Focus: Hidden - Rhode Island

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University of Washington’s School of Nursing's Dean Emerita Nancy Woods addresses faculty at the University of Rhode Island's College of Nursing.

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University of Rhode Island nursing students are paired with RNs at The Miriam Hospital in Providence for one-on-one real-world learning experiences.

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Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, University of Rhode Island President David M. Dooley and URI College of Engineering Dean Raymond Wright joined other state, University and business leaders in a ceremonial groundbreaking today to launch construction of URI’s new $125 million engineering complex.

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About 15,000 graduating students, families and friends will gather with faculty and staff for Commencement 2017 and mark the University's 125th Anniversary.

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Pilot Projects involving two researchers at the University of Rhode Island have been awarded federal funding through Advance Clinical and Translational Research (Advance-CTR), a statewide effort to support clinical research that can be translated into approaches and policies that improve the health of Rhode Islanders

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Graduate student has found some synthetic chemicals in greater concentrations than many other pollutants, including the previously banned flame retardants.

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XPRIZE officials say Rhyner is among the leaders in underwater exploration.

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Professor is studying how a variety of marine organisms are responding to changes in their environment. Focusing on reef-building corals and other shelled creatures that are threatened by increasing temperatures and ocean acidification, she is testing them to determine how species may acclimatize to the new circumstances.

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Student launched a new textbook marketplace to help students receive a fair resale value for their textbooks. The market is specific to each college and offers a tailored experience for students.

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ASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education has named Annemarie Vaccaro recipient of the 2017 George D. Kuh Outstanding Contribution to Literature and/or Research Award. Vaccaro, associate professor of Human Development and Family Studies in the College of Health Sciences/Academic Health Collaborative, is also director of the University’s College Student Personnel Program.

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The National Quality Forum recently named Betty Rambur, the College of Nursing’s Routhier Endowed Chair for Practice, to its Cost and Resource Use Committee.

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Jennifer McCann, director of U.S. coastal programs for the Coastal Resources Center at the University of Rhode Island and extension director of Rhode Island Sea Grant, has received an international award for her work in coastal and ocean planning.

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Commercial Pattern Archive dates back to 1847 and represents patterns from nearly 100 different companies.

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University of Rhode Island pharmacy professor has discovered potential complications when Hepatitis C and HIV drugs are used in combination with additional medications to combat co-infections.

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Research team has discovered an important molecular link between a rare childhood genetic disease and a major cancer gene. The discovery could lead to improved treatment outcomes for some cancer patients.

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How much force does it take to shatter a Humvee, a soldier’s body armor, or a submarine? URI professor is finding answers to those questions and more.

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Undergraduate business students took the lead building an agency to increase brand awareness and target marketing to millennials.

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Winter moths are creating a nuisance and laying eggs that may lead to another spring of defoliated and dying trees.

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"Remember Pearl Harbor" is the latest documentary from Tim Gray that features interviews with veterans who witnessed the Dec. 7, 1941 attack.

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Mechanical engineering students at the University of Rhode Island are collaborating with a local doctor and a Rhode Island company to create a brace that, well, fits like a glove—and is just as comfortable.

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URI Professor harvests student enthusiasm with hands-on research.

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Frenzied activity defined HealthHacks RI 2016, the health and wellness hack-a-thon at which some award-winning technologies were developed.

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New facility sets the stage for students from communication studies, film/media, journalism, public relations, writing and rhetoric and library and information studies.

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Tracking health behaviors provides opportunity to detect important patterns with statistics and, in turn, intervene to help people with technology or other interventions.

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Groundbreaking research to help resolve medication plan challenge for treating Parkinson's.

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URI professor has found that how society treats overweight people makes health matters worse.

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Partnership to build healthier communities throughout Rhode Island and to strengthen the state’s public health workforce.

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The University of Rhode Island recently inducted 12 faculty and staff members with at least 40 years of service into its Lifetime Service Society during ceremonies outside the Robert L. Carothers Library and Learning Commons. Each recipient received a certificate and a commemorative brick, inscribed with their name and years of service, which will be placed in the courtyard of the library.

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Financial knowledge and ability is a fundamental learned skill set for well being in the 21st Century.

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Scientists from the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography will try to answer that question during an international research expedition off the coast of Japan.

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Denver native says dragonfish have highly evolved system for detecting water flows

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Federal investigators found the “black box’’ that could reveal why the El Faro cargo ship sank off the Bahamas in a hurricane last fall. The University of Rhode Island played a key role in the discovery. URI’s acclaimed Inner Space Center at the Graduate School of Oceanography provided telepresence technology—and its expertise—to assist with the search.

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The ecology of the Rhode Island shore has changed dramatically in the last two decades due to one relatively recent invader: the Asian shore crab.

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URI President David M. Dooley visits the University of Cape Coast in Ghana to discuss ongoing collaboration between the two institutions and student exchange programs.

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University appoints new VP for Student Affairs following a national search. Kathy M. Collins will be the primary spokesperson on matters pertaining to the social and academic needs of students.

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The thousands of students and families gathered for the University of Rhode Island's 130th Commencement will hear from one individual whose words are part of the national dialogue on equal justice and constitutional law.

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University makes big investment in big data.

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Doctoral student first to investigate the ecology of the orcas that live around Newfoundland and Labrador.

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The designation of marine protected areas in the coral reefs of East Africa may not be the only solution to overfishing. A URI scientist says that’s because broad protections like the establishment of no-fishing zones often do not target the species critical for promoting healthy ecosystems.

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Oceanographic research expeditions can be extremely expensive undertakings, especially when the operating cost of a research ship for just one day can top $25,000. But a University of Rhode Island graduate student has figured out how to do it on the cheap and still make exciting discoveries.

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A URI undergraduate has investigated six research papers claiming discoveries of human-associated fungi living in seafloor sediments and concluded that they were likely the result of contaminated samples.

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A URI researcher is developing a nicotine vaccine and accompanying drug delivery system that he believes could lead to one of the most effective methods of combating cigarette smoking and other tobacco use.

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Results of 6-year URI nursing study at Women & Infants Hospital released in The Journal of Pediatrics.

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An international team of scientists has found oxygen and oxygen-breathing microbes all the way through the sediment from the seafloor to the igneous basement at seven sites in the South Pacific gyre, considered the “deadest” location in the ocean.

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URI doctoral student Brennan Phillips is on the hunt for underwater volcanoes so he can collect data on the plumes of hot fluids and chemical compounds emanating from hydrothermal vents in and around the craters. His latest adventure took him to the unexplored Kavachi volcano off the Solomon Islands.

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A team of URI engineers has created a new paper-based platform for conducting a wide range of complex medical diagnostics. The key development was the invention of fluid actuated valves embedded in the paper that allow for sequential manipulation of sample fluids and multiple reagents in a controlled manner to perform complex multi-step immune-detection tests without human intervention.

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Two URI history professors are leading practitioners of the emerging discipline of applied history, using the knowledge and wisdom of the past to help identify and address present-day issues.

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A URI researcher who measured organic pollutants in the air and water around Lake Erie and Lake Ontario has found that airborne emissions are no longer the primary cause of the lakes’ contamination. Instead, most of the lakes’ chemical pollutants come from sources on land or in rivers.

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Research on underwater volcanoes, Great Lakes pollution, subseafloor life and much more will be among the 40 projects that will be presented by scientists from the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography at the American Geophysical Union’s fall meeting in San Francisco from Dec. 15 to 19.

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Researchers at the University of Rhode Island have analyzed almost 40 years of election data and relocation patterns around the United States and found that Americans are increasingly sorting themselves into politically homogeneous communities. But it hasn’t happened in the way they expected.