The University of Rhode Island College of Health Sciences has created their new Department of Public Health following increased community attention to public health after the COVID-19 pandemic. The chair of the new department, Molly Greaney, is also a professor for health studies here at URI. Before coming to URI, she was a research scientist…
University of Rhode Island President Marc Parlange has implemented town halls into each college as a part of his 10-year strategic plan and new incentive-based budget model. The incentive-based budget model aims to place college deans in a position where they’re able to build programs between colleges and within colleges, Parlange said. The model will…
The A. Robert Rainville Student Leadership Awards held their 36th annual ceremony on Tuesday, April 10, in the Rainville Ballroom of the Memorial Union to commemorate students in leadership, honoring recipients in four categories. The awards focused on honoring outstanding campus employees, mission-driven teams, individuals demonstrating service to social causes and inspirational students that empower…
South Kingstown has received a $1 million grant from the state of Rhode Island to build a third Emergency Medical Services station to better respond to an increase in call volume. The new station will be built off of Ministerial Road, on land bought by the town from the South Kingstown Land Trust. Totaling 3,000…
The University of Rhode Island received a record number of first-year applications in the University’s undergraduate business and nursing programs for the fall 2024 semester. URI received 26,800 first-year undergraduate applications — a “notable increase” of 6%, according to a URI article . This number includes an increase in both in-state and out-of-state students. URI’s…
On Monday, April 8 there was a car accident near East Hall at 4:23 p.m. The police arrived to assist the scene, and it was cleared around an hour later at 5:30 p.m. There was another car accident at the Fine Arts Center at 6:33 p.m. The police arrived and the scene was cleared over…
The University of Rhode Island student senate internally elected new senators and committee chairs, as well as passed their first bill under the new admin during Wednesday’s general assembly meeting. Following a new senator orientation given by President Goswami, the assembly internally elected eight new senators. These senators required a nomination from a sitting senator…
Pulitzer Prize in Poetry winner and two-term Poet Laureate of the United States Natasha Trethewey’s work focuses around unearthing the racial injustices of the U.S. Civil War, written through the lens of her own experiences as well as historical events. Trethewey has written five poetry collections, including her latest collection which was released Tuesday, titled…
On April 3, the Rhode Island Football community gathered at the Quonset O Club in North Kingstown, Rhode Island to honor the 2024 award winners from the Providence Gridiron Club. Two of the University of Rhode Island’s football players were honored at the event. Third-year A.J. Pena and second-year Marquis Buchanan were named as Providence…
The University of Rhode Island women’s Track and Field team took a short trip across state lines this weekend as the team headed to Amherst, Massachusetts for the UMass Invitational on Sunday. The competition was scheduled as a two-day meet on Friday and Saturday, but weather conditions caused the meet to be rescheduled as a…