Dwight Coleman helped to create the Inner Space Center—the brainchild of Professor Robert Ballard— and is the Center's first director.
The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow program allows undergraduate students to work with research faculty and be paid a stipend.
More than 16,000 undergrad and grad students make up the URI community, which includes 3,730 new freshman and transfers.
Robinson “Wally” Fulweiler has devoted much of the past 15 years to studying how our use of nitrogen—in fertilizers, for example—can cause harmful conditions.
The U.S. is having a golden year at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, and business major and pole vaulter Ondrej Honka is taking in all in.
Three years ago, Andrew Burnap was performing Shakespeare at URI. Now he's in NYC with a lead role ln a Shakespeare in the Park production.
These days grad student Kelli Hingerton is on Australia's western coast launching a surf therapy program for children with disabilities.
“I was that kid who would run around with a microscope looking at leaves, playing with spiders, always interested in the way things worked."
When people are hungry they look for food, but what happens to microorganisms in the ocean when they get hungry?
Opportunities to participate in hands-on research with whales, especially whales that live in the Arctic, don’t come up very often.
If you’ve always been captivated by dinosaurs, then you may want to have a chat with geosciences professor David Fastovsky.
Abbey Miklitsch grew up surrounded by nothing but land, and among the reasons she chose URI was its proximity to the water.
Ryan Wichelns plans to change the way longform journalism is delivered to the masses, an ambition matched in scale only by the mountains he's summited.
Trumpet player Manuel Morales has one more year before he graduates, but he's already performed three times at the Newport Jazz Festival.
Beach season is in full swing here in Rhode Island, but it’s always beach season at the University of Rhode Island.
“As a physical therapist, I hope to use my own personal experiences to help others move forward and feel better, both physically and emotionally."
Zachary Caron was working in private industry and eager to work on a project that could thwart terrorism when he met Professor Otto Gregory.
Elizabeth Koller was a tinkerer as a kid, building everything from theater sets to tiny mousetrap cars. In high school, she excelled in math and science.
