Rhode Island’s more than 100 commercial pumpkin farmers have been battling a fungus called powdery mildew that covers the leaves of pumpkin plants with a white film and reduces the size and weight of the pumpkins each plant produces. Some also become infected with black rot, a disease that looks as bad as it sounds.

We all know that carrying extra pounds can be bad for your health. Now a URI professor has found that how society treats overweight people makes matters worse.

Prescribing a medication plan for a patient with Parkinson’s disease is a big challenge for doctors, but now a University of Rhode Island biomedical engineering professor and his students are making great strides in solving that problem with their groundbreaking research.

September 14, 2016 – University of Rhode Island senior Caroline Amelse has been awarded the David E. Lumley Young Scientist Scholarship by the American Geophysical Union, the world’s largest professional organization of earth scientists, astronomers and oceanographers.

Research has shown that effective financial education strongly predicts a young adult’s overall financial capability and well-being. Yet, the research also shows that financial literacy is not as resilient as other learned skills.

The National Science Foundation is inviting nominations for the 2017 Alan T. Waterman Award, The annual award recognizes an outstanding young researcher in any field of science or engineering supported by the National Science Foundation.

Protecting our planet is a worthy mission, but it can’t be done without ensuring that any changes create a just and fair world.

Political science isn’t a field that comes to mind when clinicians are trying to convince adult members of the minority community to get vaccinated against pneumococcal infections, which include pneumonia and bloodstream infections.

Dogs have been used for decades to sniff out explosives, but now a University of Rhode Island scientist and his team have come up with another way to detect bombs: sensors.