Research – College of Engineering

Chemical engineering Ph.D. candidate to complete co-op, defend dissertation

Dec. 15, 2025 – Mechanical engineering, chemistry and physics may seem like three separate areas of study, but they overlap in more ways than one. Elnaz Nikoumanesh, a fifth-year Ph.D. chemical engineering candidate, knows that well. She studied mechanical engineering during her undergraduate and master’s studies, but became very interested in experimental work with biological […]

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URI receives $500,000 from The Champlin Foundation for hands-on learning technologies

The Champlin Foundation recently supported three interdisciplinary proposals submitted by faculty from URI’s Colleges of the Environment and Life Sciences, Engineering, and Pharmacy.

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2025 Biannual IEEE Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing Workshop

The University of Rhode Island held the biannual IEEE Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing Workshop last month. The workshop has been hosted at University of Rhode Island every other year since 1985. Formed as a collaboration between Naval Undersea Warfare Center, formerly Naval Underwater Systems Center, and electrical engineering faculty at URI’s College of Engineering. NUWC […]

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URI team creates tabletop blast device to study long-term consequences of traumatic brain injury

The URI-built experimental model offers new way to look at TBI-related neurodegenerative disease.To help their colleagues in URI’s Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Arun Shukla and Akash Pandey in URI’s College of Engineering were brought in. An expert in blast mitigation, Shukla consults frequently with the U.S. Navy, while Ph.D. candidate Pandey helps develop […]

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Grad student seeks to build impactful medical robotics

In the final semester of his master’s degree program, Ali Rabiee, of Tehran, Iran, was searching for a Ph.D. program in robotics. He found what he was seeking when he came across Reza Abiri’s lab. “I’m passionate about building robots that improve people’s lives,” said Rabiee. “I focus on medical robotics, especially with assistive and […]

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URI launches new institute to lead in AI and computational research

The University of Rhode Island has launched the Institute for AI & Computational Research (IACR), a new initiative designed to position URI as a leader in artificial intelligence (AI), data science, high-performance computing, and quantum computing.

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URI receives first-ever NIH T32 award

The award reflects years of cross-campus collaboration and positions URI as a national leader in transdisciplinary biomedical training.

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URI’s ESTEEMED Program

Paving the way for new undergraduate research opportunities, the ESTEEMED program is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and trains students interested in the biological sciences and includes a focus on student experience in biomedical, bioengineering, biomedical engineering, and health science research.

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URI engineering professor awarded NSF grant to study nature-based answers to wave, current hazards

University of Rhode Island Assistant Professor Che-Wei Chang was recently awarded a National Science Foundation grant for his project titled Experimental Investigation of Vegetation Effects on Coastal Wave and Current Dynamics.

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URI awarded $7 million NSF grant to boost research excellence in environmental microplastics

National Science Foundation announced associate professor of chemical, biomolecular, and materials engineering, Daniel Roxbury and his team have been awarded a $7 million grant through the EPSCoR E-RISE Program.

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