URI’s four water outreach programs—all headed by dedicated URI alumni—work together to keep the state’s waterways and watersheds clean and healthy. Together, they comprise a quiet but mighty force that helps Rhode Island care for what is arguably its most precious resource: water.

The annual University of Rhode Island’s Free Farmers Market for students opens for its third year this fall, kicking off another season of fresh, free produce giveaways on Thursday, Sept. 7.

The University of Rhode Island College of the Environment and Life Sciences is launching a fully online, accelerated master’s program in environmental management.

The University of Rhode Island’s Watershed Watch Program recently received the 2023 National Water Quality Monitoring Council’s Vision Award.

The innovative program introduces high school students to marine sciences and college life.

For the past quarter century, URI’s Metcalf Institute has been a global leader in training journalists and scientists in environmental reporting and inclusive science communication.

Schools and nonprofits from across the state gathered at URI’s East Farm in Kingston to collect their URI-grown seedlings.

There’s no shortage of evidence that environmental factors influence species evolution, but a new study demonstrates a two-way street in which evolutionary changes feed back into the environment.

2020 graduate in marine biology, Alyssa Lopez will head to Oregon State University in September to do her master’s degree in wildlife science, studying killer whale acoustics off the coast of Washington.