NARRAGANSETT, R.I.\u2013 June 17, 2024 \u2013 University of Rhode Island President Marc Parlange today welcomed U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse to URI’s Narragansett Bay Campus. The two joined to celebrate $3.75 million in federal funding Whitehouse secured to grow URI\u2019s Blue Economy initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cRhode Island\u2019s location, access to talent, and world-class institutions like URI have positioned our state well to be a leader in the Blue Economy,\u201d said Whitehouse, a senior member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. \u201cI secured this federal funding to grow the Blue Economy initiatives at Rhode Island\u2019s flagship university, boost local coastal resiliency efforts, and help keep Rhode Island on the leading edge of ocean economy entrepreneurship and innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whitehouse secured a $1.5 million earmark in FY2022 to support the build out of the Blue Economy initiatives at URI\u2019s Ocean Technology Center in Narragansett. The Senator secured an additional $2.25 million earmark in FY2023 to expand coastal resiliency and blue economy programming at the Center. With this funding, URI will launch a statewide initiative to support Rhode Island\u2019s coastal municipalities through technical assistance, partnership building, and research, as well as train a climate-ready workforce to help position the Ocean State as a global leader in coastal resilience and mitigation efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are grateful for Sen. Whitehouse\u2019s continued support of URI and the Narragansett Bay Campus. With this critical federal funding, URI will enhance our work in the blue economy and coastal resilience through important research and educational programming,\u201d said Marc B. Parlange, President of the University of Rhode Island. \u201cAs the state\u2019s flagship public research university, URI will continue to train a climate-ready workforce, provide resources to local communities, and accelerate the blue economy for the state of Rhode Island.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to being a center of teaching and research, URI\u2019s Narragansett Bay Campus is home to a robust community of academic centers, state and federal agencies, nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations, and private companies. The pathbreaking work happening at the Bay Campus attracts more than $50 million in research grants each year to the University. Improved facilities such as the Ocean Technology Center will continue to attract research funding, top faculty and students, and serve as a hub for the Blue Economy as well as the
creation of new jobs and businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NARRAGANSETT, R.I.\u2013 June 17, 2024 \u2013 University of Rhode Island President Marc Parlange today welcomed U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse to URI’s Narragansett Bay Campus. The two joined to celebrate $3.75 million in federal funding Whitehouse secured to grow URI\u2019s Blue Economy initiatives. \u201cRhode Island\u2019s location, access to talent, and world-class institutions like URI have positioned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":96468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96467","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=96467"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96471,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96467\/revisions\/96471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}