URI, UMass Chan Medical School researchers developing high-tech armband to help people with opioid-use disorder - Project funded by a $2.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health
Tracy Santos receives Student Veteran Leadership Award - KINGSTON, R.I. – August 15, 2023 – Tracy Santos ’24, a Marine Corps veteran and current National Guardsman, has been selected for a Student Veteran Leadership Award by GI Jobs Magazine. Santos is one of 32 future leaders from across the nation to be recognized.
Recent INP alum, Alyssa Madden ’23, receives honorable mention in URI Research and Scholarship Photo Contest - This annual contest offers students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to share their perspectives of their work in any area of URI research and scholarship. Images from laboratories to libraries to the depths of the ocean and beyond have streamed in over the years and been featured in the three URI magazines sponsoring this contest—the University […]
URI neuroscientist is part of $8M grant for U.S. and European consortium on brain clearance research - William Van Nostrand, co-executive director of the George & Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rhode Island, is part of a team awarded a five-year, $8 million grant from the prestigious Leducq Foundation that will establish a transatlantic consortium on the study of the brain’s waste-clearing system as a contributor to cerebral […]
America’s Love Affair with Adderall | The Free Press - From 2020 to 2021, Adderall prescriptions rose by more than 10 percent among American adults aged 25 to 44. A nationwide shortage is now wreaking havoc on many of their lives. 
Award supports study of risky alcohol use among young adults with ADHD - Dr. Amy Stamates has been awarded a 5-year K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
First-in-kind models will help break new ground in studying Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders - On two new grants, the Van Nostrand lab is developing the field’s first gene-edited CAA rat models to help investigate the role of brain blood vessels in disorders related to Alzheimer’s disease.
INP/Ryan Institute Hold First Annual Neuroscience Symposium - The event was held on Friday, November 4, 2022 in the Avedisian Hall Lobby, and sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program and the George & Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience.
Today’s adolescent substances of choice may be harder for adults to detect - Written by a team of URI trainees under INP and Psychology Professor Sarah Feldstein Ewing, a new paper provides health care professionals and parents concrete steps for screening, detection and intervention.
URI neuroscientist receives $10.3 million grant for research on retinal scanning to detect early-stage Alzheimer’s - INP faculty member Jessica Alber is looking to change the way doctors diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, a change that could raise new possibilities for treatment.
INP Alumni Discuss Neuroscience Careers - Listen to a discussion led by URI's Center for Career and Experiential Education and the INP Coordinator on what recent INP alumni are doing with their degrees in neuroscience and how current students can learn from them.
1 in 5 College Students Abuse ADHD Medication – Here’s What We Can Do About It - NBC spoke to three psychologists who specialize in ADHD, including the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program’s Director, Dr. Lisa Weyandt, to learn more about what’s causing the rise in diagnosis and why college students are misusing the medication. 
URI launches undergraduate degree program in interdisciplinary neuroscience, welcomes inaugural class - Former Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy will deliver the keynote as URI celebrates the official launch of its new undergraduate program in interdisciplinary neuroscience on Wednesday, Oct. 14, at noon with a free virtual event. Watch the Video- Letter of Support for Justice and Equity from INP Leadership - The INP leadership affirms URI’s actions to commit to a more just and equitable society and we are dedicated to fostering a community that rejects dehumanization of any individual.
$35 gift million will support neuroscience study at URI - The vast majority of this record gift from Tom and Cathy Ryan will provide transformational funding for academic purposes, including an expansion of research and teaching capacity in neuroscience and the creation of a scholars program to attract high-performing students.
