Environmental science major Bianca Peixoto has been passionate about sustainability for as long as she can remember.
Geographer Katharine Johnson, now a PhD student at UCONN, has recently published research in the Journal of Archaeological Science.
Andrea Osorio wants to become a college professor and make a difference in her students' lives just like her business professors made in hers.
It’s not often you have a hand in breaking a world record, but that’s what GSO student Justine Sauvage did on her first research ship voyage.
Thanks to President Obama's "100,000 Strong in the Americas" initiative, URI students have even more study or intern abroad opportunities.
For 30 years, Professor Ying Sun has been creating biomedical devices and instruments that make the lives of ill and disabled individuals a little easier.
Alex Couture credits URI for his success at Google, where he just completed a project leading the deployment of their Publisher ad serving platform.
Leah Eccleston fell in love with anthropology after one class. Now she's examining fossils in a research project on reproduction in human ancestors.
The Center for Non-Violence and Peace Studies at URI is spreading the message of peace to hundreds of thousands of people around the world.
Business student Kaan Yarar has already done service work in Africa and South America, and after graduation, he’ll go where the Peace Corps sends him.
Professor Rainer Lohmann is worried about the chemical pollutants that drift into our waterways and travel around the globe in the world’s oceans.
Social media is a way of life for college students—especially for those in Professor Angela Slitt’s “Toxic or Not?” course.
Humans have long pushed the boundaries. We want longer bridges in harsher environments, impenetrable military equipment and lighter aircraft.
Komlan Soe traveled to Uganda last summer, going to rural villages to help women improve the small businesses they’d started years earlier.
Three URI grad students in economics, marine affairs and oceanography are headed to D.C. to work on government policy about the world’s oceans.
Although he has been away from his Tibetan home for most of his life, he considers himself to be among the most fortunate Tibetans on the planet.
Last month, NIH awarded Wei Lu, assistant professor in the College of Pharmacy, a $1.3 million grant to further his study of breast cancer.
With her expertise in drug development, Professor Fatemeh Akhlaghi’s work has the potential to change millions of lives for the better.
