To celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, the University of Rhode Island will highlight the struggles that women faced gaining the right to vote in a new lecture series. The “Long Rhode to Vote” lecture series is sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, the University’s gender and women’s studies department, the College of…
Sophomore nursing major, Abby Royer, is one of many students helping to fight COVID-19. Photo by Ethan Pellegrino. Over the past several months, University of Rhode Island nursing students have taken steps to join the fight against COVID-19 by entering the workforce. The URI College of Nursing contacted students by email during the mandatory quarantine…
Online, in-person and blended classes will continue to be the norm Students can start signing up for classes for the spring semester. Photo by Siobhan Richards Despite all of the changes created by COVID-19, the University of Rhode Island’s course selection process will be similar to as it was pre-pandemic. Course selection at URI will…
Meet Chief Diversity Officer Mary Grace Almandrez Chief Diversity Officer, Mary Grace Almandrez, discusses her inspirational career. Photo courtesy of Brown University. Mary Grace Almandrez, the chief diversity officer (CDO) at the University of Rhode Island, an unusual favorite place on campus: the second floor of Quinn Hall. To most, Quinn Hall is just another…
Professor moms meet virtually to discuss challenges they face in pandemic URI Professors, Cheryl Foster, Kayon Murray-Johnson and Anna Santucci, share their experience of balancing work and children amid the pandemic. Photos from uri.edu. Professor Cheryl Foster checked her calendar and realized she’d put in the wrong date for the “Professor Mom” Zoom lounge on…
Watch this week’s Five Cent Cigar Newscast! – – – Fitness Center in a Pandemic: Written and edited by Imani Fleming Shot by Imani Fleming and Aniekan Okon How the COVID19 Tracker Works: Written, edited, and shot by Leah Crowley
Dive Research Education and Training gets students scuba Students can get their scuba diving experience by training with the Dive Research Education and Training Program. Photos by James McIntosh. For students interested in deepening their knowledge of aquatic environments, the Dive Research Education and Training Program at the University of Rhode Island offers scuba diving…
Greek Life prepares for fall recruitment. Photo by Siobhan Richards. Greek Life at the University of Rhode Island transformed its typical new-member recruitment process this semester as COVID-19 continues to affect the community. Chapter houses must now oblige to guidelines set forth by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Rhode Island Department…
URI is working hard to keep COVID-19 positivity rates down. Photo by Siobhan Richards. This week, the Cigar spoke with administration about the new mandatory COVID-19 testing for all, the inevitably of a rise in positive cases and the continued discouragement of large group gatherings both on and off campus. Mandatory COVID-19 testing for all…
Good day my rays of glistening moonbeams. Although I do not know who you are, I just have a feeling deep below my epidermis that you are looking especially beautiful today. Your skin is glowing, your hair smells like the morning dew on a warm spring day but most importantly, your heart is beating at…