Trystan Del Tufo ’13

As her family’s first college graduate, Trystan Del Tufo '13 is living proof that hard work pays off. She received the scholarships from the Narragansett Indian School and the Nursing Foundation ...

Tags: native american, nursing, talent development

Explore the deep.

URI Oceanography Professor Robert Ballard, Ph.D. '75, perhaps best known for discovering the location of the sunken Titanic, had an idea that would take underwater exploration to a whole new ...

Dan Belbey ’13

Well-traveled and multilingual, Dan Belbey ‘13 thrives on immersing himself in new cultures. He loves beginning with “zero knowledge and building a foundation of understanding of and appreciation for something ...

Tags: BMW, German, IEP, International Engineering

Play hard. Win big.

Sure, we have intercollegiate teams at URI. But that's not the only way to participate in your favorite sport and compete on a national level. We have 15 other fun ...

Tags: club sports, equestrian, gymnastics, Hockey, lacrosse, rugby, sailing, swim, ultimate, volleyball

New Pharmacy Video

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Tags: facility, New building, ocean, pharmacy, URI

Focus on Film.

Filmmaking is the ultimate collaborative endeavor. Just watch the credits that roll by at the end of the next film you see. The art of collaboration is something URI Film/Media students ...

Tags: film studies, film/media, Harrington School of Communication and Media

Summer Session is still open

There's still time to register for summer classes. Get ahead in your studies and save some money. Classes for Session 2 begin June 24. Register now!

Tags: summer term

Elaine Meyer, M.S. ’87, Ph.D. ’90

Twenty years ago on a national park hike, URI alumna Elaine Meyer, a Harvard Medical School psychologist, and her husband Barry Prizant, an autism expert and adjunct professor at Brown ...

Tags: Alton Jones, autism, psychology

Emily Clapham

Today’s physical education class bears no resemblance to the nightmare of dodge ball and rope climbing that you or your parents may remember. Determined to stop the epidemic of childhood ...

Tags: fitness, kinesiology, physical education

Pulitzer Prize Winner. Inaugural Poet. Award-Winning Novelist. Summer Writing Conference 2013.

It’s an annual June tradition. The URI Ocean State Summer Writing Conference brings writers and poets from all over to our Kingston campus to develop their craft, connect with one another, ...

Tags: Akhtar, Blanco, Gaige, poet, Pulitzer, summer, writing