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URI’s Free Farmers Market for students opens Sept. 7

The annual University of Rhode Island’s Free Farmers Market for students opens for its third year this fall, kicking off another season of fresh, free produce giveaways on Thursday, Sept. 7.

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Connecting people with animals

Megan Rossilli builds connections between people and animals through training.

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URI opening online Master of Environmental Management program

New England marshland bank, Dighton, MA

The University of Rhode Island College of the Environment and Life Sciences is launching a fully online, accelerated master’s program in environmental management.

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URI Watershed Watch receives national recognition

The University of Rhode Island’s Watershed Watch Program recently received the 2023 National Water Quality Monitoring Council’s Vision Award.

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URI Shark Camp sets sail week of July 17

The innovative program introduces high school students to marine sciences and college life.

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Celebrating 25 years of the Metcalf Institute

For the past quarter century, URI’s Metcalf Institute has been a global leader in training journalists and scientists in environmental reporting and inclusive science communication.

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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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