An engineering professor at the University of Rhode Island has been awarded a $6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to lead an interdisciplinary consortium of scientists to create brain imaging and modulation technologies that will provide insight into how the nervous system functions in health and

Jessica Janiec and Mahrukh Shaikh are spending the summer visiting farmers’ markets and other venues around Rhode Island to educate private well owners about how to reduce the chance of their drinking water becoming contaminated. Every week they visit three or four different sites, and their important message is always met by a receptive audience

Boston Medical Center (BMC) has received a $1.3 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to support a demonstration project of pharmacy-based naloxone rescue kits to help reduce opioid addiction and overdose death in two New England States: Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The study will be conducted in partnership with Rhode […]

When a University of Rhode Island research professor and her colleagues launch a campaign to fight cervical cancer next month volunteers will be wearing colorful handmade scrubs. Look closely at the medical tops and you’ll see images of the human papillomavirus, or HPV, that can cause the deadly cancer. The scrubs are African storytelling cloths, which […]

For the second year in a row, a team of University of Rhode Island engineering students has won first place in the University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs, sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration

The devastating 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami that killed 230,000 people has raised questions among coastal residents about when the next big tsunami will strike. It’s a question that University of Rhode Island geologist Simon Engelhart knows cannot be answered with any precision. More

A team of University of Rhode Island oceanographers, engineers and students will spend four days in September investigating the underwater remains of a German U-boat sunk in one of the last World War II naval battles in the Atlantic, a battle that took place in Rhode Island waters. And the entire expedition will be streamed […]

Use the active voice. Keep it simple. Eliminate jargon. Sound like tips you’d hear in a journalism class? Guess again. This fall, graduate students in science at the University of Rhode Island will be getting that advice as they hone their writing skills to make them better communicators.

Two weeks before returning to the classroom for the new school year, Nick Terry and eight other teachers from throughout Rhode Island spent five days as students once again. But their classroom wasn’t like any they had seen before.  More