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Statement of Solidarity with the Black Lives Matter Movement - The URI Graduate School, along with the URI Leadership, stands in solidarity with our Black students, colleagues, and allies who seek justice and change in our society because Black Lives Matter.
Digging for quahogs inspired URI student to study geotechnical engineering - Timothy Keefe’s interest in geotechnical engineering traces back to his childhood when his father taught him how to dig for quahogs in Narragansett Bay. Wanting to learn more about soil mechanics, Keefe is now pursuing a master’s degree in civil engineering at URI.
URI scientists discover abundance of plastic in sea ice collected in the Arctic’s Northwest Passage - A research team, led by the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, recently returning from a groundbreaking, 18-day expedition aboard the Swedish Icebreaker Oden has made a discovery related to plastics in the Arctic Ocean. 
Doctoral candidate in English wins coveted fellowship for dissertation - Molly Volanth Hall, a University of Rhode Island doctoral candidate in English, has won a coveted Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowship in European Studies for her study exploring landscape representation in modernist literature of World War I.
URI Graduate School of Oceanography leads live broadcasts from Arctic Ocean - A team of natural and social scientists, led by the URI's Graduate School of Oceanography and supported by 25 students from the United States and Canada will study vital signs of a rapidly changing Arctic Ocean this summer. The research team will share the experience with the public in real time.
URI Marine Affairs grads awarded national fellowships to help coastal states cope with climate change - URI Marine Affairs master’s degree graduates Leah Feldman, Sabrina Pereira, and Ben Sweeney have all received two-year NOAA Coastal Management Fellowships in what is believed to be the first time three candidates from any state (and the entire contingent from Rhode Island) were selected for fellowships in this highly competitive program.
URI grad students awarded NSF graduate research fellowships - Two URI graduate students have been recognized by the National Science Foundation as Graduate Research Fellows, a distinction that includes funding to cover three years of their education plus an annual $34,000 stipend.
NOAA announces new $94 million ocean exploration institute led by URI - URI's Graduate School of Oceanography is at the forefront of a new age of ocean exploration with its selection by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to lead a new, $94 million cooperative institute for ocean exploration to discover that vast underwater territory.
URI researchers and grad students are tracking the Timberdoodle - URI environmental scientists believe studying the Timberdoodle (a.k.a. American Woodcock) may be the key to understanding the decline of certain bird and mammal populations in Rhode Island. Project Timberdoodle is managed by Erin Harrington, a Biological and Environmental Sciences Ph.D. student. 
URI grad student awarded prestigious prize for debut poetry collection - Charles Kell, a graduate student in English and part-time faculty member in writing and rhetoric in the Harrington School of Communication and Media, has been awarded the distinguished Autumn House Press Poetry Prize for his debut book, “Cage of Lit Glass.”