URI's one-of-a-kind, internationally known Inner Space Center offers live ocean exploration via telepresence technology.
URI Service Corps, a student-run, student-financed organization, plans Alternative Spring Break volunteer trips that focus on communities in need.
Her goal: to do research for government agencies and nonprofits involved in recovery after disasters. The recently selected Fulbright Scholar is on her way.
From Brussels to Paris, Ferguson to the Middle East, CBS News correspondent Vladimir Duthiers ’91 is there, giving voice to the voiceless.
During his year in Chile as an IEP student, Michael Logar traveled to the famous Grey Glacier in the southern Patagonian Ice Field.
Nonviolence is fierce, says Mecca Smith ’13, an expert in Kingian nonviolence whose practitioners look beyond the violent incident to find the root cause.
A URI professor is on the research team that has discovered an active volcano heat source under Antarctica's fastest-moving—and melting—glacier.
When Breezy Grenier '17 graduated with a B.S. in geology and geological oceanography, she found herself with an overqualification quandary.
Endurance under pressure, says Mick McDermott '96, is key not only for athletes engaged in world-class competition, but also their coaches.
On close inspection, philosophy and comedy are the odd couple: seeming opposites who, really, have the important stuff in common.
Richard J. Harrington ’73 and his wife Jean made a $3 million commitment to the eponymous Harrington School of Communication and Media.
Biomedical engineering grad is off to the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program to study space flight's effects on the human body.
When Fulbright Scholarship winner Jenna Ziegelmayer ’18 heard Spanish for the first time, it was as if a spell had been cast.
You’ve been bitten by a tick or find one on your clothes or pet. Your anxiety quickly builds as you wonder, “Is this a deer tick? Will I get Lyme disease?”
When he did sleep, Christopher Parisella’s dreams and nightmares were variations on the same theme: the Boren Scholarship.
Empathy is important to Ellis Iacono '18, a biology and journalism major with an eye toward a career in medicine and 2018 Commencement student speaker.
To hear James King ’06 tell of how he came to work for Madeleine Albright brings to mind that J.R.R. Tolkien line: “Not all those who wander are lost.”
When the Tenderloin Opera Company performs, it is not so much a matter of art imitating life, as it is art illuminating life on the margins.
