- URI pilot math program produces positive resultsKINGSTON, R.I. – Sept. 5, 2025 – A two-week pilot program designed by the URI Math Department to improve the math skills of incoming freshmen at the University of Rhode Island has produced impressive results. The “Level Up!” program, held on the Kingston Campus from July 27 to Aug. 8, was free for participants. By […]
- Block Island and University of Rhode Island partner to strengthen coastal resilienceKINGSTON, R.I. – Sept. 5, 2025 – The University of Rhode Island Coastal Institute has officially designated Block Island as its newest Climate Response Demonstration Site (CRDS), formalizing a partnership to protect the island’s natural systems, infrastructure, and freshwater resources. The New Shoreham Town Council voted unanimously in support of the designation on July 7, […]
- All NewsURI Vice Provost Matthew Bodah awarded for his work in the field of labor and employee relationsKINGSTON, R.I. – Sept. 4, 2025 – Negotiations come in many shapes and sizes—from small decisions like picking a restaurant, to more significant issues like debating salary—but a common thread in many is that they can be drawn out and complex. This is especially true in labor negotiations—one side proposes, the other counters until an […]
- All NewsURI Humanities series takes serious look at pop cultureKINGSTON, R.I. – Sept. 4, 2025 – From a marching band to Shakespeare–and Taylor Swift in between–the University of Rhode Island’s Center for the Humanities will take an academic view of pop culture with its annual lecture series this school year. But academic doesn’t mean not fun. “The Humanities and Popular Culture/Counterculture,” which opens this […]
- All NewsURI receives first-ever NIH T32 award to launch transdisciplinary biomedical research training programKINGSTON, R.I. – Sept. 3, 2025 – The University of Rhode Island has received its first-ever National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32 Predoctoral Training Grant, marking a major milestone in URI’s growth as a research institution. Funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, this prestigious grant supports the new T32 Transdisciplinary Training in […]
- All NewsMeet URI’s resident assistantsKINGSTON, R.I.—Sept. 2, 2025—While the rest of the student body at the University of Rhode Island enjoys the final days of summer, about 160 resident assistants (RAs) and resident academic mentors (RAMs) arrive on campus in mid-August for trainings to prepare for the start of the school year. Navigating academic and social challenges can be […]
- All NewsMeet your RAsNavigating academic and social challenges can be difficult, but URI’s residence hall staff is prepared and eager to support their peers, especially those who are first-year students.
- All NewsURI Theatre’s 2025-26 seasons blends classic and contemporary storiesKINGSTON, R.I. – Sept. 2, 2025 – This season in the University of Rhode Island’s Theatre Department, audiences will get a chance to visit Georgian-era England, a Las Vegas bus stop, the realistic and unsettling mind of Harold Pinter, a magical Shakespearean forest, and theme park purgatory. Any combination of these destinations feels only possible […]
- All NewsFall move-in weekend provides exciting start to academic yearKINGSTON, R.I. – Sept. 2, 2025 – One of the most exciting events of the academic year, fall move-in weekend welcomed thousands of first-year, transfer and returning students to the University of Rhode Island Kingston Campus. Between Aug. 29 and Sept. 1, the University welcomed more than 3,300 first-year students – among about 5,500 students […]
- All NewsYour Student ID and Ram Account is Now Managed through the Atrium Campus Connect AppNOTE: We will not be reissuing the new ID card for all residents. Your current URI student ID card will work with Atrium Campus Connect and the residence hall locks.
- All NewsURI: A User’s GuideFrom moving in and finding community to staying active around campus, get all the information you need to kick off the fall semester with our User's Guide.
- All NewsURI Free Farmers Market opens Thursday, Sept. 4KINGSTON, R.I. – Aug. 28, 2025 – The University of Rhode Island’s annual Free Farmers Market for students opens on Thursday, Sept. 4, kicking off another season of fresh, free produce giveaways harvested from URI farms. The market takes place each Thursday on the Quad from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and outside of Mackal-Tootell […]
- All NewsURI kinesiology internship reestablished in AustraliaKINGSTON, R.I. – Aug. 27, 2025 – Each undergraduate kinesiology student in the University of Rhode Island’s College of Health Sciences gains a hands-on learning experience during a one-semester internship in their junior or senior year. Though most of the internships take place in the Northeast United States, some take place abroad — including one […]
- All NewsStudy aims to improve HIV intervention, prevention among black men who have sex with menKINGSTON, R.I. — Aug. 27, 2025 — Young black men who have sex with men experience a disproportionate burden of HIV infection—as high as one in two—despite advances in HIV treatment and prevention, and that risk of infection is heightened among those who use illicit substances. University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy Professor Ashley […]
- All NewsURI’s Fall 2025 Honors Colloquium to reveal ‘Education, Behind the Curtains’KINGSTON, R.I. – Aug. 26, 2025 – With changes in the education landscape an ever-present topic in the news, the University of Rhode Island Honors Program presents its 62nd annual Honors Colloquium, “Education, Behind the Curtains,” to examine the evolving landscape of public education. The 2025 URI Honors Colloquium will examine the impact of policy, […]
- All NewsURI College of Pharmacy’s ‘Biotech Bootcamp’ trains workers for high-tech careers in the life sciencesKINGSTON, R.I. — Aug. 25, 2025 — The University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy’s Pharmaceutical Development Institute is hosting several Rhode Island residents interested in a career in the biotech industry for a two-week intensive program to provide the in-depth, hands-on training biotechnology and biopharmaceutical firms are looking for in potential employees. The PDI’s […]
- All NewsEnrollment now open for Salt Pond Smart: a new program to protect Rhode Island’s coastal watersKINGSTON, R.I. – Aug. 25, 2025 – Enrollment is now open through Sept. 6 to join Salt Pond Smart, a new community engagement initiative offered through the University of Rhode Island Cooperative Extension. Designed for homeowners along Rhode Island’s southern coast, Salt Pond Smart empowers residents to take meaningful action to protect and improve water […]
- All NewsURI move-in weekend begins Friday, Aug. 29KINGSTON, R.I. — Aug. 25, 2025 — With the first day of classes just around the corner, the University of Rhode Island will welcome more than 3,300 first-year students and their families to its Kingston Campus, beginning Friday, Aug. 29 to open fall move-in for the 2025-26 academic year. Between Aug. 29 and Sept. 1, […]
- All NewsURI Center for Military and Veteran Education hosts Sept. 2 resource fair at Memorial UnionKINGSTON, R.I. – Aug. 21, 2025 – With move-in weekend around the corner, the University of Rhode Island is gearing up to welcome more than 3,300 freshmen between Aug. 29 and Sept. 1. As part of O-Week festivities, URI’s Center for Military and Veteran Education (MAVE) will host a resource fair Sept. 2 from 10 […]
- All NewsBlock Island bird study reveals some good news for island’s migrating songbirdsKINGSTON, R.I. – Aug. 20, 2025 – Block Island welcomes scores of tourists all summer long, with the Block Island ferry pulling into port 15 times a day. Come fall, new visitors arrive: migrating birds by the thousands. This fall, a new University of Rhode Island graduate is publishing some good news on their numbers. […]
- All NewsIt’s a new yearURI is set to welcome thousands of new and returning students for the start of the 2025-26 academic year. Fall semester classes officially begin at the state’s flagship public research university on Sept. 3.
- All NewsFuture pediatric oncology nurse completes Flynn Fellowship at Hasbro Children’s HospitalKINGSTON, R.I. — Aug. 20, 2025 — McKaylee Swatt was a young student growing up in Mechanicsburg, Penn., when a close friend was diagnosed with leukemia and Wilms tumor, a type of kidney cancer. Swatt traveled with her friend to Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to help her through her treatments. Already interested in health care, […]
