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Simonini seizes chance of a lifetime with Fulbright- AY 2023-24 Annual Report - ONFAO annual report for AY 2023.
- 2023-2024 Academic Year Awards Summary - Summary of awards for AY 23.
Camila Cerosimo ’24 on Nuestra Salud - URI graduate Camila Cerosimo '24, Chemical Engineering, discuss her educational journey with Dr. Pablo Rodriguez on Nuestra Salud Radio, including the scientific work that led to her receiving an NSF Fellowship to further her graduate studies MIT.
Two URI students and four recent graduates awarded research fellowships from National Science Foundation
GSO student awarded research fellowship from National Science Foundation - URI Graduate School of Oceanography is proud to announce that incoming M.S. student Malachy McCaffrey is one of two students and four recent graduates to have been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for 2024. 
Ten URI undergraduates selected for 2024 Gilman Scholarships to travel abroad - Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Gilman Scholarship program enables students of limited financial means to study or intern abroad, providing them with skills critical to national security and economic prosperity.
Senior English/education major selected for Fulbright in Greece - Faith Simonini ’24, of Cumberland, to spend year teaching English in Athens
Cranston’s Juliana Nguyen awarded prestigious Boren Award to study abroad - Scholarship will support Nguyen’s study of language in Vietnam
Announcing the 2024 EPP/MSI and Hollings undergraduate scholars! - NOAA Office of Education has selected 130 Ernest F. Hollings undergraduate scholars, 6 of whom are from URI!
6 QUESTIONS WITH UNICEF AMBASSADOR ARIA MIA LOBERTI - Advocate, actress and Fulbright Scholar Aria Mia Loberti has earned a new title: UNICEF Ambassador.
Six URI sophomores awarded 2024 NOAA Hollings Scholarships - The University of Rhode Island is proud to announce that six sophomores have been awarded the nationally competitive National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship for 2024.- Should Endangered Turtles Have Legal Rights? - Hollings Scholar and URI Alum Callie Veelenturf is highlighted in this article about the Leatherback Project, a group which she founded to protect endangered turtles.
URI undergraduate awarded prestigious Obama-Chesky Voyager Scholarship - Jasmin Valdivieso Sanches is among 100 students to earn the national honor, and the second from URI.- 2022-2023 Academic Year Awards Summary
- AY 2022-2023 Annual Report - The Office of National Fellowships and Academic Opportunities Annual Report for the 2022-2023 Academic Year.
Three URI students and one recent graduate awarded research fellowships from National Science Foundation - Two seniors graduating from the University of Rhode Island this spring, a 2020 graduate, and a current graduate student, have been awarded prestigious fellowships through the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships Program.
21 URI community members named Demers Fellows to study foreign languages overseas - Twenty-one members of the University of Rhode Island community – 19 students, a faculty member and a staff member – have been named 2023 Beatrice S. Demers Foreign Language Fellows by the Rhode Island Foundation. 
Seven URI students will travel abroad thanks to prestigious foreign language scholarship programs - Seven URI students will be traveling abroad this summer thanks to two highly selective federal government scholarship programs that support foreign language and cultural study as a way to promote greater understanding between nations.
Four URI students, alumni selected for prestigious Fulbright Scholarships - our University of Rhode Island students and alumni have been selected to receive Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Recipients are provided the opportunity to conduct research, study, and teach English overseas.
URI sophomore in marine biology, aquaculture and fisheries science awarded Hollings Scholarship from NOAA - Owen Fleischer is the 42nd URI student selected for the nationally competitive honor in the program’s 18 years.
URI junior Lina Al Taan Al Hariri wins Truman Scholarship for R.I. - Cranston resident fled Syria when she was 11, now dedicated to public service career in defense of displaced populations.
Three URI students receive prestigious Goldwater Scholarships - This year’s awardees bring URI’s total number of Goldwater Scholars to 27.
URI Communication Studies student named among first cohort of Obama-Chesky Voyager Scholarship recipients - And it provides recipients a life-changing awards package: including up to $50,000 in financial aid for their junior and senior years to help alleviate the burden of college debt; $10,000 to create their own travel/work experience the summer before their senior year; and a network of fellow scholars and mentors to support them.- AY 2021-2022 Annual Report - Celebrating our successes!
- They hit submit! - This year seven seniors, three recent alumni and three current graduate students successfully completed the campus process for submitting a Fulbright US Student Program application. The process itself is rigorous and provides an opportunity to refine their personal narrative and professional aspirations, which will translate into stronger graduate school and grant applications in the future. […]
Three Rams Selected for Fulbright US Student Awards - Two University of Rhode Island graduate students and a 2020 alumna have been awarded Fulbright grants to teach and conduct research abroad.- URI students, faculty member win grants to study foreign languages abroad - A record 28 University of Rhode Island students and one faculty member have been named Beatrice S. Demers Foreign Language Fellows, collectively receiving more than $330,000 in grants to pursue foreign language immersion.
Eight URI sophomores awarded prestigious Hollings Scholarships from NOAA - 41 URI students have won the nationally competitive award in program’s 17 years
Seven URI students win Boren Scholarships to study languages abroad - URI’s seven awardees place the University sixth in the nation for the number of 2022 Boren recipients. Since the awards were established in 1991, URI has had 38 Boren recipients, 34 of whom were selected in the past 12 years, along with 9 alternates.