The Office for the Advancement of Teaching & Learning (ATL) invites faculty proposals for the annual URI Innovative Education Conference (IEC), which will be held virtually on Wednesday, March 26, 2025.Our theme for 2025 is “Navigating Wicked Problems Through Higher Education”. ATL encourages submissions that create opportunities for critical and creative thinking about ways we can increase student learning and faculty success in teaching within today’s colleges and universities. Proposals may focus on innovative approaches to teaching, learning, and faculty success in all modalities (in-person, online, blended) within a higher education context.Conference tracks for 2025 are:Online and blended learningLessons learned using generative artificial intelligence in the classroomInclusive and accessible teachingAmplifying evidence-based teaching through assessment and/or Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at the course or program levelSupporting faculty vitality and well-beingWe will accept proposals through Monday, December 9, 2024. Visit our website to submit your proposal and learn more about this opportunity.

6pm student mass at Christ The King (behind emporium!)Visit URInvolved for complete event details and to RSVP.

Art League RI and the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography are featuring the works of artists and scientists in a new exhibition titled “The Synergy Project: A Collaboration of Art and Science” at Studio Blue on the URI Narragansett Bay Campus.With its goal to communicate oceanographic research to wider audiences through art exhibits and events, The Synergy Project has paired artists across many mediums with scientists from URI and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution since 2020. This third Synergy Project group exhibition features 50 pieces from returning artists and scientists as well as new work exploring new topics. Each exhibition is an opportunity for guests to learn about ocean science in an engaging and unconventional way, prompting new conversations about science and its importance in climate regulation and ocean health with communities near and far.

The exhibit hung in Green Hall, The President’s House and The Welcome Center includes work in a variety of media by 20 artists originally from the Caribbean, Central and South America reflecting many aspects of their culture featuring: Agonza, Angel Cajigas-Arbelo, Nilton Cardenas, Julia Castillo, Luis Cepeda, Raphael Diaz, Tamara Diaz, Ana Flores, Rebecca Flores, Humberto Grullon, Francisco Hernandez, Daniel Manta, Pablo Mijares, Arides Picardo, Gabriel Rojas, Amalia Jose Gonzalez Ruis, Salvador Sanchez, Jose Sejo, Ramon Santiago, Rafael Trinidad, with musician Gian Carlo Buscaglia and poets Luis Peralta, and Raff Diaz performing at the reception.Green Hall and The President’s House and The Robert J. Higgins Welcome Center, 45 Upper College Road (parking behind the building) Open Monday – Friday 9-4:30. For information call 401-286-4620.

This exhibit will share the perceptions and perspectives of 20 artists developed in response to the theme: Politics of Personality that we encounter in our current political landscape. The project will include thoughtful conversations inspired by the artists’ perspectives on: Women's Rights; Immigration; LGBTQ+ Rights; Racism; Classism; Corruption: Lies and Misrepresentation - Labeling, Libeling and Verbal assault.The artists include: Deanna Camputaro, Raphael Diaz, Ted DeLucia, Melanie Ducharme, Ana Flores, Susan Fossati, Susan Garland, Ricky Gagnon, Lois Harada, Monique Rolle-Johnson, Don Mays, Jordan Seaberry, Gershon Stark, Zoey Stites, Joel Rosario-Tapia, Anthony Tomaselli, Mark Wholey, Joy Williams.