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Three URI students receive prestigious Goldwater Scholarships
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.
Continue reading "Three URI students receive prestigious Goldwater Scholarships"Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert to close out URI’s yearlong environmental humanities lecture series
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.
Continue reading "Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert to close out URI’s yearlong environmental humanities lecture series"URI Master Gardeners open their gardens to visitors for statewide garden tour this June
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.
Continue reading "URI Master Gardeners open their gardens to visitors for statewide garden tour this June"URI to host Rhode Island Land and Water Conservation Mini-Summit on April 8
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.
Continue reading "URI to host Rhode Island Land and Water Conservation Mini-Summit on April 8"Mapping RI’s shoreline access
Graduate student Erica Meier knows most all of Rhode Island’s 400-plus public access points along its 400 miles of shoreline.
Continue reading "Mapping RI’s shoreline access"URI water expert’s river simulation table lets students and planners visualize water’s path
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.
Continue reading "URI water expert’s river simulation table lets students and planners visualize water’s path"URI names Bethany Jenkins interim vice president for research
Jenkins, professor of cell and molecular biology and oceanography became interim vice president for research and economic development, effective April 8.
Continue reading "URI names Bethany Jenkins interim vice president for research"The van Beuren Charitable Foundation Awards $3 Million to URI
The van Beuren Charitable Foundation has generously awarded the University of Rhode Island a $3 million grant to support the development of a new Ocean Engineering Complex on the URI Narragansett Bay Campus that will propel the development of the region’s blue economy.
Continue reading "The van Beuren Charitable Foundation Awards $3 Million to URI"URI researcher discusses parasitic fungus at the heart of HBO sci-fi series
If you’re a fan of HBO’s post-apocalyptic series “The Last of Us” – or the video game that inspired it – you’ve probably heard the term Cordyceps. In the show, the parasitic fungus has mutated, graduating from infecting insects to humans, but what’s the real story?
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