The “art of war” is something that the modern American citizen requires a proxy to understand. For many of us, sports give us a taste of battle. The 2024-2025 Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs understood this art. Both teams overcame the attrition of an National Football League regular season to go on crazy…
It can be challenging for University of Rhode Island students to track down finds beyond the stores of heavily-advertised Narragansett and Newport, but the nearby town of South Kingstown has several businesses and restaurants to offer. Eclectic Energy, located at 102 Main St. in Wakefield, opened in July 2023 by URI alum Pam Davis. After…
James Baldwin, a Black man born in Harlem, New York on Aug. 2, 1924, was a prolific author, essayist and playwright on issues of racial justice, religion and homosexuality. I was first exposed to his work in my third year of high school when I read “The Fire Next Time,” which contained two essays by…
The Society of Women in Computing at the University of Rhode Island has been building a community for women within various technological majors since 2018, with goals of fostering confidence and camaraderie. “I feel like SWIC is a safe space for women in computer science and other technical fields,” Riley Maguire, a third-year computer science…
The University of Rhode Island finished its second remodeling stage for Health Services over J-term, adding a wheelchair-accessible front desk counter, replacing carpeted floors with luxury vinyl tile and replacing seated desks with ergonomic ones. During the summer of 2024, the north wing of the building was re-designed with new flooring and blinds in the…
The University of Rhode Island therapy dog team just gained a new member: Betty, a seven-and-a-half-month old English labrador. Betty is about to start training and will soon be a familiar face on campus. The URI campus has been aiming to make the canine support network grow, according to Lindsey Anderson, who is Betty’s handler,…
Learning about dairy farms on pen and paper is one thing, but seeing cows, meeting farmers and observing the milking process is another, according to Justine Deming, who teaches the University of Rhode Island’s New England Dairy Travel Course. “[It’s] a completely different perspective when you go and meet the farms and see how they…
As Hannah Hernandez boarded her plane back to Rhode Island in January, and flew away from a charred Los Angeles County, she described the feeling in one word: guilt. “There’s some girls that I know that have to stay back, because literally everything is gone, they won’t ever get to go back home [to their…
Kingston Congregational Church raised a sign reading “Refugees and Immigrants Welcome” in early January, in response to President Donald Trump’s campaign on mass deportations, according to Rev. Jan Gregory-Charpentier. “I think we in our Christian tradition, which has historically and significantly voiced support for social justice, that we need to amplify voices and messages of…
The University of Rhode Island is requesting a $40.9 million increase in state funding for the upcoming fiscal year; currently the governor’s budget dedicates $4.5 million to the university. URI’s recommended budget for 2026 in the “URI Education and General” category is over $805 million, according to the state’s higher education budget request. When undergoing…