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Master’s graduate receives 2026 Academic Achievement Award from the American Water Works Association

WASHINGTON, D.C. — June 25, 2026 — Carrie Ellis received the 2026 Academic Achievement Award at the American Water Works Association Annual Conference and Exposition (ACE26) this June. The Academic Achievement Award recognizes contributions to the field of public water supply via a master’s or doctoral dissertation. Ellis’s thesis, “Electrochemical Regeneration of Manganese Oxide (MnOx)-Coated […]

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The Ripple Effect of Research Funding for Better Outcomes

Daniel Roxbury, associate professor of chemical, biomolecular, and materials engineering, is the principal investigator of SIMCoast (Socio-ecological Impact of Microplastics in Coastal Ecosystems), a $7 million, four-year grant building Rhode Island’s research capabilities to measure and study the impacts of nano- and microplastics (NMPs) throughout the Narragansett Bay watershed.

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Inspiring Student Researchers Leads to Career at Adobe

Tong Sun (‘96) was recruited to URI in 1992 byProfessor Qing “Ken” Yang. Sun joined a lab studying high-performance computer systems processing massive amounts of scientific data like nuclear reactions, physics simulations and weather forecasts. Under Yang’s guidance, his student researchers aimed to make computers think and calculate faster to solve problems quicker.

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Undergraduate aims to make meaningful impacts in defense engineering

KINGSTON, R.I. – May 26, 2026 – Sam Miller, of Colchester, Connecticut, graduated with his bachelor’s in industrial and systems engineering from the University of Rhode Island this May with an engineering entrepreneurship minor and a concentration in Naval science and technology. Over the past few years, he gained hands-on experience through a series of […]

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Engineering senior credits URI College of Engineering in her success

Sophie Plante is set to graduate with a Bachelor of Science in computer engineering and minors in biological sciences and mathematics next December. Plante, of Attleboro, Massachusetts, always loved learning and exploring new ideas. As a New England native, transferring to the University of Rhode Island from a small, city university was a natural and […]

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IEP graduate earns accelerated B.S./M.S. scholarship to pursue master’s

Katie Aaronson, of Exton, Pennsylvania, joined University of Rhode Island’s International Engineering Program as an ocean engineering and Spanish major. Aaronson is completing her undergraduate degrees and if she could suggest one bit of advice to anyone to make the most of their own experience, it’d be to stay dedicated, but remain open-minded. “Getting heavily […]

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