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NSF CAREER awarded to engineering professor to study new class of fluidic acoustic metamaterials

KINGSTON, R.I. – May 06, 2026 — Mechanical engineering assistant professor Yang Lin has been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award. The CAREER program is one of NSF’s most competitive and highly regarded awards for early-career faculty, recognizing those who demonstrate strong potential to serve as academic role models while advancing the mission […]

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College of Engineering’s 2026 Excellence Award Recipients

KINGSTON, R.I. – May 1, 2026 – The University of Rhode Island’s hosted their academic excellence award ceremony on April 30, 2026. URI proudly sponsors the University Academic Excellence Awards to recognize outstanding achievements in research and scholarship, teaching and service, and graduate education. These awards celebrate the faculty, staff, and students whose contributions advance […]

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Engineering professor earns highly competitive DARPA Director’s Fellowship

Yang Lin in his lab next to a high precision 3D printer

KINGSTON, R.I. — April 23, 2026 — In 2024, Assistant Professor Yang Lin was awarded the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award, a highly competitive program supporting early career researchers pursuing high-risk, high-impact research. The award provided two-year funding, mentorship, and access to Department of Defense and industry networks to support his project […]

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Two engineering graduates awarded prestigious NSF graduate research fellowships

David Amirsadri and Colby Constantine, who earned bachelor’s degrees in chemical engineering from URI last spring, were awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, one of the nation’s most prestigious fellowship programs, providing three years of financial support to graduate students who have demonstrated the potential to make significant contributions to scientific innovation.

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Student organization builds concrete canoe to race in competition

ASCE 2026 team pose for a group photo with their concrete canoe

April 17, 2026 – The University of Rhode Island American Society of Civil Engineers Student Chapter constructed a boat for the 2025–2026 ASCE Concrete Canoe Competition, Northeast Symposium, a national civil engineering student competition where teams design, build, test, present, and race a canoe made primarily from concrete. The first ASCE Concrete Canoe Competition was […]

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