Oceanographers, engineers and other marine scientists from the University of Rhode Island, in partnership with researchers from seven other institutions in the state, are preparing to deploy an array of instruments in Narragansett Bay as part of a new effort to monitor and predict the Bay’s health in the face of environmental changes.

Nancy Folbre, professor emerita of economics and director of the Program on Gender and Care Work at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Senior Fellow of the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College will discuss “The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems” as part of the University’s 2018 […]

University of Rhode Island graduates Daniel Williams, of North Smithfield, James Kiessling, of East Providence, Christian D’Ovidio of Cranston won the Award of Excellence in the Global Grand Final Competition at the 2018 Innovate FPGA (field-programmable gate array) Global Design Contest. The team also won the contest’s Silver Award in Americas regional award.

Associate Professor of English Peter Covino’s four-year odyssey to bring the works of acclaimed Italian poet Dario Bellezza to an English-speaking audience has received a boost from the National Endowment for the Arts.

A new analysis of ocean regions around the world shows that bottom trawling, which accounts for a quarter of the world’s seafood harvest and can negatively affect marine ecosystems, occurs on just 14 percent of the seafloor along continental shelves and slopes. These findings indicate that the footprint often had been overestimated significantly.

When University of Rhode Island sophomores Johniah Gomez and Elizabeth Saraf learned they had an opportunity to spend the summer studying sharks, they had no idea they would spend a whole month building the gear they were going to use to capture sharks, nor that they would spend hours and hours on boats waiting for […]

When University of Rhode Island senior Ian O’Hara got his first look at a wild bobcat during a summer research project, the animal was much more attractive than he imagined.

Elephants don’t sleep much in the wild, averaging just two hours per night. Even at zoos when they don’t have to watch for predators, they are awake after dark more often than they are asleep. But no one had scientifically scrutinized what they do during those long nights in zoos. Until now.

A drone powered by smart technology whirred around a room today in the University of Rhode Island’s Robert L. Carothers Library and Learning Commons. Nearby, demonstrations of an industrial robot hand, smart textiles for medicine and virtual reality fascinated visitors.