Title: Observing Sea Ice from Space: What do Microwave Sensors Reveal About Surface Processes?Speaker: Dr. Aikaterini (Katia) Tavri, Brown UniversityAbstract: Microwave sensors enable continuous observation of the polar regions, operating day and night and through cloud cover when optical satellites are limited. They reveal how sea ice surface properties--such as roughness, snow cover, and melt ponds--govern the exchange of heat and momentum between the ocean and atmosphere. Yet the melt season remains a major challenge: thin ice and widespread ponding blur the distinction between young and old ice types, reducing the reliability of long-term climate records. In this study, we examine thermodynamically grown first-year and multi-year ice, within a landfast region in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, where the same floes can be tracked from late winter through advanced melt without the complication of ice motion. Using multi-frequency and multi-polarization microwave observations, we show that shorter wavelengths are better capturing surface scattering as melt ponds first form, while longer wavelengths are sensitive to volumetric contrasts and perform better as ponds drain. These results demonstrate how microwave observations encode the physics of melt-season transitions, extend the period over which satellites can reliably monitor sea ice, and provide new opportunities to improve climate records and predictions of sea ice evolution

Happy National Coming Out Day! Celebrate with us on the Quad on Friday, October 10th, from 11 AM to 2 PM. Enjoy a variety of booths, engaging activities, and much more. Join us in honoring and supporting the LGBTQ+ community on this special day!Visit URInvolved for complete event details.

Happy National Coming Out Day! Celebrate with us on the Quad on Friday, October 10th, from 11 AM to 2 PM. Enjoy a variety of booths, engaging activities, and much more. Join us in honoring and supporting the LGBTQ+ community on this special day!Visit URInvolved for complete event details.

Take the Next Step with URI’s DBA ProgramNow is the time to invest in your education. URI’s Doctor of Business Administration program is tailored for experienced professionals, emphasizing future-focused thinking, hands-on learning, and lasting professional connections.Join our upcoming info session to learn more about the program. Meet the DBA Executive Director, Jessica Strübel, faculty, alumni, and current students who are ready to answer your questions and guide you through the process.Tuesday, September 9 at 6pm Friday, October 10 at 12pm Wednesday, November 5 at 6pm Thursday, December 4 at 12pmRegister Today We’re here to support you every step of the way!

URI Department of Art and Art History presentsREVELATIONS! Education: Behind The Curtain – In Words and Images Exhibition September 15- December 11Join us for a reception and art conversations on September 17 4:30-7 in Lippitt Hall 401What is it like being in the classroom? What challenges do educator’s face? What restrictions are there preventing education from occurring? Are the requirements, expectations and limitations changing the way Educators function? What are the successes - giving students the opportunity to find their expressive voice?This exhibit will include the artwork and voices of a group of area educators from public, private and independent educational settings on all levels. The artist/educators will share their creative voices in various forms of expression as they also reflect on the challenges and celebrations they experience in and out of the classroom.Among the more than twenty artists are: Mary Jane Andreozzi, Deanna Camputaro, Ruth Clegg, Raff Diaz, Raphael Diaz, Tamara Diaz, Melanie Ducharme, Adam Ferbert, Susan Garland, Melissa Guillet, Catherine Davis-Hayes, Chris Kelley, Susan Kolenda, Jason Robert LaClair, Don Mays, Kerry Murphy, Sam Peck, Lisa Marie Ricci-Russo, Monique Rolle-Johnson, Jade Sisti, Janice Lee Strain, John Tedeschi, Katie Walck.On exhibit in URI Lippitt Hall (3rd & 4th floor), Green Hall and The Higgins Welcome CenterOpen To Monday – Friday 7:30-4:30, closed weekends and holidaysFor information: (401)286-4620/ spennell@uri.eduVisit URInvolved for complete event details.

URI Department of Art and Art History presentsREVELATIONS! Education: Behind The Curtain – In Words and Images Exhibition September 15- December 11Join us for a reception and art conversations on September 17 4:30-7 in Lippitt Hall 401What is it like being in the classroom? What challenges do educator’s face? What restrictions are there preventing education from occurring? Are the requirements, expectations and limitations changing the way Educators function? What are the successes - giving students the opportunity to find their expressive voice?This exhibit will include the artwork and voices of a group of area educators from public, private and independent educational settings on all levels. The artist/educators will share their creative voices in various forms of expression as they also reflect on the challenges and celebrations they experience in and out of the classroom.Among the more than twenty artists are: Mary Jane Andreozzi, Deanna Camputaro, Ruth Clegg, Raff Diaz, Raphael Diaz, Tamara Diaz, Melanie Ducharme, Adam Ferbert, Susan Garland, Melissa Guillet, Catherine Davis-Hayes, Chris Kelley, Susan Kolenda, Jason Robert LaClair, Don Mays, Kerry Murphy, Sam Peck, Lisa Marie Ricci-Russo, Monique Rolle-Johnson, Jade Sisti, Janice Lee Strain, John Tedeschi, Katie Walck.On exhibit in URI Lippitt Hall (3rd & 4th floor), Green Hall and The Higgins Welcome CenterOpen To Monday – Friday 7:30-4:30, closed weekends and holidaysFor information: (401)286-4620/ spennell@uri.eduVisit URInvolved for complete event details.

This hands-on, community collage workshop invites participants to use images, memory, and imagination to explore and share their own personal stories and collective visions of the future.

The BES Colloquium Series is the research seminar series for the College of Environmental Sciences at the University of Rhode Island. BES students nominate speakers from across several disciplines including: Cell and Molecular Biology (CMB), Ecology and Ecosystem Science (EES), Environmental and Earth Sciences (EVES), Evolution and Marine Biology (EMB), and Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems (SAFS). Invited speakers spend the day at URI visiting with faculty and graduate students.The full and complete schedule can be found here: https://marineevoecolab.github.io/BES-Colloquium/

The Department of Computer Science and Statistics is hosting a presentation on A Human-Centric Approach to Software Vulnerability Discovery. Software vulnerabilities persist as an important and costly challenge. Significant effort has been exerted toward automatic vulnerability discovery, but human intelligence generally remains required, and will remain so for the foreseeable future. The pool of experts qualified to perform vulnerability discovery is small and homogeneous, leading to negative outcomes such as labor shortages and a lack of perspective diversity. Daniel Votipka, the Lin Family Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Tufts University, will present the results of multiple studies investigating the humans at the center of vulnerability discovery, and will discuss the technical (e.g., the processes they follow to find vulnerabilities), and with the social (e.g., how they interact with others and navigate the bug bounty landscape) aspects of their work. He will discuss interventions in tool development and education to make vulnerability discovery more approachable and inclusive.

URI's Forensic Science Partnership lecture series is one of the more unique lecture series in Rhode Island. The Oct. 10 topic is “A hot topic,” with Paul Manning and James Given, deputy fire marshals, Rhode Island State Office of the State Fire Marshal. All lectures are open to the public at no cost and are held on Fridays at 3:30 p.m. in the Richard E. Beaupre Center for Chemical and Forensic Sciences (Room 100), 140 Flagg Rd., Kingston. Schedule subject to change; join email list for updates. Those who cannot attend in person may view the lectures live online. Details: https://www.uri.edu/news/2025/09/crime-fridays-return-to-uri/

Hello! Thank you for your interest in the URI Badminton Club.We will be having weekly practices every Tuesday and Friday (with some exceptions). They will be held in the Mackal Field House on courts 1 & 2. It will be a fun time to meet new people and learn more about badminton.Visit URInvolved for complete event details.

Please fill out this form to register for Hillel's Shabbat in the Sukkah on Friday October 10 at Hillel. We will be joined this evening by previous Israel Fellow to URI Hillel, Tal Anter, who will be visiting from Israel!Shabbat in the Sukkah Friday, October 10 Services at 5:30Dinner at 6:30 Visit URInvolved for complete event details.

Come join us for a night of fun improv games! The show goes from 7-9pm and is open to the public, so bring your friends and get ridiculous with us!Visit URInvolved for complete event details.

Union party where students will wear white t-shirts with white lies on them.Visit URInvolved for complete event details.