University of Rhode Island, BayCare and Butler Hospital team up to test retinal scanning for early detection of Alzheimer's disease

The five-year, $5 million Atlas of Retinal Imaging in Alzheimer’s Study (ARIAS) is sponsored by BayCare Health System’s Morton Plant Hospital and St. Anthony’s Hospital and funded largely by Morton Plant Mease Health Care Foundation and St....
6-Jan-2020 11:50 AM EST Add to Favorites

URI chemistry professor wins innovation award for ‘game-changing’ work on single-molecule sensing

Jason Dwyer, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Rhode Island, has won an internationally recognized Innovation Award for his advancements in single-molecule nanopore sensing from the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and...
12-Dec-2019 1:30 PM EST Add to Favorites

World's most expensive spice (saffron) favors Rhode Island growing conditions according to URI researchers

KINGSTON, R.I. – November 6, 2019 – Saffron is the world’s most expensive spice, selling for about $5,000 per pound at wholesale rates, and 90 percent of the global saffron harvest comes from Iran. But University of Rhode Island agriculture...
6-Nov-2019 2:30 PM EST Add to Favorites

University of Rhode Island leads $3 million collaborative research project on ‘Rules of Life’

KINGSTON, R.I. – July 24, 2019 – The University of Rhode Island is leading a team that has been awarded a $3 million 5-year collaborative research grant from the National Science Foundation as part of its investment in 10 Big Ideas to serve the...
24-Jul-2019 8:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

URI professor, geneticists refute widespread racist analogy comparing human races to dog breeds

University of Rhode Island anthropology professor Holly Dunsworth and four geneticists refute a common analogy comparing dog breeds with human races in a peer-reviewed, scholarly paper published by the online journal Evolution: Education and...
17-Jul-2019 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Ocean and space exploration blend at URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography

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.
29-May-2019 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

NOAA announces new $94 million ocean exploration institute led by University of Rhode Island

KINGSTON, R.I., – May 6, 2019 – The University of Rhode Island will lead a new $94 million consortium to support ocean exploration, responsible resource management, improved scientific understanding of the deep sea and strengthen the nation’s...
6-May-2019 8:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

URI biologist, colleagues warn of peril from biological invasions as White House proposes to halve funding

KINGSTON, R.I. – April 30, 2019 – As the Trump Administration prepares to cut in half the budget for the National Invasive Species Council, a group of invasive species experts led by a University of Rhode Island professor has issued a warning...
30-Apr-2019 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

see all news