The Office of Sponsored Projects, Office of Research Integrity and Office of Sponsored Cost Accounting hosted a Research Community Meeting on February 12, 2020. Topics included: updates on new procedures, new sponsor requirements, and our progress with InfoEd implementation.   Click Research Community Meeting Slides 2.12.20 to view the slide presentation

URI chemistry professor wins innovation award for ‘game-changing’ work on single-molecule sensing   Media Contact: Tony LaRoche, 401-874-4894 | Share: Twitter Facebook   KINGSTON, R.I. – Dec. 12, 2019 – Every little kid who dreams of growing up to be a chemist envisions working with test tubes to discover a breakthrough that changes science. Jason Dwyer, associate professor of chemistry at […]

URI, BayCare in Florida and Butler Hospital team up to test retinal scanning for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease Media Contact: Dave Lavallee, 401-874-5862 | Share: Twitter Facebook KINGSTON, R.I. — Jan. 6, 2020 — The University of Rhode Island, in collaboration with BayCare Health System in Florida and The Memory and Aging Program at Butler Hospital, an affiliate of The Warren Alpert Medical School of […]

A group of six ocean engineering students at the University of Rhode Island has developed an acoustic device that successfully detects the sounds made by whales and other marine mammals in the vicinity of the Block Island Wind Farm. The invention was created for the students’ senior capstone design class, a yearlong project that requires […]

Cherish Prickett, who graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rhode Island in 2018 with bachelor’s degrees in industrial and systems engineering and German, was recently awarded a prestigious Fulbright award.

Not many people have the opportunity to mingle with astronauts. But when you work in a lab that is dedicated to human spaceflight, such opportunities occur.

Little is known about the inner structure of the moon, but a major step forward was made by a University of Rhode Island scientist who conducted experiments that enabled her to determine the temperature at the boundary of the moon’s core and mantle.

Offshore renewable energy is an emerging and rapidly growing industry in the United States and around the world. With projects in motion to install approximately 24 gigawatts of proposed capacity for offshore wind energy in the U.S., the ocean presents the next vast and largely untapped renewable energy resource that could be harnessed to help […]

What better day to talk about fake news than April Fools’ Day? On Monday, April 1, four University of Rhode Island history professors will present the discussion “Fake News: A Historical Perspective” from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Agnes G. Doody Auditorium in Swan Hall, 60 Upper College Road, on the Kingston campus. The […]