century Fashion Labels.”
Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing costs the global economy $10 to $23.5 billion annually and is the number one maritime security threat facing the United States.
Sarah Brown, an assistant professor of computer science, is examining how to prevent artificial intelligence from reinforcing biases.
KANU, the app developed by Ben Grossman '21 and Andrew Bikash '20 to encourage student entrepreneurship, is now a nationally-recognized, growing business.
A new multidisciplinary course illuminates historical inequities about the land on which the Kingston campus sits.
In preparing for nine months’ study in Prešov, Slovakia, Fulbright scholar Jay Rumas ’21 anticipated certain challenges. War was not on his mind.
Douglass Reed, assistant professor of philosophy and creator of the popular course "Philosophy 110G: Love and Sex," is thinking about breakups.
An entrepreneur since middle school—he ran a pop-up candy store out of his backpack—Erik Robles '22 wasn't looking for URI to provide him with a career path. He wanted to tackle life's big questions.
Tyrone Thomas '22 first learned the rules of polite conversation as a child at the dinner table.
