Students spread awareness for HIV/AIDS

  The University of Rhode Island is implementing a new course that seeks to raise awareness and education for HIV/AIDS. Kyrsten Carlson and Carly Amurao are students in the honors seminar class. “We are reopening the topic of HIV/AIDS because recently it’s been getting swept under the rug in our generation,” Carlson said. “Most of…

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Weekend Wrap-up

  Baseball The University of Rhode Island baseball team (11-14) won two of its three game home series at Bill Beck Field against Virginia Commonwealth University (21-12) last weekend, winning on Friday, 5-1 and 7-3 on Saturday before losing 7-3 on Sunday. In Rhode Island’s first game of the series last Friday, it dominated early…

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Former NFL cheerleader lectures on “Profit or Purpose” in cause-related marketing

Businesses often sell products that partner with research organizations, philanthropic groups or humanitarian causes. But how much money from those sales actually goes toward the foundations they claim to support? Bobbie Shay Lee, former NFL cheerleader and founder of The Center for Transparency, gave a presentation at the University of Rhode Island on April 13…

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