University of Rhode Island engineering students will travel to Colombia this summer to help some people drive a car or eat a meal with both hands.

University of Rhode Island herpetologist Nancy Karraker has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright grant to travel to Indonesia to study declining populations of a turtle that is collected for food, traditional medicine and the pet trade, making it the most heavily traded turtle in the world.

In the fight against cancer, early detection is crucial. Early detection means looking for so-called “biomarkers’’ that signal the start of cancer, often decades before the symptoms of the disease surface.

Pilot Projects involving two researchers at the University of Rhode Island have been awarded federal funding through Advance Clinical and Translational Research (Advance-CTR), a statewide effort to support clinical research that can be translated into approaches and policies that improve the health of Rhode Islanders.

The toxic algae bloom that has closed parts of Narragansett Bay to shellfishing is somewhat of a mystery. Although the algae species has not been identified and why it is producing the toxin now, the nuts and bolts of how it happened and what will happen next are well studied, thanks to the Narragansett Bay […]

The statistic is alarming: More than half of graduate students nationwide drop out before finishing their degree programs.

A book co-authored by a University of Rhode Island professor and a staff member imparts effective methods for creating an empowering learning and teaching environment within higher education for women of color.

You can’t see them with the naked eye, but they’re all over the ocean: diatoms, single-celled organisms that drift on currents.

The newest professor in the University of Rhode Island’s College of the Environment and Life Sciences, Hollie Putnam, thinks some corals and shellfish might have good enough “memories” to buffer the changes in ocean chemistry that are resulting from global climate change.

The ticks that transmit Lyme disease to people die of dehydration when exposed to a combination of high temperature and lowered humidity, a new study by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Rhode Island has found. In an earlier related study, the researchers found that southern black-legged ticks, unlike northern ones, […]