The language department hosted a welcome back event at the Language Center in Swan Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 27 from 4-5pm. Students who attended received passports which they could have stamped at any of the six language tables dispersed through the room. If students collected four stamps from four different countries, they received a prize…
Invasive species are posing a threat to the ecosystems they invade, and typically a biologist’s solution to the damage caused by invasive species is to eliminate them from the environment they harm. However, some controversy on killing invasive species has arisen, as some biologists believe it is unethical to kill invasive species. According to Laura…
On Oct. 1, the U.S. federal government passed a continuing resolution to prevent a government shutdown due to Congress’s failure to pass funding legislation for the upcoming year. During a government shutdown, the money that the federal government disburses to pay employees and fund research and federally funded programs stops flowing, resulting in many federal…
As the flagship institution of the Ocean State, the University of Rhode Island is no stranger to collaborating with the many industries that conduct activities on our state’s coastlines and waters. On Sept. 29, some of these industries got to interact with over 300 URI students in attendance at the first annual Sea Services Symposium,…
Keith Labelle, the Deputy Director of Title IX, came to discuss the i-Stand Program. Labelle gives presentations to student organizations and hosts awareness events. Labelle’s work involves everything pertaining to sexual violence prevention, including the four classes he teaches on campus. One goal of the presentations is to change how students approach rape culture, according…