URI nursing study shows benefits of delayed umbilical cord clamping on brain development in healthy babies

A five-minute delay in the clamping of healthy infants’ umbilical cords results in increased iron stores and brain myelin in areas important for early-life functional development, a new University of Rhode Island nursing study has found.
13-Feb-2019 9:50 AM EST Add to Favorites

URI history professor leading international team compiling a history of the papacy

Joëlle Rollo-Koster, a history professor at the University of Rhode Island, is heading an international team of scholars that is creating a landmark work on the history of the papacy commissioned by Cambridge University Press.
31-Jan-2019 1:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

URI Ocean Engineering Students Use 3D Printing to Make Part at Sea

Four University of Rhode Island ocean engineering students demonstrated that they not only could keep a 3D printer level while at sea, but they could replicate a piece of equipment that works as effectively as the original. Josh Allder, Grady...
29-Jan-2019 2:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

Ryan Institute at URI Receives Approval for Clinical Trial Targeting the Blood Vessels in Alzheimer’s Disease

In a pioneering clinical trial that will attack Alzheimer’s disease by targeting inflammation in the brain’s blood vessels, researchers at the George & Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience have received regulatory approval to initiate the BEACON...
14-Jan-2019 10:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

URI scientists model Anak Krakatau volcano, tsunami to better prepare U.S. for future tsunamis

The recent eruption of Anak Krakatau – which means “son of Krakatau” – is providing URI researchers Stephan Grilli and Steven Carey with a new opportunity to gain additional insights and create models that they hope will help the United...
3-Jan-2019 10:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

R.I. Schools Offer Dual Degree in Pharmacy, Physician Assistant Studies

URI Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) students can apply to Johnson & Wales’ Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies (MSPAS) program after completing their fourth year of the six-year pharmacy program. Applications began in the spring.
4-Sep-2018 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Graduate School of Oceanography Hosts NASA-Led Exploration of Deep Sea

Scientists with a NASA-led expedition are operating from the Inner Space Center at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography as colleagues explore the deep Pacific Ocean to prepare to search for life in deep space.
28-Aug-2018 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Researcher Develops New Contaminant Detection Technique for Blood Thinner Heparin

In 2008, a contaminant eluded the quality safeguards in the pharmaceutical industry and infiltrated a large portion of the supply of the popular blood thinner heparin, sickening hundreds and killing about 100 in the U.S.
17-Aug-2018 3:20 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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