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Lessons in acting and life

Masked and wearing a baseball cap, 2020 Tony Award-nominee for Best Actor Andrew Burnap '13 easily passes for the students he teaches.

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The Kaleidoscope of Textiles

"Textiles tell stories. Color is not just incorporated into the cloth because it’s aesthetically pleasing—-it is there to serve a purpose and tell a story."

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A history of dissent in song

Music professor Emmett Goods gives history a soundtrack, and he shares it with his students in his class, Music as a Form of Social Protest.

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Documenting a history of resistance

Marcus Nevius's City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856 documents Black resistance communities and slavery-based economies.

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Tracking Microplastics

Marine biology majors investigate how microplastics disperse in Narragansett Bay in Coastal Fellows undergrad research project.

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Sustainability and food

All four of Bridget Craig’s grandparents were farmers, which instilled in her a longtime interest in agriculture and the nation’s food system.

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Engineering at URI

"Working in robotics is like the Wild West in terms its opportunities—always innovative, always changing, always something new to work on."

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Best of 2020

Best of 2020 (Re)discover our favorite homepage features of the year.

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Career goal: research scientist

As an undergrad, Avery McNamara learned that research is about being curious, hungry for knowledge, and open to intellectual challenges.

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Covering a presidential election

CNN’s John King ’85, Hon. ’10, has spent the year following the pandemic and covering one of the most divisive elections in U.S. history.

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Path to a vaccine

University of Rhode Island experts plot the steps in a vaccine's progress from the laboratory to the pharmacy.

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Volume Up!

While the pandemic has dropped the curtain on theater productions, the URI Theatre Department has come up with a creative alternative.

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Fast track to a Master’s

URI's Accelerated Bachelor's to Master's Program enables students to earn both their bachelor's and master's degree in five years.

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A community connected

Veterans know all about being part of something bigger than themselves. They understand community and the necessity of connection.

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URI 101 has the answers

A one-credit seminar for first-year and transfer students, URI 101 functions as both a welcome and a primer for all things URI.

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Tracking a controversial carnivore

Despite their cartoon reputation, coyotes may be our most controversial local creatures. But what do we know about them?

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Distilling knowledge

Students in the Pharmacognosy Club, a natural products research club, recently made witch hazel hydrosol, a solution of water and witch hazel.

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Yoga afternoon

URI College of Pharmacy students, faculty, and staff enjoyed yoga on the College's green on a recent fall afternoon.

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