URI’s Sarah Kienle is contributing to the scientific knowledge base of an understudied top marine predator, the mysterious leopard seal, a solitary creature that spends most of his life underwater. (Photo: Renato Borras-Chavez)
URI launches a Botanical Collections geo-database to offer an extensive look at the 1,200-plus plants in the Botanical Collections, available for public access and long-term University use.
Political science and Chinese major Derek Murphy ’20 was interested in a global career, which he found in the U.S. foreign service. Today he serves as vice consul in the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou, China.
The R/V Cap’n Bert is URI’s College of the Environment and Life Sciences research and education vessel, which is kept afloat by by a sense of purpose, a dedicated crew, and a captain who loves his job.
A team of eight students, scientists, and engineers from the University of Rhode Island recently returned from the first survey of known shipwrecks in the Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary.
At URI’s Peckham Farm, Brandon Ferro and Lilly Brooks, animal science and technology (AVS) majors, learned modern animal training techniques as part of a course on animal behavioral research.
URl's Research and Scholarship Photo Contest—now in its 8th year—showcases the work of students, faculty, and staff, who have an opportunity to share creative perspectives of their work.
The University of Rhode Island awarded 3,515 undergraduate and graduate degrees upon 3,300 graduates, May 16-18, 2025, in formal ceremonies at the Ryan Center. Congratulations, Class of 2025!
URI’s first botany professor, Lorenzo Kinney Sr., planted the first trees on the Kinney Azalea Gardens property nearly 100 years ago. And today, it’s hard to find a busier venue than Kingston’s Kinney Azalea Gardens.
Welcome to the URI community. This is the place where you will forge lifelong friendships, learn more about yourself and the world, and build the foundation for the rest of your life. If that sounds like a lot, it is.
URI forester Christopher Riely says forests are part of the solution to climate change, and that Rhode Island woodlands offer test sites for researchers and foresters looking to the future.
The URI Theatre Department presents the American classic 'Guys and Dolls,' for the first time on campus, in tandem with celebrating the 75th anniversary of the beloved musical, which premiered on Broadway in 1950.
Siblings Bhavya and Lohith Chatragadda, students in URI's Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program, have been accepted to Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School.
From underwater robotics to health care, artificial intelligence to fuel explosion science, superconductors to fish cameras, the third annual URI Day at the State House showcased the breadth of URI's reach and impact.
Three Rosaforte Scholars in the University of Rhode Island undergraduate Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program find that lab work can lead to a range of personal—as well as scientific—discoveries.
Patrick Raczkowski, a senior in the College of Engineering, has always been fascinated by engineering—and everything about cars. His dream: to work for BMW, one of the world's leading automobile manufacturers.
These URI researchers say clean water is possible the world over. They are using and studying diverse technologies, from the simplest to the most advanced. They say changing the way we think about water is key.
With a minor in sustainability, Ava Stanley ’25, a textiles, fashion merchandising and design major and a Verrecchia Scholar, wants the fashion industry to be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
