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Thank you! Faculty and staff recognized at new URI employee recognition breakfast

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Community members celebrate milestone anniversaries together at special event in Memorial Union.

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URI-led team finds direct evidence of ‘itinerant breeding’ in East Coast shorebird species

image of a researcher holding an American woodcock under the red light of his headlamp

The study of American woodcock confirms overlapping of migration and reproductive periods of the annual cycle.

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Six URI sophomores awarded 2024 NOAA Hollings Scholarships

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URI raises total of recipients to 48 since scholarship program started in 2005.

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Commercial Fisheries Apprenticeship Program seeks applicants for 2024

The Commercial Fisheries Apprenticeship Program run by the Commercial Fisheries Center of Rhode Island, with assistance from the University of Rhode Island, is seeking applicants for the 2024 year.

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URI Geophysics professor available for expert interviews

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The magnitude 4.8 earthquake centered in New Jersey last Friday was felt in Rhode Island.

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URI Professor of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Emi Uchida named Pew Fellow

Professor Emi Uchida (left), on an earlier research trip, interviews members of a coastal community in Tanzania about mangrove use.

Professor Uchida is one 6 recipients recognized this year by Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation.

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River Stories

Students in the honors course River Stories visited URI geoscientist Soni Pradhanang’s river simulation table.

Professor Heather Johnson’s students examine rivers through history, culture, literature, and ecology. They gain firsthand knowledge of rivers by going straight to the source.

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What Does Social Justice Have to Do with Evolution? Everything.

David Upegui (left) and David Fastovsky in Upegui’s Central Falls High School classroom. They wrote and received a grant to purchase the skulls.

Award-winning Central Falls High School biology teacher David Upegui, Ph.D. ’21, teamed up with URI paleontologist David Fastovsky to write a book aimed at helping teachers incorporate social justice into the biology curriculum.

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University’s first hazard mitigation plan approved by FEMA, state

KINGSTON, R.I. – March 5, 2024 –The University of Rhode Island now has a comprehensive plan to deal with natural disasters like floods, winter storms, hurricanes, extreme temperatures and other natural threats. URI is the first higher education institution in the state to have a plan approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the State of Rhode Island. A $35,000 grant from the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency/FEMA

URI is the first university in R.I. to have plan endorsed by federal and state agencies.

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Adventurous URI: Outing Club gets students off campus, outdoors

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One of the oldest clubs on campus has provided mental and physical health benefits through the pandemic, and beyond.

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