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URI-based Global RIghts Project report spotlights continued troubling trends in worldwide inhumane treatment - Third annual study notes digital oppression by countries, atrocities reaching record levels.
URI Coastal Institute announces 2025 Emerging Coastal Leaders - Expanded awards program recognizes graduate leaders focused on natural sciences, social sciences, policy, economics, and communications.
Refining the solitary confinement reform debate - URI criminology and criminal justice chair Natalie Pifer, fellow researchers publish study on solitary confinement and its impact. 
URI chemistry professor receives National Science Foundation grant for nanotechnology study - The three-year, $464,964 award to Jason Dwyer allows for research into how nanopores can potentially improve ability to detect serious medical conditions.
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Faculty Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity Spotlight
URI Gravity Research group contributes to major black hole discovery, expands astrophysics program - The work of physics faculty Rob Coyne, Michael Pürrer, Deborah Ferguson, and Derek Davis aims to increase student participation and engagement.
URI professor part of a select group of French educators to visit Côte d’Ivoire thanks to a Fulbright-Hays grant - Lars Erickson, the director of the French International Engineering Program at the University of Rhode Island, participated in the research over the summer.
“The Unremembered” art installation by URI’s Annu Matthew displayed in Tagliacozzo, Italy along with national and international talks - Current exhibition: Aug 3 - September 21, 2025 Contemporanea ’25
Archives of Suspended Memory, Palazzo Ducale, Abruzzo, Italy
Beloved URI community member’s legacy lives on - Inaugural Earl N. Smith III Cabo Verde Study Abroad Program combines scholarship and social awareness.
Associate Professor Karen Sweeting Receives National Social Justice Curriculum Award by Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA) - The Social Justice Curriculum Award recognizes innovative curricula in public service education that promote social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion.