URI community members reflect on the plant sciences professor whose care for the people she taught reached well past the greenhouse.

As a double major in environmental science and management and political science, University of Rhode Island student Cailey Mingolla sought out an experiential learning opportunity that related to both her areas of study. She found it in the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management’s Director’s Office, where she was placed as a Senior Extension Fellow through URI Cooperative Extension’s Environmental Fellows Program.

University of Rhode Island master’s student Owen Fleischer is using accelerometers to answer a question with no known answer: what do sharks actually do all day?

URI graduate student Maja Nielsen’s novel research examines how fishing-driven shifts in blue crab populations are changing the way ribbed mussels respond to predators — with consequences that could ripple through new England salt marsh ecosystems.

Now is the time to tackle pesky pest’s egg masses before they hatch

All eight of Rhode Island’s bat species are now listed as species of greatest conservation need. URI researcher Patrick Bailey explains why they matter and how to help.

The University of Rhode Island’s 34th annual Landscape Architecture Lecture Series will bring three nationally recognized practitioners and scholars to campus this fall to explore how science, planning, and design can work together to create more resilient and regenerative landscapes.

URI Botany Fellow Raven Szewczok used decades-old records to find rare plants this summer, uncovering clues about Rhode Island’s changing landscapes along the way.

Immersive two-part walk and zine-making event on Oct. 14 wraps up Metcalf’s 2026 Annual Public Lecture Series

A new study led by the University of Rhode Island’s Emily Sperou, Ph.D., offers the first systematic look at South Bay, Antarctica, as a location where leopard seals feed, linger, and may reproduce.