Check out the innovative work that URI students, faculty, staff, alumni, and industry partners are doing and the impact it’s making.

Headlines

• Two URI student teams take top spots at HealthHacks RI - University of Rhode Island teams captured the top two spots in the annual HealthHacks RI competition.
• URI opens first artificial intelligence lab housed in a university library - Technological wonders were on display at the opening of URI’s Artificial Intelligence Lab, a cross-disciplinary facility open to students, faculty, staff, and the Rhode Island community.

URI Innovations

Digital Dog Nose

Professor Otto Gregory's “Digital Dog Nose” soon be placed at subway stations, train stations, airports, and ports to detect bombs.

Sniffing Out Danger

Syrup Science

When you hear “maple syrup,” you think pancakes. But for these faculty, the focus is on maple syrup's health benefits.

Impede Inflammation

Early Intervention

For students struggling in Bryan Dewsbury’s first-year biology classes, the intervention starts before class is over.

Teaching to Inspire

Fluid Dynamics

A Graduate School of Oceanography student is using more than 150 gallons of corn syrup to study Earth’s evolution.

Let's Get Geophysical

Questions? Contact URI’s Academic Innovations Group uri_innovations@etal.uri.edu.