What might be the best summer road trip in Rhode Island takes place this June, when 18 private and public gardens tended by University of Rhode Island Master Gardener volunteers will open their garden gates to welcome the public for the 11th Gardening with the Masters Tour.

URI’s Cooperative Extension, with the Rhode Island Land Trust Council and Audubon Society of Rhode Island, are joining forces to offer a half-day Land and Water (and Gardens) Mini-Summit at URI this year.

Graduate student Erica Meier knows most all of Rhode Island’s 400-plus public access points along its 400 miles of shoreline.

With the recent floods on the West Coast and the approach of the anniversary of the record-breaking March 2010 floods in Rhode Island, professor Soni Pradhanang shared insights into the challenges of managing water, demonstrating a resource that helps others better analyze and predict water patterns and impact.

Jenkins, professor of cell and molecular biology and oceanography became interim vice president for research and economic development, effective April 8.

The van Beuren Charitable Foundation has generously awarded the University of Rhode Island a $3 million grant to support the development of a new Ocean Engineering Complex on the URI Narragansett Bay Campus that will propel the development of the region’s blue economy.

If you’re a fan of HBO’s post-apocalyptic series “The Last of Us” – or the video game that inspired it – you’ve probably heard the term Cordyceps. In the show, the parasitic fungus has mutated, graduating from infecting insects to humans, but what’s the real story?

Last year’s intense summer affected water quality in ponds, lakes, rivers and streams throughout Rhode Island – for the better in some places, for the worse in others.

Several URI community members traveled to Indonesia to advance existing partnerships, including President Marc Parlange and students in a J Term study abroad program, examining biodiversity, environmental issues, and geologic hazards in the region.

Nicole Richard is developing new food safety education and outreach materials to help bring Rhode Island into compliance with current federal food safety standards, which were adopted a decade ago.