The Champlin Foundation, one of the oldest philanthropic organizations in Rhode Island, has awarded four grants totaling $623,460 to the University of Rhode Island for tools and technologies that support educational goals across the institution.

A University of Rhode Island doctoral student who surveyed the state for freshwater turtles and studied their habitat preferences found that the once-common spotted turtle is in trouble, due largely to habitat disturbance.

URI College of Pharmacy faculty members have secured more than $3.7 million in research grants in the last half of 2017, funding multiple research projects on diverse topics ranging from cerebral palsy, to environmental toxins, to Alzheimer’s Disease, to DNA mutation and repair. The following pharmacy professors have recently received funding for their various studies:

Every year, less than .1 percent of the 400,000-plus members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE, are selected to become fellows—the organization’s highest membership honor.

The boy looked at his new arm and grinned. How does that big thing work? What’s with the wires? Circuit boards?

When John Kirby was hired as dean of the University of Rhode Island’s College of the Environment and Life Sciences in 2010, he made it clear that he wanted to establish long-term relationships with several developing nations around the world where the college could lend its expertise.

The University of Rhode Island, the University of Connecticut and the U.S. Navy’s primary builder of submarines are at the helm of the new National Institute for Undersea Vehicle Technology. Established at UConn’s coastal Avery Point campus, the institute develops the personnel and knowledge to accelerate critical research of and enhance American dominance in submarine […]

A patient in the ICU is suffering from a protracted asthma attack that is not responding to standard treatment. What medication will help this patient breathe and raise his oxygen levels? How should this medication be administered to save the patient’s life?

Getting a biopsy for cancer is scary enough, but the long wait for the results can cause even more anxiety. A University of Rhode Island graduate student studying physics and business has come up with a method to speed up biopsy test results.

A University of Rhode Island College of Nursing professor is studying couples receiving methadone maintenance treatment for opioid use disorder and how being in recovery together influences treatment beliefs and outcomes.