Award-winning journalist will visit URI on Oct. 6 to speak about his journey
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Two URI students create ‘Rhode Island Elections Project’ website to educate community on state races
Site provides detailed local election information, including candidate platforms, election donations
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Ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrates grand refurbishment to permanent home of University’s music, arts and theatre departments
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The event will be held on September 18, 2026.
Continue reading "URI Hosts First Computer Science Connect Day"Graduate School of Library and Information Studies Assistant Professor secures an Institute of Museum and Library Sciences award
Jacqueline Kociubuk’s research will better equip library staff to better serve self-care children ages 11-18 and their families.
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Seven-presentation series opens Sept. 24 revolving around nation’s 250th anniversary and history.
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URI study finds Building Futures’ construction training program for incarcerated individuals may be effective in reducing recidivism.
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New grants will help provide scholarships, prepare students to secure artificial intelligence systems.
Continue reading "URI cybersecurity program secures $4.8 million in NSF funding "Africana Studies and English professor awarded 2026 Career Enhancement Fellowship
Janet Kong-Chow, assistant professor, secures a 12-month Citizens & Scholars Career Enhancement Fellowship.
Continue reading "Africana Studies and English professor awarded 2026 Career Enhancement Fellowship"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.
Continue reading "URI’s Fall 2026 Honors Colloquium will go on an ‘Interstellar Exploration’"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.”
Continue reading "From Harvard to URI: Professor Michelangelo La Luna Publishes Landmark Study of a Medieval Dante Manuscript"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.
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Biomedical engineering and Spanish, with a minor in mathematics, through URI’s International Engineering Program.
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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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The History Department professor embarks on a new research project supported by learning and speaking Spanish.
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