Statewide Gardening Information and Soil Testing ScheduleFrom March through October, our URI Master Gardener volunteers offer free soil pH testing to Rhode Island residents, helping you understand your soil's health and providing recommendations for improvement. Bring a soil sample to the event and our experts will determine its pH levels and texture, offering guidance on achieving optimal soil conditions for your gardening needs.Additionally, explore our Gardening Information and Soil Testing (GIST) booth, where you can ask gardening questions and access a wealth of resources to support your horticultural goals.Learn how to take a soil sample and access the statewide schedule by visiting: uri.edu/coopext/services/gist

Homecoming 2025 is September 19-21WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTSFriday, September 19Classes Without Quizzes Mini classes with URI professorsState of the University AddressWith President Marc ParlangeRegister HerePresident's Welcome BBQImmediately following the State of the University addressRegister HereSaturday, September 20Pickleball with President Marc Parlange and Mary ParlangeAt the URI Tennis Courts and PavilionHomecoming Rhodyville Block Party All new experience!Live music, local food tastings, boxed meal, games, novelties, and so much more.URI Football vs. Long Island UniversityCheer on the Rams at 6 p.m.See the complete schedule of events at alumni.uri.edu/homecoming.Homecoming Spotlight: Rhodyville Block PartyNEW LOCATION: Rhodyville outgrew its old location! Find us on the football practice field (across the street from the previous location) with space for more fun activities.LIVE ENTERTAINMENT featuring Rugburn. Get ready to dance to this high-energy, seven-piece band playing all kinds of favorites from James Brown to Bruno Mars. Band members include Jon Lysik '88, Bob Shindell '90, Jason Palermo '94, and Don Fogarty '94.FOOD: Your Rhodyville ticket includes a boxed meal from the Rhody Eatz food truck, plus tasting samples from many local restaurants and food vendors.ACTIVITIES: Roger Williams Park Zoomobile, rock climbing wall, golf simulator, face painting, photobooth, bracket-style cornhole tournament, design-your-own bucket hat, URI Athletics trophy tent, tents and pop-ups from URI colleges and programs, and much more!Grab your family and friends and bring your lawn chairs—come hang out with us at the best block party of the year!

Helpdesk@uri.edu is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.Topic: ITS Virtual Service Desk (F) Time: Aug 29, 2025 08:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Every week on Fri, 110 occurrence(s) Please download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system. Weekly: https://uri-edu.zoom.us/meeting/tJckdOqrqD0pHN1mGpW8qUt6a691B2Ere5uZ/ics?icsToken=DGJWGi7NmCO-fRZxJwAALAAAACVAaIr39jyz_p1JbEAuoOl7QydfjqN_o7HzJOy9UnJ1AOHz4z-plu7ZfiCcDAbKT7C56Ss15GysekNtoTAwMDAwMQ&meetingMasterEventId=ZBIJsePaSj2j-9FH45Doxw Join Zoom Meeting https://uri-edu.zoom.us/j/93933366369Meeting ID: 939 3336 6369---One tap mobile +13126266799,,93933366369# US (Chicago) +16469313860,,93933366369# US---Join by SIP • 93933366369@zoomcrc.comJoin instructions https://uri-edu.zoom.us/meetings/93933366369/invitations?signature=ofxk_lq4viETQ7iczJ4QRtwIcA4p3Cdi6OAyyS7D6Hg

Writing Across URI (now housed in ATL) invites all writers to join our Fall Writing Retreats. Keep the momentum going on your academic article, grant proposal, or creative project! There’s no formal program: just bring your laptop and other materials, plus your own lunch/snacks. We will provide coffee and tea! The retreats will be on Friday, September 19 and Friday, October 17 from 9 AM – 3 PM. Come to one or both and join for an hour or stay all day!The retreats will be held in the Large Conference Room of the Coastal Institute overlooking Narragansett Bay (for directions and a map to the Bay Campus). The Coastal Institute is Building #6 on the map (you can park in the lot shaded in blue directly in front of the building).All are welcome! You will simply be asked, in confidence, to check in with a brief statement of your writing goal and to check out with a brief statement of what you accomplished. Check out this webpage for more information about Writing Across URI.Dates: September 19 & October 17 Time: 9:00am – 3:00pm Location: In-Person, Large Conference Room of the Coastal Institute (Bay Campus) Registration & More Information

In an electronic learning environment, it can be difficult to know how your students are doing in your course. Fortunately, Brightspace offers a comprehensive module that will help you to gain a deeper understanding of how your students are progressing, and who may need additional support.Register

Starting a new semester can be stressful! However, staying organized and utilizing student support services at the university can help prepare you for success. Start establishing good habits by participating in the University Libraries Student Success Bingo during the month of September. You can pick up and submit your bingo card in the lobby of Robert L. Carothers Library & Learning Commons. A winner will be drawn from submitted bingo cards and receive a $25 Amazon gift card.Visit URInvolved for complete event details.

Collaboration with iStand & VPAS to further educate the URI community on sexual violence prevention and advocate for a safer campusVisit URInvolved for complete event details.

All are welcome to meet us for "Lunch Bunch" at noon in the Dining Hall or Rams Den.There is no registration required, just drop on by."Don't eat lunch alone! Meet new friends!"Visit 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.

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.

Game Day Tees is a creative and interactive event hosted by the Powerful Independent Notoriously Knowledgeable (P.I.N.K.) Women in celebration of Homecoming. Participants will design and customize their own game day T-shirts using the vinyl printer, heat press, and other Makerspace tools. This event encourages school spirit, hands-on creativity, and community engagement.Visit URInvolved for complete event details.

Game Day Tees is a creative and interactive event hosted by the Powerful Independent Notoriously Knowledgeable (P.I.N.K.) Women in celebration of Homecoming. Participants will design and customize their own game day T-shirts using the vinyl printer, heat press, and other Makerspace tools. This event encourages school spirit, hands-on creativity, and community engagement.Visit URInvolved for complete event details.

Join us for an engaging in-person information session that will showcase the URI Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) and Bachelor of Science (BPS/Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Science) programs, along with a student-led tour of Avedisian Hall. The session will kick off at the Robert J. Higgins Welcome Center, where a knowledgeable representative from the College of Pharmacy will welcome you and lead you across campus to the main event in Avedisian Hall.Additionally, you have the opportunity to enhance your visit by registering for an optional campus session and tour that is separate from the pharmacy event. Please choose a time that is before the College of Pharmacy session for planning purposes. The group will depart the welcome center promptly at 1:30 pm to walk to Avedisian Hall.

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Omar Montasser, Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Yale revisits online binary classification by shifting the focus from competing with the best-in-class binary loss to competing against relaxed benchmarks that capture smoothed notions of optimality. Instead of measuring regret relative to the exact minimal binary error — a standard approach that leads to worst-case bounds tied to the Littlestone dimension — this work considers comparing with predictors that are robust to small input perturbations, perform well under Gaussian smoothing, or maintain a prescribed output margin. The algorithms achieve regret guarantees that depend only on the VC dimension and the complexity of the instance space (e.g., metric entropy), and notably, they incur only an O(log(1/γ)) dependence on the generalized margin γ. This stands in contrast to most existing regret bounds, which typically exhibit a polynomial dependence on 1/γ. We complement this with matching lower bounds. This work is based on joint work with Abhishek Shetty and Nikita Zhivotovskiy.Montasser's research broadly explores theory and foundations of machine learning. Prior to joining Yale, Montasser was a FODSI-Simons postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley. He earned his Ph.D. from the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago in 2023.

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/

Come join us to learn about study abroad opportunities for Chinese students and enjoy some delicious ice cream! Returning students who have studied abroad this summer or last year will present posters about their experience. The event will take place on Friday, 9/19 in the Language Center (Swan 301) from 3:00 to 4:30 pm. We look forward to seeing you there! Register here https://forms.gle/9CCoVcEEgxjj3C7cA by noon on Thursday, 9/18.

URI's Forensic Science Partnership lecture series is one of the more unique lecture series in Rhode Island. The Sept. 19 topic is “Pulling off the world’s biggest heist,” with Anthony Amore ’89, director of security, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. Amore is charged with the museum’s ongoing efforts to recover 13 works of art stolen in 1990. He is also the author of The Rembrandt Heist, new this fall. 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/

President Parlange will present his annual State of the University Address, followed by a barbecue on the lawn of the President’s House.Date: Friday, September 19, 2025 Time: • 4:00–5:00 p.m. – State of the University Address at Edwards Hall • 5:30–7:30 p.m. – Barbecue on the President’s LawnThe event is open to all URI Students, faculty and staff members. RSVP by September 16 as space is limited.For those unable to attend in person, a livestream of the event will be available.For more information, please contact the Office of University Events at 401.874.2864.

Join Hillel, the Jewish student center on campus, for our Shabbat service and dinner during Homecoming weekend!Please click here to register!Visit URInvolved for complete event details.