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Redefining Ecology: Madison Jones on Understanding Rhetorical Ecologies March 28, 2025 - Madison Jones, assistant professor of professional and public writing and natural resources science, is helping both students and scholars shift the ways that we approach writing and rhetoric, specifically in the context of environmental advocacy. He and co-editor Sid Dobrin’s recent book "Rhetorical Ecologies" dives into the history behind, and contemporary work that employs, ecology as a term and concept within writing and rhetoric. 
Agriculture and Food Systems Fellow Spotlight: Rowan Valle March 27, 2025 - Rowan Valle completed an Agriculture and Food Systems Fellows Program through URI's Cooperative Extension. He gathered GIS data, recruited participants and conducted interviews, translated documents from English to Spanish, and conducted comprehensive site inventories of urban gardens. 
Tuition break: URI’s Environmental and Natural Resource Economics program now eligible for regional tuition rates March 26, 2025 - Students from across New England interested in environmental economics can now attend URI at regional tuition rates. URI's ENRE undergraduate major blends economic principles and environmental sciences to help students understand complex environmental issues and their economic implications.
Agricultural and Food Systems Fellow Spotlight: Hallie Grace Brown March 24, 2025 - Hallie Grace Brown completed the Agriculture and Food Systems Fellows Program through URI's Cooperative Extension. An animal science major and biology minor, she worked with RI Division of Environmental Management's Division of Agriculture to promote public health and safe local farming practices. 
Energy Fellow Spotlight: Atticus Makuch ’24 March 22, 2025 - Atticus Makuch '24 completed the Energy Fellows Program through URI's Cooperative Extension. Working with the energy efficiency policy and strategy team at Rhode Island Energy, he played a key role in helping the team understand and address the needs of diverse communities across Rhode Island.
Laura Eme, Associate Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology, on Exploring Evolutionary Biology with Bioinformatics March 19, 2025 - New associate professor of cell and molecular biology, Laura Eme, uses bioinformatics to study the evolutionary history and diversity of microbial life.
Camera trap images from URI’s North Woods survey contribute to nationwide research project March 17, 2025 - Since 2019, researchers in the Department of Natural Resources Science have captured camera trap data as part of the Smithsonian’s Snapshot USA
What’s the buzz? Student research on cranberry pollinators takes second in competitions March 12, 2025 - Ren Johnson and Abigail Gill, both in URI’s College of the Environment and Life Sciences, were recently awarded second place by Arizona’s Entomological Society of America and the URI Undergraduate Symposium.