2021 offered some great movies to get movie-lovers through this long year. PHOTO CREDIT: imbd.com 2021 has been a huge year in regards to the return of the movie-going experience and films released to both streaming and theaters, sometimes in concurrent fashion. With the year nearly wrapping up and a new slate of Christmas releases…
As the chair member for URI’s Student Senate Cultural Affairs Committee, Angelica Tyson focuses on multicultural community members succeeding on campus. PHOTO CREDIT: James Singer The Student Senate Cultural Affairs Committee is charged with promoting multiculturalism, maintaining a unified and inclusive space on campus and ensuring equal opportunity for all students, all of which Committee…
Joins five Mass. universities in partnership Gaurav Khanna, a professor of psychics and director of research computing, helped URI in its effort to partner with five universities in Massachusetts for the Massachusetts Green High-Performance Computing Center. PHOTO CREDIT: bu.edu The University of Rhode Island joined the Massachusetts Green High-Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) this November to…
Undergraduate student wins best humanities poster Audrey Visscher, a senior film and theatre double major, led the design of the “Silent Sky’s” lighting at URI and won an award for her work. PHOTO CREDIT: Nick Pierson University of Rhode Island senior film and theatre double major Audrey Visscher won first place in the social sciences,…
URI’s Academic Testing Center, a place for students with accommodations to take exams, is finally back after being shut down due to COVID-19. PHOTO CREDIT: Melissa Marchese After being shut down in March 2020 due to COVID-19, the Academic Testing Center (ATC) reopened for the first time on Nov. 2. The University of Rhode Island’s…
A new alternative grading system has gained traction among some professors, who are starting conversations about it at URI. PHOTO CREDIT: Contributed by Anna Santucci Since she started as a faculty development specialist at the University of Rhode Island in 2019, Anna Santucci has taken interest in implementing alternative grading methods. Santucci is a part…
Silvi Goldstein, a graduate student from the School of Psychology, received a grant to analyze the effectiveness of naltrexone and harm reduction counseling methods in regards to marginalized populations. PHOTO CREDIT: Contributed by uri.edu In September, third-year clinical psychology graduate student Silvi Goldstein received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) two-year National Research Service Award…
With an all-star cast and a good scope of action sequences, “Dune” receives a 7/10 rating from this reporter. PHOTO CREDIT: Contributed by forbes.com “Dune” is considered to be a more faithful adaptation of Frank Herbert’s series that tells approximately 60 percent of the first novel. The Denis Villeneuve-directed sci-fi epic is a slow, yet…
The Bothun Lab Group is making innovations in the biomedical field with nanotherapeutic materials. PHOTO CREDIT: Contributed by Geoffrey Bothun After joining the URI community in July 2006, Geoffrey Bothun, the chair of the chemical engineering department, created the Bothun Lab Group to make innovations in the biomedical field and environmental sensing. The lab group…
New master’s program in quantum computing stirs up excitement from students and faculty. GRAPHIC CREDIT: Elizabeth Wong The University of Rhode Island has started a new master’s program in quantum computing as the field grows in both size and importance. Google and Microsoft, among other tech companies, are working on training employees in quantum computing,…