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Raise your Game

Club sports are big here. More than 650 Rhody club athletes work and play hard, striving for excellence just like their Division 1 varsity counterparts.

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Raymond M. Wright

Engineers change the world. No one knows that better than Dean of Engineering Raymond Wright, driving force behind URI’s new engineering complex.

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Health Hack-a-Thon

“Brainstorming” is not a strong enough word to describe the intense activity that defined HealthHacks RI, a health and wellness hack-a-thon.

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Caroline Amelse ’17

Caroline Amelse never thought that one day she’d be presenting her research at the largest gathering of geologists in the world.

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Engineer Health Care Breakthroughs

“URI’s College of Engineering is pioneering new medical devices that will change the way people receive medical care.’’

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Maya Vadiveloo

Carrying extra pounds can be unhealthy. A URI professor has found that how society treats overweight people makes matters worse.

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Project Pumpkin

"The farm is our classroom. We don’t sit in a lecture hall. And this isn’t a make-work assignment. It’s real research.”

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Betty Rambur

Betty Rambur has worked to reform health care payment systems and address disparities in quality and access across diverse populations.

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Join the Next Industrial Revolution.

Geoff Bothun has a great interest in workforce development for the nanotechnology industry, which is expected to grow to $3 trillion by 2020.

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Jessica Goren

Jessica Goren's research is on improving medication treatments for patients with severe mental illness, who often do not receive evidence-based medical care.

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Preparing Rhode Island for the Jobs of the Future

URI's College of Engineering has long played a critical role in the state’s economic development—the impact is impressive well beyond our borders.

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Tag Team

Senior Kevin Anderson couldn’t have been happier to be participating in two days of field work for a shark research project.

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Robert Barella ’14

Robert Barella wants to bring Boston's Northern Avenue Bridge back to life—turning it into a park with live performances and floating islands.

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Hannah Morini ’09

Hannah Morini was an Energy Fellow at URI, and since that time her focus has been on bringing wind energy to the Ocean State.

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Great Chemistry

"Chemistry is the building block and the bedrock for the health sciences, biotechnology, energy, pharmacy, nursing, and high technology."

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2016 Honors Colloquium

"Inequality and the American Dream" is the focus of URI's Honors Colloquium, a lecture series that invites big thinkers from many fields to campus.

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Arielle DeSouza ’16

“Living in France was the best year of my life. You can’t fully understand yourself as a person until you’ve experienced another culture."

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Our Floating Classroom

For 40 years, URI scientists and students have traveled the world’s oceans aboard the R/V Endeavor, the 185-foot research ship based at our Bay Campus.

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