The award-winning writer, naturalist, activist, and educator will wrap up the fall schedule of the University of Rhode Island Center for the Humanities’ year-long discussion, “Re-Envisioning Nature: An Environmental Humanities Lecture Series.”

Through the generous support of IGT, the University of Rhode Island’s Department of Computer Science and Statistics is launching a four-year scholarship program aimed at increasing the number of women who major in computer science.

Ferguson’s lecture to focus on tools and techniques needed to capture the human side of global conflict.

LeAnne Spino-Seijas and Yu (Joyce) Wu will receive Research Priorities Grants from ACTFL, a national organization that supports quality teaching and learning of languages at all educational levels.

A total of nearly $15 million in renovations make Ranger Hall a dynamic new home for URI’s Harrington School of Communication and Media.

With the start of a new academic year, the College of Arts and Sciences welcomes a cohort of 12 new tenure track faculty members with research and scholarship interests spanning topics from inorganic chemistry to Latin American art and feminist artistic practices.

This academic year, the University of Rhode Island Center for the Humanities will focus its third annual lecture series on the contributions of environmental humanities scholars – such as environmental historians, literary scholars, writers, and musicians – to highlight the role of the humanities in understanding and addressing some of the most important issues we face.

URI Theatre Professors Rachel Walshe and James Horban have spent much of the summer helping Trinity Repertory Company prepare to bring a mammoth, two-part drama called “The Inheritance” to life.

A gift from Rhode Island PBS to the University of Rhode Island’s Harrington School of Communication and Media will help undergraduate students to pursue independent film projects.

The fall lineup features ‘Polaroid Stories,’ ‘Or,’ ‘By the Way, Meet Vera Stark,’ and ‘Into the Woods.’

Brett Lucht, professor of chemistry at URI, has been named a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) for his pioneering research on the chemistry of lithium-ion batteries.