Bay Campus lets the public explore research vessel for anniversary

The University of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay Campus celebrated the 40th anniversary of Research Vessel Endeavor with hands-on demonstrations and tours for the public last weekend. “It was an outreach to the community,” Tom Miller, assistant dean of the Graduate School of Oceanography, said. “It was a way of bringing everyone together with marine biology…

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Bay Campus once WWII camp

Community members gathered yesterday at the University of Rhode Island’s Bay Campus for a talk about how what is now an extension of the university’s campus, was once Fort Kearney, a World War II Prisoner of War camp. While war was still raging in the European and African theaters, the United States began an effort…

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