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.
Undergraduate business students took the lead building an agency to increase brand awareness and target marketing to millennials.
Winter moths are creating a nuisance and laying eggs that may lead to another spring of defoliated and dying trees.
"Remember Pearl Harbor" is the latest documentary from Tim Gray that features interviews with veterans who witnessed the Dec. 7, 1941 attack.
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.
URI Professor harvests student enthusiasm with hands-on research.
Frenzied activity defined HealthHacks RI 2016, the health and wellness hack-a-thon at which some award-winning technologies were developed.
New facility sets the stage for students from communication studies, film/media, journalism, public relations, writing and rhetoric and library and information studies.
Tracking health behaviors provides opportunity to detect important patterns with statistics and, in turn, intervene to help people with technology or other interventions.
Groundbreaking research to help resolve medication plan challenge for treating Parkinson's.
URI professor has found that how society treats overweight people makes health matters worse.
Partnership to build healthier communities throughout Rhode Island and to strengthen the state’s public health workforce.
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.
Financial knowledge and ability is a fundamental learned skill set for well being in the 21st Century.
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.
Denver native says dragonfish have highly evolved system for detecting water flows
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
University makes big investment in big data.
Doctoral student first to investigate the ecology of the orcas that live around Newfoundland and Labrador.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Results of 6-year URI nursing study at Women & Infants Hospital released in The Journal of Pediatrics.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In a large scale study of native and invasive Phargmites, researchers from URI and LSU found that the intensity of plant invasions by non-native species can vary considerably with changes in latitude.
An ocean engineer at the University of Rhode Island has found that a massive underwater landslide, not just the 9.0 earthquake, was responsible for triggering the deadly tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011.
Researchers at URI and MBARI have observed a deep-sea octopus brooding its eggs for four-and-a-half years—longer than any other known animal. Throughout this time, the female kept the eggs clean and guarded them from predators.
A URI researcher analyzed Internet search trends and weather patterns and has concluded that people across the United States seek information about climate change when they experience unusual or severe weather events in their area. But findings differed based on political ideology and education levels.
A partnership born out of the URI Institute for Immunology and Informatics has resulted in a new web-based tool designed to help manufacturers of protein-based therapeutics improve the safety of their manufacturing processes, avoiding problems that caused the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to suspend a clinical trial in 2012.
Researchers from the University of Rhode Island are championing a recent breakthrough in the laboratory with hopes it could lead to a vaccine against the pathogen responsible for stomach cancer and to therapeutics for inflammatory diseases.
A URI ornithologist has found that the capacity of a bird’s gut to change with environmental conditions is a primary limiting factor in their ability to adapt to the rapidly changing climate. And he believes that most other animals are also limited in a similar way.
As consumers grow comfortable with e-commerce, a URI engineer worries that it brings risks of sellers manipulating markets for profit. She wants to bring order to a digital world where it is unclear which online customer reviews can be trusted.
Several recent studies have generated a great deal of publicity for their claims that the warming climate is slowing the pace of the Gulf Stream. But 20 years of measurements find no evidence that the Gulf Stream is decreasing in strength.
By analyzing four years of continuous measurements of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current at Drake Passage, the narrowest point in the Southern Ocean, three University of Rhode Island oceanographers have concluded that the current carries 20 percent more water than previous estimates. They also found that the current remains strong all the way to the seafloor.
New research by a large team of scientists suggests that as the climate warms, the productivity of Alaska fisheries will be increasingly dependent on the survival rate of plankton through the winter months. And warming temperatures may make it difficult for them to survive the season.
An international team of anthropologists has discovered definitive evidence of the environment inhabited by the early ape Proconsul on Rusinga Island, Kenya. The findings provide new insights into understanding and interpreting the connection between habitat preferences and the early diversification of the ape-human lineage.
The long-distance relocation of nuisance animals may appear to benefit both people and wildlife, but often the animals end up dead. Research by a URI grad student suggests such human/animal conflicts are best solved with short-distance relocations instead.
An oceanographer from the University of Rhode Island is analyzing the milk from Antarctic fur seals to determine the type and quantity of pollutants the seals are accumulating and passing on to their pups.
Scientists at the URI Graduate School of Oceanography are shedding light on the genetic makeup of Earth’s deep microbial life and the geochemistry of the lavas that form the Earth’s crust through research conducted as part of the Deep Carbon Observatory, a 10-year international collaboration unraveling the mysteries of Earth’s inner workings.
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