Professors at the University of Rhode Island discussed how the potential removal of the United States Department of Education would reduce federal student aid under the new presidential administration. The Republican party has supported the removal of the Department of Education since it was established in 1980, according to URI professor political science Ashlea Rundlett….
Using social science to find out what Rhode Island citizens know about microplastics in the Narragansett Bay, three women at the University of Rhode Island relaunched a marine debris survey in summer 2024. The experiment began in 2020 and was run by Coastal Institute Senior Fellow Seray Ergene and marine affairs professor Tracey Dalton. Ergene…
The University of Rhode Island had two finalists in the annual Northeast Regional Collegiate Soils contest hosted at URI’s own Alton Jones Campus on Oct. 18. Soil judging is the evaluation of a soil’s landscape, morphology and texture to define the type of soil, all while in a pit excavated to be five feet deep….
In response to the recent Helene and Milton hurricanes, a second-year student at the University of Rhode Island created a hurricane relief fundraiser . Andrew Fricano, the founder of University of Rhode Island Fundraise for Hurricanes, is an ocean engineering major and North Carolina native. He grew up spending time in the Appalachian mountains. Hurricane…
Students at the University of Rhode Island ran out from their dorms to watch the northern lights ranging from pink to green over the United States on Thursday, Oct. 17. Aurora borealis have been seen before in areas like the Northeast and as south as Alabama, but it is more unusual, according to URI extreme…
Susan Solomon, a professor of environmental sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discussed past progress and present solutions to climate change in a lecture held at the University of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay Campus on Monday. Solomon’s talk centered around her recently published book, “Solvable: How We Healed the Earth, and How We Can…
The Domestic Violence Resource Center of South County is holding the annual Silent Witness March for domestic assault awareness month in Wakefield, Rhode Island on Thursday, Oct. 3. Keith Labelle, who works in education, outreach and training as a Title IX deputy coordinator, created the Bystander Intervention Program at the University of Rhode Island. The…
The 193 Coffeehouse, located in the Memorial Union at the University of Rhode Island, held their biweekly free open mic night for students on Thursday, Sept. 26. Students gathered in the eccentric haven-like coffeehouse to watch peers and local groups perform original songs, covers, poetry and more. The majority of 193 Coffeehouse events are based…
Alan Shawn Feinstein, an educational philanthropist that donated to the University of Rhode Island and over 200 other schools, died at age 93 on Sept. 7. Feinstein established the Feinstein Foundation with a mission to improve Rhode Island communities, Dean Dennis, professor and dean of the College of Education, said. Established in 1991, the Foundation…
The University of Rhode Island Fine Arts Center held a beam signing on Thursday, Sept. 19 to celebrate the predicted completion date of the center, September of 2025. URI began reconstruction of the Fine Arts Center in 2021 with $73 million in funding, Jeanette Riley, the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said….