SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. --The University of Rhode Island has been awarded 30 health and science research grants totaling $12.3 million, all financed through the federal stimulus program, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation awarded the grants, which [...]
By Peter B. Lord
Journal Staff Writer
Many scientists worry that Royal Bengal tigers could become extinct in the wild in 20 years because their numbers have become so depleted by human development. But an expert told several hundred people at the University of Rhode Island Tuesday night there is [...]
The University of Rhode Island's famed ocean explorer Bob Ballard will be featured on "60 Minutes" Sunday night as he discovers a seventh-century shipwreck off the coast of Turkey. A preview is available on the CBS News Web site.
Correspondent Lara Logan joins Ballard on his vessel,Nautilus, as [...]
By Tatiana Pina and Kate Bramson
Journal Staff Writers
WARWICK, R.I. -- Hours after a fatal crash in Cranston that killed one of his friends from the University of Rhode Island, the 19-year-old man driving the car was charged with drunk driving.
Sonny Pham, of 22 Hartwell Drive, Foxboro, bowed his head [...]
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University of Rhode Island students will ask a federal judge to reject as unconstitutional a Narragansett ordinance allowing police to put orange stickers on unruly homes. Lawyers for the students will make their argument before U.S. District Court Judge William Smith.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - University of Rhode Island students will ask a federal judge Tuesday to reject as unconstitutional a Narragansett ordinance allowing police to put orange stickers on unruly homes.
Lawyers for the students will make their argument before U.S. District Court Judge William Smith.
Police have cited more than [...]
