While I reflect on my undergraduate experience during my fourth and final year of college, I think about the various general education and elective courses I had to take. The highlight class for me was COM 346: Social and Cultural Aspects of Media taught by Professor Daniel Munksgaard. I took this class in the fall…
For many college students, spring break usually consists of heading somewhere tropical with your friends. But for me, it meant heading back home to Manhattan, New York City — a place that, even living there my whole life, never fails to surprise me. While others may have relaxed the whole week on a beautiful beach,…
To support University of Rhode Island students celebrating Ramadan, the Muslim Student Association is providing students with nutritional and academic resources. By partnering with different student organizations and the local mosque, the MSA has provided students with evening meals, called iftars, from different cultures, thus fostering a sense of community when breaking fast, according to…
Jazz voice students, studying under University of Rhode Island professor Atla DeChamplain, accompanied the URI Standard Combo in the second Jazz Combo event of the semester on March 4. The voice students were asked to sing at the combo, according to DeChamplain. It was short notice, so students only knew they were going to be…
193 Coffeehouse kicked off spring break with live performances from three University of Rhode Island student bands. Despite being slated to start at 6 p.m., the show started around 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 6. There were performances from three different bands: RoseBudThorn, Lino and Cascade. RoseBudThorn made their debut performance as the opener for…
Becky Sartini, the recently appointed interim dean of the College of the Environment and Life Sciences, plans to use her time in this role to grow the college through both community outreach and more hands-on experience for first-year students. To start off her new role as interim dean, she aims to help first-year students with…
As students prepared themselves for spring break this past week, the University of Rhode Island Health Services Department held a Safe Spring Break Party to raise awareness and promote travel, substance and skin safety during break. The event had multiple internal vendors from Health Services at separate stations across the second floor of the union….
The Anna Fascitelli Fitness & Wellness Center offered their free for students self defense class on March 3, in order to teach students the importance of learning and practicing defense techniques before leaving for spring break. The class included students, instructors and alumni from the University of Rhode Island and Innovate Martial Arts, according to…
Programs at the University of Rhode Island have been scrambling to respond to executive orders targeting diversity, equity and inclusion programs at federally funded institutions. Which ones are actually at risk? Diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are vaguely defined within President Donald Trump’s “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing” executive order. The…
The University of Rhode Island is working through the termination of all USAID federal funding to officially end research grants despite government battles with the Trump Administration. URI takes $900,000 a year from the funding, including indirect costs and direct costs to fund projects, according to Bethany Jenkins, the vice president of research and economic…