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Southern RI family receives nine URI degrees in one weekend - Honors Student Alex Jedson and his family graduated with nine degrees in spring 2025 as featured in independentri.com
Commencement 2025: Former carpenter has built a bright future based on the past - English major and Honors student Kyle Gunning is headed to Cornell to pursue his Ph.D.
Commencement 2025: Student speakers named for college graduation ceremonies - two Honors students are named commencement speakers. Lauren Peckham and Joceline Rodrigues. 
‘Vibrance/Essence(n)’ art exhibition showcases women artists
Providence’s Betty Hasse is riding for another national championship - URI Junior Betty Hasse, majoring in mechanical engineering AND a student in the Honors Program, won back-to-back under-23 time trial gold medals at the USA Cycling national championships.
Lina Altaan Al Hariri Gives Voice to Rhode Island Syrian Refugees - Lina Altaan Al Hariri is a triple major at URI graduating this spring (gender and women’s studies / global language and area studies - Arabic / political science). She did her senior project on the resettlement of Syrian refugees here in Rhode Island, a story of resilience and progress. Lina joins Bill Bartholomew to discuss her work.
Tradition, craft, and culture - Caleb Gross ’23 graduated in December with a major in English (creative writing) and a minor in Italian. He also completed the URI Honors Program.- Senior animal science, pre-vet student helps make Stop the Bleed program more available on campus - Emily Lefebre, an honors student and senior animal science major on the pre-vet track from Salem, New Hampshire made the Stop the Bleed program subject of her honors project.
URI student researcher’s project looking at whether food supplement may improve neurological health in sheep - Honors Program Student, Maya Galeano, researches impact of beta glucan on cognitive behavior in lambs.
6 QUESTIONS WITH UNICEF AMBASSADOR ARIA MIA LOBERTI - Advocate, actress, Honors Student and Fulbright Scholar Aria Mia Loberti has earned a new title: UNICEF Ambassador. 
Six URI sophomores awarded 2024 NOAA Hollings Scholarships - Two honors students, Mary Brantley and Nicole Kobasa, are among the recipients of the nationally competitive National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship for 2024. The award is the most prestigious scholarship granted to undergraduates in the marine and atmospheric sciences.- The Future of Textiles in Rhode Island - The University of Rhode Island will host its first “Future Textiles Forum” on Monday, April 22, with the participation of URI students and faculty from across the University, from diverse programs — textiles and engineering — as well as members of the Rhode Island Textile Innovation Network (RITIN) and other textile industry partners, and representatives from U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s office.
- Kimball Foundation establishes scholarship for URI Honors Program - The Horace A. and S. Ella Kimball Foundation recently made a $100,000 gift to the University of Rhode Island to establish the Thomas F. Black Jr. Scholarship to support a junior in the URI Honors Program who takes an interest in the nonprofit sector.
River Stories - Professor Heather Johnson’s HPR 412 students examine rivers through history, culture, literature, and ecology. And they gain firsthand knowledge of rivers by going straight to the source.
2024 Honors Colloquium to examine ‘Democracy in Peril’ - Brian Krueger, Ashlea Rundlett, Marc Hutchison and Elizabeth Mendenhall will lead this year’s 2024 Honors Colloquium, URI’s premier public lecture series, examining ‘Democracy in Peril.’ The free annual educational forum brings experts to the University annually to examine issues of national and local relevance; the series will open in September.
Inaugural Faculty Fellows announced in 401 Tech Bridge program promoting innovation and entrepreneurship across campus - Cynthia Taylor, an instructor in the Honors Program, joins the first cohort of RISE-UP Innovation & Entrepreneurship Faculty Fellows at URI announced by 401 Tech Bridge.- Fall Commencement 2023: honors student navigates URI - Gross, who graduated with a major in English (creative writing) and a minor in Italian and also completed the URI Honors Program, discusses his path to graduation in Fall 2023.
New directions for URI Honors Program - New ‘Planet Honors’ class at URI is first stop for changemakers in University’s revamping Honors Program- URI Students Display Hundreds of Plastic Bottles on Quad to Support Bottle Bill - Students in Prof. Heather Johnon’s HPR 411 River Stories course spent last Thursday on the quad with a goal of bringing awareness to an important issue – the amount of plastics polluting our local waterways.
New Honors Course Demonstrates Design Thinking and Leads Students to Propose Creative Solutions to Global Challenges - HPR 124: Welcome to Planet Honors is a new course being offered to Honors students with a goal of acclimating them to life at URI as an Honors Student, and helping bring their awareness to local manifestations of global issues here on campus.
URI College of Pharmacy wins national grant to improve access to opioid use disorder medications - URI College of Pharmacy Clinical Professor Jeffrey Bratberg, who taught the Honors section of PHP 336G Exploring Interdisciplinary Healthcare Solutions for Opioid Use Disorder this fall, has secured a $455,000 grant to continue the college's fight against the opioid epidemic.
French consul general visits URI to recognize faculty, France-URI connections - Mustafa Soykurt, consul general of France in Boston, celebrated two URI faculty members, including Honors Director Karen de Bruin, after they were named chevaliers in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government (French for “knight” in the “Order of Academic Palms”) for their work in the U.S. and abroad.- Doctoral student conducts mindfulness study using wearable technology - Marissa DeCollibus, a URI and Honors Alumna and doctoral candidate in the Penn State College of Education, is researching how mindfulness practices, aided by wearable technology, can help support students from groups historically underrepresented in STEM transition to college.
Honors Colloquium lecture to address ‘Leading Business, Serving Society’ on Dec. 5 - Final lecture in University’s fall colloquium on the use of business tools and thinking to benefit society.- Aria Mia Loberti talks about starring in ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ - URI Honors alumna on being an acting newcomer, authentic casting and her future
United Way’s Lanre Ajakaiye ’95 to discuss Black ambition, inclusive community development - Alumnus featured in URI Honors Colloquium ‘Not Business As Usual: Business for the Common Good’- A Slovak-Hungarian Alliance? - Honors Alum and Fulbright Alum Jay Rumas '21 shares the outcome of his Fulbright experience on the German Marshall Fund website.
- Amy Hall of Eileen Fisher to discuss ‘sustainable’ business: Is it possible? - Part of URI Honors Colloquium ‘Not Business As Usual: Business for the Common Good’
- Management scholar Ana Maria Peredo to discuss Indigenous community-based organizing - Part of URI Honors Colloquium ‘Not Business As Usual: Business for the Common Good’
Atypical art installation showcases URI honors students of today - First ‘Faces of Honors’ revealed in Lippitt Hall
- Marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols to discuss climate change and life below water at URI fall Honors Colloquium - Water warrior promotes the ‘blue mind’ life
- Honors Program enlists alumna artist AGonza for collaborative art installation showing URI honors students of today - ‘Faces of Honors’ opening to take place Oct. 18 in Lippitt Hall
- Underwater street view pioneer and sustainable data guru to lead forum at URI fall Honors Colloquium Oct. 3 - Panel discussion on ‘the good life’ and purpose-driven work
- Collective economies expert to discuss ‘Community Economies: Organizing for the Common Good’ Sept. 26 - Part of URI’s fall Honors Colloquium
- First Honors Colloquium lecture to address ‘Corporate Power, Business, and the Common Good’ on Sept. 19
50 climate leaders driving fresh solutions to our planet’s biggest problems - Alumna Vanessa Garcia Polanco '16 recognized by the Grist as a climate leader for "Fighting for young farmers and showing them how to get a seat at the table"- ‘Not Business as Usual: Business for the Common Good’ is URI’s Fall 2023 Honors Colloquium - University’s premier public lecture series marks centennial of College of Business, colloquium’s 60th anniversary
- Junior Revaa Goyal joins URI Board of Trustees - Honors student Reva Goyal will bring care for community and a global perspective to her new campus role.
- URI’s Karen de Bruin named chevalier of the Order of the Academic Palms - URI Professor of Languages Karen de Bruin of Middletown, director of the University of Rhode Island Honors Program, has been named a chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes académiques (French for “knight” in the “Order of Academic Palms”).
- Three URI students and one recent graduate awarded research fellowships from National Science Foundation - Honors student and chemistry major Hailey Hendricks has been awarded a prestigious fellowship through the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships Program.
URI Faculty, Staff Honored with 2023 Excellence Awards - Kathleen Maher, director, Office of National Fellowships and Academic Opportunities and Assistant Director of the Honors Program, received the Administrative Excellence Award.- Commencement 2023: URI senior heads to Princeton for Ph.D. with help from National Science Foundation - Honors student and Chemistry major Hailey Hendricks won a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, which will pay for three years of her Ph.D. study at Princeton
- 21 URI community members named Demers Fellows to study foreign languages overseas - Several honors program students and one faculty member named amongst 2023 Demers Fellows.
- URI pharmacy professor plays key role in national association’s recommendations to decriminalize personal drug possession - Clinical Professor and Honors Faculty member Jeffrey Bratberg helps write American Pharmacists Association new policy statements on substance use
- URI experts team up with regional partners to determine best practices to control ticks – with your help - Honors Faculty Member, Tom Mather, partners with regional experts to clear up misconceptions about tick control.
URI junior Lina Al Taan Al Hariri wins Truman Scholarship for R.I. - Cranston resident fled Syria when she was 11, now dedicated to public service career in defense of displaced populations
The green city: URI team wins $970,000 grant to map alternative urban food networks - John Taylor, one of the coordinators for the 2022 Honors Colloquium "Just Good Food", and colleagues hope to identify opportunities for policymaking support- Thupten Tendhar recognized for peace work at URI - Highly regarded honors faculty member hopes to welcome more peace practitioners to campus this summer for the return of in-person International Nonviolence Summer Institute.
- Lights, camera, URI in action: Students experience film up close across the state - This winter, URI Honors students took their cinematic studies off screen and across the state, as part of a whirlwind winter honors course, “Experiencing Film in Rhode Island."
URI research team launches world’s largest global human rights dataset - Featuring the work of Honors Student Lina Al Taan Al Hariri who is a member of the CIRIGHTS team.
Food justice activist Leah Penniman to speak on racism and sovereignty in the food system at URI Dec. 6 - Penniman will present virtually at the 2022 University of Rhode Island Honors Colloquium on “Uprooting Racism and Seeding Sovereignty in the Food System.”- Mother Jones correspondent to speak on agriculture in crisis at URI Nov. 29 - Part of University’s fall Honors Colloquium
- ‘Urban Farming, Community Organizing and Family: A Black Chef’s Journey’ at URI Nov. 15 - Part of University’s fall Honors Colloquium
- Chef of ‘best new restaurant in the U.S.’ to discuss ‘The (R)evolution of Indigenous Food Systems of North America’ Oct. 4 - Part of URI’s fall Honors Colloquium
- Native American activist to discuss “Restoring Indigenous Foodways in a Time of Climate Change” Sept. 13: Winona LaDuke lecture kicks off URI’s fall Honors Colloquium - Harvard-educated economist, environmental activist, author, hemp farmer, and former two-time Green Party vice presidential candidate Winona LaDuke will kick off the 2022 University of Rhode Island Honors Colloquium Tuesday, Sept. 13 with “Restoring Indigenous Foodways in a Time of Climate Change: Lessons for the 8th Fire.”
- ‘Just Good Food’ is topic of URI’s fall Honors Colloquium - Speakers to address equitable, sustainable and resilient food systems
