CELS students Ashlynn Cunningham ’24 and Barbara Lunz ’24 receive Boren awards to travel to Taiwan in August and September, remaining abroad for the length of the academic year.

A disproportionate amount of wealth generated by protecting open space from development goes to high-income white households.

URI inducted 31 students into Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective multidisciplinary collegiate honor society.

Owen Fleischer is the 42nd URI student selected for the nationally competitive honor in the program’s 18 years

The $973,479 award from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture is part of a broad U.S.D.A. investment in urban agriculture. John Taylor, associate professor of agroecology at URI and his colleagues hope to identify opportunities for policymaking support.

Block Island, 7 miles long and 3 miles wide, is the smallest town (by population) in the smallest state in the country. It is home to 1,000 or so year-round residents, and its principal industry is tourism.

By incorporating native and edible plants into her landscape designs, Cassidy Need ’20, owner of sustainable gardening company Native Edible Designs, is doing her part to sustain the planet—one garden at a time.

URI alumni are well represented across all sectors of the blue economy, working hard on and for the ocean.

Three University of Rhode Island students have been selected to receive 2023 Goldwater Scholarships, the most prestigious national scholarship for undergraduate students studying and planning research careers in the natural sciences, mathematics or engineering.

In more than two decades of award-winning reporting, science writer Elizabeth Kolbert has built a reputation as one of the nation’s most prominent voices on climate change. On Thursday, April 13, Kolbert will close out the yearlong series at URI’s Center for the Humanities.