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The state’s flagship research institution, the University of Rhode Island, offers several research opportunities for undergraduate students, a virtual alphabet soup of intellectual possibility: SURF, EPSCoR, RI-INBRE, MARC U*STAR, and more. These acronyms all spell opportunity for motivated undergraduate students to contribute breakthrough research at the University, working alongside experts on projects that can make a difference in the world. ...

20 Programs Receive National Recognition for Positive Impact on Latino College Students

Research shows what steps need to be taken in order to encourage more women to study STEM fields in college.

Students learned about STEM by competing with custom made robot vehicles.

Honor recognizes Singhas "extensive and significant contributions of applied geophysics to hydrogeophysics"

Why aren’t women going into engineering? And what, if anything, can be done to help women who decide to study engineering stay the course?

Global cement production accounts for 7% of annual greenhouse gas emissions in large part through the burning of quarried limestone.

A negative environment dissuades many women engineering students from staying in the field. Can colleges and universities do anything to reverse the trend?

The Living Materials Laboratory is scaling up the manufacture of carbon-neutral cement, as well as cement products which can slowly pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it.

Marcella Gomez has been appointed as the Baskin School of Engineering’s inaugural Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and will focus on student success and recruitment and retention of historically underrepresented groups in STEM.