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URI Cooperative Extension selected to help build region’s agriculture workforce of the future

image of Kate Venturini Hardesty, left, of URI’s Cooperative Extension, is one of 13 selected nationwide to join a national workforce development network at land-grant universities. She’s shown with Kurta Beyan '22, a URI Feinstein Energy Literacy Fellow.

Kate Venturini Hardesty is one of 13 selected nationwide for workforce development network at a land-grant university.

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URI’s Sunshine Menezes named Rhode Island Clean Water Action Award winner

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Dr. Menezes is being ecognized for lifetime commitment to the environment.

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URI Water Quality Program launching initiative to study PFAS in water systems of two R.I. local communities

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Program aims to evaluate the prevalence, sources and pathways of ‘forever chemicals’

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URI student researcher’s project looking at whether food supplement may improve neurological health in sheep

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An Honors Program Student researches impact of beta glucan in sheep.

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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

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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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