The University of Rhode Island Office of Student Involvement hosted their signature Stuff-a-Ram event on Wednesday, Jan. 31 in the main lounge of the Memorial Union, allowing students to grab a free stuffed ram on a first-come first-serve basis. The Stuff-a-Ram is the third of a four-event week that Student Involvement is calling “Rebranding Week.”…
Members of the University of Rhode Island community will be launching landers into the Gulf of Mexico to study the ecosystem through the Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute. These landers are machines used to collect data such as water temperature, water pressure, light levels and much more, said Adam Soule, professor of oceanography and director of…
On Aug. 29, 2023, the University of Rhode Island Parking Services sent out an email to faculty and staff announcing impending improvements to parking gate access technology, which went into effect at the start of the new year. On Jan. 8, Parking Services released an email announcing that JPass was now available for faculty and…
As the spring semester begins, students have begun to settle back into the everyday routines of campus life. Here is this week’s rundown of the University of Rhode Island Police activity on campus as students return: On Sunday, Jan. 28, police officers responded to an act of vandalism at Barlow Hall where a report was…
This week’s University of Rhode Island Student Senate meeting highlighted the importance of veteran and military support in our student body, transportation issues and future voting dates. Beginning with a visit from the director of the Center for Military and Veteran Education, Tom Flynn, a presentation was given with updates on the Student Veterans of…
On Wednesday, the URI Student Senate laid out plans for the spring semester, and included the election of a new Student Organizations Committee chair. The meeting opened with an announcement for Bob Flynn, director of the Center for Military and Veteran Education, to be a guest speaker at next week’s Student Senate meeting. The Senate…
On Saturday, the University of Rhode Island men’s track and field team competed at the Riverhawk Invitational in Boston, Massachusetts. Throughout the course of the Rams season only a single meet has been team scored, while the rest have been individually scored. While the Rams haven’t won a meet per se; over the course of…
Over winter break, the University of Rhode Island and surrounding communities were hit with two major storms, causing flooding across Washington County. The first storm hit on Dec. 18 in the midst of URI’s finals week. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, located in Kingston, clocked 2.76 inches of rain. The second storm occurred on…
The Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland experienced a new rifting event due to the movement of the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates. Haraldur Sigurdsson, emeritus professor of oceanography and Iceland native, spoke about Iceland’s volcanic events in a lecture on Friday in the Corless Auditorium on the University of Rhode Island Bay Campus. The Fagradalsfjall…
Just as soon as it began, the Republican presidential primary election seemed to be over with Ron DeSantis dropping out of the race and publicly endorsing Donald Trump. After frigid temperatures and low voter turnout for the Jan. 15 Iowa caucuses led to a decisive Trump victory, Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy dropped out of the…