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CELS students awarded NASA R.I. Space Grants

A collection of headshots of nine NASA R.I. Space Grant recipients

Two geology majors and a master’s student in biological and environmental sciences are among nine URI recipients of the prestigious award.

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URI Master Gardener seedling incubator program attracts community growers statewide

Nearly 100 nonprofits come to URI to collect their URI-raised baby plants

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National Science Foundation director, Sen. Jack Reed visit URI to discuss NSF research priorities

NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan and U.S. Sen. Jack Reed at a URI event to discuss research priorities and meet with student and academic leaders.

NSF director, Sethuraman Panchanathan met with CELS student researchers from the Jenkins Lab.

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Seven URI Students Will Travel Abroad Thanks to Prestigious Foreign Language Scholarship Programs

CLS and Boren Scholarship recipients: Devin Thomas, Tiffany Morel, Lilly Dessette, Delaney Patch and Brandon Yeh. (Not pictured: Barbara Lunz, Ashlynn Cunningham)

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.

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Wealthy white homeowners more likely to see financial benefits from land conservation, study shows

A lush woodland with light filtering through the tree canopy

A disproportionate amount of wealth generated by protecting open space from development goes to high-income white households.

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CELS students and faculty among Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society inductees

2023 inductees to the Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective multidisciplinary collegiate honor society.

URI inducted 31 students into Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective multidisciplinary collegiate honor society.

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Marine biology, aquaculture and fisheries science student awarded Hollings Scholarship from NOAA

Hollings Scholarship recipient, Owen Fleischer

Owen Fleischer is the 42nd URI student selected for the nationally competitive honor in the program’s 18 years

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The green city: URI team wins $970,000 grant to map alternative urban food networks

John Taylor, associate professor of agroecology at URI standing in the rows at the University's East Farm on the Kingston Campus.

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.

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The Second-to-Last Lobsterman on Block Island

An aerial view of Ebben Howarth ’23 sitting on the side of his lobster boat.

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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Cassidy Need Won’t Kill Hornworms. But She Knows a Wasp That Will

Cassidy Need ’20, owner of sustainable gardening company Native Edible Designs, is standing in a client’s garden.

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.

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