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URI receives $1.9M federal grant for cybersecurity scholarships

Education 08/25/2026

PROVIDENCE – The University of Rhode Island will receive $1.9 million from the National Science Foundation to support scholarships for students pursuing a Master...

URI’s Abiri honored for AI research

Education 09/26/2025

REZA ABIRI, a University of Rhode Island engineering professor, recently received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for the development of novel shared autonomy...

Bank of America agrees to settle customer class action suit for...

Business Services 05/16/2023

PROVIDENCE – Bank of America Corp. agreed this week to pay out $8 million to customers to settle a class action lawsuit that claimed...

URI STAR: Walt Besio, professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Rhode Island and owner of CREmedical, secured $6 million in a National Science Foundation grant in 2015, a year after he earned two patents for a biomedical electrode that measures brain activity and can be used to potentially stop life-threatening seizures. From left, Jessika Decker, test subject and intern at CREmedical, Besio and Rachel Bartels, product manager at CREmedical. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Rhode Island needs more scientific breakthroughs to become a biotech hub,...

Education 07/21/2017

Rhode Island wants its own share of the biomedical-, technology- and engineering-based economy that has transformed Boston, and strengthened the competitive position of Massachusetts. To...