A number of patients who suffer from asthma are bringing their condition under control, increasing their lung function and decreasing the frequency of asthma attacks — all without going to the doctor’s office. The patients involved in a URI College of Nursing professor’s study are benefitting from an emerging trend among nurses to increase patient […]

University of Rhode Island College of Engineering Professor Yan (Lindsay) Sun has been elevated to the rank of Fellow by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Michael Rice, a professor of fisheries and aquaculture at the University of Rhode Island, has been awarded a lifetime achievement award from the government of the Philippines for his many years of work supporting the country’s aquaculture industry. He is just the second foreign national to receive the honor.

Eric Kaldor, assistant director for faculty development, and Holly Swanson, a doctoral student, at the University of Rhode Island have been awarded the Robert J. Menges Award for Outstanding Research in Educational Development.

There has been considerable buzz around the Bioactive Botanical Research Laboratory in the University of Rhode Island’s College of Pharmacy lately. That’s partly because researchers there have a new ally in their quest to find a new treatment for Parkinson’s disease — the fruit fly.

Really, archeology isn’t a lot like “Indiana Jones.” Just ask Ann Terry. Terry, a University of Rhode Island lecturer of art history, spent three weeks last spring studying fragments of 1,500-year-old Byzantine mosaics on the island of Cyprus in the Mediterranean. The work – sorting trays of artifacts and cleaning, classifying and documenting thousands of […]

After leaving behind his studies and his girlfriend at the University of Rhode Island to defend our country as a member of the United States Marine Corps in Afghanistan in 2013, Brett D’Alessandro realized transitioning back into civilian life would be a daunting task.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science has elected a professor emeritus of the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography and an alumnus of the school as 2018 Fellows.