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KINGSTON, R.I. 鈥� Jan. 14, 2025 鈥� Meta, the social networking giant that owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads, has announced that it will end its fact-checking program to moderate user content and replace it with a 鈥渃ommunity notes鈥� model.In a video on Jan. 7, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the changes would reduce mistakes caused by the system the company created to moderate its platforms, while simplifying moderation policies and restoring 鈥渇ree expression on our platforms.

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In the last quarter century, most countries around the world have failed to adequately protect the human rights of their citizens. In that time, nations鈥� efforts to protect human rights have been stagnant 鈥� with the number of countries receiving failing grades easily twice as high as those receiving passing grades.

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November 15, 2024 鈥� KINGSTON, RI 鈥� The University of Rhode Island today unveiled a $65 million gift that will support scholarships for high-achieving students. The philanthropic gift鈥攖he largest in the University鈥檚 history鈥攊s the result of an estate gift from the late Helen Izzi Schilling, a 1954 graduate of the University.

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Sitting on Narragansett Bay in northeastern Rhode Island, the town of Warren is highly vulnerable to the effects of sea-level rise and flooding due to its low elevation. According to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration projections, the sea level is projected to rise 1.6 feet by 2050 鈥� 2.

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KINGSTON, R.I. 鈥� July 22, 2024 鈥� A team of researchers at the University of Rhode Island and Nova Southeastern University in Florida have been tracking a 26-foot endangered whale shark 鈥� named 鈥淩io Lady鈥� 鈥� with a satellite transmitter for more than four years 鈥� a record for whale sharks and one of the longest tracking endeavors for any species of shark.

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The University of Rhode Island announced today that it has secured a five-year, $21 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support the Rhode Island IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence program from 2024 to 2029. This latest grant raises RI-INBRE鈥檚 investment in biomedical research and training in the state to more than $100 million since the program鈥檚 inception in 2001.

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The spread of invasive alien species has long been recognized as a global threat to nature and people. In September, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) for the United Nations issued a global assessment providing clear evidence of the growing threat to people, the economy and nature from invasive alien species.

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Digitizing decades worth of pre-computer files held in storage at the Narragansett Bay campus let oceanographers at the University of Rhode Island get a better picture of Narragansett Bay over time. URI operates the longest-running time series in Rhode Island, which now reveals that the level of phytoplankton in the bay has dropped by half in the last half century.

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A University of Rhode Island oceanographer leading her first research cruise in the southern Pacific uncovered a surprise when her vessel looked below the waters in the Polynesian nation of Tonga.

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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder can impact many common childhood milestones and cognitive processes, such as decision-making, inhibitory control, language development, and goal-setting.

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KINGSTON, R.I. 鈥� April 17, 2024 鈥� Migration and reproduction are two of the most demanding events in a bird鈥檚 annual cycle, so much so that the vast majority of migratory birds separate the two tasks into different times of the year. But a study by University of Rhode Island researchers has found direct evidence of a species 鈥� the American woodcock, a migratory shorebird from eastern and central North America 鈥� that overlaps periods of migration and reproduction, a rare breeding strategy known as 鈥渋tinerant breeding.

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Direct relatives of people with autism sometimes display similar traits, in a much milder form that may not even be noticed outside a lab. While the Broad Autism Phenotype鈥攎ild, sub-clinical autistic characteristics or behaviors in first-degree relatives of people with autism鈥攈as been studied extensively in siblings, few studies exist on parents of children with autism.

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Substance use disorder, particularly involving opioids, is a continuing crisis in the country, impacting not just the person suffering from addiction, but also those closest to them.

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Award-winning Central Falls High School biology teacher David Upegui, Ph.D., teamed up with URI paleontologist David Fastovsky to write a book aimed at helping teachers incorporate social justice into the biology curriculum.

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A new study led by URI scientists Kathleen Melanson and Theodore Walls aims to shed light on real-world eating behaviors, using AI-enabled wearable technology. In collaboration with researchers at the University of Texas and funded by the National Institutes of Health, the team will develop a system to detect detailed information on eating motions.

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KINGSTON, R.I. 鈥� Feb. 26, 2024 鈥� In the 1980s, as a poetry student in Italy, Peter Covino was introduced to the work of acclaimed Italian poet Dario Bellezza. It鈥檚 a moment he still remembers.鈥淚t was a big deal to learn at that time that there was this really wild, irreverent writer exploring ideas that I didn鈥檛 realize would speak to me so directly,鈥� says Covino, associate professor of English at the University of Rhode Island.

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The program, organized by URI College of Nursing Professor Chris McGrane, provides respite care for parents of children with special needs, at no cost to them. For four hours every Saturday afternoon, McGrane and her team of URI students, take care of children with special needs, giving parents a chance to take a break from the sometimes daunting responsibilities of care.

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Evidence to support the assumption that ultra-processed foods are all bad for one鈥檚 health is limited, and the nutritional quality of processed foods has not been considered by official U.S. Department of Agriculture dietary guidelines. University of Rhode Island Nutrition Professor Kathleen Melanson aims to help inform the newest guidelines, due out in 2025, as she begins a nutritional study funded by a $300,000 grant from the USDA.

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Jo毛lle Rollo-Koster, a history professor at the University of Rhode Island and a renowned medieval scholar, has been elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, one of the highest honors that can be bestowed on a medievalist.