Lianna Blakeman

Lianna Blakeman is a senior majoring in English & Writing and Rhetoric with a minor in Business. She joined the Cigar her freshman year and is going into her second semester as Editor-in-Chief. Graduating this December, Lianna is hoping to pursue a career in publishing.

Pharmacy Medical Garden course

  Students at the University of Rhode Island have the opportunity to take a general education course focused on exploring the complexities and wonders of the Pharmacy Medicinal Garden. Taught by Professor Navindra Seeram, the course is titled Herbal Medicines and Functional Food (BPS 203). Seeram said that “the course that [he teaches] was primarily…

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Majors receive different funding for buildings, update on Ranger Hall renovations  

  After Ranger Hall’s groundbreaking ceremony for its renovations this past November, there have been notable disparities between buildings for the arts versus STEM majors. The University of Rhode Island’s communication studies, film/media, journalism, public relations and writing and rhetoric departments will get a renovated building with the completion of Ranger Hall. But other programs,…

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New master’s oceanography program offered for students

Students at the University of Rhode Island have recently been given the option of a fifth-year master’s level oceanography program that saves them additional years of courses. Started last year, this is a five-year program that allows undergraduate students to take master’s level courses during their undergraduate studies and finish with a master’s degree in…

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