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In today's newsletter:

  • How a Kingston-built device could change brain injury research
  • Which URI grad students just became 2025 Emerging Coastal Leaders?
  • See which URI legends are now honored in bricks on campus.

Also on today's calendar: A Holiday Celebration at Horse Play and 9 more events.

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Today's riddle: What did one tuna say to the other after getting caught stealing files from work? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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  • Thursday: Windy; a p.m. snow shower, with a high of 35 and low of 20 degrees.
  • Friday: Cold; breezy in the morning, temps: high: 35, low: 21.
  • Saturday: Mostly cloudy, with a high of 37 and low of 24 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Tabletop Pressure Wave Generator Could Help Study Explosive Blasts That Lead to Military Brain Injury (usmedicine.com) — Researchers at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston have built a low-cost tabletop device that mimics explosive blast waves, potentially transforming how scientists study military-related brain injuries. By using stem cell–derived brain organoids instead of animals, the team can model traumatic brain injury and related neurodegenerative diseases more affordably, while acknowledging the system’s current limitations and need for further validation.
   

• URI Coastal Institute announces 2025 Emerging Coastal Leaders (uri.edu) — URI’s Kingston campus is spotlighting coastal innovation with its 2025 Emerging Coastal Leaders awards, honoring 10 graduate students whose work tackles issues from Narragansett Bay nutrients to PFAS contamination and offshore wind. Their research supports evidence-based decisions for Rhode Island’s coasts, fisheries, and communities, and they were recently recognized at the Coastal Institute’s mid-year meeting.
   

• URI inducts 15 retired faculty, staff members into Lifetime Service Society (uri.edu) — URI recently honored 15 longtime faculty and staff in Kingston by inducting them into the Lifetime Service Society at the Higgins Welcome Center, with commemorative bricks to be installed outside Carothers Library on the Kingston Campus. The ceremony highlighted decades of service, posthumous tributes, and the deep impact these employees had on generations of students.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

South Kingstown

  • RIDOT adding 129 spots to Kingston Station parking lot (wpri.com)
  • McNeese State turns over URI for late win; Here's what happened (providencejournal.com)
  • URI researcher receives $465K grant for nanotech research (pbn.com)

Narragansett

  • For Native Americans, an enduring spiritual connection to the land (wgbh.org)
  • South Providence Residents Alarmed Scrapyard Expansion Could Encroach on Their Only Public Coastal Access Point (pvdeye.org)

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