Happy March my beautiful tree branches, blowing in these extremely strong gusts of wind. I hope you all are surviving this week’s rudely cold weather, especially after last week being tauntingly warm. I have to give it up to March, however, for being so consistent with their cruel jokes. As we all know, March 2020…
A look at the trendy and sustainability benefits of thrifting. Photo by Ethan Pellegrino. Photo subject is Siena Filippa, URI graduate and instagram thrifter. Account: ri.reclaimed Thrifting has become one of the most popular things to do for many in Gen Z, as social media, especially TikTok, has made it a fun and trendy experience…
URI recently held a webinar event to help students learn how to grow plants at home. Photo by James McIntosh. For this week’s installment of the University of Rhode Island’s Learn at Home Webinar series, Susan Scotti, one of Rhode Island’s master gardeners, taught over 500 viewers how to transfer their indoor seed startings to…
Nurses work to combat spread of virus through contact tracing Often relegated to the background, the Cigar takes a closer look at those contact tracing COVID-19 in the University community. Photo by Nicole Wagner. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, a team of 60 registered nurses and nursing students have worked to trace cases of COVID-19 through…
Wildlife, conservation biology majors learn to save the planet Students in URI’s wildlife and conservation biology major learn to combat mass extinction and study animal populations. Photo by Ethan Pellegrino. Climate change and changes to the ecosystems of the world are some of the largest problems that we face right now and will be one…
URI yearbook back after year-long hiatus After a one-year-long hiatus, URI will once again have a yearbook. Photo from web.uri.edu. Due to COVID-19, the official yearbook of the University of Rhode Island, the Renaissance Yearbook, was never released in 2020. This year, Editor-in-Chief Hayley O’Marra has to put together two different yearbooks. According to O’Marra,…
Margie O’Brien: journalist, entrepreneur, storyteller Local journalist Margie O’Brien recently participated in an event with URI’s Women in Business organization. Photo from golocalprov.com Being the youngest of six siblings, Margie O’Brien has always been a storyteller. As a child, the now-journalist and business owner would fight for her parent’s attention around the “elbows-to-elbows” kitchen table…
URI will soon have a graduate-level data science certificate program. Photo from pexels.com The University of Rhode Island recently announced a new graduate-level program in data science starting this summer, as one of the first newly developed online-only programs offered at the University. URI began putting resources into new online certificates and master’s programs in…
Three students from the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) were accepted to a prestigious fellowship program starting at the beginning of this semester. Seventy students are selected to take part in the Sea Grant and Knauss Fellowship Program every year. The Knauss Program gives graduate students the opportunity to study marine…
Writer discusses role of LGBT+ community in women’s rights movement Graphic by Alison Carpino. Last Thursday, faculty and students at the University of Rhode Island explored and discussed the impact of political participation in an event called “Getting out the Vote.” The event analyzed the importance of youth, minority and female votes, as well as…