With the medical use of marijuana becoming more common and public awareness of it increasing, more and more scientists are judiciously studying all potential medical uses of the plant. Israel has a long history with medical cannabis and is considered a global leader of its research and innovation.

A $1 million gift will advance efforts to revitalize facilities at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography. Stephen M. Greenlee M.S. ’82 and Donna Church Greenlee made the gift to support detailed development efforts to expand research and teaching capacity.

Vanessa Kamara has always had a curious mind and a thirst for knowledge. As a biomedical engineering student at the University of Rhode Island, the junior has enjoyed learning about the many scientific disciplines involved in her major.

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.