An undergraduate from the University of Rhode Island was named the top presenter at last night’s statewide Elevator Pitch Contest, sponsored by the Rhode Island Business Plan Competition, for her proposal to create a business based on a wearable eye-tracker to control a robotic arm.

A University of Rhode Island researcher in its College of Pharmacy is developing a nicotine vaccine and accompanying drug delivery system that he believes could lead to one of the most effective methods of combating cigarette smoking and other tobacco use.

Teaching children with learning or behavioral challenges is rewarding, but also stressful. Education scholar R. Bruce Baum has some advice: laugh.

When Melissa Omand was making initial plans last year to lead a five-day research expedition aboard the University of Rhode Island ship Endeavor, she had no idea that she would be nearly eight months pregnant by the time the vessel departed for the continental shelf.  More

Delaying umbilical cord clamping for 30 to 45 seconds among a group of preterm infants led to better motor function when compared to infants whose cords were clamped immediately, according to a new study by two University of Rhode Island nursing professors.

A report released yesterday by the U.S. Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense identified “serious gaps and inadequacies that continue to leave the nation vulnerable to biothreats.” The report on the state of national biodefense calls for a dramatic change in the government’s approach to biodefense and pandemic preparedness, including the development of technologies that […]

The University of Rhode Island has selected Paula Grammas, former executive director of the Garrison Institute on Aging at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and an international leader in the study of Alzheimer’s disease, to be the inaugural director of The George & Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience. She will also become the […]

Standing on the edge of Schoolhouse Pond in Charlestown, Chris Roman and Marcella Thompson watched as an unmanned kayak traveled back and forth across the pond in a series of calculated switchbacks. When it had completed its mission, the vessel returned to its starting point where the two University of Rhode Island researchers were waiting.

A University of Rhode Island researcher and his team in the College of Pharmacy have found that a class of complex carbohydrates could enhance treatment of urinary tract infections. Biomedical Science Professor David Rowley’s findings appear in a recent issue of the Journal of Functional Foods, which is published by the International Society for Nutraceuticals and […]

A University of Rhode Island engineering professor has been awarded a three-year, $282,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a system of intelligent robots that can help direct or lead people to appropriate exits if an emergency evacuation is necessary.