University of Rhode Island News

Yet since half of the world's ocean is composed of similar gyres, biomass and metabolic activity may be equally low in sediment throughout much of the world.

The Cumberland Police Department officially welcomed a new member on Wednesday, as well as promoted a member to the rank of sergeant.

Mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments, of Boston, plans to add more than 500 jobs to its work force in Rhode Island starting early next year.

" For two years, Ron Jordan served as interim dean of the University of Rhode Island's renowned College of Pharmacy.

A state advisory council on refugees and immigrants yesterday handed Governor Deval Patrick a long list of policy recommendations for better integrating immigrants in Massachusetts.

Rhode Island, whatever its obsession with history, has only lately begun to come to terms with the darkest stain on its past: slavery.

Paul Choiniere is the editorial page editor of The Day. Before being appointed to that position in May 2007, Choiniere worked nearly 20 years as a reporter for the newspaper, covering a wide variety of topics, including municipal government, the nuclear industry, health, the environment, regional development issues and politics.

Landscape professionals who work within coastal buffer zones are invited to enroll in University of Rhode Island's two-day invasive plant management certification program being held at the Narragansett Bay Campus on July 7 and 8. Permits for invasive plant management in coastal buffer zones will only be granted by the Coastal Resources Management ...

URI's Thomas N. Mather in the lab with graduate student Emily Troiano, who is assisting with his research on ticks.

The Community College of Rhode Island will host a oeCCRI Education Expo: Showcasing the Tools to Change Your Life,a designed to give adults an opportunity to learn more about the college and its programs, from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, June 27, at the Knight Campus, 400 East Ave., Warwick.

Rhode Island's deer tick population has exploded according to a new report. The University of Rhode Island's statewide Tick Encounter Risk Survey found that the number of the Lyme disease-carrying bloodsuckers is up 54 percent when compared with the same period last year.

Taking the news pulse of Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts, by Providence Journal and projo.com staff, from 7 to 7, every business day Most of us think of the oceans as teeming with life.

Paul Choiniere is the editorial page editor of The Day. Before being appointed to that position in May 2007, Choiniere worked nearly 20 years as a reporter for the newspaper, covering a wide variety of topics, including municipal government, the nuclear industry, health, the environment, regional development issues and politics.

June 22, 2009 -- An international oceanographic research expedition to the middle of the South Pacific Gyre -- a site that is as far from continents as it is possible to go on Earth's surface ? found so few organisms beneath the seafloor that it may be the least inhabited sediment ever explored for evidence of life.

Four finalists have been chosen for the fourth annual Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment .

In an ocean teeming with life, scientists have discovered a barely inhabited sea floor desert.

The University of Rhode Island's Jewish organization celebrated a groundbreaking Thursday.

Your Rhode Island personal income-tax refund may now be reduced - or even eliminated - if you owe back taxes to Connecticut.

Lazare "Adi" Adingono has lost his job as an assistant basketball coach at Canisius College and may serve time in jail as a result of an incident in which he hit his 4-year-old son with a belt.

When she began studying The Station site six summers ago, anthropologist Randi Scott expected that the memorials created after the nightclub fire that killed 100 people would be abandoned.