Former-foundation president, Harvey Fineberg, and chairman emeritus and co-founder, Gordon Moore, discuss the Statement of Founders’ Intent with staff.
Founded in 1892 as an agricultural school, the University of Rhode Island is a learner-centered, research institution and the only public university in the state. Its main campus is located in Kingston, and three smaller campuses are located in Providence, Narragansett Bay and West Greenwich. University of Rhode Island is also the land grant and sea grant university for the state.
Enrollment includes over 13,000 undergraduate students and almost 3,000 graduate students. Students can choose from 94 undergraduate programs, 83 graduate programs and 16 certificate, non-degree programs. Noted schools in include the Graduate Program in Oceanography, which is located at Narrangansett Bay campus. The school’s researchers investigate local to global-scale phenomena, providing greater breadth and depth of scientific understanding through innovative laboratory and field-based projects while employing advanced real-time communications to support ship-based ocean exploration throughout the world.
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