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Experience Should Not Expire: Aging, Gender, and Management at URI

Universities are built on continuity—on accumulated knowledge, shared history, and the quiet expertise that develops over time. Yet within many institutions of higher education, experience does not always feel like a protected asset, particularly when it belongs to older women. At the University of Rhode Island, there are many employees in their sixties who have…

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Critters on campus: Sheep

Domesticated sheep–Ovis aries–are a domesticated ruminant species numbering in the billions worldwide.  Sheep have lived with humans for thousands of years and often hold symbolic meanings in various Eurasian cultures. These grazing herbivores are quite prolific and are an essential farm animal and have their place along with horses, cows, and chickens in the farm-cannon….

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“The only thing stronger than hate is love,” Bad Bunny’s cultural celebration shows we’re not all that different

On Feb. 8, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, publicly known as Bad Bunny, performed a touching and unifying halftime show at Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara, Calif. As a Bad Bunny super fan, I was very excited that one of my favorite artists would be performing. Little did I know how connected I would feel…

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