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What Does Social Justice Have to Do with Evolution? Everything.

Award-winning Central Falls High School biology teacher David Upegui, Ph.D., teamed up with URI paleontologist David Fastovsky to write a book aimed at helping teachers incorporate social justice into the biology curriculum.
11-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Scientists to study real-world eating behaviors using wearable sensors and artificial intelligence

A new study led by URI scientists Kathleen Melanson and Theodore Walls aims to shed light on real-world eating behaviors, using AI-enabled wearable technology. In collaboration with researchers at the University of Texas and funded by the National...
5-Mar-2024 4:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

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URI English professor wins Wisconsin Poetry Prize in Translation

KINGSTON, R.I. – Feb. 26, 2024 – In the 1980s, as a poetry student in Italy, Peter Covino was introduced to the work of acclaimed Italian poet Dario Bellezza. It’s a moment he still remembers.“It was a big deal to learn at that time that...
1-Mar-2024 4:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

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'Invaluable' program gives respite to parents of children with special needs

The program, organized by URI College of Nursing Professor Chris McGrane, provides respite care for parents of children with special needs, at no cost to them. For four hours every Saturday afternoon, McGrane and her team of URI students, take care...
23-Feb-2024 1:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

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URI Nutrition study to help inform official USDA dietary guidelines

Evidence to support the assumption that ultra-processed foods are all bad for one’s health is limited, and the nutritional quality of processed foods has not been considered by official U.S. Department of Agriculture dietary guidelines. University...
12-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

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URI history professor elected Fellow of Medieval Academy of America

Joëlle Rollo-Koster, a history professor at the University of Rhode Island and a renowned medieval scholar, has been elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, one of the highest honors that can be bestowed on a medievalist.
29-Jan-2024 3:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

Deep-sea study fleet taking shape at URI

A trip to the deep floor of the ocean is somewhat akin to going to the moon. Like the landers on the moon, a benthic lander can make it happen, just a little closer to home.At the University of Rhode Island, a fleet of these observational systems is...
26-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

New research sheds light on incel community’s connection to mass violence

Though much has been written in the past decade about “involuntary celibates,” the rise of violent extremism, and their connection to mass violence, empirical research on this community is surprisingly scarce. A new examination authored by URI...
18-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST Add to Favorites


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URI Professor Explores Transgender Movements in Research and the Classroom

KINGSTON, R.I. – Oct. 4, 2023 – Growing up in Portland, Oregon, in a Quaker family, Joy Ellison got their first taste of protest rallies when they were 6 years old.Ellison, who joined the University of Rhode Island last fall as an assistant...
5-Oct-2023 11:45 AM EDT

URI business professor, colleagues look at mortality and leadership succession in family business

By 2030, more than 30% of family businesses in the U.S. will lose their aging leaders to retirement, or death. Many of those leaders don’t have a strategy for letting go of their business, turning it over to a successor, or selling it. While it is...
21-Apr-2023 10:05 AM EDT

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