The Southeast Asian box turtle is the most heavily trafficked turtle in the world – captured and sold to China for food and medicine and for the pet trade in the United States, Japan and Europe. But little was known about its ecology until a University of Rhode Island herpetologist spent six months studying the […]

University of Rhode Island shark researcher Bradley Wetherbee is best known for his studies of mako sharks, the fastest swimming sharks in the world. But when it came to identifying and describing a new species of shark, the process was anything but fast.

The University of Rhode Island College of Nursing has appointed Katherine Hutchinson to the position of associate dean of the College’s graduate programs and research.

After a wide-ranging search for nominations and thorough deliberations, the new Regional Class Research Vessel that will soon call the University of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay Campus home has a name.

 A five-minute delay in the clamping of healthy infants’ umbilical cords results in increased iron stores and brain myelin in areas important for early-life functional development, a new University of Rhode Island nursing study has found.

Joëlle Rollo-Koster, a history professor at the University of Rhode Island, is heading an international team of scholars that is creating a landmark work on the history of the papacy commissioned by Cambridge University Press.

Being on a ship in rough waters can be unsettling, to say the least. On a research vessel, turbulent waves can lead to more than motion sickness, it can result in valuable equipment being damaged.

Enrollment in the University of Rhode Island’s Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures is booming while enrollments in university foreign language programs have been declining across the nation.

In a pioneering clinical trial that will attack Alzheimer’s disease by targeting inflammation in the brain’s blood vessels, researchers at the George & Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience have received regulatory approval to initiate the BEACON Study. This URI-sponsored study is the first-ever clinical trial led and conducted entirely within the state designed to treat […]