December 22, 2018

Promoting sustainability one refill at a time

KINGSTON, R.I.–December 21, 2018– Students at the University of Rhode Island now have an extra incentive to use refillable bottles and keep plastic disposable bottles out of landfills. A new refill tracking system allows users to save 10 percent on purchases at campus stores, as well as provide clean water to those in need.

December 4, 2018

URI team honored for research in educational development

KINGSTON, R.I. — December 3, 2018 — 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.

November 2, 2018

The SMILE Program celebrates 25th year Program marks successful collaboration with URI

KINGSTON, R.I. — October 30, 2018 — For 25 years, the Science and Math Investigative Learning Experience (SMILE) Program has helped instill a love of learning in these fields among students across the state. An afterschool enrichment program for students in grades four through 12, it provides them with opportunities to conduct experiments with wind turbines, magnets, math and more to help put them on a path to college.

October 23, 2018

World-renowned French playwright to perform staged reading with URI students

KINGSTON, R.I. — October 15, 2018 — Jean-Rene Lemoine, a contemporary French playwright, director and actor, will visit classrooms and deliver a staged reading of his play “Erzuli Dahomey, Goddess of Love” on Oct. 23 as part of the University of Rhode Island’s Distinguished Visiting International Artist Program.

October 23, 2018

URI engineering students win Award of Excellence, regional Silver Award in computer engineering competition

KINGSTON, R.I. — October 11, 2018 — University of Rhode Island graduates Daniel Williams, of North Smithfield, James Kiessling, of East Providence, Christian D’Ovidio of Cranston won the Award of Excellence in the Global Grand Final Competition at the 2018 Innovate FPGA (field-programmable gate array) Global Design Contest.

October 11, 2018

Two URI student teams take top spots at HealthHacks RI

KINGSTON, R.I. — September 27, 2018– University of Rhode Island teams captured the top two spots last weekend in the annual HealthHacks RI competition, sponsored by Johnson & Johnson, Delsys, and IEEE, along with URI’s Colleges of Engineering, Nursing, Health Sciences and Business.

October 11, 2018

URI Landscape Architecture series begins its 26th year

KINGSTON, R.I.– September 20, 2018 — For the first time, the University of Rhode Island will host an all-female Landscape Architecture speaker series. Lisa Delplace, chief executive officer of Oehme, van Sweden, in Washington, D.C., kicks off the series today, Sept. 20 with her lecture titled, “Pushing the Palette Forward: Innovation in a Dynamic World.”

October 11, 2018

URI engineering students win Award of Excellence, regional Silver Award in computer engineering competition

KINGSTON, R.I. — October 11, 2018 — University of Rhode Island graduates Daniel Williams, of North Smithfield, James Kiessling, of East Providence, Christian D’Ovidio of Cranston won the Award of Excellence in the Global Grand Final Competition at the 2018 Innovate FPGA (field-programmable gate array) Global Design Contest. The team also won the contest’s Silver Award in Americas regional award.

September 20, 2018

URI Recognizes Artists for FREEZE

KINGSTON, R.I.–September 17, 2018–The University of Rhode Island Harrington School of Communications and Media will honor the public art of local artists Erica Carpenter and Erik Carlson, both of Cranston, in the Harrington Hub Friday, Sept. 21 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

August 28, 2018

High School Students from Central Falls, Providence learn about sharks, ocean life

KINGSTON, R.I. — August 28, 2018 — When 16 students from the Met School in Providence and Central Falls High School boarded the Capn’ Bert for the University of Rhode Island’s first Summer Shark Camp, they were quiet. “They started out a little introverted,” said Brad Wetherbee, a biological sciences professor in the University of Rhode Island’s College of the Environment and Life Sciences and shark expert.

August 27, 2018

URI Honors Public Safety Officials, Employees for Outstanding Service

KINGSTON, R.I. — August 27, 2018–The University of Rhode Island Department of Public Safety gathered August 16 to honor the accomplishments of several officers and administrators at their second annual awards ceremony.

August 20, 2018

URI’s Biocontrol Laboratory heading project to fight invasive weed

KINGSTON, R.I.–July 31, 2018–After more than 10 years of research, scientists at the University of Rhode Island’s Biocontrol Laboratory have released a species of moth collected from Ukraine to help control invasive black and pale swallow-worts.

August 20, 2018

URI’s International Nonviolence Summer Institute fosters change in communities around the globe

KINGSTON, R.I., –June 20, 2018 ­ In 2012, Wendy Bowen was a teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, when the unthinkable happened. A gunman shot his way into the school and killed 20 first-graders and six staff members. That event changed the course of Bowen’s life.

August 22, 2018

URI Big Band to join jazz legends for sixth summer at Newport Jazz Festival

KINGSTON, R.I.–July 30, 2018–The University of Rhode Island’s Big Band will perform again at this year’s Newport Jazz Festival. Performing music by classical jazz musicians like Duke Ellington and contemporary artists like Maria Schneider, 17 URI students and alumni will take the Harbor Stage at the Newport Jazz Fest, Saturday, Aug. 4 at 11 a.m.

August 20, 2018

URI students help fight invasive species at URI’s Biocontrol Laboratory, in field

KINGSTON, R.I. — July 31, 2018 — For students studying the natural sciences at the University of Rhode Island, working in a lab is a coveted campus job. Many students gravitate toward labs that conduct research in their field, but at the Biocontrol Laboratory, students work in the lab and in the field to combat invasive species.

August 22, 2018

Winners announced for URI’s annual high school Chemistry Contest

KINGSTON, R.I. — June 11, 2018 — Three hundred students from nine Rhode Island high schools competed at the University of Rhode Island’s 85th annual Chemistry Contest. The contest is split into individual and team competitions, and students are entered in two divisions, depending on the number of years of high school chemistry instruction.

August 22, 2018

U.S. Secretary of Education names URI a 2018 Green Ribbon School

KINGSTON, R.I.–May 18, 2018–The U.S. Department of Education has announced that the University of Rhode Island is a 2018 Green Ribbon School. The University received the Postsecondary Sustainability Award. URI is the only college in New England to be selected for this honor. URI was nominated by Martin Quirk, postsecondary policy specialist for the Rhode Island council on postsecondary education.

August 22, 2018

URI seniors showcase research at annual Honors Program Conference

KINGSTON, R.I. — May 16, 2018 — Understanding deaf culture, the future of radio and the effects of visuals on social media are just some of the wide range of topics explored by graduating seniors in the University of Rhode Island Honors Program.

August 22, 2018

URI will be busy this summer with numerous camps, courses and institutes

KINGSTON, R.I. — May 1, 2018 — The University of Rhode Island will host dozens of summer camps on a wide variety of topics from computer science and media literacy to agriculture and sailing. But URI’s summer of 2018 will offer more than just camps. Earn university course credit during one of the University’s  summer sessions or expand your horizons at one of its summer institutes.

August 22, 2018

URI honors Niels-Viggo Hobbs with first part-time faculty excellence award

KINGSTON, R.I. — June 11, 2018 — The Office of the Provost at the University of Rhode Island honored Biology Instructor Niels-Viggo Hobbs of Providence with the first Part-time Faculty Teaching Excellence Award. The award honors part-time faculty whose work is exceptional. “It’s an award about teaching excellence. The award is meant for someone who is a well-rounded teacher, good in and out of the classroom, and a good advisor,” said Matthew Bodah.