Richmond resident Peter Paton, chair of the Department of Natural Resources Science (NRS), was honored in November with the Distinguished Naturalist Award.

The gift from the Schwab Charitable Fund, made possible through the generosity of Eric and Wendy Schmidt, will help advance sustainability practices at the University.

Offered through the University of Rhode Island’s Cooperative Extension, the 14-week, virtual course begins in late January.

Pantry operations director Stephen Souls helps distribute up to 1,500 pounds of produce each week with the North Kingstown Food Pantry.

The new fellowship builds on URI’s history as an “agricultural school” with new pathways in the field of food for students from diverse majors.

Fara Warner, a veteran journalist experienced in climate communication and editorial leadership, has been named executive director at the Metcalf Institute at the University of Rhode Island.

Researchers at the University of Rhode Island have been awarded a $2.5 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to develop social impact markers that will help them and local communities measure the effects of offshore wind energy development.

On Thursday, Oct. 12, three University of Rhode Island professors will explore some of the 5,000-year history of the Kingston Campus area in a talk titled “History and Archaeology of the URI Campus Landscape.”

The URI Undergraduate Project Grant program awards about 100 grants each academic year providing funding not only for STEM and engineering research projects but also to those in the humanities, arts and music.

URI and The Organic Center are pleased to announce a new collaboration on an important new organic food safety research project, enabled by a $3.5 million grant recently awarded through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative (OREI) research program.