URI researchers are working to diagnose, treat—and ultimately prevent—neurodegenerative diseases, like Alzheimer’s. And they’re investigating the factors that can help keep our brains healthy as we age.
What does it say about our society when a play from 100 years ago about the plight of being a woman holds more relevance in 2024 than we’d like to admit?
Living in a rural area in Alaska, 40 minutes from Fairbanks, landscape architecture major Aisha Malik ’25 often took a 4×4 to school—and quite a few times, a dog sled.
URI's Free Farmers' Market is held on Thursdays, September through the end of October. Market veggies are grown at the Teaching Garden by students in URI's plant sciences program.
URI President Marc Parlange delivered his third annual State of the University address at Edwards Hall on September 25, celebrating a year of “tremendous growth and success for URI.”
On Wed., Sept. 25, 2024, University of Rhode Island President Marc Parlange addresses the URI community to give his annual State of the University address.
URI Honors Program's 61st annual Honors Colloquium, “Democracy in Peril,” explores challenges facing democracy here and abroad and highlights the importance of democratic values and institutions.
A one-credit, transition-to-college and academic planning seminar, URI 101 sets the foundation for a student’s academic life, offering tools, resources, and guidance of instructors and mentors eager to help.
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The Ocean State is no stranger to flooding. But URI scientists are developing tools that are helping Rhode Island cope.
The University of Rhode Island’s own Women's Basketball Coach Tammi Reiss is in Paris this week with the USA Women's National Team as they compete in the 2024 Olympic Games.
Jenna Hetzell ’10 took the skills and discipline she learned as a URI championship rower and winning coach, using them to build Seaworthy, a local coffee roasting brand.
Weigh Hey–and Away We Go! URI's Sea Shanty Social Club is built around camaraderie and a collective love of sea songs, sea stories, and the sea itself. Singing ability is optional.
Rhode Island’s rivers are as important to the state’s history, economy, and identity as the ocean waters they flow into. Long plagued by pollution and neglect, rivers have been the focus of revitalization efforts, and URI has played an important role.
A strongly connected multicultural and multigenerational network, the Cape Verdean Students Association brings a distinctive positive impact to the URI community and beyond.
Entries in the University of Rhode Island’s annual Research and Scholarship Photo Contest include underwater photographs, photos of wildlife, and microscopy images of neurons and muscle tissue.
The University of Rhode Island conferred 4,762 degrees, 3,980 undergraduate and 782 graduate degrees, during three days of celebrations.
The University will honor graduates over three days, May 17-19, in formal ceremonies at the Ryan Center, and will host other celebratory events throughout the weekend.
