URI hosts state’s ninth annual food summit, issues call for collaboration

Free online weekly series starts Feb. 5, featuring experts from across the country sharing growing knowledge.

As the new State Program Leader of the URI Master Gardener Program, Matthew Durham is guiding the statewide network of volunteers dedicated to sustainable gardening, environmental stewardship, and community education.

Ghana is set to establish its first Marine Protected Area to support long-term socioeconomic and bioecological resilience. URI alumni Evans Kwasi Arizi ’19 and Justice Camillus Mensah ’13 have played key leadership roles.

Natural Resources Science faculty hope to examine the environmental legacy of New England’s iconic stone walls

On Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, starting at 9 a.m., the free event will bring state government, academic, business, and community partners together in person for URI’s ninth Rhode Island Food System Summit to discuss ways to build the state’s food future.

Four Rhode Island institutions partner in GI/ingestion study to assess microplastic levels in Narragansett Bay waterfowl

Associate Dean Becky Sartini recently completed the Food Systems Leadership Institute, a two-year program that equips leaders across the country to a

Matías Gómez-Corrales, a recent biological sciences Ph.D. graduate, and his advisor, Associate Professor Carlos Prada, have published a paper in Nature Communications, revealing key mechanisms in speciation in corals and proposing a new hypothesis on the origin of species in the ocean.

URI’s Cooperative Extension is offering its convenient Home Horticulture Certificate course, starting in January 2026, with applications for the course due by Thursday, Jan. 1