University of Rhode Island President Robert L. Carothers has announced that URI's first Rhodes Scholar, Rachel Walshe, will be the speaker at this year's undergraduate commencement. Commencement will be held Sunday, May 19.
Marine scientist and explorer Robert Ballard, who discovered the resting place of the Titanic, has been appointed to the faculty at the University of Rhode Island's internationally acclaimed Graduate School of Oceanography.
The proteins in deer tick saliva may be the key to developing a new vaccine for preventing Lyme disease and other tick-transmitted infections by protecting hosts against blood-feeding ticks. The National Institutes of Health recently awarded two University of Rhode Island researchers $2.3M to screen for the most promising tick salivary genes.
In response to recent violence in Caicedo, Colombia, a nonviolence leader who has taught nonviolence methods in that country for the past three years will lead a four-day, 120 mile walk from Medellin to Caicedo beginning April 17.
To stop the spread of an exotic fungus that is killing oak trees in northern California, a University of Rhode Island plant pathologist has been tapped to study the newly-discovered pathogen -- called sudden oak death -- to better understand how it works.
The world is round and so are a growing number of its inhabitants. In fact, obesity is spreading at an alarming rate, not just in industrialized countries but in developing countries, where obesity often sits next to malnutrition.
Using a 30-meter wave tank to simulate landslides caused by underwater earthquakes, a URI researcher is creating a model to better predict how tsunamis form and move across the oceans.
A researcher at the University of Rhode Island has developed an innovative system to quickly and economically remove a wide range of hazardous materials from the soil and groundwater. The system will be field tested at a military site in Virginia this spring.
The following University of Rhode Island faculty and staff members are available to provide insight on a variety of topics related to the ongoing activities following the September 11 terrorist attacks.
A team of ocean engineers has developed an environmental monitoring and forecasting system that provides information about conditions on highways and waterways.
A University of Rhode Island researcher is using shredded wood in a new system for filtering out contaminants from storm water that runs off roadways.
Civil Rights activist Bernard LaFayette will retrace the steps that altered American history accompanied by 27 fifth grade R.I. children. The group will visit civil rights sites and relive "Bloody Sunday" with a march on U.S. Route 80 across the Edmond Pettus Bridge in Selma.
Recent research by a URI tick expert reveals that golfers face a high risk of attracting Lyme disease from deer ticks living on the edge of the woods in and around golf courses.
Two URI entomologists will spend the summer tracking mosquitos from Richmond National Battlefield Park in Virginia to Acadia National Park in Maine as part of a plan by the National Park Service to protect park visitors from West Nile Virus.
A shark researcher at the University of Rhode Island looks into the jaws of a shark to reveal how they eat. She also refutes the old theory that sharks swim like airplanes fly.
Oceanographers have been awarded a grant to examine the deep biosphere of the Earth and the "extremophile" communities that thrive there as part of a grant from NASA's Astrobiology Institute. Research will aid the search for sub-surface life on other planets through exploration and documentation of such life on Earth.
New Smokefree initiative at the University of Rhode Island prohibits smoking in residence halls, complements no-smoking policy in all campus buildings, and takes steps to help students, faculty, staff kick the habit.
Blue mussels cling to life by a thread, and a URI professor is investigating the strength of those threads in the face of violent storms and increasingly stronger waves caused by global warming.
Three University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography scientists have discovered that planetary waves traveling thousands of miles have a significant impact on the abundance of phytoplankton in the upper ocean, and may play a role in predicting global warming. (Nature)
While most efforts to discover new anti-cancer drugs focus on chemical compounds found in terrestrial plants, a University of Rhode Island researcher has pioneered the search for potential anti-cancer agents in the oceans.
As regulators and government agencies seek ways to clean local coastal waters, a University of Rhode Island researcher demonstrates the value of using a natural cleaning system that provides economic benefits at the same time: shellfish aquaculture.
A team of scientists has found some of the highest levels of radioactive plutonium ever measured in the marine environment in the sediments of Chernaya Bay. Investigations into how radioactivity is transported through waterways reveal dangerously high levels of radioactive elements that could affect the waters off of North America.
A team of University of Rhode Island scientists has found that the cores of Major League baseballs from 1995 and 2000 bounce higher than ones from 1960s and 1970s and that they contain materials that could make them livelier.
Textiles professor at URI works with a vascular surgery research team to develop materials to fight clots, infection, and poor cellular attachment for small-diameter arteries.
A URI researcher has deciphered the physiological effects of lead on growing brain cells. Low levels of lead disrupt the timing of the interactions between gene products, causing these interactions to occur in an uncoordinated manner and resulting in a "less than optimally wired" brain.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the irradiation of eggs to kill salmonella. The ruling went into effect on July 21, 2000, at the urging of a University of Rhode Island adjunct professor. To date, 40 countries, including the U.S., have approved the use of radiation at specific doses to process particular foods.
With the ability to take pictures at a speed of 200 million frames per second, a new high-speed camera is being used by one URI professor to help the military and other industries study how things break apart.
A new coupled hurricane-ocean prediction computer model developed by URI scientists has become an official component of the national hurricane prediction system used to forecast Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico storms and hurricanes.
Detection of pathogens like Salmonella and E. coli. is getting easier, thanks to new biosensors developed by University of Rhode Island researchers. The biosensors use fiber optic technology to detect and quantify bacteria levels.
To reduce the number of whale collisions and protect the northern right whale from extinction, a URI Ocean Engineering professor has developed a sonar imaging device that will serve as an aid to navigation to help ships steer clear of whales.
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