At the College of Arts and Sciences, we invite you to discover your place in the world.
URI offers you choices that give you a competitive edge in the global marketplace. You can double major, add minors, choose an international focus, and acquire cross-disciplinary knowledge and experiences. Our programs include disciplines in the arts and design, communications and media, humanities, natural sciences and math, and social sciences. Whatever you choose, we’ll prepare you to succeed in a way that is as unique as you are. Our goal is to prepare you to become a well-informed global citizen with the knowledge, flexibility, and skills required to flourish in a rapidly evolving world.
News & Spotlights
URI’s Fall 2026 Honors Colloquium will go on an ‘Interstellar Exploration’ - Public lecture series kicks off Sept. 15 with former NASA Marshall Space Center chief technologist Les Johnson examining realistic interstellar travel.
From Harvard to URI: Professor Michelangelo La Luna Publishes Landmark Study of a Medieval Dante Manuscript - LaLuna publishes the first modern scholarly edition of one of the earliest vernacular commentaries on the "Divine Comedy."
Mathematics professor Irma Stevens secures National Science Foundation Career Award - Stevens will spend the next five years using the grant to support her latest research project on variable literacy in mathematics.
Studying close to home helped this student go far - Biomedical engineering and Spanish, with a minor in mathematics, through URI’s International Engineering Program.
Catherine John publishes Afroindigenization: A Theory of Grassroots Cultural Practice - The book is a follow up to her 2003 publication, Clear Word and Third Sight: Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing, published by Duke University Press and The University Press of the West Indies.
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