When 16 students from the Met School in Providence and Central Falls High School boarded the Capn’ Bert for the University of Rhode Island’s first Summer Shark Camp, they were quiet.
Continue reading "High School Students from Central Falls, Providence learn about sharks, ocean life"Scientists with a NASA-led expedition are operating from the Inner Space Center at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography as colleagues explore the deep Pacific Ocean to prepare to search for life in deep space.
Continue reading "URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography hosts NASA-led exploration of deep sea"The University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography’s Inner Space Center led a team of natural and social scientists, students and a professional film crew to the Arctic Ocean’s Northwest Passage on August 23 to conduct research aboard the One Ocean Expeditions’ vessel Akademik Ioffe.
Continue reading "University of Rhode Island ocean scientist, graduate student and two professional staff aboard vessel that ran aground in Western Gulf of Boothia in Canada; all passengers are safe"
The University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography’s Inner Space Center is sending a team of natural and social scientists, students and a professional film crew to the Arctic Ocean’s Northwest Passage for an innovative research project that will relay the team’s work in real time to a worldwide audience.
Continue reading "URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography to Lead Arctic Expedition"Jason Kolbe has been thinking about hurricanes and lizards for many years. The University of Rhode Island professor of biological sciences has measured the length of lizard legs and the size of their toe pads to assess how those factors influence the animal’s ability to cling to vegetation during strong storms. He even used a […]
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In 2008, a contaminant eluded the quality safeguards in the pharmaceutical industry and infiltrated a large portion of the supply of the popular blood thinner heparin, sickening hundreds and killing about 100 in the U.S.
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Scientists, post-doctoral researchers, technicians and graduate students from the University of Rhode Island are among 100 researchers from 30 institutions participating in a month-long expedition to study microscopic organisms that live deep in the ocean and play a critical role in removing carbon dioxide from Earth’s atmosphere.
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Mindy Levine, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Rhode Island, is the first recipient of the Sessler Early Career Researcher Prize, awarded in July by the editors of the journal Supramolecular Chemistry for a research paper published in the journal in 2016.
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A University of Rhode Island junior studying mechanical engineering was one of 14 students nationwide to be awarded a fellowship from Cultural Vistas, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C.
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After more than 10 years of research, scientists at the University of Rhode Island’s Biocontrol Laboratory have released a species of moth collected from Ukraine to help control invasive black and pale swallow-worts.
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