Rowan Valle completed an Agriculture and Food Systems Fellows Program through URI’s Cooperative Extension. He gathered GIS data, recruited participants and conducted interviews, translated documents from English to Spanish, and conducted comprehensive site inventories of urban gardens.

Students from across New England interested in environmental economics can now attend URI at regional tuition rates. URI’s ENRE undergraduate major blends economic principles and environmental sciences to help students understand complex environmental issues and their economic implications.

Hallie Grace Brown completed the Agriculture and Food Systems Fellows Program through URI’s Cooperative Extension. An animal science major and biology minor, she worked with RI Division of Environmental Management’s Division of Agriculture to promote public health and safe local farming practices.

Atticus Makuch ’24 completed the Energy Fellows Program through URI’s Cooperative Extension. Working with the energy efficiency policy and strategy team at Rhode Island Energy, he played a key role in helping the team understand and address the needs of diverse communities across Rhode Island.

New associate professor of cell and molecular biology, Laura Eme, uses bioinformatics to study the evolutionary history and diversity of microbial life.

Since 2019, researchers in the Department of Natural Resources Science have captured camera trap data as part of the Smithsonian’s Snapshot USA

Ren Johnson and Abigail Gill, both in URI’s College of the Environment and Life Sciences, were recently awarded second place by Arizona’s Entomological Society of America and the URI Undergraduate Symposium.

First webinar on household exposures and community solutions set for March 20

Cooperative Extension’s Watershed Watch is seeking volunteers to assess the impacts of droughts and wet weather, stormwater runoff, bacteria and algal blooms on surface water quality and contribute to better understanding how climate change is affecting our nearby waters.

Abigail Hasenfus ’20, M.S. ’21, chief of renewable energy program development for the Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources, was recently honored with a 10 Under 10 Award from URI.