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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URI’s Biocontrol Laboratory heading project to fight invasive weed
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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For students studying the natural sciences at the University of Rhode Island, working in a lab is a coveted campus job. Many students gravitate toward labs that conduct research in their field, but at the Biocontrol Laboratory, students work in the lab and in the field to combat invasive species.
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University of Rhode Island Assistant Professor of Engineering Gretchen Macht is using a $226,942 grant to conduct research into how to streamline the voting process in Rhode Island.
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The Rhode Island International Film Festival is dedicating its 22nd season to “groundbreaking educator” Winifred “Winnie” E. Brownell, Dean Emerita of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Rhode Island, as the festival opens a yearlong celebration of women in film and the arts.
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University of Rhode Island Professor Mary Healey Jamiel’s awarding-winning documentary film “Searchdog” has been released to an international audience on i-Tunes, Amazon, and Google Play.
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Contrary to popular belief across college campuses, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medications may fail to improve cognition in healthy students and actually can impair functioning, according to a study by researchers at the University of Rhode Island and Brown University.
Continue reading "Study: ADHD drugs do not improve cognition in healthy college students"URI engineer: Origami-inspired device enables easy capture, release of delicate underwater organisms Posted on July 18, 2018
The open ocean is the largest and least explored environment on Earth, estimated to hold up to a million species that have yet to be described. However, many of those organisms are soft-bodied – like jellyfish, squid, and octopuses – and are difficult to capture for study with existing underwater tools, which all too frequently […]
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected the East Coast Oceanographic Consortium, led by the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography, to operate a new oceanographic research ship, one of only three such vessels in the nation.
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The University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy is now ranked 11th in the nation in total federal research grant funding after securing nearly $12 million in federal funds in fiscal 2017, the latest year for which numbers are available. The number 11 rank — of 138 pharmacy colleges nationwide — is a record for URI.
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