March 23, 2018
The Rhode less traveled
Rhode Island men’s basketball concludes historic season What started off as a 6-3, injury plagued beginning to the 2017-18 University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team, concluded as one of the best seasons in program history. It was a season of firsts for the program, as most seasons have been under head coach Dan Hurley….
Baseball returns home after 18 road games, wins home opener
Photo by Autumn Walter |CIGAR| Baseball season starts up again with win on Tuesday and a scheduled five games next week. After 18 games on the road, the University of Rhode Island’s baseball team recorded a 5-2 win over Sacred Heart in its home opener on Tuesday afternoon. “It’s nice to play a home game,” Coach…
Spring break weekly round up
|CIGAR| Autumn Walter, Stone Freeman, Margeaux Gagnon, Jack O’Marra and Ben Kinch from the Good Five Cent Cigar and the 5 Cent Cigar Newscast spent their spring break covering the breaking news from the A-10 and NCAA’s. Spring break has come and gone at the University of Rhode Island. While students escaped the frozen tundra…
The lasting legacy of the men’s basketball senior class
Photo by Autumn Walter |CIGAR| Seniors on the men’s basketball team being honored on their senior night. Nothing competes with the joy and sorrow that comes with cheering on your high school and collegiate sports teams. It’s a special emotional attachment you create with the players throughout the years. You jump up for joy when your…
Dan Hurley out as men’s basketball head coach
Photo by Autumn Walter |CIGAR| After six years at the helm of URI’s men’s basketball team, Dan Hurley will officially sign a contract with the University of Connecticut. After six seasons as the head coach of the University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team, Dan Hurley is departing for the head coaching vacancy at the University…
Students take a stand for gun safety
Photo courtesy of March for Our Lives “The only thing that stands between me and my diploma is an AR-15,” said high school senior, Vivian Angell, who plans to write this on the sign she will carry during the upcoming March For Our Lives in Providence on Saturday, March 24. “We are going to school,…
TinkerCAD allows students to learn how to 3-D print
Photo by Kristina |CIGAR| In the last few years 3-D printing has become more cost effective and precise. The advancement in 3-D printing technology has encouraged a school of thought that proves this technology has the potential to completely revolutionize medicine, improve manufacturing and change our relationship with technology. To prepare for this new digital…
Better brains for a better future
Walter G. Besio, a professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Rhode Island, has developed a new kind of electrode that will allow for more accurate brain study. Besio has been working for the last 20 years to develop the Tripolar Concentric Ring Electrode (TCRE), which improves signal quality when conducting studies that measure…
From journalism student to television guest
Alumnus’ journey of weight loss to notoriety A recent graduate of the University of Rhode Island class was featured on the Today Show for losing over 150 pounds. Brianna Blank, a graduate of the 2014 class, began to change her eating habits towards the end of her time at URI after realizing that she had…