When University of Rhode Island President David M. Dooley and many other university officials congregated outside Autumn Guillotte’s history class on Monday afternoon, she had no idea that she was soon to be the center of attention. The faculty and administrators were there to announce that Guillotte had been awarded a $30,000 Truman Scholarship, one […]

Three doctoral students at the University of Rhode Island have been selected to receive research grants from The Nature Conservancy and URI’s Coastal Institute for research projects that advance the conservation and restoration of marine and coastal ecosystems.

Sexual exploitation and violence are rampant throughout the world, and academics are rightly pushing the issue into the public eye through their research and articles.

Two University of Rhode Island doctoral students have been awarded prestigious fellowships through the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowships Program.

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.