URI was especially proud last fall when Campus Pride gave us a five-star rating for our LGBT-friendly policies, programs, and practices.
URI fans aren't the only ones who know Tayra Melendez has got game. Last summer, she played on Puerto Rico's national team.
She's made many discoveries in her 30 years in the biotechnology industry—discoveries that have helped to extend the lives of millions.
Our Feinstein Center for a Hunger-Free America helps students learn about hunger and food insecurity issues —and to do something about them.
This year’s devastating Ebola epidemic got everyone’s attention. But global health and infectious diseases have been a focus at URI for a long time.
Visual artist, professor, and director of the Center for the Humanities Annu Palakunnathu Matthew see herself as “living between cultures.”
When he received unsolicited emails from Google, and later from a Microsoft recruiter, asking him to interview for a job, he was stunned.
After a week aboard the research ship Endeavor, Jillon McGreal said the experience of taking a marine biology on the ship was “amazing and rare.”
Some of us dress for comfort and others for style. But what would it be like to dress for a visit to Mars? Ask Karl Aspelund about it.
Jef Bratberg—expert at responding to bioterrorism, natural disasters, and infectious diseases—works in the trenches of public health.
Thanks to J Term, many students earn extra credits while they experience another culture, explore a new subject, or engage in a service project.
Tom Cerio knows what entertains us. He knows the programs we like to watch on TV, and he makes the deals that deliver those programs to us.
Paula Kleniewski loves golf, and as a doctor of physical therapy student she found a way to make her favorite sport part of her studies.
URI faculty research on local animal populations provides students with unique opportunities to study species—from black bears to bobcats.
Last summer, Rosaria Pisa guided her students through Italy to study sustainable agriculture and the international “Slow Food” movement.
Genesis Santos is an orientation leader, a mentor, a peer educator. But there's no doubt about her favorite role: She loves being a student.
He's always been intrigued by World War II. Now his nonprofit, The World War II Foundation, honors its veterans' stories of courage and sacrifice.
The award-winning theatre department has gifted actors, devoted professors, plenty of hands-on experiences—even a course on stage combat.
