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Brown gift a big win for R.I.

Five years after a $15 million gift helped the University of Rhode Island establish the George and Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience, Brown University...

Former landfill sites being repurposed to produce solar energy

PROVIDENCE – Narragansett, South Kingstown and the University of Rhode Island will use former landfills to produce solar energy, ecoRI News reported April 14. The...
DOROTHY JIANG, a student at Brown University, and Andrew Boardman, a student at the University of Rhode Island, were named as two of 59 Truman Scholars this year.

Brown, URI students named 2018 Truman Scholars

PROVIDENCE – Dorothy Jiang from Brown University and Andrew Boardman from the University of Rhode Island have been named among 59 2018 Truman Scholars,...
THE UNIVERISTY OF RHODE ISLAND received a $1 million gift from the Eleanor F. and Edward W. Barlow estate to create the Eleanor F. Barlow Nursing Scholarship Endowment. / COURTESY URI

URI receives $1M gift to start nursing scholarship

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The University of Rhode Island has received a $1 million gift to provide scholarships for students of the College of Nursing,...
LARS ERICKSON, an associate professor of French and director of the French International Engineering Program at the University of Rhode Island, will be named a Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the government of France at a ceremony later this spring at the Consulate General of France in Boston. / COURTESY URI/NORA LEWIS

French government honors University of Rhode Island professor

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Under the tenure of Lars Erickson, associate professor of French and director of the French International Engineering Program at the University...

Can too much transparency hinder economic development?

There’s a running debate between the state and some outside parties about how much information related to luring business here should be shared with...

Winning grants key to nonprofits’ survival

When grants are critical to the operations of a business or nonprofit, the skill of the writer behind the application is essential. Around Rhode Island,...
SOFIA RICCIARDI, foreground, a sophomore electrical engineering student at the University of Connecticut, tests out the wind tunnel at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport. / COURTESY NUWC

URI students tour, learn about NUWC Newport careers

NEWPORT – About 30 University of Rhode Island and University of Connecticut engineering students toured and listened in on a panel discussion during a...
IN THE SECOND CCI report of 2018, 11 of the 12 economic indicators saw improvement. / COURTESY LEONARD LARDARO

February CCI sees near across the board improvement

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Rhode Island is moving beyond its “funk,” said University of Rhode Island Economist Leonard Lardaro of the February 2018 Current Conditions...
NAVINDRA SEERAM and Angela Slitt, associate professors of biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy, have received federal funding to further study the anti-inflammatory properties of maple syrup. / COURTESY URI/NORA LEWIS

URI secures $470K in USDA funds to study medical effects of...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Researchers at the University of Rhode Island announced the receipt of $470,000 in U.S. Department of Agriculture funding to continue their...
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