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.

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.