After decades in the position, Jayne Richmond is retiring as the dean of URI’s College of Academic Success. Photo by Ethan Pellegino. The University of Rhode Island’s dean of the University College for Academic Success (UCAS) has announced that she will retire at the end of June after spending 35 years of her career at…
Sponsors fellowship opportunities, annual Honors Colloquium URI Professor Marc Hutchison pulls double duty as the Chair of the Political Science Department and Director of the John Hazen White Sr. Center for Ethics and Public Service. Photo from uri.edu The John Hazen White Sr. Center for Ethics and Public Service is looking to expand its initiatives…
Successor to be selected in May Stephen Baker, chief of university police, will be retiring after the better part of two decades at URI. Photo by Ethan Pellegrino. The University of Rhode Island’s Chief of Police has announced he will retire on June 18 after a 42-year career, 16 of which he spent at URI….
Successor to be selected in May Stephen Baker, chief of university police, will be retiring after the better part of two decades at URI. Photo by Ethan Pellegrino. The University of Rhode Island’s Chief of Police has announced he will retire on June 18 after a 42-year career, 16 of which he spent at URI….
Photo from niva.no. A team of researchers at the University of Rhode Island has received a $100,000 grant to save and expand the green sea urchin market through aquaculture. Coleen Suckling, an assistant professor of sustainable aquaculture, is leading the project along with several graduate and undergraduate students from URI and the University of Maine. …
A doctoral student and assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island are working to uncover the mysteries of one of New England’s most reclusive and misunderstood woodland mammals: the fisher. This three-year research effort, in collaboration with the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM), is hoping to shed more light on the behavior…
Graphic by Elizabeth Wong. The University of Rhode Island now offers a flexible, nonprofit administration major geared towards non-traditional college students within the College of Education and Professional Studies. Peter Nye, one of the program’s professors, said that the program emphasizes four key themes: social innovation, data-driven decision making, leadership processes and ethics. Social innovation…
URI’s neuroscience program welcomes its inaugural class this semester. Graphic by Elizabeth Wong. After many years of development, the University of Rhode Island’s Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program (INP) welcomed its first class of undergraduate students this fall. The INP offers students a four-year Bachelor of Science program with three major tracks that span across three separate…
Media Equipment Center employee, Luke Santell, is eager to see what Ranger Hall will be like after renovations. Photo by Grace DeSanti. Renovations of the upper-three floors in Ranger Hall will begin in February 2022 and be completed by the following fall semester. The construction delays for Ranger Hall due to COVID-19 total a mere…
The COVID-19 pandemic has slowed lab research at the University of Rhode Island this semester, according to several professors and students across different research departments, including chemical engineering and the Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory. Arjit Bose is one of many professors on campus who said the pandemic has affected lab work. He said that…