Features

Shayla Minteer ’15

Business and medical lab science major Shayla Minteer—a junior—has already been accepted Brown University’s Warren Alpert School of Medicine.

Marine Science Research

We never have to choose between the expense of conducting research at sea, and the complexities of replicating ocean conditions in a laboratory.

Leslie Mahler

About 20 people living with Parkinson’s disease meet with Leslie Mahler in a weekly clinical support group that they've dubbed The Loud Crowd.

Put Languages to Work

URI combines languages with other disciplines to strengthen our students' career opportunities with global companies at home and abroad.

Walt Besio

Professor Walt Besio invented and patented an electrode that can translate thoughts into electrical impulses to be read by a computer.

Discover what babies can teach.

Lisa Weyandt

Impulsive behavior, restlessness, and the inability to sustain attention describe the 3 to 7 percent of this country's school-age population diagnosed with ADHD.

Nasser Zawia

Today in America, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease every 68 seconds, and it’s the only leading cause of death with no cure, no preventative measure, and no treatment to slow it down. URI Pharmacy Professor Nasser Zawia is working to change that. Studying Alzheimer’s disease in mice, rats and monkeys, he’s already made major discoveries […]

Unravel the mysteries of the brain

Change the shape of ships to come.

Karina Edmonds '92

Technology always captured Karina Edmonds’ imagination. As a child leaving the Dominican Republic headed for the United States, she boarded the plane and asked herself, “how can this big chunk of metal stay in the air?” So it seems only fitting that she is flying high in the technology transfer world. Edmonds was named the […]

Fight the fever.

Cassie Catlow

For junior Cassie Catlow, ice hockey is more than a sport – it’s a way of life. “I started skating when I was 9 years old. I basically grew up at URI’s Boss Arena,” she said. And when she couldn’t find opportunities to be on a girls’ team, she improvised. “I played on boys’ hockey […]

Engineer Italian style.

Holly Dunsworth

Professor Holly Dunsworth is a biological anthropologist who looks to fossil, anatomical, and metabolic evidence to reconstruct ape and human evolution, and she’s changing what the world knows about evolution – and human pregnancy. Her early research on the feet of fossil apes led her to examine the evolution of bipedalism – or upright walking […]

Alison Cleary

Antarctica is a land of extreme temperatures, sheer mountains, stunning scenery, and amazing wildlife. It’s also a place that Alison Cleary can’t get enough of. She crossed the Southern Ocean to Antarctica for the second time last spring as part of a team of researchers from the Graduate School of Oceanography studying what and where […]