The beautiful state of Rhode Island has a lot to offer, with only a short drive to all of these fun locations. Whether you are planning a date with a significant other, or just looking for a fun day trip with a friend, here are a few worthwhile “Rhode” trips The first trip on the…
URI receives no money from state or tuition for auxiliary enterprises Auxiliary enterprises at universities are self-sustaining businesses designed to reduce the cost of education and provide benefits to students. The University of Rhode Island has five auxiliary enterprises: Housing and Residential Life, Dining Services, Health Services, the Campus Store and the Memorial Union. They…
Graduate student Charles Kell wrote and published a poetry book titled, “Cage of Lit Glass,” that was awarded the Autumn House Press Poetry Prize. Kell is an English major and part-time writing and rhetoric professor at the University of Rhode Island. URI provided Kell with his start in poetry after taking classes with poetry professor…
Photo by Gabriela Jeronimo | A zookeeper feeds an elephant at the Roger Williams Zoo. For the first time at the University of Rhode Island, a zoo management class is available to any animal science major to take at the Roger Williams Park Zoo. Justin Richard is currently teaching the course at the zoo and…
1. Davidson Kellan Grady and Jon Axel Gudmundsson are the metaphorical engines that keep the Wildcats going. They served as a two-headed monster against the University of North Carolina Wilmington this past Saturday, each scoring 25 points apiece. Gudmundsson played the entire forty minutes, with Grady playing 39 minutes. 2. Saint Louis The Billikens had…
Courtesy of NOAA Office of Exploration and Research and Kraken Robotics. Rod Mather, professor of history at the University of Rhode Island and an experienced archeologist, is working on a new project involving the imagery of sunken submarines in the Narragansett Bay. As a URI faculty member for about 20 years, Mather teaches maritime and…
Darlingside, a vocally focused band, is currently on their United States tour and will soon be visiting Providence, Rhode Island on Dec. 9. The band got their start when they all met in their college acapella group. When they graduated college, the four members started to realize that becoming an official band was a shared…
A recently formed student punk band on campus named “The Shipping Department” is gaining momentum and popularity at the University of Rhode Island. “The Shipping Department” is composed of three musically inclined freshman URI students: Collin O’Connor, Sebastian Toledo and Joe Milia. All three members are well versed in the music scene and are passionate…
Photo by Autumn Walter | The Women’s Basketball team won in the Ocean State Tip-off Tournament. I was in my weekly struggle of trying to find a topic to write about for this week’s paper. I could recap basketball or interview a player for a profile. I decided to put it off like most things…
On Dec. 4, “The Mavericks” played at The Strand Ballroom, a music venue in Providence, Rhode Island, to promote their newest album, “Hey! Merry Christmas.” “It was a business move sure,” Lead Guitarist Eddie Perez said. “But it’s also really fun.” He also said that the idea for this album has been in the works…