Women’s basketball defeats red-hot Wildcats to earn back-to-back wins

Ravaged by injuries, Davidson College marched into the Ryan Center on Saturday, prepared for an Atlantic 10 women’s basketball battle with the University of Rhode Island. Rhode Island defeated Davidson 61-49, in a game where the third quarter proved crucial for the Rams. A day prior to the matchup, the Wildcats added two walk-on players…

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Men’s basketball takes down La Salle, snaps four-game slide

Riding a three-game losing streak, wins became ever more important when the University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team took on a two-game stretch against George Mason University and La Salle University this week. Traveling to Fairfax, Virginia on Saturday, Rhode Island’s first task of the week would be taking down the Patriots of George…

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“Soft robots” use advanced materials to bring light to deep-sea life

A team of deep-sea researchers, including some of the University of Rhode Island’s own, have developed new technology capable of identifying some of the ocean’s smallest creatures. Over six years of research have gone into the publishing of a scientific paper about the newest strategies for discovering and describing ocean life. One of the members…

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Oceanographer considers volcanic effects of tectonic movement

The Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland experienced a new rifting event due to the movement of the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates. Haraldur Sigurdsson, emeritus professor of oceanography and Iceland native, spoke about Iceland’s volcanic events in a lecture on Friday in the Corless Auditorium on the University of Rhode Island Bay Campus. The Fagradalsfjall…

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