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Master Gardeners Seed Incubator Program Brings Plants to Community Gardens Statewide

URI Master Gardeners gathered at East Farm at their annual seedling donation pickup in May

Schools and nonprofits from across the state gathered at URI’s East Farm in Kingston to collect their URI-grown seedlings.

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The Other Side of the Story: How Evolution Impacts the Environment

A male brown anole lizard (Photo by: Oriol Lapiedra)

There’s no shortage of evidence that environmental factors influence species evolution, but a new study demonstrates a two-way street in which evolutionary changes feed back into the environment.

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Recent CELS Graduate Awarded National Science Foundation Research Fellowship

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship recipient Alyssa Lopez ’20 on a research vessel

2020 graduate in marine biology, Alyssa Lopez will head to Oregon State University in September to do her master’s degree in wildlife science, studying killer whale acoustics off the coast of Washington.

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‘Tiny and Wild’

Author Graham Gardner relaxes in a meadow

Landscape architecture alumnus Graham Gardner ‘06 has just published his first book, Tiny +Wild: Build a Small-Scale Meadow Anywhere.

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Student Success is a team effort

Students hold signs at this year’s Be 5K which raised over $3,300 for the Heather Fund

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

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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