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Our students are central to this work. Guided by faculty mentors, they’re expanding access to clean water in rural communities, creating advanced sensors for robotic systems, and engineering biomedical technologies to detect and treat disease. URI engineers intern and perform research around the globe, collaborating on sustainable energy projects, innovating fuel-efficient transportation, and tackling challenges that transcend borders.
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2025 Hollings Scholar completes summer internship - KINGSTON, R.I. – Aug. 17, 2026 – Eleni Mouyos, of Windham, New Hampshire, has just completed a summer internship at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The internship was possible through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship program, a prestigious, nationally competitive award for students interested in the […]
URI engineering professors’ startup team joined semiconductor giant AMD - A guiding principle of the University of Rhode Island’s College of Engineering is tracing a line directly from academia to real-world application. Last month that connection was made even stronger.
Studying close to home helped this student go far - Ayomide Olagundoye is a Ryan Scholar majoring in biomedical engineering and Spanish as a part of the IEP. She just returned from Guatemala, where she took part in a program that featured two months of full immersion in culture and healthcare. 
Being involved and finding community became invaluable for mechanical engineering student - KINGSTON, R.I. – Aug. 7, 2026 – During his junior year of high school, Piero Navarro took a tour of the University of Rhode Island that would lead him to apply and attend as a student. He enrolled in the College of Engineering as a mechanical engineering major with minors in mathematics and physics. “What […]
