Cooperative Extension provides non-formal education and learning opportunities to people throughout the United States—serving farmers and rural communities as well as those in urban areas. In Rhode Island, we strive to reach every corner of the state, delivering science-based information through our educational programs and services to help people make informed decisions in their daily lives.
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URI Cooperative Extension program aims to rescue and recycle food by changing the way Rhode Islanders interact with it June 11, 2025 - KINGSTON, R.I. – June 11, 2025 – Applications are open for Food Recovery for Rhode Island at the University of Rhode Island (FRRI), a community education program for Rhode Islanders offered through URI Cooperative Extension. The six-week course includes online coursework and field experiences that can be completed at participants’ convenience.
Rhode Island in bloom: URI Master Gardeners open their gardens to visitors for statewide garden tour this July 19-20 June 5, 2025 - Cooperative Extension’s two-day garden tour offers green inspiration and education
URI tick expert shares tips for a tick-free summer May 27, 2025 - Thomas Mather shares tips to avoid summer tick exposure
URI names Jean VanderGheynst dean of the College of the Environment and Life Sciences May 14, 2025 - A respected higher education leader and researcher, VanderGheynst joins URI following appointments at the Universities of Massachusetts and California
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Learn moreThe University of Rhode Island occupies the traditional stomping ground of the Narragansett Nation and the Niantic People. We honor and respect the enduring and continuing relationship between the Indigenous people and this land by teaching and learning more about their history and present-day communities, and by becoming stewards of the land we, too, inhabit.