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Year: 2021

At Grapes & Grains earlier in the pandemic, from left: RISBDC State Director Ed Huttenhower, store owner Matthew Amaral, and RISBDC Greater Newport Regional Director Paul Harden. (Beau Jones/URI Momentum)

Continued investment in R.I. small business community essential to moving state economy forward from COVID-19

URI announces Class of 2021 Academic Excellence Award winners

Jeancarlos Nolasco proudly displays his diploma

Perseverance and pride: URI student finds support when he needed it most

Zachary Smith poses at Thousand Island Lake

URI International Engineering Program alumnus awarded Fulbright to study energy engineering in Taiwan

Telma Odoom, URI’s college of Nursing

Commencement 2021: Ghanaian nursing student achieves her life’s dream at URI after decade-long struggle

Marie Rodriguez

Commencement 2021: Pharmacy graduate motivated by heartbreaking family experience, desire to care for others

University of Rhode Island rising junior Griffin Melican

SMART Scholarship leads to early job opportunity for URI student

URI program helps increase tech access, decrease isolationism among older adults

URI Commencement 2021: Contact URI’s communications office to cover 135th Commencement

Marland Chang

33rd annual Rainville Awards honor URI student leaders

Jonathan Puritz examines oysters

URI scientist awarded NSF grant to study effects of coastal stressors on oysters

EXPLORING WITH FRIENDS: Elinor, a little rabbit and the main character in Elinor Wonders Why™, checks out a winter forest with her friends, Ari, a bat, and Olive, an elephant. The PBS Kids Show, Elinor Wonders Why™, airs locally on Rhode Island PBS.

URI professor plays prominent role in development of PBS Kids’ show Elinor Wonders Why™

The University of Rhode Island team

Lessons learned from ‘The Cat in the Hat,’ URI students, Rhode Island’s teachers

A teacher, a mentor, a treasure

David Martirano

Venture capitalist David Martirano ’91 makes multi-purpose $500,000 gift to URI

Rhode Island economy continues to move forward says URI economist

Adriana Muñoz-Soto

Intern collaborates on URI engineering project from Puerto Rico

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Peter Ricci (left) and Professor Otto Gregory

Professor develops sensors more sensitive than a dog’s nose

KINGSTON, R.I. – May 13, 2021 – We are frequently reminded of how vulnerable our health and safety are to threats from nature or those who wish to harm us.

New sensors developed by Professor Otto Gregory, of the College of Engineering at the University of Rhode Island, and chemical engineering doctoral student Peter Ricci, are so powerful that they can detect threats at the molecular level, whether it’s explosive materials, particles from a potentially deadly virus or illegal drugs entering the country. More...

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Director Alyssa Botelho ’21 talks with actress Paulina Knaak as cinematographer Sean Campbell prepares to film a scene from “To Dust All Return.” (Photo by Nick Doyle)

Harrington School filmmakers to debut short films at Misquamicut Drive-In on May 20

Peter Ricci (left) and Professor Otto Gregory

Sensors developed at URI can identify explosive materials, particles from a potentially deadly virus and illegal drugs at the part-per-quadrillion level

URI’s 135th Commencement: By the numbers

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Robert Ballard

URI marine explorer Ballard publishes memoir, reveals dyslexia

NARRAGANSETT, R.I. – May 11, 2021 – He found the resting place of the Titanic, John F. Kennedy’s PT-109, the aircraft carrier Yorktown and numerous other modern and ancient shipwrecks, as well as hydrothermal vents and their exotic ecosystem that lives off the energy of the Earth instead of the sun. More...

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Elizabeth Roberts

URI Academic Health Collaborative director brings interdisciplinary approach to boost health care in state

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Director Alyssa Botelho ’21 talks with actress Paulina Knaak as cinematographer Sean Campbell prepares to film a scene from “To Dust All Return.” (Photo by Nick Doyle)

Harrington School filmmakers to debut short films at Misquamicut Drive-In on May 20

KINGSTON, R.I. – May 13, 2021 – Debuting a movie on the big screen is the dream of every young filmmaker. And on Thursday, May 20, about 40 students in two University of Rhode Island film production classes will realize that dream when their short films are screened at the Misquamicut Drive-In in Westerly…. More...

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ROTC cadet Jack Eustis

East Greenwich resident, URI student awarded Department of Defense Project GO Scholarship

Vanessa Quainoo

URI honors Professor Vanessa Quainoo, students, faculty, staff for extraordinary efforts to foster diversity and inclusivity

Robert Ballard

URI marine explorer Ballard publishes memoir, reveals dyslexia

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Elizabeth Roberts

URI Academic Health Collaborative director brings interdisciplinary approach to boost health care in state

KINGSTON, R.I. — May 12, 2021 — The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted, perhaps more than any other period in recent history, the critical importance of the healthcare system, and the need for a multidisciplinary approach to health care and public health…. More...

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Frank Martinez

Commencement 2021: From Cuba to Washington, D.C. to Florida, California, and now Kingston, R.I., Frank Martinez is set to address classmates

Faares Deeb

Commencement 2021: Music, chemical engineering double major plans for a future in an orchestra

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