A newly published article by a University of Rhode Island nursing professor tackles the complexities and controversies surrounding the Affordable Care Act, including efforts to replace the current law, the role of politics in policy-making and relevance to nursing, other health professions, patients and policymakers.

Tao Wei, an associate professor of electrical engineering at the University of Rhode Island, has won a Young Investigator Program award from the Office of Naval Research.

About a third of the world’s fish is caught using bottom trawling, a method that drags a net along the seabed, scooping up everything in its path.

Faculty at the University of Rhode Island and colleagues from across the nation will present research age-related muscle loss in older women as part of a symposium at the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics next week in San Francisco.

In the first program of its kind in the nation, local pharmacies are offering eligible consumers on-site antibiotic treatment to reduce the chance of developing Lyme disease.

Michael Bradley calls eelgrass “the canary in the coal mine for estuarine health.” The flowering plant that grows beneath the surface of coastal waters and salt ponds provides nursery habitat for shellfish and finfish while also dampening wave energy, stabilizing sediments and serving as an indicator of clean water.

Max Bliss is worried that many developing nations have become so dependent on a small number of other countries for their energy needs that they could be exploited or controlled. It’s an issue he wants to address once he graduates from the University of Rhode Island in 2019.

Two University of Rhode Island students are sailing to remote islands in the Pacific Ocean to study any damage to coral reefs from climate change.

Two scientists who collaborate on groundbreaking approaches to neurodegenerative disease are relocating to the University of Rhode Island from Stony Brook University in New York. Individually and as a team, William Van Nostrand and John Robinson have made significant discoveries that advance the understanding of Alzheimer’s disease and other conditions caused by damage to and […]

University of Rhode Island engineering students will unveil the prosthetic arms and hands they made for amputees in Colombia at a special event on Thursday, July 6.