Track and Field teams each take second at New England Championships

The University of Rhode Island men’s and women’s track and field teams visited Boston University for the New England Championships this past weekend, where they both finished in second place to Northeastern University. The men’s team earned back-to-back second place finishes after placing second two weekends ago in the Atlantic 10 Conference Championships to host…

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News You Should Know

Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump addressed a joint session of Congress for the first time as president. The speech, similar to a State of the Union Address, allows the president to lay out the policies that lead Congress and set goals for the Administration.         In keeping with tradition, Trump seemed to adopt a less…

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Students solve campus problems at second annual ChangeFest event

Students from colleges across Rhode Island came together at the University of Rhode Island Memorial Union last Saturday for a friendly competition to solve problems found on university campuses. At the second-annual ChangeFest, students competed for cash prizes to turn their projects into a reality. Hosted and created by the URI student organization, Thrive, ChangeFest…

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Graduate Program Director talks NASPA award, research, student affairs

  Dr. Annemarie Vaccaro, associate professor and program director of College Student Personnel, received a national award for a “lifetime commitment to research and scholarship” in student development and social justice in January, . NASPA, also known as Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, honored Vaccaro with an award for an “outstanding contribution to literature…

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