With the largest private donation in its history, the University of Rhode Island will establish a neuroscience research institute named for the parents of Thomas M. Ryan, former CEO of CVS Caremark. Tom and his wife Cathy have donated $15 million to establish the George & Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience at URI.
Misuse of prescription stimulants by students has become a fact of life on college campuses as some students seek every advantage they can to succeed.
University of Rhode Island entomologists reached a milestone in their efforts to control the invasive weed swallow-wort this month with the first release of a biological agent to fight the pest.
Recent reports that lobster shell disease has turned up along the coast of Maine have Kathy Castro worried. The URI fisheries scientist has led a 15-year international effort to understand what causes the disease that has, until recently, been confined primarily to the waters of southern New England and Long Island Sound.
When 2-year-old Logan Stevenson served as best man at his parents’ wedding just days before he died of a rare genetic disorder, it drew international attention to a disease about which few people had ever heard. Hearing Logan’s story added another level of urgency to the research being conducted by URI Professor Niall Howlett.
Three URI students are on the trail of an invasive beetle that rapidly kills ash trees, but instead of searching for the beetle itself they are looking for wasps that feed on the beetle. The new strategy, called biosurveillance, is being implemented in collaboration with the RI Department of Environmental Management to determine whether populations of the emerald ash borer have arrived in Rhode Island.
A team of researchers from the University of Rhode Island, Brown University and Roger Williams University are working to identify the cause of a disease that is killing starfish from New Jersey to Maine.
Swimming in a 20,000 gallon tank at the University of Rhode Island are several large yellowfin tuna captured last fall about 100 miles off the Rhode Island coast. The fish are part of the first effort in the United States to breed tuna in a land-based aquaculture facility to meet the growing demand for tuna.
You’re packing for a long trip to Mars and suddenly the anxiety hits: What to wear? You could suit up in bulky white duds or consider the advice of a University of Rhode Island professor: washable, recyclable clothes. Karl Aspelund says we should start thinking about what kinds of clothes astronauts will need for decades-long space missions, considered the next phase of exploration to infinity and beyond.
A group of University of Rhode Island students have been jumping up and down for weeks on a variety of playing surfaces in a study to evaluate how each affects athletic performance and injury potential.
A detailed analysis of data from nearly 50 years of weekly fish-trawl surveys in Narragansett Bay and adjacent Rhode Island Sound has revealed a long-term shift in species composition, which scientists attribute primarily to the effects of global warming.
The University of Rhode Island has begun enrolling students in the nation's first graduate degree program to merge a master of business administration with a master's of oceanography degree for students interested in addressing climate change opportunities.
A URI engineer has developed a unique system that rapidly reduces one's body temperature in emergency situations to aid in recovering from heart attacks and other serious illnesses.
An analysis of textile fragments excavated from a 5th century Mayan tomb in Honduras, some of the few surviving textiles from the Mayan civilization, revealed high quality fabrics produced by highly skilled spinners and weavers.
At any given moment more than 98,000 people in this country are waiting for lifesaving organ transplants. David Gitlitz, a long-time professor of Spanish at URI, is one of the lucky ones. Seven people offered to share their liver with him.
Author Chris Cleave will be a writer-in-residence at URI next month. Cleave's book, Incendiary, is an international bestseller that was published in 20 countries. A movie based on the book will be released this year.
The U. S. Department of Homeland Security has selected the University of Rhode Island and Northeastern University as co-leaders of a new Center of Excellence for Explosives Detection, Mitigation, and Response. Each institution will receive a multi-year grant of up to $2 million per year over a period of four to six years.
As the political process has gone high-tech, a URI political science professor is examining the influence of the Internet on individuals during political campaigns. He is available to comment throughout this year's presidential campaign.
It has been 40 million years since the waters around Antarctica have been warm enough to sustain populations of sharks and most fish, but they may return this century due to the effects of global warming. If they do, the impact on Antarctic ecology could be serious.
A pharmacy researcher is developing compounds that could play a major role in the fight against certain cancers, discovering novel compounds to fight the virus that causes AIDS, and finalizing development of a cream that could be used by women during intercourse to prevent HIV transmission.
Psychology faculty members at the University of Rhode Island have signed a resolution opposing the position of the American Psychological Association that allows psychologists working in foreign prisons to assist teams in certain kinds of interrogations.
Artificial jellyfish, explosives sensors and seabed batteries are among the diverse research projects under way just nine months after the creation of a Center of Excellence in Undersea Technology in collaboration with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Rhode Island.
Researchers from the University of Rhode Island's Center for Vector-Borne Disease are teaming with colleagues from Pakistan to help the south Asian nation address its growing tick problem.
The Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental reporting is recruiting journalists for two science training fellowships: Metcalf's Tenth Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists, and the Metcalf Institute Diversity Fellowships in Environmental Reporting.
The Metcalf Institute for Marine & Environmental Reporting invites entries for the third annual $75,000 Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment by media in the U.S. and Canada.
A URI professor returned Monday from a week of meetings with Russia's religious and political leaders, including President Vladimir Putin, which provided him with a unique opportunity to "take the pulse of the Russian elite."
The University of Rhode Island is developing the world's first graduate degree program that would merge a master of business administration with a master's degree in ocean and climate science. The two-year, dual degree, which the University is aiming to offer in the fall of 2008, would educate future leaders in global change opportunities.
A URI scholar will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other political and religious leaders in Moscow Sept. 10-14 in meetings on Russia's "search for self-identity."
A URI physics department staff member has done what many experts said was impossible -- he dramatically reduced the size of a DLM antenna while maintaining its efficiency and bandwidth. The technology recently received a patent and is being licensed by Lear Corp. for automotive uses.
A new study in Narragansett Bay has revealed a surprising reversal in its nitrogen cycle. Instead of removing nitrogen through denitrification, the sediments have become a source of nitrogen through a bacterial process called nitrogen fixation.
Farmers in Jamestown, R.I., are being paid by local residents to delay haying their fields until after birds have completed nesting in a unique test to establish investment markets for ecological services.
An oceanographer who helped develop the most accurate hurricane prediction tool at the National Hurricane Center is completing work on an even better model that for the first time uses satellite technology to help predict a storm's path, intensity and surge.
Farmers in Jamestown, R.I., are being paid by local residents to delay haying their fields until after birds have completed nesting in a unique test to establish investment markets for ecological services.
English professor Mary Cappello didn't plan to write about awkwardness, but she followed a fork in the road that led her to one less traveled and to the discovery that while awkwardness with its multiple definitions is wholly pervasive, it is woefully ignored and unexamined. The result is a book-length essay called Awkward: A Detour released this month by Bellevue Literary Press.
If there was ever any question about whether or not the University of Rhode Island held the largest clothing pattern collection in the world, the latest donation from pattern maker McCall should dispel any lingering doubt. URI's Commercial Pattern Archive contains more than 31,000 patterns from 1871 to the present.
A University of Rhode Island researcher has been awarded a $190,000 grant from the World Bank to develop a system to provide villagers in rural India with safe, affordable and reliable drinking water.
Population growth and poverty in Tanzania have increased demand on the Wami-Ruvu and Pangani River watersheds and placed the health of Saadani National Park at risk. USAID has awarded URI an $800,000 grant to help the Tanzanian government manage these issues.
Based on decades of research and success in helping to change smoking and other high-risk behaviors of teenagers and adults, URI researchers will now bring tailored programs to younger children to prevent these behaviors from even getting started.
URI scientists have developed an algorithm to detect efforts to manipulate online product ratings, and they are offering a $1,000 prize to the individuals who can introduce the largest bias in their system.
The U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center has awarded the University of Rhode Island with the first Center of Excellence in Undersea Technology in the United States. The center will collaborate on undersea technology research and product development for homeland security and civilian uses.
The University of Rhode Island held groundbreaking ceremonies today for the Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences, the largest academic building project in the University's history and a major center of education and research that will drive economic development in the state's growing biotechnology industry.
Research to genetically modify switchgrass at URI is expected to double crop yields and produce 100% ethanol to power vehicles for less than $1 per gallon. Scientist says corn is a poor choice for biofuels.
To improve the overall science proficiency of the nation's children, a new program is restructuring how future teachers are taught to teach about science. Hundreds of education students, mid-career teachers and science professionals are engaged in the process. The program takes kit-science teaching to a new level.
For the first time, a laboratory study has confirmed the long-held belief that eating slowly reduces the intake of food.
International and federal health officials are counting on the anti-viral drug Tamiflu to be a critical weapon in the event of an influenza pandemic. But a new study indicates that the drug can be rendered ineffective in patients also taking the anti-clotting drug Plavix.
Researchers have found that approximately 870 kilograms of PCBs per year make their way to the deep ocean at four subduction zones in the North Atlantic and the Southern Ocean.
A nine-member reporting team with The Record newspaper (Bergen County, N.J.) is the 2006 winner of the Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment. The team won the $75,000 prize for its "Toxic Legacy" investigative series on pollution caused by a Mahwah, N.J., Ford Motor Company automobile-assembly plant.
An international team of scientists has found that the second largest volcanic eruption in human history, the massive Bronze Age eruption of Thera in Greece, was much larger and more widespread than previously believed.
Terrorism in ports or on the high seas, a catastrophic natural disaster striking a center of global trade, and the disruption of oil supplies are among the scenarios that will be discussed at the first international conference on port security and marine transportation, which will be held at the University of Rhode Island Sept. 25 and 26.
URI business students have created business plans and provided other support to numerous non-profit agencies in Rhode Island through Social Venture Partners, a collaborative of professionals focused on advancing the non-profit sector and social change.
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