Spring, 2009
Researchers hope to help consumers of aquacultured seafoodNew!
Seafood consumers nowadays have a lot of choices. Eighty percent of seafood consumed in the U.S. is imported from all corners of the world ...
CELS Cares grant to enable researchers to survey RI forestsNew!
Fly over Rhode Island and you would swear the state is 95 percent wooded. Actually it isn’t—it’s closer to 60 percent ...
The quest to solve the swallow-wort problem includes a trip to switzerlandNew!
Aaron Weed, a URI PhD student, is spending most of this summer in Delémont, Switzerland near the French border ...
Five in CELS receive excellence awardsNew!
Five employees in the College of the Environment and Life Sciences were extended excellence awards recently at a faculty meeting.
URI Master gardeners, land trust begin chestnut research partnership projectNew!
A partnership research project between the URI Master Gardeners and the South Kingstown Land Trust was officially launched Sunday, May 3 with the planting of control chestnut seedlings and nuts.
Coverts Program shows landowners how to get wildlife, value back into their forests
Close to 60 percent of Rhode Island is forested and despite the perception that federal, state and municipal governments seem to own a lot of it, the opposite is true.
4 - Hers help ease stress for military families
The military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are half the world away from Rhode Island but that does not mean those who serve and left families behind are out of mind by 4-H Club members.
URI researchers net fisheries grants
URI fisheries researchers have been awarded three grants designed to help restore and maintain the sustainability of commercially important fisheries in southern New England.
Researcher nets unusual grant to probe genetic linkages to breast cancer
Fanconi anemia, statistically speaking, is a rare disease, but URI researchers are convinced that studying this rare and devastating disease may provide insight into why people develop cancer in general.
Audubon magazine interviews biologist Heppner on flocking birds
Anyone who has ever seen a flock of birds veer all of a sudden in a different direction while maintaining a tight grouping can’t fail but be amazed as to how they do it—and why.
URI scores well in NESA competition
For the members of the University of Rhode Island’s Livestock Judging Team, there’s a lot more to grading animals than...
Census shows number of farms in RI increasing - and so is interest in local and organic foods
The number of farms in Rhode Island has risen sharply in the last several years and a goodly number of them are selling directly to the public according to...
Nutrition department seeks volunteers for two studies on appetite, weight issues
URI researchers are looking for volunteers to take part in two studies, one of which will determine whether chewing a lot actually results in lower intake of calories.
CELS scientist visits China to teach and returns home with a lesson
When Dr. Laura Meyerson was asked last year to help give a how-to presentation to grad students in China she had no idea how much work was involved and how rewarding and eye-opening it would be.
Graduate students need volunteers for 2 nutrition studies
Two graduate students under the direction of Dr. Ingrid Lofgren are conducting research projects on campus designed to help young people establish eating and exercise habits ...
Megan Nepshinsky named editor of the CELS student newsletter
Megan Nepshinsky, a freshman, has been named editor of the CELS student newsletter which will resume posting starting Jan. 28.
