Photo by Kayla Michaud |CIGAR| Performers in play start conversations with audience on and off stage. In recent years, the opioid addiction has become an increasing epidemic within the United States, and the state of Rhode Island in particular. Despite the ongoing crisis, it can be tough for people to have a conversation about opioid…
Photo by Kayla Michaud |CIGAR| St. Augustine’s Episcopal Center, located on Lower College Road, is in partnership with the University of Rhode Island to help acknowledge and improve food insecurity on campus. Food insecurity doesn’t mean that an individual doesn’t have access to food. It’s about needing to choose how they’re going to organize…
Photos by Kayla Michaud |CIGAR| From left to right Christina Nero, Jacob Brunelle and Nicholas Schleyer answer questions following their performance Students gathered in the Fine Arts Concert Hall last Thursday, Feb. 15, to watch their classmates perform in that week’s music convocation. Performances included Christina Nero, as a vocalist, Nicholas Schleyer, on the piano and…
Students Catia Ramos and Jessica Winward from the University of Rhode Island were selected to showcase their talent at the 2018 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF). The KCACTF is a theater festival among all colleges in the United States. The country is broken up into eight regions. URI is in…
After facing rejection 22 times, University of Rhode Island graduate Theo Greenblatt will have her short story “Solitaire” published in the April-May issue of The London Magazine. Greenblatt’s “Solitaire” is a character driven piece that is about a female narrator who befriends a young girl during difficult times over a card game of solitaire. Throughout…
Kayla Michaud |CIGAR| Saturday’s TEDx Talks includes speeches ranging in topics from disabilities, living like you’re dying and clothing to help Parkinson’s Disease. The University of Rhode Island’s slogan “Think Big, We Do” was exemplified on Saturday, Feb. 10, as 14 speakers, including students, alumni and professors, presented about topics ranging from “Artificial Intelligence” to…
Photo courtesy of URI Events This upcoming Saturday, Feb. 6, the University of Rhode Island will be hosting a TedxURI event at 1 p.m. There will be 14 presenters, speaking about a variety of topics. Topics range from the ocean, the powers behind family stories, preventing sexual assault along with many other eye opening topics….
Photo by Kayla Michaud | CIGAR | Brenda Celona, doing what she’s done best, cutting hair in her salon in the Memorial Union. University of Rhode Island students and faculty are fortunate enough to have a hair salon right on campus located on the bottom floor of the Memorial Union. This past January Total Image…
New artist exhibition making “waves” with URI community Photo courtesy of Kayla Michaud |The new installation in the Fine Arts Center utilizes both sculpture and digital art. Digital mixed-media artist Anne Morgan Spalter was invited to the University of Rhode Island to display her exhibition entitled “Cosmic Waves” in the Fine Arts Center’s main gallery….
It’s not always easy when it comes to sharing personal thoughts that have been floating around in your head with complete strangers. Never mind publishing them. Brady Gunson, a student at The University of Rhode Island, took that risk and gave it a shot. As a sophomore in college, Gunson’s book “It’s okay, we’re existing”…