After nearly a year of protests, URI’s multicultural organizations call for the University to improve the experiences of minority students. Photo by Greg Clark. Many students involved in the University of Rhode Island’s multicultural and civil rights student organizations are calling for the University to improve the college experience for students of color. In the…
Daniel Roxbury, assistant professor of chemical engineering at URI, demonstrates his infection-detecting bandage. Photo by Ethan Pellegrino. University of Rhode Island assistant professor of chemical engineering Daniel Roxbury has recently made an innovation that could change the medical world as we know it. His innovation, a bandage that can detect infections in a wound, has…
“I simply recognized a grave injustice was occurring and I felt so deeply compelled to respond to it that I was willing to be arrested over it,” Bree Newsome said. On Tuesday, the Multicultural Student Services Center hosted its annual Martin Luther King, Jr. commemoration featuring Newsome as a guest speaker. The event was sponsored…
According to the Pew Research Center, nearly a quarter of people now get their news from social media, but is it really reliable? Photo by James McIntosh Social media is one the largest and fastest-growing platforms for communication, in the last five years transforming rapidly into a major source for politically-related news. Social media sites…