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Big Stories
Lina Al Taan Al Hariri wins Truman Scholarship for R.I.
Lina Al Taan Al Hariri, an Honors Student who is triple majoring in international studies, global language and area studies, and gender and women’s studies, has become URIs 16th Truman Scholar.
New directions for URI Honors Program
New ‘Planet Honors’ class at URI is first stop for changemakers in University’s revamping Honors Program
Atypical art installation showcases URI honors students of today
AGonza ’16 painted honors students in her Providence studio and returned to URI this October to present the portraits showcasing the honors students of today.
Recent News
- 2024 Honors Colloquium to examine ‘Democracy in Peril’ - Brian Krueger, Ashlea Rundlett, Marc Hutchison and Elizabeth Mendenhall will lead this year’s 2024 Honors Colloquium, URI’s premier public lecture series, examining ‘Democracy in Peril.’ The free annual educational forum brings experts to the University annually to examine issues of national and local relevance; the series will open in September.
- Inaugural Faculty Fellows announced in 401 Tech Bridge program promoting innovation and entrepreneurship across campus - Cynthia Taylor, an instructor in the Honors Program, joins the first cohort of RISE-UP Innovation & Entrepreneurship Faculty Fellows at URI announced by 401 Tech Bridge.
- Fall Commencement 2023: honors student navigates URI - Gross, who graduated with a major in English (creative writing) and a minor in Italian and also completed the URI Honors Program, discusses his path to graduation in Fall 2023.
- New directions for URI Honors Program - New ‘Planet Honors’ class at URI is first stop for changemakers in University’s revamping Honors Program
- URI Students Display Hundreds of Plastic Bottles on Quad to Support Bottle Bill - Students in Prof. Heather Johnon’s HPR 411 River Stories course spent last Thursday on the quad with a goal of bringing awareness to an important issue – the amount of plastics polluting our local waterways.
- New Honors Course Demonstrates Design Thinking and Leads Students to Propose Creative Solutions to Global Challenges - HPR 124: Welcome to Planet Honors is a new course being offered to Honors students with a goal of acclimating them to life at URI as an Honors Student, and helping bring their awareness to local manifestations of global issues here on campus.
- URI College of Pharmacy wins national grant to improve access to opioid use disorder medications - URI College of Pharmacy Clinical Professor Jeffrey Bratberg, who taught the Honors section of PHP 336G Exploring Interdisciplinary Healthcare Solutions for Opioid Use Disorder this fall, has secured a $455,000 grant to continue the college's fight against the opioid epidemic.