Our Master of Environmental Science and Management program is responding to community needs with new environmental justice track. Kendall Moore, pictured, is leading the new track.

URI Cooperative Extension’s Watershed Watch, which has collected water quality data throughout southern New England for more than 35 years, is seeking volunteers; training starts in April. Watershed Watch is also a national leader, connecting and training volunteer program leaders across the country.

Public sightings pass 1,000 in statewide project that links citizen scientists with University research. URI’s researchers just passed the 1,000-sighting mark this winter, a good sign for the cat species and public interest in the animal.

Backed by a prestigious NIH award, Assistant Professor Caitlin Murdoch’s lab is researching how zinc movement inside cells shapes brain development and behavior

Natural resources science teaching professor Chris Floyd is among the adventurous, devoted, and innovative faculty here at URI who provide immersive experiences to their students both inside and outside the classroom.

URI Cooperative Extension in partnership with Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management is pleased to announce the launch of the 2026 Environmental Management Fellows Program and to congratulate eleven exceptional students selected for the inaugural cohort

A 2025 graduate of the University of Rhode Island and Roger Williams University School of Law joint-degree program and a member of URI’s undergraduate class of 2019, Samual Filiaggi is bringing an interdisciplinary approach to the national stage as a recipient of a 2026 Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship.

Research focused on ethical and sustainable seafood markets earns Aida Pauls a spot in the competitive NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship

New research by CELS soil microbiologist Patrick Sorensen reveals vulnerable process as snowpacks shrink, challenging long-held assumptions about how microbes build biomass

The Rhode Island Plant Insect Community Network will host a one-day conference Saturday, March 7, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., at the Quonset ‘O’ Club in North Kingstown. It is open to the public.