Specialist Kelli Kidd offers nutrition counseling for athletes at URI. Photos contributed by Kelli Kid. For Kelli Kidd, all components of living a healthy life come down to nutrition; especially her career. Kidd, a nutrition specialist in sports nutrition in her third year at the University of Rhode Island, holds nutrition counseling sessions for athletes…
URI hires new full-time faculty member for design Theatre Professor James Horban teaches students about lighting on stage productions. Photo by James Singer. As a teenage boy, he would sit in front of his computer, making his own light shows with the pre-visualization software and lighting consoles he had downloaded onto his computer; his own…
Chances are you’ve heard, or at least heard of, “WAP,” the collaboration between Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B that broke first-week streaming records following its release this summer. Whether you like the song or not, its charting position showed that there’s a new class of female rappers ready to take over the game and…
The COVID positivity rate is staying stable. Photo by Siobhan Richards. For this week’s update, we talked with administrators about what happens when the positivity rate rises, the importance of daily health assessments and more. Here’s what they had to say. Test-positive rate remains fairly stable The test-positive rate at the University has lingered between…
To say that University of Rhode Island’s women’s tennis has had bad luck over the last several years would certainly be an understatement. For the past two seasons, the team has faced one unfortunate situation after another. Halfway through the 2018-2019 season, then-head coach Gordon Ernst resigned from the University after being indicted in connection…
There is no question about it: COVID has made life more challenging for many people. Perhaps it’s the constant worry in the back of your mind about what you touched, who touched it before you and the millions of germ cells you may possibly be infecting yourself with. Maybe it’s the isolation or lack of…
Despite COVID-19 regulations, the URI marching band still found a way to make music. Photo by James Singer. With the start of a new semester during a pandemic, what does keeping the Rhody spirit alive look like? This fall, the University of Rhode Island’s marching band is persevering through the challenges of accommodating to the…
Students can participate in volunteer opportunities through URI club S.A.V.E.S. Photos contributed by S.A.V.E.S. Students Actively Volunteering and Engaging in Service (S.A.V.E.S.), a club at the University of Rhode Island committed to community service, won’t let COVID-19 stop them from helping the local community. As new regulations have been implemented for every on-campus club at…
In a joint press release on Monday, University of Rhode Island Athletic Director Thorr Bjorn and Providence College Athletic Director Bob Driscoll announced that the URI and PC men’s basketball teams will not face off in their annual rivalry game. With COVID-19 shortening the non-conference schedule in the 2020-21 season, Rhody and their cross-state adversaries…
English department unveils new undergraduate curriculum Students majoring in English can now focus on literature or creative writing. Graphic by Elizabeth Wong. After two years in the making, the University of Rhode Island’s English department introduced its new, modernized undergraduate major curriculum this semester. Students are now able to choose between two English major tracks:…