During the 2024 fall semester, the Advanced Topics in Film Media Production class produced and filmed “Geeky In Pink,” a romantic comedy starring Tali Russel and Amelia Connor-McCoy. Directed by second-year Audrey Collins and fourth-year Athena Stamatopoulos, the film screened at the Avon Cinema in Providence on April 8. Collins explained the significance of the…
The University of Rhode Island’s opera workshop has been hard at work, bringing Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Szenen aus Faust” to the stage on April 26. This will be the department’s first opera completely in a foreign language and the first time a United States stage has put on the piece, according to director Devon…
Teaching assistant Darcey Lovell recently shined light upon the female detectives of the Victorian Era as she unveiled her doctoral research at the Center for Humanities’ final Brown Bag lecture series of the spring semester. Lovell’s lecture explored female detectives in Victorian detective fiction during the from the mid-1800s to around 1915, when detective fiction…
As a part of sexual assault awareness month, the University of Rhode Island’s Violence Prevention and Advocacy Services and the Women’s Center hosted a Take Back the Night Event on April 9. The event, which was held outside the Memorial Union, featured speakers from the student senate, Powerful Independent Notoriously Knowledgeable Women, URI’s Bystander Intervention…
“We’re now a nation where people seek the affirmation they want, rather than the facts they need,” Walter Robinson, a renowned journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner and editor-at-large for The Boston Globe, said to the crowd at the Robert J. Higgins Welcome Center. Robinson delivered a lecture on April 8 in partnership with the Taricani Lecture…
The University of Rhode Island’s BridgeUSA chapter, BridgeURI, collaborated with St. George’s School’s Civil Discourse fellowship to foster respectful political dialogue. The group of a dozen high school students from St. George’s and their teacher, Sarah Mason, discussed questions presented by BridgeURI such as: “Do executive orders give too much power to the president or…
As international university students across the United States have visas revoked, the University of Rhode Island is unable to do anything but inform. Getting a visa revoked is a federal issue, according to Kristin Johnson, the vice provost for global initiatives at URI. “[The students] are no longer supported or sponsored by the URI because…
With over 6,500 students currently on various meal plans at the University of Rhode Island, dining services is preparing for potential impacts from recently implemented tariffs, according to Dining Services Director Pierre St-Germain. These changes might affect campus operations, specifically surrounding the funding that goes into the dining halls and other food services such as…
No charges will be filed over a crash that killed former University of Rhode Island Memorial Union director Maureen McDermott last fall. The crash occurred at the intersection of Campus Avenue and Lower College Road. McDermott was reportedly struck after the driver turned left on Campus Avenue. The collision occurred on Nov. 6. McDermott died…
The former director of student involvement, Maureen McDermott’s life, service and commitment to campus life inspired the University of Rhode Island to rename the Student Leadership Award upon her passing. By honoring a student who has “positively contributed to the campus community by empowering others and inspiring those around them,” the Rainville Award category recognizes…