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URI-Based Report Sheds Light on Human Rights Abuses Worldwide

In the last quarter century, most countries around the world have failed to adequately protect the human rights of their citizens. In that time, nations’ efforts to protect human rights have been stagnant – with the number of countries receiving...
21-Nov-2024 9:45 AM EST Add to Favorites

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University of Rhode Island Receives $65 Million Gift—the Largest in Its History—to Support Scholarships

November 15, 2024 – KINGSTON, RI – The University of Rhode Island today unveiled a $65 million gift that will support scholarships for high-achieving students. The philanthropic gift—the largest in the University’s history—is the result of...
15-Nov-2024 2:40 PM EST Add to Favorites

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URI Awarded $1.5M EPSCoR Grant to Team with Warren on Coastal Resilience

Sitting on Narragansett Bay in northeastern Rhode Island, the town of Warren is highly vulnerable to the effects of sea-level rise and flooding due to its low elevation. According to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration projections, the...
7-Oct-2024 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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URI partners on study that tracked whale shark for record-breaking four years

KINGSTON, R.I. – July 22, 2024 – A team of researchers at the University of Rhode Island and Nova Southeastern University in Florida have been tracking a 26-foot endangered whale shark – named “Rio Lady” – with a satellite transmitter...
22-Jul-2024 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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RI-INBRE secures $21 million NIH grant to support biomedical research and training across Rhode Island

The University of Rhode Island announced today that it has secured a five-year, $21 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support the Rhode Island IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence program from 2024 to 2029. This...
13-Jun-2024 4:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Long-term ocean sampling in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay reveals plummeting plankton levels: impact uncertain for local food web

Digitizing decades worth of pre-computer files held in storage at the Narragansett Bay campus let oceanographers at the University of Rhode Island get a better picture of Narragansett Bay over time. URI operates the longest-running time series in...
20-May-2024 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Seafloor life devastated near explosive volcanic eruption in Pacific, URI research shows

A University of Rhode Island oceanographer leading her first research cruise in the southern Pacific uncovered a surprise when her vessel looked below the waters in the Polynesian nation of Tonga.
13-May-2024 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Increased physical activity can spur cognitive development, help children manage symptoms of ADHD

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder can impact many common childhood milestones and cognitive processes, such as decision-making, inhibitory control, language development, and goal-setting.
10-May-2024 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites


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URI invasive species expert co-leads two global studies published in two Nature journals

The spread of invasive alien species has long been recognized as a global threat to nature and people. In September, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) for the United Nations issued a global...
6-Jun-2024 1:05 PM EDT

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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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