Harold “Bud” Vincent, associate professor of ocean engineering at the University of Rhode Island, stands before a sleek, solar-powered buoy that would look more at home as a satellite in space than an object floating in Narragansett Bay. The machine is one of many that in the coming months will collect data for a new […]

When Buddini Karawdeniya was a middle school student in Sri Lanka, she didn’t want to make the same, boring atom model that her peers constructed year after year.

A University of Rhode Island graduate student studying the varying mowing practices used along Rhode Island roadsides has found that a reduction in mowing does not result in a proliferation of invasive species, as some researchers have previously suggested.

Students from the University of Rhode Island Honors Program will depart Tuesday, April 3 on a six-day oceanographic research expedition, and you are invited to come along.

University of Rhode Island engineering students want to take your pulse—28 different ways. The students are creating a silicone wrist that simulates the 28 pulse patterns used in traditional Chinese medicine to diagnose various diseases.

Corn syrup gets a bad rap from nutritionists for adding on the pounds, but University of Rhode Island researchers are using the gooey stuff to help solve Earth’s evolution.

A part-time faculty member in the University of Rhode Island’s College of Engineering and full-time engineer at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center has won a U.S. Department of Defense Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Advocate Award.

A University of Rhode Island faculty member has been named a 2018 Pillar of the Profession by the leading national association for student affairs professionals.

The second-annual University of Rhode Island Brain Fair will offer the public a chance to discover firsthand the amazing capabilities of our brains and explore brain health and science through creative activities.

What were the precursors to the European financial crisis and subsequent weakening of the European Union? What are the contributions of business to economics, and what are economists and other theorists saying about Marxian economics today?