It is truly my delight to highlight the exceptional research and scholarship at the University of Rhode Island and welcome readers to this issue of Momentum: Research & Innovation. This issue is the first I’ve stewarded as URI’s vice president for research and economic development for almost a year. It’s been terrific to get to […]
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Momentum is the University of Rhode Island’s research and innovation magazine.
Rhode Island Rising
RISE-UP has potential to boost state’s economy, create jobs and provide entrepreneurial opportunities for students.
Continue reading "Rhode Island Rising"Artificial Intelligence Permeating Modern Life
URI’s Zhang developing state-of-the-art AI methodology for forecasting market movements.
Continue reading "Artificial Intelligence Permeating Modern Life"Tackling Plastics at URI
URI hosted its inaugural Global Plastics Forum, bringing together more than 80 local, national, and international experts from organizations tackling the impact of plastics throughout the world.
Continue reading "Tackling Plastics at URI"Two URI Professors honored as AAAS Fellows
This year, the American Association for the Advancement of Science named Steven D’Hondt and Sunshine Menezes to its fellowship ranks.
Continue reading "Two URI Professors honored as AAAS Fellows"Beat of the Music (Therapy)
URI‘s O‘Malley embarking on research journey after years as clinical therapist
Continue reading "Beat of the Music (Therapy)"The Impacts of Technology on Communication
Technology is rapidly changing the world we live in— especially the way we communicate and connect. Because of her training and research in journalism, University of Rhode Island (URI) journalism Professor Ammina Kothari values the fundamentals of communication. Kothari’s training and experience teaching news reporting and writing is the foundation of her focus on the […]
Continue reading "The Impacts of Technology on Communication"Why Pathogenic Bacteria Cause Disease
Our bodies are covered in bacteria. However, only some of these bacteria cause disease and The University of Rhode Island’s (URI) Kathryn Ramsey is interested in understanding what makes these particular cells work the way they do. By investigating differences among ribosomes, we may be opening the door to drugs that target specific pathogenic bacteria […]
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The revelatory moment came for Melissa Omand when she, a physical oceanographer by training, saw her husband, Ben, struggling to develop an ocean sensor instrument without using plastics, expending effort for a device and racking up costs as he tested alternative materials. “And the instruments were pretty much a failure,” she recalls. “It is so […]
Continue reading "Made to Degrade"Rats From a Distant Archipelago are Rewriting Our Understanding of Human History
Ancient navigators once relied on the seasonal monsoon winds to make long distance voyages across the northern Indian Ocean, linking Arabia and Egypt to India and China. There was also a lesser known southern monsoon trade route linking Asia directly to sub-Saharan Africa, but no one is sure exactly when or from where it […]
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