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URI to transform Kingston Campus north district into health, life sciences hub

KINGSTON, R.I. — September 14, 2005 — University of Rhode Island officials gave an overview to members of the state’s leading media outlets last week of their plans to transform the north district of the Kingston Campus into a hub for health science, research and technology. During the second annual Back to School Media luncheon […]

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URI to host conference, birthday bash in honor of ‘drugs from the sea’ pioneer

Kingston resident Yuzuru Shimizu to be feted KINGSTON, R.I. — July 6, 2005 — How do you celebrate the 70th birthday of a University of Rhode Island professor who is renowned for his research on obtaining drugs from the sea? You simply invite his colleagues, friends and former students from around the world to a […]

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URI pharmacy students teach local children about dangerous substances

A prescription for a healthy future KINGSTON, R.I. — May 24, 2005 — South Kingstown elementary school children learned some important lessons about poisons and cigarettes thanks to University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy students. The URI students visited classes at the South Road School this spring as part the College’s annual outreach program […]

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URI College of Pharmacy joins forces with West Warwick firm to make medical records available in emergencies

An elderly woman in Woonsocket suffers a heart attack and is rushed to the hospital. KINGSTON, R.I. — May 2, 2005 –The area hospital has some of her records because she has been treated there before, but she has been seeing specialists in Providence and Boston. How can medical professionals retrieve information about her prescribed […]

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Perinatal Soup—Early Pathogen or Toxin Exposures Leave Brain Vulnerable

14 February 2005. Scientists have little trouble accepting the idea that ontogeny is a process rich in interplay between genetic and environmental factors, or that environmental insults ranging from malnutrition to toxins during the embryonic and early postnatal periods can harm development. But what about the argument that environmental insults suffered early in life could […]

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URI students demonstrate powerful animation tools for study of complex biomedical processes

$100,000 Champlin Foundations grant provides latest animation technology KINGSTON, R.I. — October 27, 2004 — Powerful computer technology made possible the creation of such animated film hits as Shrek and Finding Nemo. Now, thanks to a $100,000 grant from the Champlin Foundations, the University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy has similar computer animation technology […]

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