{"id":109092,"date":"2026-05-22T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=109092"},"modified":"2026-05-27T14:27:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:27:43","slug":"gallery-congratulations-class-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2026\/05\/gallery-congratulations-class-of-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"GALLERY: Celebrating URI’s Class of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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URI celebrates Class of 2026<\/h2>

University officials, honorary degree recipients, and student speakers shared advice with URI’s Class of 2026 as friends and family cheered them on May 15-17 at the Ryan Center.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

congratulations graduates<\/div><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n

KINGSTON, R.I\u2014May 22, 2026\u2014Congratulations to the University of Rhode Island\u2019s newest alumni!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between May 15-17, more than 40,000 members of the Rhody community gathered on URI\u2019s Kingston Campus to celebrate the Class of 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the course of the weekend, URI undergraduate and graduate students \u2014 along with friends and family\u2014came together to mark the University of Rhode Island\u2019s 2026 Commencement and honor the achievements of our graduates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s a look back at the weekend in pictures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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KINGSTON, R.I\u2014May 22, 2026\u2014Congratulations to the University of Rhode Island\u2019s newest alumni! Between May 15-17, more than 40,000 members of the Rhody community gathered on URI\u2019s Kingston Campus to celebrate the Class of 2026. Over the course of the weekend, URI undergraduate and graduate students \u2014 along with friends and family\u2014came together to mark the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":109096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12,88,30,25,4,56,41,5,127,1912],"class_list":["post-109092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","tag-college-of-arts-and-sciences","tag-college-of-business","tag-college-of-education","tag-college-of-engineering","tag-college-of-health-sciences","tag-college-of-nursing","tag-college-of-pharmacy","tag-college-of-the-environment-and-life-sciences","tag-graduate-school-of-oceanography","tag-special-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109092"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109203,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109092\/revisions\/109203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}