KINGSTON, R.I. – Feb. 10, 2023 – As reports of atmospheric rivers and life-threatening floods in California captured headlines at the start of this year, making 2023 a year for the weather history books, one URI water researcher found himself up close with …
GSO launches public lecture series, discuss the price of convenience: plastics and forever chemicals.
Caribbean scholar, activist, performance poet Taitu Heron visits URI, offers series of events.
KINGSTON, R.I., – Feb. 9, 2023 – University of Rhode Island Professors J.P. Walsh and Rainer Lohmann discussed the wide-ranging impacts of ocean plastics and PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” in a recent talk at the URI Narragansett Bay Campus. The two …
KINGSTON, R.I. — University of Rhode Island President Marc Parlange — in his first State of the University address — introduced a four-prong, decade-long strategic plan last week that includes fostering equity on-campus and modernizing administrative and …
KINGSTON, R.I. – Feb. 9, 2023 – Raised in Kingston, Jamaica, by parents who were Rastafarian, Taitu Heron was taught to always question the system, analyze and call out discrimination. Yet there was an inherent conflict in a patriarchal culture between how …
KINGSTON, R.I. – Feb. 9, 2023 – With the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria, University of Rhode Island professors Meng “Matt” Wei and Brian Savage shared their insights. Wei, an associate professor in URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography, says, “This …
A stifling defense and another dominant performance from Mayé Touré spurred Rhode Island to its 11th straight victory as the Rams handled George Washington, 64-47, Wednesday night. With the victory, the Rams URI (20-3, 11-0 Atlantic 10) clinched its second …
The University of Rhode Island football team dug into some fertile recruiting ground to finish off its signing class. Three players from Florida and a quarterback from Texas highlighted the group of seven high school players who signed last week. They join …
PROVIDENCE - A new year, a familiar question: Should Rhode Island scrap its Republican and Democratic primaries? This year the question is being asked by one group urging "serious consideration" by state lawmakers of alternatives to the status …
Posted on February 8, 2023 Updated on February 8, 2023 URI Couple and Family Therapy Clinic offers promotion in honor of the holiday KINGSTON, R.I. — Feb. 8, 2023 — Student couples are invited to participate in a relationship assessment and follow-up …
Why the 'People's Primary' report argues RI's primary system is a problem that needs to be fixed. How does the current primary election system work? What are the three alternative options they are proposing PROVIDENCE - A new year, a …
KINGSTON, R.I. – Feb. 8, 2023 – If Verna Lafreniere were to write a book, the Exeter resident would title it “Hurdles and Rainbows.” But those who see Lafreniere in action as an information aide at the University of Rhode Island’s Robert J. Higgins Welcome …
Women’s basketball head coach Tammi Reiss named ESPNW Coach of the Week.
Quiltfolk magazine highlights URI’s Historic Textile and Costume Collection, quilt documentation project.
Rhode Island Public Transit Authority buses make a lot of turns — through Providence’s narrow streets, onto Aquidneck Island’s towering bridges, and, occasionally, into the tunnel of love. Jon and Brittany Dunne were transported to the land of romance one …
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — How do you destroy pollution so stubborn, it’s nicknamed “forever chemicals”? That’s a question researchers and companies across the country are eager to answer, as regulation tightens on PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, …
URI women’s basketball coach Tammi Reiss was recognized by ESPN Monday. In a piece by M.A. Voepel on ESPN.com on Women’s Basketball Power Rankings, Reiss was recognized as the Coach of the Week: https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/ …
