Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of “Little Women” features (from left) Eliza Scanlan, Saoirse Ronan, Laura Dern and Florence Pugh. Photo from Daily Cardinal. I know you did it. You walked into the movie theater sometime between Christmas Day 2019 and whatever day it was when the world shut down in 2020, and you saw Greta Gerwig’s…
President Donald Trump takes off his mask shortly after being released from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for COVID-19 treatment. Photo from CNN. On Oct. 2, it was made public that President Donald Trump, as well as several members of his inner circle, had tested positive for COVID-19. With the election under a…
Good morning my lovely roasted coffee beans. Do you also feel like a newly harvested coffee bean, roasted, ground by the hands of an adoring coffee addict and being brewed through a French press? If so, we are one. Speaking of coffee, the fashion trends on campus this fall semester are something in and of…
URI students engineer mask to detect COVID Engineer Vignesh Ravichandran tries on a mask that monitors COVID-19 symptoms. Photo from URI. A team of students and professors at the University of Rhode Island have created a smart mask that can monitor COVID-19 symptoms and connect the information straight to your phone. Electrical, computer biomedical engineering…
Millie Bobby Brown plays the titular character in Harry Bradbeers’ Netflix film “Enola Holmes.” Photo from insider.com. I really wanted to love “Enola Holmes” after seeing the trailer and positive reviews, but after two long hours, I was just left with an underwhelming feeling of “it’s just an okay film.” “Enola Holmes” tells the story…
The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship allows students to participate in research on topics such as climate change. Photos courtesy of SURF. Some people might spend their summers surfing the waves at Narragansett Town Beach, but others may take part in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program at the University of Rhode Island instead. The…
After their last season was put on hold due to COVID-19, Women’s Track and Field prepares for a second chance in the upcoming season. Photo from GoRhody. In March of 2020, just before a competition, the University of Rhode Island Women’s Track and Field team got news that most sports teams around the country were…
URI is now offering a program that allows students to receive a certificate for cannabis studies. Graphic by Elizabeth Wong. At the start of the fall semester, the University of Rhode Island kicked off their very first session of certificate of cannabis studies, welcoming their first cohort to the program. This certificate is through URI’s…
The Holiday Inn is the hotel that some students who do not have COVID-19 are living in due to housing shortages on campus, while two other undisclosed hotels are hosting quarantined students. Photo by James McIntosh. Due to limited on-campus housing created by social distancing concerns, the University of Rhode Island reached an agreement with…
Speakers Cheri Blauwet, Sir Philip Craven, Anjali Forber-Pratt, Brad Parks and John Register were speakers during Tuesday’s Honors Colloquium. Photos from URI. The University of Rhode Island’s Honors Program continued its annual Honors Colloquium lecture series this Tuesday with a discussion about disability in the sports world. This discussion featured a panel of former Paralympic…