University of Rhode Island

The University of Rhode Island (URI) is the public land-grant research university of the American state of Rhode Island, with its main campus in the village of Kingston and a second research campus on Narragansett Bay.罗德岛大学（University of Rhode Island，简称 URI）是美国罗德岛州的公立赠地研究型大学，主校区位于金士顿村，另有一处研究校区设在纳拉甘西特湾畔。

It is the flagship public research institution of the state, holds land-grant, sea-grant and urban-grant designations, and became an R1 very high research activity university in the Carnegie Classification announced on 13 February 2025.该校是罗德岛州的旗舰公立研究机构，同时拥有赠地、海赠地与城市赠地三种身份，并于 2025 年 2 月 13 日在卡内基分类中获认定为科研活跃度极高的 R1 级大学。

The university places in the 1001-1200 tied band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, and its fall 2025 intake of more than 17,000 students was drawn from 47 states and more than 65 countries.该校位列 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名的 1001-1200 并列区间，2025 年秋季新生来源覆盖 47 个州与 65 个以上国家，在校生超过 17,000 人。

History

• The institution began in 1888, when South Kingstown residents, the town council and the state raised 5,000 dollars to buy the 140-acre Oliver Watson Farm in Kingston and open a state agricultural school and experiment station, giving effect to the Morrill Act of 1862.该校起源可溯至 1888 年，南金士顿镇居民、镇议会与罗德岛州共同集资 5,000 美元，购入金士顿 140 英亩的奥利弗·沃森农场，用以创办州立农业学校与农业试验站，此举落实了 1862 年的莫里尔赠地法案。
• It was chartered as the Rhode Island State Agricultural School in 1888, and in 1892 it was reorganised as the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, which extended study from two years to four and which the university counts as its founding year.该校 1888 年以罗德岛州立农业学校之名获特许设立，1892 年改组为罗德岛农业与机械艺术学院，把学制由两年延长至四年，校方即以 1892 年为建校年份。
• The first cohort numbered only seventeen students, and they completed their course in two years, graduating in 1894, while the campus master plan was drawn up in the 1890s by the landscape firm Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot.首届学生仅有 17 人，两年完成学业并于 1894 年毕业，而校园总体规划由奥姆斯特德、奥姆斯特德与艾略特景观事务所于 1890 年代绘制。
• Graduate instruction opened in 1907 with Master of Science degrees in chemistry and engineering, and by 1909 the school had founded the state's first marine laboratory, set up an outreach department and begun a Greek system, at which point it was renamed Rhode Island State College.该校 1907 年以化学与工程两项理学硕士开启研究生教育，至 1909 年已建成全州首个海洋实验室、设立推广部门并创立希腊字母联谊体系，同年更为罗德岛州立学院。
• Harvey Robert Turner became its first African American graduate in 1914, taking a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering while competing on the football and track teams, and later teaching and serving as treasurer at Prairie View A&M University.哈维·罗伯特·特纳于 1914 年成为该校首位非裔毕业生，他在攻读土木工程理学学士期间参加橄榄球队与田径队，后来到普莱尔维尤农工大学任教并担任财务主管。
• The Master of Arts was first awarded in 1951, the same year an act of the General Assembly gave the school its present name after the College of Arts and Sciences joined it, and the first Doctor of Philosophy followed in 1960.该校 1951 年首次授予文学硕士学位，同年州议会通过法案，在文理学院并入后赐予现名，首个哲学博士学位则于 1960 年授予。
• The Master of Public Administration in 1962 opened professional graduate degrees, the university was named the state's only sea-grant institution in 1966 and its only urban-grant institution in 1995.该校 1962 年增设公共管理硕士，开启专业型研究生学位，1966 年成为全州唯一的海赠地机构，1995 年又成为全州唯一的城市赠地机构。
• The Board of Governors for Higher Education, appointed by the governor, became the governing body in 1981 during the presidency of Frank Newman, who served from 1974 to 1983.由州长任命的高等教育理事会于 1981 年成为该校治理机构，时任校长弗兰克·纽曼于 1974 至 1983 年在任。
• The faculty adopted an open-access policy in 2013 to make the university's scholarship publicly readable online, and the Board of Governors was replaced that same year by the Rhode Island Board of Education.该校教师团队于 2013 年通过开放获取政策，使校内学术成果可在线公开阅读，同年高等教育理事会被罗德岛州教育委员会取代。
• The historic core of the Kingston campus, where most pre-1950 buildings stand, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017 as the University of Rhode Island Historic District.金士顿校区 1950 年前建筑集中的历史核心区，于 2017 年作为罗德岛大学历史街区列入国家史迹名录。
• Governance passed to a 17-member Board of Trustees in 2019, and Marc B. Parlange became the twelfth president in August 2021.该校治理权于 2019 年移交由 17 名成员组成的董事会，马克·B·帕朗日于 2021 年 8 月出任第十二任校长。
• In 2024 Rhode Island voters approved an 87.5 million dollar biomedical sciences building for the Kingston campus, and ground was broken in autumn 2025 on three new residence halls built under the university's first public-private partnership.2024 年罗德岛州选民批准为金士顿校区拨款 8,750 万美元建设生物医学科学大楼，2025 年秋该校首个公私合作建设的三栋学生宿舍正式动工。
• The state legislature approved 5 million dollars in 2026 to begin a public medical school at URI, following a feasibility study that projected a five-year path to launch.2026 年州议会批准拨款 500 万美元，用于在罗德岛大学启动公办医学院建设，此前的一份可行性研究预计启动需约五年。
• Businessman W. Alton Jones bought the 2,309-acre West Greenwich property in 1954 for hunting and fishing trips, and died in a plane crash on 1 March 1962 while flying to meet President Dwight D. Eisenhower for another fishing trip.实业家 W·奥尔顿·琼斯于 1954 年买下西格林威治 2,309 英亩的地产用于狩猎垂钓，1962 年 3 月 1 日在飞往会见总统德怀特·D·艾森豪威尔再度垂钓途中因空难身亡。
• Jones's widow Nettie Marie Jones donated the whole property, buildings, farm animals and equipment included, which tripled the university's landholdings and left it with more land than any other New England state university.琼斯的遗孀内蒂·玛丽·琼斯将整处地产连同建筑、农场牲畜与设备一并捐出，使该校的土地规模增至三倍，并使其成为新英格兰地区各州立大学中占地最广者。
• The Youth Science Center built there in 1965 with W. Alton Jones Foundation money became the Environmental Education Center, and the campus closed in June 2020 together with the Whispering Pines Conference Center after years of financial hardship.1965 年由 W·奥尔顿·琼斯基金会资助在那座地产上兴建的青少年科学中心后来成为环境教育中心，2020 年 6 月该校连同低语松会议中心因多年财务困难一并关闭。
• Governor John Chafee spoke at the 1965 dedication of the Environmental Education Center, and his son Governor Lincoln Chafee rededicated the campus on its 50th anniversary in 2015, when the centre hosted an average of 1,900 campers each summer and 70 school groups from across New England.1965 年环境教育中心落成时由州长约翰·查菲致辞，2015 年该校庆祝 50 周年时由其子州长林肯·查菲重新主持献词仪式，该中心当时每年夏季平均接待 1,900 名营员与来自新英格兰各地的 70 个学校团体。
• The Whispering Pines Conference Center on the same campus contained 32 guest rooms and four conference rooms and served clients ranging from small businesses and teachers' unions to major banks.同一校区的低语松会议中心设有 32 间客房与四间会议室，其客户从小企业、教师工会到大型银行，涵盖各行各业。
• In November 2022 Rhode Island voters approved a 100 million dollar bond referendum for the second phase of the Narragansett Bay Campus master plan, work that prepared the site for the new 125 million dollar National Science Foundation Regional Class Research Vessel Narragansett Dawn, delivered in 2024.2022 年 11 月罗德岛州选民通过 1 亿美元债券公投，为纳拉甘西特湾校区总体规划第二阶段注资，这项工作为耗资 1.25 亿美元、由美国国家科学基金会建造的区域级研究船「纳拉甘西特黎明号」2024 年抵达该校做了准备。
• Since 2007 the university has invested more than one billion dollars in capital projects across its campuses, a programme that included a 57.3 million dollar renovation of the Fine Arts Center under a 2021 bond issue and a 65.8 million dollar athletics and recreation allocation from the Rhode Island Capital Plan.自 2007 年以来该校在各校区投入的基建资金已超过 10 亿美元，这一系列工程包括依 2021 年债券发行进行的 5,730 万美元美术中心翻修，以及来自罗德岛州资本计划的 6,580 万美元体育与健身设施拨款。
• About 675 full-time administrative staff support the academic enterprise, and in 2025 the university celebrated more than 4,000 graduates in a single year.该校约有 675 名全职行政人员支撑学术运转，2025 年该校在一年内为超过 4,000 名毕业生举行了毕业典礼。

Academics

• Teaching and research are organised through nine academic colleges and schools, comprising the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business, the Feinstein College of Education, the College of Engineering, the College of the Environment and Life Sciences, the College of Health Sciences, the College of Nursing, the College of Pharmacy and the Graduate School of Oceanography, with the Harrington School of Communications and Media attached.该校的教学与研究由九个学院与学部组织，包括文理学院、商学院、费因斯坦教育学院、工程学院、环境与生命科学学院、健康科学学院、护理学院、药学院与海洋学研究生院，另设有哈灵顿传播与媒体学院。
• The university awards degrees through some 200 undergraduate and graduate programmes, which a 2023 commencement programme counted as more than 121 undergraduate and 78 graduate degree programmes.该校通过约 200 个本科与研究生项目授予学位，2023 年毕业典礼文件统计为 121 个以上本科项目与 78 个研究生项目。
• In the fall of 2025 the student body stood at more than 17,000, comprising about 3,300 first-year students, more than 550 transfers and more than 2,300 graduate students, while more than 90 per cent of graduates were employed or in further study within six months.2025 年秋季该校在校生超过 17,000 人，其中约 3,300 名一年级学生、550 名以上转学生与 2,300 名以上研究生，毕业生中超过 90% 在六个月内就业或继续深造。
• Admissions reached a record 28,036 first-year undergraduate applications for autumn 2025, with a middle-fifty per cent admitted profile of a 3.4 to 4.1 grade point average and a combined SAT range of 1170 to 1340 on a test-optional basis.2025 年秋季该校本科一年级申请数创下 28,036 份的纪录，录取学生中间百分之五十的成绩区间为绩点 3.4 至 4.1、ACT 27 至 32，该校实行可选提交考试成绩政策。
• The student-faculty ratio stands at 17 to 1 and 88 per cent of faculty hold doctoral or terminal degrees, with 47 per cent of the student body coming from Rhode Island and 53 per cent from outside the state, and more than 30 per cent of incoming first-years being the first in their family to attend college.该校师生比为 17 比 1，88% 的教师拥有博士或终结学位，学生中 47% 来自罗德岛州本州、53% 来自州外，新生中超过 30% 是家族中第一位上大学的人。
• Research and development spending reached 137.5 million dollars in fiscal year 2024 according to the National Science Foundation HERD survey, ranking 166th among 925 US institutions and down from 144.0 million dollars in 2023.据美国国家科学基金会 HERD 调查，该校 2024 财年科研支出达 1.375 亿美元，在全美 925 所机构中列第 166 位，略低于 2023 年的 1.440 亿美元。
• Of that 2024 total, geosciences, atmospheric sciences and ocean sciences took 55.7 million dollars or 40.5 per cent, life sciences took 40.4 million dollars and engineering 17.6 million dollars, while the federal government supplied 111.5 million dollars or 81.1 per cent of all funding.在 2024 年这笔支出中，地球科学、大气科学与海洋科学占 5,570 万美元即 40.5%，生命科学占 4,040 万美元，工程学占 1,760 万美元，联邦政府提供了 1.115 亿美元即 81.1% 的经费。
• The Graduate School of Oceanography on the Narragansett Bay Campus anchors this work, and the Inner Space Center there receives real-time audio and video from research vessels worldwide, an idea traceable to the telepresence system conceived by oceanographer Robert Ballard.纳拉甘西特湾校区的海洋学研究生院是这批研究的核心，湾校区的「内部空间中心」可实时接收全球科考船队的音视频信号，这一构想源自海洋学家罗伯特·巴拉德提出的远程临场感系统。
• The Marine Science Research Facility on the same campus provides about 7,000 feet of indoor wet laboratory space in one of the most versatile seawater systems in the United States, and it is used by researchers from Brown University and the New Bedford School for Marine Sciences and Technology.同一校区的海洋科学研究设施提供约 7,000 英尺的室内湿实验室空间，其海水系统是美国最灵活的系统之一，布朗大学与新贝德福德海洋科学与技术学院的研究人员都在此开展研究。
• Individual programmes carry professional accreditation, including the College of Pharmacy from the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, the College of Nursing from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, engineering from ABET and the library and information studies programme from the American Library Association.该校多个专业项目获得专门认证，其中药学院由药学教育认证委员会认证，护理学院由护理教育委员会认证，工程专业由工程与技术认证委员会认证，图书馆与信息研究项目由美国图书馆协会认证。
• URI also runs joint degrees with neighbouring institutions, including an M.S. and J.D. in labour relations and human resources with Roger Williams University School of Law and a joint Ph.D. in education with Rhode Island College.该校还与邻近院校开展联合学位项目，包括与罗杰·威廉姆斯大学法学院合办的劳动关系与人力资源硕士与法学博士学位，以及与罗德岛学院合办的教育学博士项目。
• Through the Alan Shawn Feinstein College of Continuing Education, graduate coursework is taught at sites across the state, and the University College for Academic Success advises all incoming undergraduates through their first two years.通过艾伦·肖恩·范斯坦继续教育学院，该校的研究生课程在全州多地授课，而大学学院则为全部本科新生提供前两年的学业指导。
• OpenAlex records 51,536 research works and 2,563,494 citations for the institution, and the economic study by Tripp Umbach found URI generates about 2 billion dollars of annual activity in Rhode Island while supporting 17,799 jobs.OpenAlex 为该校记录了 51,536 项研究成果与 2,563,494 次引用，特里普·乌姆巴赫的经济影响研究显示，罗德岛大学每年为罗德岛州创造约 20 亿美元经济活动并支撑 17,799 个就业岗位。
• Financial aid reached a record 150 million dollars in 2025 and more than 158 million dollars in the following year, and the university also won a 65 million dollar estate gift from alumna Helen Izzi Schilling that created the Schilling Scholars programme.该校助学金支出 2025 年创下 1.5 亿美元纪录，次年超过 1.58 亿美元，同时获得校友海伦·伊齐·席林的 6,500 万美元遗产捐赠，据此设立席林学者项目。
• The Institute for AI and Computational Research opened in September 2025 to work on artificial intelligence, data science, high-performance computing and quantum computing, and a Blue Fellows doctoral programme won a 954,000 dollar National Science Foundation grant.该校人工智能与计算研究所于 2025 年 9 月成立，研究方向涵盖人工智能、数据科学、高性能计算与量子计算，其「蓝色学者」博士项目另获美国国家科学基金会 95.4 万美元资助。
• The Harrington School of Communications and Media houses the university's only newspaper, The Good Five Cent Cigar, which was founded in 1971, and the school also runs the Feinstein Providence Campus continuing-education programmes.哈灵顿传播与媒体学院设有该校唯一的学生报纸《The Good Five Cent Cigar》，该报创刊于 1971 年，该学院还负责运营费因斯坦普罗维登斯校区的继续教育项目。

Campus

• The Kingston campus covers about 1,200 acres and grew from the original 140 acres, and its historic centre is the grassy quadrangle framed by locally quarried granite buildings laid out on the Olmsted plan.金士顿校区占地约 1,200 英亩，由最初的 140 英亩扩展而来，其历史中心是一片草坪四方院，四周环绕按奥姆斯特德规划布局、以本地花岗岩砌成的建筑。
• The farm that gave the university its site survives as the c. 1796 Oliver Watson Farmhouse, now a small museum, and the campus is reached by Rhode Island Route 138 from either Interstate 95 or US Route 1.为该校提供校址的那座农场以约 1796 年建成的奥利弗·沃森农舍形式保存下来，如今是一座小型博物馆，校园经由罗德岛 138 号公路抵达，可从 95 号州际公路或美国 1 号公路两端进入。
• Named buildings on the quadrangle include East Hall of 1909, Washburn Hall of 1921, Lippitt Hall of 1897, originally a drill hall and armory named for Governor Charles W. Lippitt, and Green Hall of 1937, named for Theodore F. Green.四方院一带的具名建筑包括 1909 年的东楼、1921 年的沃什伯恩楼、1897 年原为操练场与军械库的利皮特楼（以州长查尔斯·W·利皮特命名），以及 1937 年以西奥多·F·格林命名的格林楼。
• More recent additions include the Robert L. Carothers Library and Learning Commons built in 1965 and renovated in 1991, the Multicultural Center of 1998, the Chester H. Kirk Center for Advanced Technology of 1995, the Engineering Stairway to Excellence of 2019 and the Engineering Building of 2021.较新的建筑包括 1965 年建成、1991 年翻修的罗伯特·L·卡罗瑟斯图书馆与学习中心，1998 年的多元文化中心，1995 年的切斯特·H·柯克先进技术中心，2019 年的工程学「卓越阶梯」以及 2021 年的工程大楼。
• Six miles east of Kingston, the Narragansett Bay Campus on 215 South Ferry Road overlooks the West Passage and holds the Graduate School of Oceanography, the Inner Space Center, ocean engineering laboratories and the Marine Science Research Facility.金士顿以东 6 英里处，南渡轮路 215 号的纳拉甘西特湾校区俯瞰西水道，设有海洋学研究生院、内部空间中心、海洋工程实验室与海洋科学研究设施。
• Twenty miles west, the 2,309-acre W. Alton Jones Campus in West Greenwich held environmental education and conference facilities until it closed in June 2020, and it links the 2,200-acre Tillinghast Pond Management Area with the 14,000-acre Arcadia Management Area.以西 20 英里的西格林威治 W·奥尔顿·琼斯校区占地 2,309 英亩，2020 年 6 月关闭前设有环境教育与会议设施，该片林地连接 2,200 英亩的蒂林厄斯特池塘管理区与 14,000 英亩的阿卡迪亚管理区。
• In the state capital, the Providence Campus on 350 Eddy Street in the Jewelry District houses the Rhode Island Nursing Education Center and the Feinstein College of Education, and the accreditor also lists instructional sites in Pawtucket and in Groton, Connecticut.在州府普罗维登斯，珠宝区埃迪街 350 号的普罗维登斯校区设有罗德岛护理教育中心与费因斯坦教育学院，认证机构另列出帕沃塔克及康涅狄格州格罗顿的教学点。
• About 5,500 students live in 26 on-campus residence halls including 14 Living and Learning Communities, more than 600 occupy 16 fraternity and sorority houses, and the first public-private partnership is set to add more than 1,100 beds by autumn 2028.约 5,500 名学生住在 26 栋校内宿舍楼中，其中包括 14 个「生活与学习共同体」，600 多人住在 16 栋兄弟会与姐妹会会舍，首个公私合作项目计划在 2028 年秋前新增 1,100 多个床位。
• The Fine Arts Center, roughly 55 years old and under renovation, serves more than 5,000 students a year and draws more than 50,000 visitors to the Kingston campus for plays, concerts, gallery exhibitions and other events.已有约 55 年历史、正在翻修的美术中心每年服务 5,000 多名学生，并为戏剧演出、音乐会与画廊展览等活动吸引 5 万多名访客来到金士顿校区。

Reputation

• URI sits in the 1001-1200 tied band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, a shared interval that covers more than 800 positions in the global table.罗德岛大学位列 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名的 1001-1200 并列区间，这是全球榜单中覆盖 800 多个名次的合并区间。
• It is placed in the 801-1000 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 and in the 801-900 band of the Shanghai Ranking of World Universities 2026.该校位列 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名的 801-1000 区间，并在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中落入 801-900 区间。
• In the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 the university ranked 932nd, and in the U.S. News national tables of 2024 it was tied for 152nd among 436 national universities and tied for 81st among 225 public universities.在 US News 2026-2027 年度全球最佳大学排名中该校位列第 932 位，在 2024 年版全美排名中并列第 152 位（436 所全国性大学）与并列第 81 位（225 所公立大学）。
• The Wall Street Journal with College Pulse and Statista placed URI 76th among the best colleges in the United States in 2026, eighth better than the previous edition, and the survey of about 120,000 students and recent alumni weighted student outcomes at 70 per cent.《华尔街日报》联合 College Pulse 与 Statista 在 2026 年榜单中把该校列为全美第 76 位，比上一版上升 8 位，该调查收集约 12 万名学生与往届毕业生的反馈，其中学生结果占权重 70%。
• The same survey ranked URI the best public university in New England for the second consecutive year, 34th among public universities nationally and 9th among public flagship universities, ahead of the University of Connecticut at 88th.同一调查连续第二年把该校列为新英格兰地区最佳公立大学，在全美公立大学中列第 34 位、在公立旗舰大学中列第 9 位，领先于第 88 位的康涅狄格大学。
• The Academic Ranking of World Universities placed URI in the 51-75 band globally for oceanography in 2023, and US News ranked the university 31st for pharmacy in 2024, 47th for library and information studies and 48th for nursing master's programmes.《世界大学学术排名》在 2023 年把该校海洋学学科列入全球第 51 至 75 位区间，US News 2024 年排名则把其药学列全美第 31 位、图书馆与信息研究列第 47 位、护理硕士项目列第 48 位。
• Academic Ranking of World Universities also placed URI 182-190 in the 2026 edition, while Times Higher Education placed it 601-800 in 2027, the two tables that separate it most from the tied QS band.《世界大学学术排名》2026 年版把该校列在第 182 至 190 位区间，《泰晤士高等教育》2027 年排名则列在第 601 至 800 位区间，这两张榜单与 QS 的并列区间形成明显落差。
• Carnegie granted R1 very high research activity status in February 2025, placing URI among the top 4.8 per cent of US degree-granting postsecondary institutions, and the university reported doctoral enrolment growth of 11 per cent and a 25 per cent rise in research expenditure over five years.卡内基分类于 2025 年 2 月授予该校 R1 级最高科研活跃度地位，使其进入全美授予学位的高校前 4.8% 之列，该校同时报告五年内博士生规模增长 11%、科研支出增长 25%。
• The New England Commission of Higher Education accredited URI originally in 1930, completed its most recent decennial review in 2017 and filed an interim report in 2022, with the next comprehensive evaluation scheduled for autumn 2027.新英格兰高等教育委员会于 1930 年首次认证该校，2017 年完成最近一次十年期全面评估，2022 年提交中期报告，下一次全面评估定于 2027 年秋进行。

Student life

• The university's motto is Think Big. We Do., and its colours are navy blue, Keaney blue and white, with Rhody the Ram as mascot and Rams as the athletic nickname.该校的校训是「Think Big. We Do.」（想得远大，我们付诸行动），校色为深蓝、基尼蓝与白色，吉祥物是公羊 Rhody，校队昵称为 Rams。
• More than 300 student organisations and clubs are registered on campus, alongside 16 fraternity and sorority houses, and the student newspaper The Good Five Cent Cigar has been published since 1971.校内登记的学生组织与社团超过 300 个，另有 16 栋兄弟会与姐妹会会舍，学生报纸《The Good Five Cent Cigar》自 1971 年起持续出版。
• The university fields 16 intercollegiate sports in NCAA Division I, competing in the Atlantic 10 Conference with football in the Coastal Athletic Association, and its men's basketball team has reached the NCAA tournament ten times since a first appearance in 1961.该校在 NCAA 一级联盟中参加 16 个校际体育项目，多数项目隶属大西洋十联盟，橄榄球队隶属海岸体育联盟，其男篮自 1961 年首次参赛以来十次打进 NCAA 锦标赛。
• Athletic facilities include the 7,700-seat Ryan Center, the 8,000-seat Meade Stadium, Keaney Gymnasium, Mackal Field House, Tootell Aquatic Center, Bradford R. Boss Arena, the URI Soccer Complex and the URI Softball Complex.该校的体育设施包括可容纳 7,700 座的瑞恩中心、可容纳 8,000 座的米德体育场、基尼体育馆、麦克尔体育中心、图特尔水上中心、布拉德福德·R·博斯冰球馆，以及校足球场与校垒球场。
• Recurring traditions mark the academic year, with O-Week running from 29 August to 5 September 2025, a State of the University address in Edwards Auditorium, Homecoming Weekend from 19 to 21 September and Quad Fest with a student organisations fair on 30 September.该校的年度传统贯穿整个学年，2025 年的迎新周在 8 月 29 日至 9 月 5 日进行，校长在爱德华兹礼堂作年度大学情况报告，返校周末在 9 月 19 至 21 日举行，9 月 30 日的四方节则设有学生组织博览会。
• Some 30 per cent of new students are the first in their family to attend college, and the first cohort of Helen Izzi Schilling Scholars arrived in autumn 2025 with 26 students drawn from 13 states.新生中约 30% 是家族中第一位上大学的人，2025 年秋首届海伦·伊齐·席林学者入学，共 26 名学生来自 13 个州。
• Rhodyville Block Party and the inaugural Rhody Athletics Challenge were among the 2025 Homecoming events, when the Greek community also raised 170,000 dollars for Special Olympics Rhode Island and Best Buddies and packed 20,000 meals for local food banks.罗迪维尔街区派对与首届罗迪体育募款挑战是 2025 年返校周末的活动之一，同期希腊裔社群为罗德岛州特殊奥运会与「最佳伙伴」募得 17 万美元，并为当地食物银行打包了 2 万份餐食。
• In 2025 the football team won the Coastal Athletic Association championship and reached the playoffs for the first time in nearly four decades, baseball won the Atlantic 10 title and took an NCAA tournament bid, and women's rowing claimed its 11th Atlantic 10 crown.2025 年该校橄榄球队夺得海岸体育联盟冠军并 近四十年来首次打进季后赛，棒球队拿下大西洋十联盟冠军并获得 NCAA 锦标赛资格，女子赛艇队则收获队史第 11 个大西洋十联盟冠军。
• Campus life extends beyond athletics through makerspace outreach, new school partnerships that bring hands-on learning to underserved communities, a state-of-the-art alert notification system and a StormReady recognition from the National Weather Service.除体育之外，该校的校园生活还通过创客空间外展与面向资源不足社区的新学校合作项目，把动手学习带出校园，校内还引入了先进的应急通知系统，并获得美国国家气象台的 StormReady 认证。

Notable people

• Robert Ballard joined the Graduate School of Oceanography as a professor of oceanography after taking his PhD there in the 1970s, and he discovered the wreck of the Titanic on 1 September 1985 together with the French oceanographer Jean-Louis Michel.罗伯特·巴拉德在 20 世纪 70 年代于罗德岛大学海洋学研究生院取得博士学位后留任担任海洋学教授，1985 年 9 月 1 日与法国海洋学家让-路易·米歇尔共同发现了泰坦尼克号残骸。
• Ballard had earlier proposed the plate-tectonics model in Project FAMOUS in 1975, found hydrothermal vents in 1977 and the black smokers in 1979, launched the JASON Project in 1989, founded the Ocean Exploration Trust in 2008 and holds 22 honorary doctorates, the Hubbard Medal and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.巴拉德早在 1975 年的 FAMOUS 计划中就提出了板块构造模型，1977 年发现热液喷口、1979 年发现「黑烟囱」，1989 年启动 JASON 计划，2008 年创立海洋探索信托，并于 2014 年当选美国艺术与科学院院士，另获 22 个荣誉博士学位与哈伯奖章。
• Margaret Leinen, an alumna of the university, became Director of NASA's Astrobiology Program and a United States Geological Survey microbiologist, and is credited with work on the biosignature of ocean worlds.校友玛格丽特·莱纳出任美国航天局天体生物学项目主任兼美国地质调查局微生物学家，其研究聚焦海洋世界生物标志物的判定。
• Antonio Mignucci, a graduate of the university, is a scientist whose work on pathobiology and the chemistry of protein and peptide interactions earned him international recognition.毕业于该校的科学家安东尼奥·米尼奥奇在病理生物学以及蛋白质与肽相互作用化学方面的研究获得国际认可。
• Harvey Robert Turner, the class of 1914, was the first African American to graduate from the institution, took a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering, played on the football and track teams and later taught at Prairie View A&M University.1914 届的哈维·罗伯特·特纳是该校首位非裔毕业生，他取得土木工程理学学士，加入橄榄球队与田径队，后来在普莱尔维尤农工大学任教。
• Marc Parlange, the twelfth president since August 2021, previously led the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Rhode Island's own deanship of the Graduate School of Oceanography, and led a search team that found the wreck of the submarine USS Scorpion.马克·帕朗日自 2021 年 8 月起担任该校第十二任校长，此前曾任马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校校长，也曾领导罗德岛大学海洋学研究生院，其领导的搜索团队发现了「蝎子号」潜艇残骸。
• Michael Flynn, who earned a Bachelor of Science in 1981, retired as a lieutenant general from the United States Army and served as the 25th national security advisor from 2016 to 2017.1981 年取得理学学士的迈克尔·弗林以美国陆军中将退役，并曾于 2016 至 2017 年担任美国第 25 任国家安全顾问。
• Christiane Amanpour graduated in 1983 and became an international correspondent and anchor for CNN, while John King of the class of 1985 also joined CNN as a correspondent and Vladimir Duthiers of 1991 joined CBS News.1983 年毕业的克里斯蒂安·阿曼普尔成为美国有线电视新闻网的国际记者与主播，1985 届的约翰·金同样加入该台担任记者，1991 届的弗拉基米尔·杜提斯则加入哥伦比亚广播公司新闻部。
• Political alumni include Jorge Elorza, who took a Bachelor of Science in 1998 and became the 38th mayor of Providence, and governors Lincoln Almond of the class of 1959 and J. Joseph Garrahy of 1953.政界校友包括 1998 年取得理学学士并出任普罗维登斯市第 38 任市长的豪尔赫·埃洛尔萨，以及 1959 届的罗德岛州州长林肯·阿尔蒙德与 1953 届的州长 J·约瑟夫·加拉希。
• Business alumni include Thomas Ryan of the class of 1975, former chief executive of CVS Health, Robert Crandall of 1960, former president of American Airlines, and Ben Navarro of 1984, founder of Beemok Capital.商界校友包括 1975 届的托马斯·瑞安，即美国西维斯健康公司的前首席执行官，1960 届的罗伯特·克兰德尔，即美国航空公司的前总裁，以及 1984 届的 Beemok Capital 创始人本·纳瓦罗。
• On the stage, Andrew Burnap won the 2020 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for The Inheritance, J. T. Walsh and Peter Frechette became character actors, and Mat Franco of 2010 was the first magician to win America's Got Talent.在舞台领域，安德鲁·伯纳普凭《继承者》获得 2020 年托尼奖最佳话剧男主角，J·T·沃尔什与彼得·弗雷切特成为著名影视演员，2010 届的马特·弗朗哥则是首位赢得《美国达人秀》的魔术师。
• Among athletes, Cuttino Mobley, Lamar Odom and Sly Williams reached the National Basketball Association, and Robert Weygand of 1972 served as lieutenant governor of Rhode Island and as a member of the United States House of Representatives.在体育领域，卡蒂诺·莫布利、拉马尔·奥多姆与斯莱·威廉姆斯均进入美国国家篮球协会，1972 届的罗伯特·魏甘德曾任罗德岛州副州长并担任美国众议院议员。