URI’s 2018 Honors Colloquium, “Reimagining Gender: Voices, Power, Action,” runs Sept. 25-Dec. 4, and features lectures, art exhibits, a theater production, and a film series.
To anticipate the needs of future female explorers, Professor Karl Aspelund and his student design team have taken a cue from the 16th century.
Hurricane models being developed at GSO will make forecasting hurricanes in New England more precise and offer real-time updates.
The average young adult needs nearly nine hours of sleep per night to ensure well-being. The average college student gets six-and-a-half.
Advice to first-year students from their RAs: Don't be afraid to lean on someone for help. Get involved. Reach out. Say hi to the person next to you.
Taylor Ross '18 credits soccer with everything. "It's given me my business. It's taught me teamwork and accountability and balance."
Want better grades? Experts say, ditch the phone.
Juniper berries always fascinated Charlie Scott, mistaking them for food as a child. “I learned the hard way that they weren’t."
Not so long ago a woman’s preference for pants over a skirt was viewed as a political act—and we're not just talking about the suffragettes.
Engaging in the larger world is part of the URI experience, and these journeys give those who travel for study or research new ways to see the world.
A partnership between URI and Indonesia features faculty-led classes abroad, numerous research projects. A dual degree program is in the works.
For Marisa O’Gara, a quiet kid who studied state capitals for fun, her hometown's pastoral setting and homogeneity chafed.
Megan Lubetkin '19 used a time-lapse camera mounted on a remote-operated undersea vehicle to take this image of a rare jellyfish last fall.
Graduate School of Oceanography selected to operate a new oceanographic research ship, one of only three such vessels in the nation.
Affirming URI’s leadership in oceanography, the NSF awards a new ocean research vessel to the East Coast Oceanographic Consortium, led by URI.
Hollie Putnam wants to understand why—in the face of climate change—some corals seem to persist while others die.
The inaugural URI Research and Scholarship Photo Contest drew close to 300 entries from URI students, faculty, researchers and staff.
It's hard to imagine cramming much more into a career than Briana "Breezy" Grenier '17. Next, she'll be part of the all-female eXXpedition Round the World.
