Reconnect with friends and celebrate everything you love about URI! Homecoming—Sept. 19-21—is packed with class celebrations, social events, informative presentations, football, tailgating, and more.
University of Rhode Island President Marc Parlange will deliver his annual State of the University Address on Friday, September 19, at 4 p.m. in Edwards Hall on the Kingston Campus. The event will be live-streamed.
The 2025 Honors Colloquium, Education, Behind the Curtains, explores how history, policy, and innovation shape learning from early childhood through higher education.
Navigating academic and social challenges can be difficult, but URI’s residence hall staff is prepared and eager to support their peers, especially those who are first-year students.
From moving in and finding community to staying active around campus, get all the information you need to kick off the fall semester with our User's Guide.
URI is set to welcome thousands of new and returning students for the start of the 2025-26 academic year. Fall semester classes officially begin at the state’s flagship public research university on Sept. 3.
Learn about a film bringing a mythic local tradition to life, URI's land-grant university mission, the mystery behind Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's famed art heist—and much more.
If you’ve had to find a primary-care provider or pay a medical bill lately, you know that accessing and paying for health care can be difficult. But why? How can we get the care we need?
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.
