Two University of Rhode Island students have been awarded the Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the most prestigious scholarship awarded to undergraduates studying the marine sciences. Since 2009, URI students have won 25 Hollings Scholarships, at least one every year and one of the highest totals of any institution […]

Karla Haiat has already studied hammerhead sharks in Hawaii, tested oceanographic sensors in Florida, conducted laboratory studies of fish sensory systems in Rhode Island, and researched the carbon cycle in Georgia. Now the University of Rhode Island junior is headed to California for a prestigious summer internship at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute to […]

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.