The largest annual professional wrestling event in the world took place this weekend in Philadelphia, as the World Wrestling Entertainment produced WrestleMania 40, giving fans a cinematic experience as “The American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes defeated “The Tribal Chief” Roman Reigns for the Undisputed WWE Universal Title. Reigns had held the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship for…
Riddhi Katore, a fourth-year University of Rhode Island student, published her first novel, “The Lost Star,” inspired by her sister’s life, back in December. The book follows a woman, Tara, who lost her parents and separated from her brother, and she only has her sister Gauri. To deal with the pain, she moves to New…
Honors program professor Cynthia Taylor has been a member of the University of Rhode Island community for most of her life. After growing up around South Kingstown with her mother working at URI, then completing her bachelor’s and doctorate in anthropology at URI in 2003, to now teaching here since 2008, Taylor has made herself…
Since its doors opened in 2002, the Thomas M. Ryan Center, home of University of Rhode Island men’s and women’s basketball programs, has been “bringing the ruckus” to Kingston. The Ryan Center boasts 8,000 seats at basketball games, creating an intense atmosphere that attracts the URI community, according to the Ryan Center website. The Ryan…
On a windy Wednesday afternoon in Kingston, Rhode Island, history struck the diamond at Bill Beck field in a mid-week contest between the University of Rhode Island and Stonehill College. In the bottom of the seventh inning, second-year first baseman Michael Anderson shot a ball into left field and rounded first base. As the Skyhawk…
The art exhibit “Second Time Around,” curated by University of Rhode Island students with Professor Erin McCutcheon, is on display at the Jamestown Arts Center. The exhibit itself sprawls throughout the Jamestown Art Center, presenting a variety of mediums. Pieces took the form of quilts, photographs, garments and more. The white walls of the gallery…
Professor Ruchika Prakash spoke about the science behind mindfulness for the 2024 Thewis lecture in a virtual livestream on Wednesday, April 3. Prakash is a psychology professor at Ohio State University as well as the director of the Ohio State Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Brain Imaging. At the lecture, Prakash discussed the strength the…
University of Rhode Island engineering professor Sungho Kim received a $1.2 million grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to craft a microchip for telescope technology with a team of graduate students. The NASA grant is being utilized to research a way to take current sensor technology and shrink it down to a 4…
As the end of the academic year approaches, the University of Rhode Island hosted a Welcome Day for all accepted students on Saturday. Welcome Day is an opportunity to show potential students what URI has to offer, in both academic and extracurricular aspects. It features various tours around campus, meet and greets with students and…
The University of Rhode Island hosted 400 high school students for a Biomechanics Day event at Mackal Field House on April 3. The event, a graduate project by kinesiology master’s student Nadia Rajan, boasted 16 stations with various biomechanical innovations for the high schoolers to try. Stations were manned by kinesiology students, both undergraduate and…