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GSO to host Air-Sea Interaction: A Symposium in Honor of Isaac Ginis and Tetsu Hara

Headshots of Ginis (l) and Hara (r)

The symposium will bring together colleagues, collaborators, students, and alumni to highlight advances in air-sea interaction research and recognize the lasting impact of Ginis and Hara’s work in oceanography and atmospheric science.

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URI honors 2026 Asian Cultural Ambassadors

One of this year’s URI Asian Cultural Ambassadors, Alyssa Tsukada (center), shown with Qing (Ken) Yang and Vice President Markeisha Miner

University’s Asian and Pacific Islander communities join for annual celebration to build understanding and interest and celebrate Asian/Pacific cultures at URI

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URI researchers collaborate on effort to map biodiversity on Indonesia’s unexplored seamounts

Drajad Seto operates a PlanktoScope to capture high-resolution images of plankton samples. (Photo courtesy of OceanX)

Data will help support conservation and sustainable management of deep-sea ecosystems.

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Scientists are reading Block Island’s past to protect its future

Two new URI studies will decode over a century of coastal change on one of New England’s most treasured islands

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Marine life finds new home at base of wind turbines

URI Ph.D. student Emmanuel Oyewole conducting field work on the deck of a vessel at the South Fork Wind farm turbines.

URI graduate student, Emmanuel Oyewole, studies how wind farm structures affect Jonah crabs

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Celebrating GSO’s Spring 2026 graduates

Group of new grads in blue shirts.

University of Rhode Island Commencement Weekend will be held May 15–17, 2026 on the Kingston Campus.

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Commencement 2026: Oceanography student learns about outsized impact

Headshot of Maggie Bernish

Margaret Bernish will earn her Ph.D. in oceanography from GSO after studying the physiology of phytoplankton.

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URI creates Blue Fellows program to support graduate students with $954,000 NSF grant

Offshore windmill.

Award will help the University recruit six doctoral fellows to develop future Blue Economy workforce

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Commencement 2026: Student speakers for college graduation ceremonies named

GSO doctoral graduate Asta Habtemichael will speak to his fellow graduates on May 17.

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New satellite-based AI approach reveals ocean currents in unprecedented detail

Advancing scientists’ understanding of the ocean’s role in climate, weather, marine ecosystems, and carbon storage

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