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.
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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.
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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.
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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 […]
Continue reading "Ryan Institute for Neuroscience at URI Receives Approval for Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Targeting the Blood Vessels in Alzheimer’s Disease"Commercial fishermen have very different perceptions of the impact of the Block Island Wind Farm than do recreational fishermen, according to a survey of both groups by a University of Rhode Island doctoral student.
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The international governance of marine areas beyond national jurisdictions is an issue of growing importance as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, islands become submerged, and artificial islands are constructed. As territorial boundaries change, conflicts are arising that no one envisioned in the 1970s and 80s when the United Nations Convention on the Law of the […]
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Researchers from the URI Graduate School of Oceanography were awarded a $2 million grant as part of a long-term research campaign to help improve understanding and prediction of the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current.
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Suboptimal diet is the leading risk factor for death and disability in the US, and low-income, racial/ethnic minority children are particularly at risk. University of Rhode Island College of Health Sciences Associate Professor Alison Tovar is working to improve diet quality in children, even if it means directly visiting homes.
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Oceanographers at the University of Rhode Island have found that even slight levels of ocean oxygen loss, or deoxygenation, have big consequences for tiny marine organisms called zooplankton.
Continue reading "URI researchers: Small changes in oxygen levels have big implications for ocean life"A fisheries researcher at the University of Rhode Island has found that oyster aquaculture operations can limit the spread of disease among wild populations of oysters. The findings are contrary to long-held beliefs that diseases are often spread from farmed populations to wild populations.
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