After being a chef for 13 years, Tracey Altomari (second from right) has brought Wednesday night specials to Ram’s Den, featuring unique foods. |Photo by Kayla Michaud. For the last 13 years, Tracy Altomari has been serving eclectic and delicious food at the University of Rhode Island’s dining hall. Some may know her as the…
Photo by Autumn Walter |CIGAR| University of Rhode Island students will now get the opportunity to work with data as two new data science majors a minor are currently being implemented. Last spring, the University approved the Data Science bachelor’s degree program, which includes a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science version as…
The University of Rhode Island has a variety of mental health resources, from the Counseling Center to the recently implemented Mental Health First Aid training program, but one resource students may not know about is the University of Rhode Island’s chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. NAMI is a Student Senate recognized organization…
In Oct. 2017, 28-year-old Providence Democratic State Rep. Aaron Regunberg announced his candidacy for Rhode Island Lieutenant Governor, challenging the current Lieutenant Governor Daniel McKee. The Chicago native wound up in Rhode Island starting in his college years when he attended Brown University majoring in political science. From there he got started into the world…
A deck collapsed at a Narragansett beach house on Saturday leaving multiple students injured and shaken. Photo contributed anonymously. Over the weekend on Saturday Feb. 3, an off campus party went from fun to horror after the household deck collapsed to the ground. The house, located on Sakonnet Boulevard in Narragansett, started off as a…
College students have long been speculated to be cynical and apathetic in the political world, but University of Rhode Island sophomore Ed Tarnowski is not falling into that stereotype. Over his past two years at URI, Tarnowski has been one of the most politically engaged students on campus. The Scituate native and double political science…
Every semester the Harrington School of Communications and Film Media hosts free screenings for the films that students have produced throughout the semester. The evenings are known to bring a variety of talent and entertainment to the hundreds of young filmmakers on campus, and the rest of the student body. This year’s screenings are held…
The University of Rhode Island’s Student Senate began their meeting with the president of the Interfraternity Council, JT Oldham, who spoke about a new project Greek Life is trying to implement on campus called the Rhody Zone. The Rhody Zone is a $55,000 proposal to create a media space in the Ram’s Den for all…
The University of Rhode Island’s Lecturer Sara Murphy, Ph.D. is looking to engage students in the history and culture of HIV/AIDS. There are currently two sections of the class, the honors topics class HPR 310: AIDS in America and the thanatology special topics class THN 429: AIDS in US. “I designed this course because students…
A group of University of Rhode Island students from the College of Health Sciences worked together to deliver Thanksgiving food baskets to 140 families in low-income subsidized housing in Providence, Rhode Island. Thanks to a variety of members from Nutrition Club, Interfraternity Council and volunteers, the group was able to bring a wide range of…