University of Rhode Island - Page 139 of 146

FAST SEQUENCING: Dr. Anne S. De Groot, EpiVax Inc. CEO and chief strategy officer, says the Providence company has spent the past 20 years developing immunoinformatics tools. EpiVax spinoff EpiVax Oncology will use those tools along with fast sequencing to design cancer vaccines specific to individual patients. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Renowned vaccine researcher Dr. Anne S. De Groot is ready to...

Entrepreneurship 08/11/2017

In 1997, Dr. Anne S. De Groot founded EpiVax Inc. in Providence, backed by a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institutes...

URI professor co-authors ocean bottom-trawling study

Education 08/11/2017

JEREMY COLLIE, a University of Rhode Island oceanographer, recently teamed up with a group of international scientists to research the effects of bottom trawling...

ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY graduates entered the job market carrying more student debt than graduates from any other university in the state. /COURTESY ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY

Rhode Island ranks in U.S. top 10 for most student loan...

Education 08/10/2017

PROVIDENCE – Students graduating from Rhode Island-based four-year public and nonprofit private colleges and universities in 2016 entered the job market carrying the nation’s...

THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND ranked in the top 20 party schools in America according to the Princeton Review. /COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

URI named among top party schools in nation

Education 08/04/2017

SOUTH KINGSTOWN - The University of Rhode Island, Kingston has been ranked as No. 16 in the top 20 party schools in the nation...

BROWN UNIVERSITY HAS RANKED No. 9 in the nation in the 2017 Forbes "America's Top Colleges" list. Seven Rhode Island colleges made the top rankings. / COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY

7 R.I. schools on Forbes ‘America’s Top Colleges’ list

Education 08/02/2017

PROVIDENCE - Seven Rhode Island colleges and universities were ranked on Forbes “America’s Top Colleges” list, released Wednesday. The list, comprised of the top 650...

SECURITYDEGREEHUB.COM HAS NAMED the University of Rhode Island among the top 15 schools offering online programs in cybersecurity. Above, students of URI's Digital Forensics and Cyber Security Center, from left: Annemarie Bernier, Nicholas Karayev, Kasey Gesualdi, Ryan Marcotte, Daniel Masterson and Brittany Siter. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

SecurityDegreeHub.com ranks URI’s cyber program 12th-best in U.S.

Education 08/02/2017

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The University of Rhode Island’s cyber program ranked 12th in a report released July 31 by SecurityDegreeHub.com ranking the top 20...

ROSHNI DARNAL, left, director of senior services at Federal Hill House Association, and Laura Jones, director of health initiatives at the Rhode Island Parent Information Network, partner in demonstrating Own Your Health programs for Older Adults as part of the new Tufts Health Plan Foundation RIPIN grant award. /COURTESY NATHAN D. MARKLEY

Tufts Health Plan Foundation grant enables RIPIN to expand services

Health Services 07/31/2017

CRANSTON – The Rhode Island Parent Information Network will expand its education services to offer chronic disease self-support and balance classes to 360 older...