04/18/08 - University of Rhode Island professor of natural resources and economics Stephen Swallow is part of an initiative in Jamestown that will restore farmland that serves as a natural habitat for Bobolink birds. For the second year, URI economists have been undertaking an intriguing project.
04/18/08 - The University of Rhode Island's division of the National Center on Public Education and Social Policy was given an Outstanding Publication award for its work on the Information Works! Web site by the American Educational Research Association. The NCPESP collaborated on the Web site with the Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, or RIDE, to show specifically how well and to what degree Rhode Island's public school system is improving the education of its students.
04/18/08 - Rhody pic of the day