Spring 2026

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Small Change. Big Impact.

A student-led effort diverts food waste from the landfill and changes habits.

Dig In
Common Eastern Bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) on seaside goldenrod (Solidago sempervirens) with faint white clouds in the blue sky, golden sunlight and summer grasses in the background

Make Your Yard Bee-Friendly

Expert guidance from URI experts on how and why to make your yard a safe and inviting environment for bees and other pollinators.

News Lab student Emily Morgan wearing a magenta top shares her thoughts at a Community News Lab meeting with laptop in front of her and student peers in the background with their laptops. URI photo by Leah Pisari.

Students on the Local Beat

Students and faculty in the URI Community News Lab are helping media outlets report on important local news, while the students gain valuable experience.

URI Alumni Julie Barber, Ralph Riccio, Jay Dimond, and Chris Eardley standing around a plate of freshly shucked oysters, happy and smiling, along the shore in the Pacific Northwest.

Abundant Harvest

How a network of URI alumni is making a difference in restoring, protecting, and sustaining shellfish resources in the Pacific Northwest.

Currents

  • URI President Marc B. Parlange smiles as he sits next to his wife Mary Parlange, also smiling while their dog Lord, a Belgian Malinois, sits between them looking at hte orange ball Mary is holding for him. Lord of Kingston - How a retired explosives detection K-9 from Dubai became the newest resident of the President’s House in Kingston.
  • URI alumni Trystan Levesque ’25 is pictured in his blue baseball cap and yellow Savannah Bananas baseball uniform while holding out a baseball in one hand, with yellow and teal baseball glove on the other. Play Ball! Banana Ball, That Is. - Trystan Levesque ’25 stood out on the mound at URI. Now he’s doing handstands as a pitcher for the Savannah Bananas.
  • Portrait of Milly de la Cruz, Assistant Director Professional and Executive Business Education at URI, who is wearing a navy blue suit and black top against a charcoal gray background. Meet Milly De La Cruz - College of Business administrator Milly De La Cruz on her role at URI and why she chose to work in higher education.

Aperture

Comet Over Taft Hall

Inspiring Awe
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Network

Scarborough Beach, Narragansett, R.I., by Evan Pagano ’15, M.B.A. ’19

  • Detail of an 1838 64 x 90-½ inch mural by Rufus Porter and Stephen Twombly Porter. It depicts blue sky with puffy white clouds on the horizon with rolling green hills and farmland around houses and pine trees atop the hill. Other trees and ferns are shown in the foreground and much large for a dramatic foreshortening effect. Stay Open to Discoveries - As an undergraduate, Julie Kellogg Lindberg ’62 had little interest in art, but in midlife, it became her passion.
  • Four monks in red robes kneel in prayer before a large golden Buddha statue inside an ornate temple, framed by intricately carved gold architecture and a patterned red backdrop. Scenic Route - "Buddhist Catechism" by Jorge Serpa ’83, M.S. ’86.

Caption This

A black and white URI yearbook photo from 1985 shows URI students looking on as other students push a Volkswagen Bug.

Caption Contest, Spring 2026

Do you have a funny idea for a caption for this photo from a vintage URI yearbook?

Submit your caption by June 1, 2026.

ENter your caption
A vintage black-and-white photograph showing four boys and one adult man posing outdoors beside a tree. The boys wear early-20th-century clothing, including jackets, knickerbockers or short pants, caps, and large bow ties. Some hold small wooden mallets or props. The adult man on the right wears a suit, tie, and hat, and rests one arm casually on the tree while smiling toward the camera.

Winning Captions, Fall 2025

“URI Class of 1940: Majoring in chemistry, minoring in buffoonery.”
—Patrick Murray Koleszar ’15

“URI physics professor Adam Splitter (right) computed the half-life of the new fashion craze—short pants and a wide, garish, fluffy bow tie—at 48 minutes.”
—Al Larson ’77

Fall 2025 winning captions

Pictured

URI alumni Trystan Levesque ’25 is seen on the pitcher's mound after throwing a pitch during a Savannah Bananas baseball game. His teammates are behind him in the distance on the baseball field.

Totally Bananas!

Standout URI pitcher Trystan Levesque ’25 is representing Rhody and putting smiles on fans’ faces with the Savannah Bananas. Read the full story: “Play Ball! Banana Ball, That Is.”