Two new NSF solicitations may interest URI teams working with AI, scientific data, research computing, and cyberinfrastructure. Full proposals are due November 4, 2026.
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Anthropic is offering eligible scientists one year of free Claude Team plan access for themselves and up to 25 lab members.
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URI fall 2026 workshops include sessions on Unity, AI tools, OpenCode/Codex, prompt engineering, bioinformatics, R, SPSS, and SBDC training.
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Twelve new compute servers are now available on UNITY, expanding capacity for URI researchers.
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OpenAI is introducing ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, a program that will give 100,000 researchers at selected academic institutions free access to their frontier models. The program will help researchers across the sciences, mathematics, and engineering take on advanced problems, accelerate discovery, and improve productivity, from preparing grant applications to testing hypotheses. https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-for-academic-researchers/ This is an […]
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Major user of our IACR resources, Dr. Fang Wang from Chemistry Dept. wins NSF CAREER grant and also another grant from the American Chemical Society! Learn more here: https://web.uri.edu/artsci/news/chemistry-professor-secures-american-chemical-society-and-national-science-foundation-career-awards/
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How can we gather more insight from data to solve problems in the world today? This is one of the most fundamental questions driving the artificial intelligence boom. It’s also one that GSO Assistant Professor of Oceanography Dr. Nick Pizzo is no stranger to posing, and recently it led him and his collaborators into the […]
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Bridging the Gap: How Research Computing Powers the Future of Molecular Informatics At the University of Rhode Island, the move toward data-intensive research is led by scientists who maintain a dual fluency in biological systems and the high-performance computing environments used to analyze them. For Dr. Christopher Hemme, Director of the Rhode Island INBRE Molecular […]
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URI’s annual celebration of World Quantum Day will be held on Friday, April 10th! Here are the details: https://events.uri.edu/event/world-quantum-day-uri-7928 Senators Reed and Gu will be at the event!
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The AI Lab represented the IACR on URI Day at the State House! It was a super fun day with lots of participation. Governor McKee and Lt. Governor Matos celebrated the day with us! https://www.uri.edu/news/2026/03/uri-to-turn-rhode-island-state-house-keaney-blue-thursday-in-celebration-of-universitys-successes-statewide-impact-during-annual-uri-day/
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