Spending a semester or year abroad is certainly an interesting way to escape the never-ending rush between classrooms, dining halls and dorms, and it can also be a difficult process if you don’t exactly know how to navigate through it. Here is some of what you need to know before studying abroad. The International Education…
Photo courtesy of GoRhody. For the second time in many weeks, Rhode Island Golf can boast a tournament medalist after Freshman Bryson Richards earned co-medalist honors. Competing in the Doc Gimmler at Bethpage Red Golf Course in Farmingdale, New York, Richards was competing in just his second ever collegiate tournament. “It was awesome,” said Richards….
The College of Pharmacy, located in Avedisian Hall, will open a hall of fame in October. Photo by James McIntosh. The college will hold its first inaugural hall of fame ceremony in October The College of Pharmacy will induct its inaugural class to the Pharmacy Hall of Fame in October, celebrating the lifetime achievements of…
Student Assan Touray takes on an internship with campus police. Photo Contributed by Assan Touray. It was all law and order this summer for senior Assan Touray while he interned with the University of Rhode Island Police Department. Touray, a criminal justice major, said he was especially excited when he first heard about the internship…
Ranger Hall is about to get a major upgrade on its second and third floors. Photo by Greg Clark. After pledging $3 million dollars in 2018, Richard J. Harrington (‘73, Hon. ‘02) and Jean Harrington have pledged another $4 million to the Harrington School of Communication and Media, which will help to complete the entire…
A new forensic professor, Chelsea Farrell, looks forward to her first semester teaching at the university. Photo by Grace DeSanti. Chelsea Farrell, the University of Rhode Island’s newest criminal justice professor, is excited to get to know her students and URI as a whole. The New Jersey-native found herself in Kingston after getting a bachelor’s…
The Department of Housing and Residential Life [HRL] at the University of Rhode Island has made serious efforts to prevent mold from growing in the dorms at the end of another humid summer. When the air gets more humid, the concentration of mold spores in the air on campus will be higher. Open doors and…
Film professor Justin Wyatt shows off his phone case supporting the new Quentin Tarantino film, “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.” Photo by Grace DeSanti. A sit-down with film professor Justin Wyatt about Tarantino’s latest film. “Movies have become a part of my culture,” Justin Wyatt, associate director of the Harrington School of Communication and…
Potential new students take a tour to see what the University of Rhode Island has to offer. Photo by Greg Clark. New group combines tour guides, Rhody Ambassadors and D.R.I.V.E. to boost admissions The Office of Admissions combined three student groups to create a new group on campus this year in an attempt to create a…
Film students work on the horror short “Lake Forest Road”. Photo contributed by Tyler Stephenson-Donley and Keith Brown. The sun didn’t need to be shining for the University of Rhode Island film students this summer as over 50 students worked on a horror short film in the woods of East Greenwich, Rhode Island. “Lake Forest Road,”…