URI’s Student Success Team recently celebrated CELS staff members for their work to support equity in retention.
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CELS students awarded NASA R.I. Space Grants
Two geology majors and a master’s student in biological and environmental sciences are among nine URI recipients of the prestigious award.
Continue reading "CELS students awarded NASA R.I. Space Grants"URI Master Gardener seedling incubator program attracts community growers statewide
Nearly 100 nonprofits come to URI to collect their URI-raised baby plants
Continue reading "URI Master Gardener seedling incubator program attracts community growers statewide"National Science Foundation director, Sen. Jack Reed visit URI to discuss NSF research priorities
NSF director, Sethuraman Panchanathan met with CELS student researchers from the Jenkins Lab.
Continue reading "National Science Foundation director, Sen. Jack Reed visit URI to discuss NSF research priorities"Seven URI Students Will Travel Abroad Thanks to Prestigious Foreign Language Scholarship Programs
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.
Continue reading "Seven URI Students Will Travel Abroad Thanks to Prestigious Foreign Language Scholarship Programs"Wealthy white homeowners more likely to see financial benefits from land conservation, study shows
A disproportionate amount of wealth generated by protecting open space from development goes to high-income white households.
Continue reading "Wealthy white homeowners more likely to see financial benefits from land conservation, study shows"CELS students and faculty among Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society inductees
URI inducted 31 students into Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective multidisciplinary collegiate honor society.
Continue reading "CELS students and faculty among Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society inductees"Marine biology, aquaculture and fisheries science student awarded Hollings Scholarship from NOAA
Owen Fleischer is the 42nd URI student selected for the nationally competitive honor in the program’s 18 years
Continue reading "Marine biology, aquaculture and fisheries science student awarded Hollings Scholarship from NOAA"The green city: URI team wins $970,000 grant to map alternative urban food networks
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.
Continue reading "The green city: URI team wins $970,000 grant to map alternative urban food networks"The Second-to-Last Lobsterman on Block Island
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.
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