Photo by Joe Lachance |CIGAR| The University of Rhode Island is in the process of coordinating a tobacco free campus initiative. Main objectives include ensuring all community members are respected and taken into consideration. Efforts to help smooth the transition for students and faculty have been brainstormed. Overall, the initiative will focus on providing the…
Paula Grammas, a neuroscience researcher at the University of Rhode Island, was inducted into the American Association for the Advancement of Science Circle of Fellows for her pioneering Alzheimer’s research. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) inducted Grammas, the executive director of the George and Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience at URI,…
Photo by Autumn Walter |CIGAR| Wednesday night Student Senate spent over an hour discussing the presidential disqualification ticket. Student Senate voted on Wednesday, Feb. 28 not to disqualify the presidential ticket of Adriana Wilding and Abdulwhab Alquirtas. The vote was 11 in the affirmative, 14 in the negative and six abstaining. Wilding stated that she was…
Photo by Kayla Michaud |CIGAR| Umergency is a free, easy-to-use application with features to help you in an emergency, tailored to your specific college. It includes emergency contact numbers, a medical consent form, your uploaded medical cad and a GPS service that releases your location to trusted contacts in a dire situation. One in four…
Photo by Autumn Walter |CIGAR| Student Senate mishandles club organization external bank accounts For at least the past three years, miscommunication between members of Student Senate and various student organizations has led to a failure of regulating external bank accounts. An external bank account is any account used for finances in which the flow of…
Photo courtesy of Mike Scott | URI Track & Field, Sorlien Invitational, Casey Burley won in the triple jump with a 50-foot jump. University of Rhode Island men’s track and field senior triple jumper Casey Burley jumped 50 feet at the New England and Atlantic 10 Championships this past season. Burley is a four-year senior who…
Photo by Margo Gagnon |CIGAR| The Rhode Island men’s hockey team finished their season last Friday with a 2-1 loss to New York University in game one of the ESCHL playoffs. Rhode Island was outshot for most of the game and after being down 2-0 early in the third period, freshman Patrick Creamer scored Rhode…
Autumn Walter |CIGAR| John “JV” Vanner Jr. calls it a career after 10-seasons as URI basketball hype-man. URI hype-man calls it a career Somethings have changed over the past ten years surrounding the University of the Rhode Island men’s basketball team. The team has seen a head coaching change, another Atlantic 10 Championship and another trip…
Photo by Autumn Walter |CIGAR| Senior players Jared Terrell, EC Matthews, and Senior Manager Owen Sammarone sit on the side line frustrated with the loss of their final game at the Ryan Center. By: Stone Freedman & Nick Cardi A regular season championship and senior night celebration, along with the second worst loss in the history…