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URI to host Summer Institute in Digital Literacy for educators, librarians

Education 05/23/2018

PROVIDENCE – Early-bird registration is underway until July 5 for the Summer Institute in Digital Literacy offered by the University of Rhode Island. It...

Investing in innovation a good bet

Editorial and Op-Ed 05/18/2018

Can $20 million reroute a state’s trajectory? That is the question that the Innovation Campus project seeks to answer. Using $20 million in voter-approved bond...

THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND has established a new endowed professorship in the College of Business with a $1 million commitment from Fredrick J. Newton III and and Susan Newton. / COURTESY URI

URI receives $1M to create endowed professorship in the College of...

Education 05/17/2018

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The University of Rhode Island has established a new endowed professorship for the College of Business with a $1 million commitment...

Brown gift a big win for R.I.

Editorials 04/20/2018

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

Government 04/20/2018

PROVIDENCE – Narragansett, South Kingstown and the University of Rhode Island will use former landfills to produce solar energy, ecoRI News reported April 14. The...

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

Education 04/13/2018

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

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...

Education 04/06/2018

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...

THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE of Health and Human Services awarded $1.5 million to URI to create programs to train health care professionals of the future. / COURTESY URI

R.I. awards $1.3 million to URI for health care workforce training

Health Services 04/03/2018

SOUTH KINGSTOWN — Rhode Island’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services has awarded $1.3 million from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...

DAN HURLEY, the former URI men's basketball coach, has signed a six year deal to coach the University of Connecticut men's basketball team. / COURTESY URI

Are you happy or sad that Dan Hurley signed to be...

Education 04/01/2018

Following his successful run as the men’s basketball coach at the University of Rhode Island, which culminated with two consecutive appearances in the NCAA...