Creating Your Own Content for Students
Options to create interactive and engaging digital content at URI are expanding…Sign up for pilots starting soon.
November 2, 2023
Engage with the Public
Engage gives the URI community the ability to offer for-profit learning opportunities to learners outside the URI student body. Share your expertise, your research, and your knowledge with the world through URI’s public facing Learning Management System, Engage.
October 27, 2023
To Merge or Not to Merge Course Sections in Brightspace
Merging two or more sections into a single Brightspace class centralizes your course management, increases content consistency, and eliminates the need to juggle multiple classes. Learn how to merge here.
URI Panel in the MGHPCC Booth at Supercomputing ’23 Conference
The MGHPCC will be showcasing several computational projects from URI at their Booth in the large Supercomputing '23 Conference in Denver next month.
October 20, 2023
MGHPCC story on RI-CHAMP live tracking hurricane Lee using UNITY!
Live tracking of hurricane Lee using UNITY -- our HPC system at MGHPCC.
October 15, 2023
CI Compass Fellowship Program (CICF) for Undergraduates
A fellowships program open to all undergraduate students with an emphasis on computing.
October 2, 2023
CCR Seminar: One Size Does Not Fit All: Towards AI for Everyone
The first lecture of the AI distinguished speaker series, delivered by Prof. Rada Mihalcea.
October 1, 2023
CCR new initiative — funding available
A major new initiative that invests funds back into the URI computational researchers community.
September 15, 2023
Research Computing Workshops — Fall 2023
See some of the research computing workshops you can take this fall.
August 28, 2023
Research Computing Topical Workshops — Fall 2023
Fall research computing workshops -- more coming soon!
Fall 2023 — AI Events: URI AI & Data Analytics Fireside Chats
AI and Business Analytics, College of Business & Center for Computational Research/Research Computing/ITS invite you to four informal discussions around AI.
Brightspace Integrations: LTI 1.1, 1.3 & Me
URI faculty may apply to have 3rd party and external tools integrated into Brightspace. Here is the process.
August 24, 2023
AI Images: Adobe Firefly
URI faculty have free access to the Adobe Firefly AI image generator bot. Here is how to sign up.
Assistant Professor Job Opening — Quantum Information & Computing
URI invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position with a focus on quantum computing.
August 13, 2023
UNITY team get together at the MGHPCC!
A UNITY team get together at the MGHPCC in Holyoke, MA.
August 8, 2023
Discover URI’s AI Chatbot
Professor Jim McGwin introduces the AI ChatBot student project which encapsulates URI resources and makes it easy to access through the virtual assistance of AI.
July 19, 2023
Colabfold on Unity workshop — June 30th
Unity facilitator Cecile Cres of the University of Rhode Island will present a workshop on ColabFold.
June 15, 2023
New publication supported by Unity @MGHPCC
Discerning Watershed Response to Hydroclimatic Extremes with a Deep Convolutional Residual Regressive Neural Network by Albert Larson Abdeltawab Hendawi Thomas Boving Soni M. Pradhanang Ali S. Akanda Hydrology 2023, 10(6), 116; https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology10060116 (registering DOI) https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5338/10/6/116
May 23, 2023
IEEE HPEC Conference (virtual) — paper deadline July 7th!
HPEC is the largest computing conference in New England and is the premier conference in the world on the convergence of High Performance and Embedded Computing. We are passionate about performance. Our community is interested in computing hardware, software, systems and applications where performance matters. We welcome experts and people who are new to the […]
May 18, 2023
Tech Day 2023 : Emerging Tools and AI
By offering creative solutions for teaching delivery, ITS hopes to ease faculty’s transition to a new school year with innovations for your classes, whatever format you teach.
May 4, 2023
New Quiz Creation Experience in Brightspace Goes Live in July 2023
The New Quiz Creation Experience is designed to provide an intuitive quiz workflow and bring consistent interface to users for creating and editing quizzes as the Assignments module in Brightspace.
May 3, 2023
ChapGPT Hands-On and Drop-In Workshop
On April 20th at 10:30 AM- 12:30 PM, come to the hands-on and drop-in workshop to learn the ChatGPT tool and explore it more in depth. Six topic-based tables will be available.
April 6, 2023
HPC Training – Unity Video Connecting
gaining access through the unity website, how to connect and transfer data using both Windows and Mac
HPC Training Video 1
How to gain access and log onto the URI High Performance Research Computing cluster
Brightspace New Accommodations Feature
Brightspace now has a new accommodation feature that works with both the Quizzes and Assignments tools. It enables instructors to assign learners specific accommodations conveniently through the Classlist tool.
April 29, 2021
URI Retiring Knowmia and Migrating to Panopto for Video Creation and Management
TechSmith, URI’s current provider of screen capture and video editing tools, has decided to retire Knowmia Enterprise service and has announced a strategic partnership with the leading video management system provider, Panopto. The TechSmith and Panopto partnership will leverage TechSmith’s best-in-class screen recording and video editing tools with Panopto’s industry-leading video management system, making it […]
April 27, 2021