Year: 2019
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State, URI officials, students and faculty celebrate opening of new bike path spur
University of Rhode Island President David M. Dooley and Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management Director Janet L. Coit cut a ceremonial ribbon before an enthusiastic gathering of faculty, staff, students and local residents to open the University’s new bike path spur. More...
Iconic Pittsburgh jazz DJ donates show archives to URI music Department
Journalist, professor of history to lecture on complicated relationship between religion, politics
State, URI officials, students and faculty celebrate opening of new bike path spur
Peace Corps volunteers, URI alumni to participate in panel discussion for International Week
URI to open new bike path spur Nov. 18
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Biology major’s research seeks to prevent fouling of water sensors that will monitor Narragansett Bay
University of Rhode Island biology major Devyn Barraza knows the problems pollutants have caused in Narragansett Bay – toxic algae blooms that have killed fish, runoff that has closed beaches – and the crucial need for water monitoring… More...
Karl Wadensten ’82 to discuss defining moments and the road to leadership
After voters said ‘Yes on 2,’ URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography earns private support
“Getting the dead to speak” this Friday, Nov. 15, Part of the URI Fall Forensic Science Series
Media Advisory: URI’s Early Childhood Institute to develop early education workforce
Biology major’s research seeks to prevent fouling of water sensors that will monitor Narragansett Bay
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Sacred Heart University professor, Honors Colloquium guest to lecture on decline of participation in organized religion in U.S.
A professor of religious studies at Sacred Heart University, Christel Manning has spent the past decade studying people who leave their religion. She will be visiting the University of Rhode Island Nov. 19 as part of the “Religion in America” Honors Colloquium, where she will discuss a group of people termed the “nones,” or people unaffiliated with any organized religion. More...
URI economist: State’s third-quarter performance not as disappointing as CCI numbers would indicate
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Harrington School filmmakers debut short films in Dec. 11 screenings
Alyssa Botelho ’20 is pretty sure she still has a note from her 4-year-old self telling of her plans to be a writer someday. The dream changed to screenwriter as she got into movies in middle school, and writer-director when she started making films in high school. More...
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URI researchers: Rhode Island conditions excellent for growing world’s most expensive spice
Saffron is the world’s most expensive spice, selling for about $5,000 per pound at wholesale rates, and 90 percent of the global saffron harvest comes from Iran. But University of Rhode Island agriculture researchers have found that Ocean State farms have the potential to get a share of the market as demand for saffron in the United States grows. More...
Armistice Day celebration on the URI campus honors vets sacrifice
URI Theatre presents exciting journey into world of Dungeons & Dragons
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Johns Hopkins professor to lecture on interplay of secular bioethics, religion as part of Honors Colloquium
As part of this year’s ‘Religion in America’ Honors Colloquium, Dr. Jeremy Sugarman will visit the University of Rhode Island to share his thoughts on the inevitable tangling of religion and medicine, and the ethical issues that arise when religious and secular values collide. More...
Sacred Heart University professor, Honors Colloquium guest to lecture on decline of participation in organized religion in U.S.
URI researchers: Rhode Island conditions excellent for growing world’s most expensive spice
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Armistice Day celebration Nov. 6 will honor sacrifice of all veterans
On Wednesday, Nov. 6, in advance of the 101st anniversary of the initial armistice that called for an end to the hostilities of World War I, the URI Student Veterans Organization together with the URI Office of Veteran Affairs and Military Programs will host an Armistice Day Ceremony on the University of Rhode Island Kingston Campus. More...
URI professors to use drones and robots to research harmful algae
Students, looking to launch your own business? Soon there’ll be an app for that
Johns Hopkins professor to lecture on interplay of secular bioethics, religion as part of Honors Colloquium
48 poinsettia varieties on sale by URI Master Gardeners, Nov. 23
URI alumnus, expert on sustainable fisheries to lecture as part of Marine Affairs 50th anniversary
Cracking cold cases part of the URI Fall Forensic Science Series this Friday, Nov. 1
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Noted author, religious historian Judith Weisenfeld to discuss ‘Race and Religion’ as part of URI Diversity Week, Honors Colloquium
Noted author and religious scholar Judith Weisenfeld will speak on race and religion when she is featured as the keynote speaker as part of the University of Rhode Island’s 23rd annual Diversity Week. Weisenfeld is the Agate Brown and George L. More...