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Agricultural and Food Systems Fellow Spotlight: Hallie Grace Brown March 24, 2025 - Hallie Grace Brown completed the Agriculture and Food Systems Fellows Program through URI's Cooperative Extension. An animal science major and biology minor, she worked with RI Division of Environmental Management's Division of Agriculture to promote public health and safe local farming practices. 
Energy Fellow Spotlight: Atticus Makuch ’24 March 22, 2025 - Atticus Makuch '24 completed the Energy Fellows Program through URI's Cooperative Extension. Working with the energy efficiency policy and strategy team at Rhode Island Energy, he played a key role in helping the team understand and address the needs of diverse communities across Rhode Island.
Laura Eme, Associate Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology, on Exploring Evolutionary Biology with Bioinformatics March 19, 2025 - New associate professor of cell and molecular biology, Laura Eme, uses bioinformatics to study the evolutionary history and diversity of microbial life.
Camera trap images from URI’s North Woods survey contribute to nationwide research project March 17, 2025 - Since 2019, researchers in the Department of Natural Resources Science have captured camera trap data as part of the Smithsonian’s Snapshot USA
What’s the buzz? Student research on cranberry pollinators takes second in competitions March 12, 2025 - Ren Johnson and Abigail Gill, both in URI’s College of the Environment and Life Sciences, were recently awarded second place by Arizona’s Entomological Society of America and the URI Undergraduate Symposium.
URI STEEP launches 2025 Webinar Series: PFAS on Cape Cod – Connecting Communities with Science for Solutions March 12, 2025 - First webinar on household exposures and community solutions set for March 20
Cooperative Extension’s Watershed Watch seeks volunteers to monitor water bodies March 7, 2025 - Cooperative Extension's Watershed Watch is seeking volunteers to assess the impacts of droughts and wet weather, stormwater runoff, bacteria and algal blooms on surface water quality and contribute to better understanding how climate change is affecting our nearby waters. 
10 Under 10 Awards: Abigail Hasenfus ’20, M.S. ’21 March 7, 2025 - Abigail Hasenfus ’20, M.S. ’21, chief of renewable energy program development for the Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources, was recently honored with a 10 Under 10 Award from URI.